Actually, this bug is not only for NVDIMM/DAX but also for any other
file systems. This simple test case abstracted from nvml can easily
reproduce this bug in common environment:
int retval = 0; /* assume false until proven otherwise */
char line[PROCMAXLEN]; /* for fgets() */
char *lo = NULL; /* beginning of current range in smaps file */
char *hi = NULL; /* end of current range in smaps file */
int needmm = 0; /* looking for mm flag for current range */
while (fgets(line, PROCMAXLEN, fp) != NULL) {
static const char vmflags[] = "VmFlags:";
static const char mm[] = " wr";
/* check for range line */
if (sscanf(line, "%p-%p", &lo, &hi) == 2) {
if (needmm) {
/* last range matched, but no mm flag found */
printf("never found mm flag.\n");
break;
} else if (caddr < lo) {
/* never found the range for caddr */
printf("#######no match for addr %p.\n", caddr);
break;
} else if (caddr < hi) {
/* start address is in this range */
size_t rangelen = (size_t)(hi - caddr);
/* remember that matching has started */
needmm = 1;
/* calculate remaining range to search for */
if (len > rangelen) {
len -= rangelen;
caddr += rangelen;
printf("matched %zu bytes in range "
"%p-%p, %zu left over.\n",
rangelen, lo, hi, len);
} else {
len = 0;
printf("matched all bytes in range "
"%p-%p.\n", lo, hi);
}
}
} else if (needmm && strncmp(line, vmflags,
sizeof(vmflags) - 1) == 0) {
if (strstr(&line[sizeof(vmflags) - 1], mm) != NULL) {
printf("mm flag found.\n");
if (len == 0) {
/* entire range matched */
retval = 1;
break;
}
needmm = 0; /* saw what was needed */
} else {
/* mm flag not set for some or all of range */
printf("range has no mm flag.\n");
break;
}
}
}
/* kick off NTHREAD threads */
for (int i = 0; i < NTHREAD; i++)
pthread_create(&threads[i], NULL, worker, &ret[i]);
/* wait for all the threads to complete */
for (int i = 0; i < NTHREAD; i++)
pthread_join(threads[i], NULL);
/* verify that all the threads return the same value */
for (int i = 1; i < NTHREAD; i++) {
if (ret[0] != ret[i]) {
printf("Error i %d ret[0] = %d ret[i] = %d.\n", i,
ret[0], ret[i]);
}
}
printf("%d", ret[0]);
return 0;
}
It failed as some threads can not find the memory region in
"/proc/self/smaps" which is allocated in the main process
It is caused by proc fs which uses 'file->version' to indicate the VMA that
is the last one has already been handled by read() system call. When the
next read() issues, it uses the 'version' to find the VMA, then the next
VMA is what we want to handle, the related code is as follows:
if (last_addr) {
vma = find_vma(mm, last_addr);
if (vma && (vma = m_next_vma(priv, vma)))
return vma;
}
However, VMA will be lost if the last VMA is gone, e.g:
The process VMA list is A->B->C->D
CPU 0 CPU 1
read() system call
handle VMA B
version = B
return to userspace
unmap VMA B
issue read() again to continue to get
the region info
find_vma(version) will get VMA C
m_next_vma(C) will get VMA D
handle D
!!! VMA C is lost !!!
In order to fix this bug, we make 'file->version' indicate the end address
of the current VMA. m_start will then look up a vma which with vma_start
< last_vm_end and moves on to the next vma if we found the same or an
overlapping vma. This will guarantee that we will not miss an exclusive
vma but we can still miss one if the previous vma was shrunk. This is
acceptable because guaranteeing "never miss a vma" is simply not feasible.
User has to cope with some inconsistencies if the file is not read in one
go.
[mhocko@suse.com: changelog fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475296958-27652-1-git-send-email-robert.hu@intel.com Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Hu <robert.hu@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
John Stultz [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:02:33 +0000 (17:02 -0700)]
proc: fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self
In changing from checking ptrace_may_access(p, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS)
to capable(CAP_SYS_NICE), I missed that ptrace_my_access succeeds when p
== current, but the CAP_SYS_NICE doesn't.
Thus while the previous commit was intended to loosen the needed
privileges to modify a processes timerslack, it needlessly restricted a
task modifying its own timerslack via the proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns
(which is permitted also via the PR_SET_TIMERSLACK method).
This patch corrects this by checking if p == current before checking the
CAP_SYS_NICE value.
This patch applies on top of my two previous patches currently in -mm
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471906870-28624-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com> Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> Cc: Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
John Stultz [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:02:29 +0000 (17:02 -0700)]
proc: add LSM hook checks to /proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns
As requested, this patch checks the existing LSM hooks
task_getscheduler/task_setscheduler when reading or modifying the task's
timerslack value.
Previous versions added new get/settimerslack LSM hooks, but since they
checked the same PROCESS__SET/GETSCHED values as existing hooks, it was
suggested we just use the existing ones.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469132667-17377-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com> Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> Cc: Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When an interface to allow a task to change another tasks timerslack was
first proposed, it was suggested that something greater then
CAP_SYS_NICE would be needed, as a task could be delayed further then
what normally could be done with nice adjustments.
So CAP_SYS_PTRACE was adopted instead for what became the
/proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns interface. However, for Android (where this
feature originates), giving the system_server CAP_SYS_PTRACE would allow
it to observe and modify all tasks memory. This is considered too high
a privilege level for only needing to change the timerslack.
