linux-stable/mm
Qi Zheng ca1d36b823 mm: shrinker: make global slab shrink lockless
The shrinker_rwsem is a global read-write lock in shrinkers subsystem,
which protects most operations such as slab shrink, registration and
unregistration of shrinkers, etc. This can easily cause problems in the
following cases.

1) When the memory pressure is high and there are many filesystems
   mounted or unmounted at the same time, slab shrink will be affected
   (down_read_trylock() failed).

   Such as the real workload mentioned by Kirill Tkhai:

   ```
   One of the real workloads from my experience is start
   of an overcommitted node containing many starting
   containers after node crash (or many resuming containers
   after reboot for kernel update). In these cases memory
   pressure is huge, and the node goes round in long reclaim.
   ```

2) If a shrinker is blocked (such as the case mentioned
   in [1]) and a writer comes in (such as mount a fs),
   then this writer will be blocked and cause all
   subsequent shrinker-related operations to be blocked.

Even if there is no competitor when shrinking slab, there may still be a
problem. The down_read_trylock() may become a perf hotspot with frequent
calls to shrink_slab(). Because of the poor multicore scalability of
atomic operations, this can lead to a significant drop in IPC
(instructions per cycle).

We used to implement the lockless slab shrink with SRCU [2], but then
kernel test robot reported -88.8% regression in
stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [3], so we reverted it [4].

This commit uses the refcount+RCU method [5] proposed by Dave Chinner
to re-implement the lockless global slab shrink. The memcg slab shrink is
handled in the subsequent patch.

For now, all shrinker instances are converted to dynamically allocated and
will be freed by call_rcu(). So we can use rcu_read_{lock,unlock}() to
ensure that the shrinker instance is valid.

And the shrinker instance will not be run again after unregistration. So
the structure that records the pointer of shrinker instance can be safely
freed without waiting for the RCU read-side critical section.

In this way, while we implement the lockless slab shrink, we don't need to
be blocked in unregister_shrinker().

The following are the test results:

stress-ng --timeout 60 --times --verify --metrics-brief --ramfs 9 &

1) Before applying this patchset:

setting to a 60 second run per stressor
dispatching hogs: 9 ramfs
stressor       bogo ops real time  usr time  sys time   bogo ops/s     bogo ops/s
                          (secs)    (secs)    (secs)   (real time) (usr+sys time)
ramfs            473062     60.00      8.00    279.13      7884.12        1647.59
for a 60.01s run time:
   1440.34s available CPU time
      7.99s user time   (  0.55%)
    279.13s system time ( 19.38%)
    287.12s total time  ( 19.93%)
load average: 7.12 2.99 1.15
successful run completed in 60.01s (1 min, 0.01 secs)

2) After applying this patchset:

setting to a 60 second run per stressor
dispatching hogs: 9 ramfs
stressor       bogo ops real time  usr time  sys time   bogo ops/s     bogo ops/s
                          (secs)    (secs)    (secs)   (real time) (usr+sys time)
ramfs            477165     60.00      8.13    281.34      7952.55        1648.40
for a 60.01s run time:
   1440.33s available CPU time
      8.12s user time   (  0.56%)
    281.34s system time ( 19.53%)
    289.46s total time  ( 20.10%)
load average: 6.98 3.03 1.19
successful run completed in 60.01s (1 min, 0.01 secs)