After some discussion, it was realized that a CAP_SYS_NICE process can
set a task as SCHED_FIFO, so they could fork some spinning processes and
set them all SCHED_FIFO 99, in effect delaying all other tasks for an
infinite amount of time.
So as a CAP_SYS_NICE task can already cause trouble for other tasks,
using it as a required capability for accessing and modifying
/proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns seems sufficient.
Thus, this patch loosens the capability requirements to CAP_SYS_NICE and
removes CAP_SYS_PTRACE, simplifying some of the code flow as well.
This is technically an ABI change, but as the feature just landed in
4.6, I suspect no one is yet using it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469132667-17377-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com> Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> Cc: Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vineet Gupta [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:02:10 +0000 (17:02 -0700)]
atomic64: no need for CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
This came to light when implementing native 64-bit atomics for ARCv2.
The atomic64 self-test code uses CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
to check whether atomic64_dec_if_positive() is available. It seems it
was needed when not every arch defined it. However as of current code
the Kconfig option seems needless
- for CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 it is auto-enabled in lib/Kconfig and a
generic definition of API is present lib/atomic64.c
- arches with native 64-bit atomics select it in arch/*/Kconfig and
define the API in their headers
The macro PAGE_ALIGNED() is prone to cause error because it doesn't
follow convention to parenthesize parameter @addr within macro body, for
example unsigned long *ptr = kmalloc(...); PAGE_ALIGNED(ptr + 16); for
the left parameter of macro IS_ALIGNED(), (unsigned long)(ptr + 16) is
desired but the actual one is (unsigned long)ptr + 16.
It is fixed by simply canonicalizing macro PAGE_ALIGNED() definition.
zhong jiang [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:02:01 +0000 (17:02 -0700)]
mm: remove unnecessary condition in remove_inode_hugepages
When the huge page is added to the page cahce (huge_add_to_page_cache),
the page private flag will be cleared. since this code
(remove_inode_hugepages) will only be called for pages in the page
cahce, PagePrivate(page) will always be false.
The patch remove the code without any functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475113323-29368-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Tested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:01:58 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
mm: warn about allocations which stall for too long
Currently we do warn only about allocation failures but small
allocations are basically nofail and they might loop in the page
allocator for a long time. Especially when the reclaim cannot make any
progress - e.g. GFP_NOFS cannot invoke the oom killer and rely on a
different context to make a forward progress in case there is a lot
memory used by filesystems.
Give us at least a clue when something like this happens and warn about
allocations which take more than 10s. Print the basic allocation
context information along with the cumulative time spent in the
allocation as well as the allocation stack. Repeat the warning after
every 10 seconds so that we know that the problem is permanent rather
than ephemeral.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160929084407.7004-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:01:55 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
mm: consolidate warn_alloc_failed users
warn_alloc_failed is currently used from the page and vmalloc
allocators. This is a good reuse of the code except that vmalloc would
appreciate a slightly different warning message. This is already
handled by the fmt parameter except that
is printed anyway. This might be quite misleading because it might be a
vmalloc failure which leads to the warning while the page allocator is
not the culprit here. Fix this by always using the fmt string and only
print the context that makes sense for the particular context (e.g.
order makes only very little sense for the vmalloc context).
Rename the function to not miss any user and also because a later patch
will reuse it also for !failure cases.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160929084407.7004-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The filesystem used in this case is ubifs, but it can be triggered on
many other filesystems.
When preadv64() is called with offset=0xffffffff000, a page with
index=0xffffffff will be added to the radix tree of ->mapping. Then
this page can be found in ->mapping with pagevec_lookup(). After that,
truncate_inode_pages_range(), which is called in ftruncate(), will fall
into an infinite loop:
- find a page with index=0xffffffff, since index>=end, this page won't
be truncated
- index++, and index become 0
- the page with index=0xffffffff will be found again
The data type of index is unsigned long, so index won't overflow to 0 on
64 bits architecture in this case, and the dead loop won't happen.
Since truncate_inode_pages_range() is executed with holding lock of
inode->i_rwsem, any operation related with this lock will be blocked,
and a hung task will happen, e.g.:
INFO: task truncate_test:3364 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
...
call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x17/0x30
generic_file_write_iter+0x32/0x1c0
ubifs_write_iter+0xcc/0x170
__vfs_write+0xc4/0x120
vfs_write+0xb2/0x1b0
SyS_write+0x46/0xa0
The page with index=0xffffffff added to ->mapping is useless. Fix this
by checking the read position before allocating pages.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475151010-40166-1-git-send-email-fangwei1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Yisheng Xie [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:01:49 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
arm64 Kconfig: select gigantic page
Arm64 supports gigantic pages after commit 084bd29810a5 ("ARM64: mm:
HugeTLB support.") however, it can only be allocated at boottime and
can't be freed.
This patch selects ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE to make gigantic pages can be
allocated and freed at runtime for arch arm64.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475227569-63446-3-git-send-email-xieyisheng1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
So all nodes but Node 0 have a lot of free memory which should suggest
that there is an available memory especially when mems_allowed=0-7. One
could speculate that a massive process has managed to terminate and free
up a lot of memory while racing with the above allocation request.
Although this is highly unlikely it cannot be ruled out.
A further debugging, however shown that the faulting process had
mempolicy (not cpuset) to bind to Node 0. We cannot see that
information from the report though. mems_allowed turned out to be more
confusing than really helpful.
Fix this by always priting the nodemask. It is either mempolicy mask
(and non-null) or the one defined by the cpusets. The new output for
the above oom report would be
This patch doesn't touch show_mem and the node filtering based on the
cpuset node mask because mempolicy is always a subset of cpusets and
seeing the full cpuset oom context might be helpful for tunning more
specific mempolicies inside cpusets (e.g. when they turn out to be too
restrictive). To prevent from ugly ifdefs the mask is printed even for
!NUMA configurations but this should be OK (a single node will be
printed).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160930214146.28600-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Sellami Abdelkader <abdelkader.sellami@sap.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Sellami Abdelkader <abdelkader.sellami@sap.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: vma_merge: correct false positive from __vma_unlink->validate_mm_rb
The old code was always doing:
vma->vm_end = next->vm_end
vma_rb_erase(next) // in __vma_unlink
vma->vm_next = next->vm_next // in __vma_unlink
next = vma->vm_next
vma_gap_update(next)
The new code still does the above for remove_next == 1 and 2, but for
remove_next == 3 it has been changed and it does:
next->vm_start = vma->vm_start
vma_rb_erase(vma) // in __vma_unlink
vma_gap_update(next)
In the latter case, while unlinking "vma", validate_mm_rb() is told to
ignore "vma" that is being removed, but next->vm_start was reduced
instead. So for the new case, to avoid the false positive from
validate_mm_rb, it should be "next" that is ignored when "vma" is
being unlinked.
"vma" and "next" in the above comment, considered pre-swap().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474492522-2261-4-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: vma_merge: fix vm_page_prot SMP race condition against rmap_walk
The rmap_walk can access vm_page_prot (and potentially vm_flags in the
pte/pmd manipulations). So it's not safe to wait the caller to update
the vm_page_prot/vm_flags after vma_merge returned potentially removing
the "next" vma and extending the "current" vma over the
next->vm_start,vm_end range, but still with the "current" vma
vm_page_prot, after releasing the rmap locks.
The vm_page_prot/vm_flags must be transferred from the "next" vma to the
current vma while vma_merge still holds the rmap locks.
The side effect of this race condition is pte corruption during migrate
as remove_migration_ptes when run on a address of the "next" vma that
got removed, used the vm_page_prot of the current vma.
migrate mprotect
------------ -------------
migrating in "next" vma
vma_merge() # removes "next" vma and
# extends "current" vma
# current vma is not with
# vm_page_prot updated
remove_migration_ptes
read vm_page_prot of current "vma"
establish pte with wrong permissions
vm_set_page_prot(vma) # too late!
change_protection in the old vma range
only, next range is not updated
This caused segmentation faults and potentially memory corruption in
heavy mprotect loads with some light page migration caused by compaction
in the background.
Hugh Dickins pointed out the comment about the Odd case 8 in vma_merge
which confirms the case 8 is only buggy one where the race can trigger,
in all other vma_merge cases the above cannot happen.
This fix removes the oddness factor from case 8 and it converts it from:
AAAA
PPPPNNNNXXXX -> PPPPNNNNNNNN
to:
AAAA
PPPPNNNNXXXX -> PPPPXXXXXXXX
XXXX has the right vma properties for the whole merged vma returned by
vma_adjust, so it solves the problem fully. It has the added benefits
that the callers could stop updating vma properties when vma_merge
succeeds however the callers are not updated by this patch (there are
bits like VM_SOFTDIRTY that still need special care for the whole range,
as the vma merging ignores them, but as long as they're not processed by
rmap walks and instead they're accessed with the mmap_sem at least for
reading, they are fine not to be updated within vma_adjust before
releasing the rmap_locks).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474309513-20313-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Aditya Mandaleeka <adityam@microsoft.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: vma_adjust: remove superfluous confusing update in remove_next == 1 case
mm->highest_vm_end doesn't need any update.
After finally removing the oddness from vma_merge case 8 that was
causing:
1) constant risk of trouble whenever anybody would check vma fields
from rmap_walks, like it happened when page migration was
introduced and it read the vma->vm_page_prot from a rmap_walk
2) the callers of vma_merge to re-initialize any value different from
the current vma, instead of vma_merge() more reliably returning a
vma that already matches all fields passed as parameter
.. it is also worth to take the opportunity of cleaning up superfluous
code in vma_adjust(), that if not removed adds up to the hard
readability of the function.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474492522-2261-5-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
zhong jiang [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:01:19 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
mm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node()
According to Hugh's suggestion, alloc_stable_node() with GFP_KERNEL can
in rare cases cause a hung task warning.
At present, if alloc_stable_node() allocation fails, two break_cows may
want to allocate a couple of pages, and the issue will come up when free
memory is under pressure.
We fix it by adding __GFP_HIGH to GFP, to grant access to memory
reserves, increasing the likelihood of allocation success.
Gerald Schaefer [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:01:13 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
mm/hugetlb: improve locking in dissolve_free_huge_pages()
For every pfn aligned to minimum_order, dissolve_free_huge_pages() will
call dissolve_free_huge_page() which takes the hugetlb spinlock, even if
the page is not huge at all or a hugepage that is in-use.
Improve this by doing the PageHuge() and page_count() checks already in
dissolve_free_huge_pages() before calling dissolve_free_huge_page(). In
dissolve_free_huge_page(), when holding the spinlock, those checks need
to be revalidated.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926172811.94033-4-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rui Teng <rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Gerald Schaefer [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:01:10 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
mm/hugetlb: check for reserved hugepages during memory offline
In dissolve_free_huge_pages(), free hugepages will be dissolved without
making sure that there are enough of them left to satisfy hugepage
reservations.