We can see that the ops/s has hardly changed.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191129214541.3110-1-ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230313112819.38938-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
[3]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/
[4]. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230609081518.3039120-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev/
[5]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911094444.68966-43-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Cc: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@ya.ru>
Cc: Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@somainline.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Yue Hu <huyue2@coolpad.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04 10:32:26 -07:00
..
damon mm/damon/core: remove 'struct target *' parameter from damon_aggregated tracepoint 2023-10-04 10:32:21 -07:00
kasan kasan: Cleanup the __HAVE_ARCH_SHADOW_MAP usage 2023-09-20 14:26:29 +08:00
kfence LoongArch changes for v6.6 2023-09-08 12:16:52 -07:00
kmsan kmsan: introduce test_memcpy_initialized_gap() 2023-10-04 10:32:22 -07:00
backing-dev.c writeback: remove redundant checks for root memcg 2023-08-21 13:37:48 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem_info.c
cma.c dma-maping updates for Linux 6.6 2023-08-29 20:32:10 -07:00
cma.h
cma_debug.c
cma_sysfs.c mm: cma: make kobj_type structure constant 2023-03-28 16:20:06 -07:00
compaction.c mm/compaction: factor out code to test if we should run compaction for target order 2023-10-04 10:32:19 -07:00
debug.c mm: update validate_mm() to use vma iterator 2023-06-09 16:25:31 -07:00
debug_page_alloc.c mm: page_alloc: split out DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 2023-06-09 16:25:23 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug_vm_pgtable.c Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapool: create/destroy cleanup 2023-06-09 16:25:17 -07:00
dmapool_test.c dmapool: add alloc/free performance test 2023-04-05 19:42:38 -07:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap.c: improve the execution efficiency of early_ioremap_setup() 2023-06-09 16:25:56 -07:00
fadvise.c mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes 2023-06-23 16:59:31 -07:00
fail_page_alloc.c mm: page_alloc: split out FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 2023-06-09 16:25:23 -07:00
failslab.c
filemap.c mm: report success more often from filemap_map_folio_range() 2023-09-29 17:20:45 -07:00
folio-compat.c filemap: Add fgf_t typedef 2023-07-24 18:04:30 -04:00
gup.c Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
gup_test.c Merge mm-hotfixes-stable into mm-stable to pick up depended-upon changes. 2023-06-23 16:58:19 -07:00
gup_test.h
highmem.c mm: ptep_get() conversion 2023-06-19 16:19:25 -07:00
hmm.c mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk 2023-08-21 13:07:20 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm: thp: dynamically allocate the thp-related shrinkers 2023-10-04 10:32:24 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb: fix nodes huge page allocation when there are surplus pages 2023-10-04 10:32:19 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm/hugetlb: increase use of folios in alloc_huge_page() 2023-02-13 15:54:27 -08:00
hugetlb_vmemmap.c mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: allow alloc vmemmap pages fallback to other nodes 2023-10-04 10:32:22 -07:00
hugetlb_vmemmap.h
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c mm: move dummy_vm_ops out of a header 2023-08-21 13:37:46 -07:00
internal.h mm: shrinker: add infrastructure for dynamically allocating shrinker 2023-10-04 10:32:23 -07:00
interval_tree.c
io-mapping.c
ioremap.c mm: ioremap: remove unneeded ioremap_allowed and iounmap_allowed 2023-08-18 10:12:36 -07:00
Kconfig zswap: change zswap's default allocator to zsmalloc 2023-10-04 10:32:20 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: page_table_check: Make it dependent on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 2023-05-29 16:14:28 +01:00
khugepaged.c - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") 2023-08-29 14:25:26 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak: move up cond_resched() call in page scanning loop 2023-09-02 15:17:34 -07:00
ksm.c mm: memory-failure: use rcu lock instead of tasklist_lock when collect_procs() 2023-09-05 11:11:52 -07:00
list_lru.c
maccess.c mm: Fix copy_from_user_nofault(). 2023-04-12 17:36:23 -07:00
madvise.c mm: remove remnants of SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING 2023-10-04 10:32:20 -07:00
Makefile mm: vmscan: move shrinker-related code into a separate file 2023-10-04 10:32:23 -07:00
mapping_dirty_helpers.c mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc 2023-08-24 16:20:30 -07:00
memblock.c mm: disable kernelcore=mirror when no mirror memory 2023-08-21 13:37:43 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm, memcg: reconsider kmem.limit_in_bytes deprecation 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
memfd.c memfd: drop warning for missing exec-related flags 2023-10-04 10:32:22 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm: convert DAX lock/unlock page to lock/unlock folio 2023-10-04 10:32:20 -07:00
memory-tiers.c memory tier: use helper macro __ATTR_RW() 2023-08-18 10:12:38 -07:00
memory.c mm: remove remnants of SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING 2023-10-04 10:32:20 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug: embed vmem_altmap details in memory block 2023-08-21 13:37:49 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm: mempolicy: keep VMA walk if both MPOL_MF_STRICT and MPOL_MF_MOVE are specified 2023-09-29 17:20:48 -07:00
mempool.c
memremap.c mm/memremap.c: fix outdated comment in devm_memremap_pages 2023-02-09 16:51:46 -08:00
memtest.c mm: memtest: convert to memtest_report_meminfo() 2023-08-21 13:37:47 -07:00
migrate.c mm: hugetlb: add huge page size param to set_huge_pte_at() 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