Fix this by adding a return value to dissolve_free_huge_pages() and
checking h->free_huge_pages vs. h->resv_huge_pages. Note that this may
lead to the situation where dissolve_free_huge_page() returns an error
and all free hugepages that were dissolved before that error are lost,
while the memory block still cannot be set offline.
Fixes: c8721bbb ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926172811.94033-3-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rui Teng <rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/hugetlb: memory offline issues with hugepages", v4.
This addresses several issues with hugepages and memory offline. While
the first patch fixes a panic, and is therefore rather important, the
last patch is just a performance optimization.
The second patch fixes a theoretical issue with reserved hugepages,
while still leaving some ugly usability issue, see description.
This patch (of 3):
dissolve_free_huge_pages() will either run into the VM_BUG_ON() or a
list corruption and addressing exception when trying to set a memory
block offline that is part (but not the first part) of a "gigantic"
hugetlb page with a size > memory block size.
When no other smaller hugetlb page sizes are present, the VM_BUG_ON()
will trigger directly. In the other case we will run into an addressing
exception later, because dissolve_free_huge_page() will not work on the
head page of the compound hugetlb page which will result in a NULL
hstate from page_hstate().
To fix this, first remove the VM_BUG_ON() because it is wrong, and then
use the compound head page in dissolve_free_huge_page(). This means
that an unused pre-allocated gigantic page that has any part of itself
inside the memory block that is going offline will be dissolved
completely. Losing an unused gigantic hugepage is preferable to failing
the memory offline, for example in the situation where a (possibly
faulty) memory DIMM needs to go offline.
Fixes: c8721bbb ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926172811.94033-2-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rui Teng <rui.teng@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wanlong Gao [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:01:04 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
mm: nobootmem: move the comment of free_all_bootmem
Commit b4def3509d18 ("mm, nobootmem: clean-up of free_low_memory_core_early()")
removed the unnecessary nodeid argument, after that, this comment
becomes more confused. We should move it to the right place.
Fixes: b4def3509d18c1db9 ("mm, nobootmem: clean-up of free_low_memory_core_early()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473996082-14603-1-git-send-email-wanlong.gao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The cgroup core and the memory controller need to track socket ownership
for different purposes, but the tracking sites being entirely different
is kind of ugly.
Be a better citizen and rename the memory controller callbacks to match
the cgroup core callbacks, then move them to the same place.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160914194846.11153-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Baoyou Xie [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:55 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm: move phys_mem_access_prot_allowed() declaration to pgtable.h
We get 1 warning when building kernel with W=1:
drivers/char/mem.c:220:12: warning: no previous prototype for 'phys_mem_access_prot_allowed' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
int __weak phys_mem_access_prot_allowed(struct file *file,
In fact, its declaration is spreading to several header files in
different architecture, but need to be declare in common header file.
So this patch moves phys_mem_access_prot_allowed() to pgtable.h.
Tetsuo Handa [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:49 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm: don't emit warning from pagefault_out_of_memory()
Commit c32b3cbe0d06 ("oom, PM: make OOM detection in the freezer path
raceless") inserted a WARN_ON() into pagefault_out_of_memory() in order
to warn when we raced with disabling the OOM killer.
Now, patch "oom, suspend: fix oom_killer_disable vs. pm suspend
properly" introduced a timeout for oom_killer_disable(). Even if we
raced with disabling the OOM killer and the system is OOM livelocked,
the OOM killer will be enabled eventually (in 20 seconds by default) and
the OOM livelock will be solved. Therefore, we no longer need to warn
when we raced with disabling the OOM killer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473442120-7246-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:46 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm, compaction: restrict fragindex to costly orders
Fragmentation index and the vm.extfrag_threshold sysctl is meant as a
heuristic to prevent excessive compaction for costly orders (i.e. THP).
It's unlikely to make any difference for non-costly orders, especially
with the default threshold. But we cannot afford any uncertainty for
the non-costly orders where the only alternative to successful
reclaim/compaction is OOM. After the recent patches we are guaranteed
maximum effort without heuristics from compaction before deciding OOM,
and fragindex is the last remaining heuristic. Therefore skip fragindex
altogether for non-costly orders.
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926162025.21555-5-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:43 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm, compaction: ignore fragindex from compaction_zonelist_suitable()
The compaction_zonelist_suitable() function tries to determine if
compaction will be able to proceed after sufficient reclaim, i.e.
whether there are enough reclaimable pages to provide enough order-0
freepages for compaction.
This addition of reclaimable pages to the free pages works well for the
order-0 watermark check, but in the fragmentation index check we only
consider truly free pages. Thus we can get fragindex value close to 0
which indicates failure do to lack of memory, and wrongly decide that
compaction won't be suitable even after reclaim.
Instead of trying to somehow adjust fragindex for reclaimable pages,
let's just skip it from compaction_zonelist_suitable().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926162025.21555-4-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:40 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm, page_alloc: pull no_progress_loops update to should_reclaim_retry()
The should_reclaim_retry() makes decisions based on no_progress_loops,
so it makes sense to also update the counter there. It will be also
consistent with should_compact_retry() and compaction_retries. No
functional change.
[hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com: fix missing pointer dereferences] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160926162025.21555-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:37 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm, compaction: make full priority ignore pageblock suitability
Several people have reported premature OOMs for order-2 allocations
(stack) due to OOM rework in 4.7. In the scenario (parallel kernel
build and dd writing to two drives) many pageblocks get marked as
Unmovable and compaction free scanner struggles to isolate free pages.
Joonsoo Kim pointed out that the free scanner skips pageblocks that are
not movable to prevent filling them and forcing non-movable allocations
to fallback to other pageblocks. Such heuristic makes sense to help
prevent long-term fragmentation, but premature OOMs are relatively more
urgent problem. As a compromise, this patch disables the heuristic only
for the ultimate compaction priority.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-5-vbabka@suse.cz Reported-by: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <Ralf-Peter.Rohbeck@quantum.com> Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:34 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm, compaction: restrict full priority to non-costly orders
The new ultimate compaction priority disables some heuristics, which may
result in excessive cost. This is fine for non-costly orders where we
want to try hard before resulting for OOM, but might be disruptive for
costly orders which do not trigger OOM and should generally have some
fallback. Thus, we disable the full priority for costly orders.
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-4-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:31 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm, compaction: more reliably increase direct compaction priority
During reclaim/compaction loop, compaction priority can be increased by
the should_compact_retry() function, but the current code is not
optimal. Priority is only increased when compaction_failed() is true,
which means that compaction has scanned the whole zone. This may not
happen even after multiple attempts with a lower priority due to
parallel activity, so we might needlessly struggle on the lower
priorities and possibly run out of compaction retry attempts in the
process.
After this patch we are guaranteed at least one attempt at the highest
compaction priority even if we exhaust all retries at the lower
priorities.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:28 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
Revert "mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request"
Patch series "reintroduce compaction feedback for OOM decisions".
After several people reported OOM's for order-2 allocations in 4.7 due
to Michal Hocko's OOM rework, he reverted the part that considered
compaction feedback [1] in the decisions to retry reclaim/compaction.
This was to provide a fix quickly for 4.8 rc and 4.7 stable series,
while mmotm had an almost complete solution that instead improved
compaction reliability.
This series completes the mmotm solution and reintroduces the compaction
feedback into OOM decisions. The first two patches restore the state of
mmotm before the temporary solution was merged, the last patch should be
the missing piece for reliability. The third patch restricts the
hardened compaction to non-costly orders, since costly orders don't
result in OOMs in the first place.
Commit 6b4e3181d7bd ("mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation
for high order request") was intended as a quick fix of OOM regressions
for 4.8 and stable 4.7.x kernels. For a better long-term solution, we
still want to consider compaction feedback, which should be possible
after some more improvements in the following patches.
Huang Ying [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:24 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm: remove page_file_index
After using the offset of the swap entry as the key of the swap cache,
the page_index() becomes exactly same as page_file_index(). So the
page_file_index() is removed and the callers are changed to use
page_index() instead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473270649-27229-2-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Huang Ying [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:21 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm, swap: use offset of swap entry as key of swap cache
This patch is to improve the performance of swap cache operations when
the type of the swap device is not 0. Originally, the whole swap entry
value is used as the key of the swap cache, even though there is one
radix tree for each swap device. If the type of the swap device is not
0, the height of the radix tree of the swap cache will be increased
unnecessary, especially on 64bit architecture. For example, for a 1GB
swap device on the x86_64 architecture, the height of the radix tree of
the swap cache is 11. But if the offset of the swap entry is used as
the key of the swap cache, the height of the radix tree of the swap
cache is 4. The increased height causes unnecessary radix tree
descending and increased cache footprint.
This patch reduces the height of the radix tree of the swap cache via
using the offset of the swap entry instead of the whole swap entry value
as the key of the swap cache. In 32 processes sequential swap out test
case on a Xeon E5 v3 system with RAM disk as swap, the lock contention
for the spinlock of the swap cache is reduced from 20.15% to 12.19%,
when the type of the swap device is 1.
Dan Williams [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:18 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm: fix cache mode tracking in vm_insert_mixed()
vm_insert_mixed() unlike vm_insert_pfn_prot() and vmf_insert_pfn_pmd(),
fails to check the pgprot_t it uses for the mapping against the one
recorded in the memtype tracking tree. Add the missing call to
track_pfn_insert() to preclude cases where incompatible aliased mappings
are established for a given physical address range.
James Morse [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:12 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
mm/memcontrol.c: make the walk_page_range() limit obvious
mem_cgroup_count_precharge() and mem_cgroup_move_charge() both call
walk_page_range() on the range 0 to ~0UL, neither provide a pte_hole
callback, which causes the current implementation to skip non-vma
regions. This is all fine but follow up changes would like to make
walk_page_range more generic so it is better to be explicit about which
range to traverse so let's use highest_vm_end to explicitly traverse
only user mmaped memory.
[mhocko@kernel.org: rewrote changelog] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472655897-22532-1-git-send-email-james.morse@arm.com Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Aaron Lu [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:08 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
thp: reduce usage of huge zero page's atomic counter
The global zero page is used to satisfy an anonymous read fault. If
THP(Transparent HugePage) is enabled then the global huge zero page is
used. The global huge zero page uses an atomic counter for reference
counting and is allocated/freed dynamically according to its counter
value.
CPU time spent on that counter will greatly increase if there are a lot
of processes doing anonymous read faults. This patch proposes a way to
reduce the access to the global counter so that the CPU load can be
reduced accordingly.