migrate_device.c Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
mincore.c mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk 2023-08-21 13:07:20 -07:00
mlock.c merge mm-hotfixes-stable into mm-stable to pick up depended-upon changes 2023-08-21 14:26:20 -07:00
mm_init.c mm/mm_init.c: remove redundant pr_info when node is memoryless 2023-10-04 10:32:22 -07:00
mm_slot.h
mmap.c mm: remove duplicated vma->vm_flags check when expanding stack 2023-10-04 10:32:21 -07:00
mmap_lock.c
mmu_gather.c mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps() 2023-08-24 16:20:30 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu_notifiers: rename invalidate_range notifier 2023-08-18 10:12:41 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
mremap.c mm/mremap: allow moves within the same VMA for stack moves 2023-10-04 10:32:20 -07:00
msync.c
nommu.c Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm: remove redundant K() macro definition 2023-08-21 13:37:44 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: remove folio_account_redirty 2023-08-21 14:52:16 +02:00
page_alloc.c mm: page_alloc: fix CMA and HIGHATOMIC landing on the wrong buddy list 2023-09-19 13:21:32 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm/page_ext: move functions around for minor cleanups to page_ext 2023-08-18 10:12:31 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: page_idle: convert page idle to use a folio 2023-01-18 17:12:52 -08:00
page_io.c zswap: make zswap_load() take a folio 2023-08-21 13:37:27 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm/hugetlb: get rid of page_hstate() 2023-08-18 10:12:39 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_ext: use page_ext_data helper in page_owner 2023-08-21 13:37:27 -07:00
page_poison.c mm/page_poison: remove unused page_ext.h from page_poison 2023-08-21 13:37:30 -07:00
page_reporting.c mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
page_reporting.h
page_table_check.c mm: convert page_table_check_pte_set() to page_table_check_ptes_set() 2023-08-24 16:20:18 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm: correct stale comment of function check_pte 2023-08-18 10:12:13 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk: fix bootstopping regression from extra pte_unmap() 2023-09-02 08:39:21 -07:00
percpu-internal.h percpu-internal/pcpu_chunk: re-layout pcpu_chunk structure to reduce false sharing 2023-06-19 16:19:29 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c mm/percpu.c: print error message too if atomic alloc failed 2023-08-25 08:04:59 -07:00
pgalloc-track.h
pgtable-generic.c mm/pgtable: notes on pte_offset_map[_lock]() 2023-08-18 10:12:25 -07:00
process_vm_access.c mm/gup: remove unused vmas parameter from pin_user_pages_remote() 2023-06-09 16:25:25 -07:00
ptdump.c mm: ptdump should use ptep_get_lockless() 2023-06-19 16:19:24 -07:00
readahead.c filemap: Allow __filemap_get_folio to allocate large folios 2023-07-24 18:04:30 -04:00
rmap.c mm: hugetlb: add huge page size param to set_huge_pte_at() 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
rodata_test.c
secretmem.c mm/secretmem: use a folio in secretmem_fault() 2023-08-21 13:38:02 -07:00
shmem.c mm/shmem: remove dead code can not be satisfied by "(CONFIG_SHMEM)&&(!(CONFIG_SHMEM))" 2023-10-04 10:32:22 -07:00
shmem_quota.c shmem: Add default quota limit mount options 2023-08-09 09:15:40 +02:00
show_mem.c mm: refactor si_mem_available() 2023-10-04 10:32:19 -07:00
shrinker.c mm: shrinker: make global slab shrink lockless 2023-10-04 10:32:26 -07:00
shrinker_debug.c mm: shrinker: add infrastructure for dynamically allocating shrinker 2023-10-04 10:32:23 -07:00
shuffle.c
shuffle.h mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
slab.c Randomized slab caches for kmalloc() 2023-07-18 10:07:47 +02:00
slab.h Randomized slab caches for kmalloc() 2023-07-18 10:07:47 +02:00
slab_common.c slab fixes for 6.6-rc4 2023-09-29 12:10:12 -07:00
slub.c mm/slub: remove freelist_dereference() 2023-07-14 09:57:21 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/vmemmap: allow architectures to override how vmemmap optimization works 2023-08-18 10:12:53 -07:00
sparse.c mm/sparse: remove redundant judgments from macro for_each_present_section_nr 2023-08-18 10:12:14 -07:00
swap.c mm: remove references to pagevec 2023-06-23 16:59:30 -07:00
swap.h swap: remove remnants of polling from read_swap_cache_async 2023-08-24 16:20:16 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c
swap_slots.c
swap_state.c mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry() 2023-08-24 16:20:28 -07:00
swapfile.c mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry() 2023-08-24 16:20:28 -07:00
truncate.c - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") 2023-08-29 14:25:26 -07:00
usercopy.c mm: Fix copy_from_user_nofault(). 2023-04-12 17:36:23 -07:00
userfaultfd.c Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
util.c rcu: dump vmalloc memory info safely 2023-09-05 10:13:45 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm: hugetlb: add huge page size param to set_huge_pte_at() 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
vmpressure.c net-memcg: Fix scope of sockmem pressure indicators 2023-08-16 12:21:32 +01:00
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: move shrinker-related code into a separate file 2023-10-04 10:32:23 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat: use this_cpu_try_cmpxchg in mod_{zone,node}_state 2023-10-04 10:32:20 -07:00
workingset.c mm: workingset: dynamically allocate the mm-shadow shrinker 2023-10-04 10:32:24 -07:00
z3fold.c mm/z3fold: remove obsolete comment for struct z3fold_pool 2023-08-21 13:37:51 -07:00
zbud.c mm: zswap: remove shrink from zpool interface 2023-06-19 16:19:27 -07:00
zpool.c mm: zswap: remove shrink from zpool interface 2023-06-19 16:19:27 -07:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: dynamically allocate the mm-zspool shrinker 2023-10-04 10:32:26 -07:00
zswap.c mm: zswap: fix potential memory corruption on duplicate store 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00