To do this, a new flag of the mm_struct is introduced:
MMF_USED_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE. With this flag, the process only need to touch
the global counter in two cases:
1 The first time it uses the global huge zero page;
2 The time when mm_user of its mm_struct reaches zero.
Note that right now, the huge zero page is eligible to be freed as soon
as its last use goes away. With this patch, the page will not be
eligible to be freed until the exit of the last process from which it
was ever used.
And with the use of mm_user, the kthread is not eligible to use huge
zero page either. Since no kthread is using huge zero page today, there
is no difference after applying this patch. But if that is not desired,
I can change it to when mm_count reaches zero.
Case used for test on Haswell EP:
usemem -n 72 --readonly -j 0x200000 100G
Which spawns 72 processes and each will mmap 100G anonymous space and
then do read only access to that space sequentially with a step of 2MB.
CPU cycles from perf report for base commit:
54.03% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_huge_zero_page
CPU cycles from perf report for this commit:
0.11% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_get_huge_zero_page
Performance(throughput) of the workload for base commit: 1784430792
Performance(throughput) of the workload for this commit: 4726928591
164% increase.
Runtime of the workload for base commit: 707592 us
Runtime of the workload for this commit: 303970 us
50% drop.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fe51a88f-446a-4622-1363-ad1282d71385@intel.com Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
James Morse [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:06 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
fs/proc/task_mmu.c: make the task_mmu walk_page_range() limit in clear_refs_write() obvious
Trying to walk all of virtual memory requires architecture specific
knowledge. On x86_64, addresses must be sign extended from bit 48,
whereas on arm64 the top VA_BITS of address space have their own set of
page tables.
clear_refs_write() calls walk_page_range() on the range 0 to ~0UL, it
provides a test_walk() callback that only expects to be walking over
VMAs. Currently walk_pmd_range() will skip memory regions that don't
have a VMA, reporting them as a hole.
As this call only expects to walk user address space, make it walk 0 to
'highest_vm_end'.
Tim Chen [Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:02 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
cpu: fix node state for whether it contains CPU
In current kernel code, we only call node_set_state(cpu_to_node(cpu),
N_CPU) when a cpu is hot plugged. But we do not set the node state for
N_CPU when the cpus are brought online during boot.
So this could lead to failure when we check to see if a node contains
cpu with node_state(node_id, N_CPU).
One use case is in the node_reclaime function:
/*
* Only run node reclaim on the local node or on nodes that do
* not
* have associated processors. This will favor the local
* processor
* over remote processors and spread off node memory allocations
* as wide as possible.
*/
if (node_state(pgdat->node_id, N_CPU) && pgdat->node_id !=
numa_node_id())
return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
I instrumented the kernel to call this function after boot and it always
returns 0 on a x86 desktop machine until I apply the attached patch.
int num_cpu_node(void)
{
int i, nr_cpu_nodes = 0;
for_each_node(i) {
if (node_state(i, N_CPU))
++ nr_cpu_nodes;
}
return nr_cpu_nodes;
}
Fix this by checking each node for online CPU when we initialize
vmstat that's responsible for maintaining node state.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160829175922.GA21775@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: <Huang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Toshi Kani [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:59 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
ext2/4, xfs: call thp_get_unmapped_area() for pmd mappings
To support DAX pmd mappings with unmodified applications, filesystems
need to align an mmap address by the pmd size.
Call thp_get_unmapped_area() from f_op->get_unmapped_area.
Note, there is no change in behavior for a non-DAX file.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472497881-9323-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Toshi Kani [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:56 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
thp, dax: add thp_get_unmapped_area for pmd mappings
When CONFIG_FS_DAX_PMD is set, DAX supports mmap() using pmd page size.
This feature relies on both mmap virtual address and FS block (i.e.
physical address) to be aligned by the pmd page size. Users can use
mkfs options to specify FS to align block allocations. However,
aligning mmap address requires code changes to existing applications for
providing a pmd-aligned address to mmap().
For instance, fio with "ioengine=mmap" performs I/Os with mmap() [1].
It calls mmap() with a NULL address, which needs to be changed to
provide a pmd-aligned address for testing with DAX pmd mappings.
Changing all applications that call mmap() with NULL is undesirable.
Add thp_get_unmapped_area(), which can be called by filesystem's
get_unmapped_area to align an mmap address by the pmd size for a DAX
file. It calls the default handler, mm->get_unmapped_area(), to find a
range and then aligns it for a DAX file.
The patch is based on Matthew Wilcox's change that allows adding support
of the pud page size easily.
[1]: https://github.com/axboe/fio/blob/master/engines/mmap.c Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472497881-9323-2-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simon Guo [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:40 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
mm: mlock: avoid increase mm->locked_vm on mlock() when already mlock2(,MLOCK_ONFAULT)
When one vma was with flag VM_LOCKED|VM_LOCKONFAULT (by invoking
mlock2(,MLOCK_ONFAULT)), it can again be populated with mlock() with
VM_LOCKED flag only.
There is a hole in mlock_fixup() which increase mm->locked_vm twice even
the two operations are on the same vma and both with VM_LOCKED flags.
Then check the increase VmLck field in /proc/pid/status(to 128k).
When vma is set with different vm_flags, and the new vm_flags is with
VM_LOCKED, it is not necessarily be a "new locked" vma. This patch
corrects this bug by prevent mm->locked_vm from increment when old
vm_flags is already VM_LOCKED.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472554781-9835-3-git-send-email-wei.guo.simon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simon Guo [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:36 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
mm: mlock: check against vma for actual mlock() size
In do_mlock(), the check against locked memory limitation has a hole
which will fail following cases at step 3):
1) User has a memory chunk from addressA with 50k, and user mem lock
rlimit is 64k.
2) mlock(addressA, 30k)
3) mlock(addressA, 40k)
The 3rd step should have been allowed since the 40k request is
intersected with the previous 30k at step 2), and the 3rd step is
actually for mlock on the extra 10k memory.
This patch checks vma to caculate the actual "new" mlock size, if
necessary, and ajust the logic to fix this issue.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up comment layout]
[wei.guo.simon@gmail.com: correct a typo in count_mm_mlocked_page_nr()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473325970-11393-2-git-send-email-wei.guo.simon@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472554781-9835-2-git-send-email-wei.guo.simon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:33 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
oom: warn if we go OOM for higher order and compaction is disabled
Since the lumpy reclaim is gone there is no source of higher order pages
if CONFIG_COMPACTION=n except for the order-0 pages reclaim which is
unreliable for that purpose to say the least. Hitting an OOM for
!costly higher order requests is therefore all not that hard to imagine.
We are trying hard to not invoke OOM killer as much as possible but
there is simply no reliable way to detect whether more reclaim retries
make sense.
Disabling COMPACTION is not widespread but it seems that some users
might have disable the feature without realizing full consequences
(mostly along with disabling THP because compaction used to be THP
mainly thing). This patch just adds a note if the OOM killer was
triggered by higher order request with compaction disabled. This will
help us identifying possible misconfiguration right from the oom report
which is easier than to always keep in mind that somebody might have
disabled COMPACTION without a good reason.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160830111632.GD23963@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Huang Ying [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:30 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
mm: don't use radix tree writeback tags for pages in swap cache
File pages use a set of radix tree tags (DIRTY, TOWRITE, WRITEBACK,
etc.) to accelerate finding the pages with a specific tag in the radix
tree during inode writeback. But for anonymous pages in the swap cache,
there is no inode writeback. So there is no need to find the pages with
some writeback tags in the radix tree. It is not necessary to touch
radix tree writeback tags for pages in the swap cache.
Per Rik van Riel's suggestion, a new flag AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS is
introduced for address spaces which don't need to update the writeback
tags. The flag is set for swap caches. It may be used for DAX file
systems, etc.
With this patch, the swap out bandwidth improved 22.3% (from ~1.2GB/s to
~1.48GBps) in the vm-scalability swap-w-seq test case with 8 processes.
The test is done on a Xeon E5 v3 system. The swap device used is a RAM
simulated PMEM (persistent memory) device. The improvement comes from
the reduced contention on the swap cache radix tree lock. To test
sequential swapping out, the test case uses 8 processes, which
sequentially allocate and write to the anonymous pages until RAM and
part of the swap device is used up.
zijun_hu [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:27 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
mm/bootmem.c: replace kzalloc() by kzalloc_node()
In ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(), replace kzalloc() by kzalloc_node()
in order to allocate memory within given node preferentially when slab
is available
- the same ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT statements are duplicated between
header and relevant source
- don't ensure ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT perhaps defined by ARCH in
asm/processor.h is preferred over default in linux/bootmem.h
completely since the former header isn't included by the latter
Currently significant amount of memory is reserved only in kernel booted
to capture kernel dump using the fa_dump method.
Kernels compiled with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT will initialize
only certain size memory per node. The certain size takes into account
the dentry and inode cache sizes. Currently the cache sizes are
calculated based on the total system memory including the reserved
memory. However such a kernel when booting the same kernel as fadump
kernel will not be able to allocate the required amount of memory to
suffice for the dentry and inode caches. This results in crashes like
Hence only implement arch_reserved_kernel_pages() for CONFIG_FA_DUMP
configurations. The amount reserved will be reduced while calculating
the large caches and will avoid crashes like the below on large systems
such as 32 TB systems.
The total reserved memory in a system is accounted but not available for
use use outside mm/memblock.c. By exposing the total reserved memory,
systems can better calculate the size of large hashes.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472476010-4709-3-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently arch specific code can reserve memory blocks but
alloc_large_system_hash() may not take it into consideration when sizing
the hashes. This can lead to bigger hash than required and lead to no
available memory for other purposes. This is specifically true for
systems with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT enabled.
One approach to solve this problem would be to walk through the memblock
regions and calculate the available memory and base the size of hash
system on the available memory.
The other approach would be to depend on the architecture to provide the
number of pages that are reserved. This change provides hooks to allow
the architecture to provide the required info.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472476010-4709-2-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:09 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
oom, oom_reaper: allow to reap mm shared by the kthreads
oom reaper was skipped for an mm which is shared with the kernel thread
(aka use_mm()). The primary concern was that such a kthread might want
to read from the userspace memory and see zero page as a result of the
oom reaper action. This is no longer a problem after "mm: make sure
that kthreads will not refault oom reaped memory" because any attempt to
fault in when the MMF_UNSTABLE is set will result in SIGBUS and so the
target user should see an error. This means that we can finally allow
oom reaper also to tasks which share their mm with kthreads.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-10-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:06 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
mm: make sure that kthreads will not refault oom reaped memory
There are only few use_mm() users in the kernel right now. Most of them
write to the target memory but vhost driver relies on
copy_from_user/get_user from a kernel thread context. This makes it
impossible to reap the memory of an oom victim which shares the mm with
the vhost kernel thread because it could see a zero page unexpectedly
and theoretically make an incorrect decision visible outside of the
killed task context.
To quote Michael S. Tsirkin:
: Getting an error from __get_user and friends is handled gracefully.
: Getting zero instead of a real value will cause userspace
: memory corruption.
The vhost kernel thread is bound to an open fd of the vhost device which
is not tight to the mm owner life cycle in general. The device fd can
be inherited or passed over to another process which means that we
really have to be careful about unexpected memory corruption because
unlike for normal oom victims the result will be visible outside of the
oom victim context.
Make sure that no kthread context (users of use_mm) can ever see
corrupted data because of the oom reaper and hook into the page fault
path by checking MMF_UNSTABLE mm flag. __oom_reap_task_mm will set the
flag before it starts unmapping the address space while the flag is
checked after the page fault has been handled. If the flag is set then
SIGBUS is triggered so any g-u-p user will get a error code.
Regular tasks do not need this protection because all which share the mm
are killed when the mm is reaped and so the corruption will not outlive
them.
This patch shouldn't have any visible effect at this moment because the
OOM killer doesn't invoke oom reaper for tasks with mm shared with
kthreads yet.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-9-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:59:00 +0000 (16:59 -0700)]
oom, suspend: fix oom_killer_disable vs. pm suspend properly
Commit 74070542099c ("oom, suspend: fix oom_reaper vs.
oom_killer_disable race") has workaround an existing race between
oom_killer_disable and oom_reaper by adding another round of
try_to_freeze_tasks after the oom killer was disabled. This was the
easiest thing to do for a late 4.7 fix. Let's fix it properly now.
After "oom: keep mm of the killed task available" we no longer have to
call exit_oom_victim from the oom reaper because we have stable mm
available and hide the oom_reaped mm by MMF_OOM_SKIP flag. So let's
remove exit_oom_victim and the race described in the above commit
doesn't exist anymore if.
Unfortunately this alone is not sufficient for the oom_killer_disable
usecase because now we do not have any reliable way to reach
exit_oom_victim (the victim might get stuck on a way to exit for an
unbounded amount of time). OOM killer can cope with that by checking mm
flags and move on to another victim but we cannot do the same for
oom_killer_disable as we would lose the guarantee of no further
interference of the victim with the rest of the system. What we can do
instead is to cap the maximum time the oom_killer_disable waits for
victims. The only current user of this function (pm suspend) already
has a concept of timeout for back off so we can reuse the same value
there.
Let's drop set_freezable for the oom_reaper kthread because it is no
longer needed as the reaper doesn't wake or thaw any processes.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-7-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:57 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm, oom: get rid of signal_struct::oom_victims
After "oom: keep mm of the killed task available" we can safely detect
an oom victim by checking task->signal->oom_mm so we do not need the
signal_struct counter anymore so let's get rid of it.
This alone wouldn't be sufficient for nommu archs because
exit_oom_victim doesn't hide the process from the oom killer anymore.
We can, however, mark the mm with a MMF flag in __mmput. We can reuse
MMF_OOM_REAPED and rename it to a more generic MMF_OOM_SKIP.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-6-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
More over commit a79e53d85683 ("x86/mm: Fix pgd_lock deadlock") was
explicit about pgd_lock not to be called from the irq context. This
means that __mmdrop called from free_signal_struct has to be postponed
to a user context. We already have a similar mechanism for mmput_async
so we can use it here as well. This is safe because mm_count is pinned
by mm_users.
This fixes bug introduced by "oom: keep mm of the killed task available"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-5-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:51 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
oom: keep mm of the killed task available
oom_reap_task has to call exit_oom_victim in order to make sure that the
oom vicim will not block the oom killer for ever. This is, however,
opening new problems (e.g oom_killer_disable exclusion - see commit 74070542099c ("oom, suspend: fix oom_reaper vs. oom_killer_disable
race")). exit_oom_victim should be only called from the victim's
context ideally.
One way to achieve this would be to rely on per mm_struct flags. We
already have MMF_OOM_REAPED to hide a task from the oom killer since
"mm, oom: hide mm which is shared with kthread or global init". The
problem is that the exit path:
doesn't guarantee that exit_oom_victim will get called in a bounded
amount of time. At least exit_aio depends on IO which might get blocked
due to lack of memory and who knows what else is lurking there.
This patch takes a different approach. We remember tsk->mm into the
signal_struct and bind it to the signal struct life time for all oom
victims. __oom_reap_task_mm as well as oom_scan_process_thread do not
have to rely on find_lock_task_mm anymore and they will have a reliable
reference to the mm struct. As a result all the oom specific
communication inside the OOM killer can be done via tsk->signal->oom_mm.
Increasing the signal_struct for something as unlikely as the oom killer
is far from ideal but this approach will make the code much more
reasonable and long term we even might want to move task->mm into the
signal_struct anyway. In the next step we might want to make the oom
killer exclusion and access to memory reserves completely independent
which would be also nice.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-4-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tetsuo Handa [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:48 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm,oom_reaper: do not attempt to reap a task twice
"mm, oom_reaper: do not attempt to reap a task twice" tried to give the
OOM reaper one more chance to retry using MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE flag.
But the usefulness of the flag is rather limited and actually never
shown in practice. If the flag is set, it means that the holder of
mm->mmap_sem cannot call up_write() due to presumably being blocked at
unkillable wait waiting for other thread's memory allocation. But since
one of threads sharing that mm will queue that mm immediately via
task_will_free_mem() shortcut (otherwise, oom_badness() will select the
same mm again due to oom_score_adj value unchanged), retrying
MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE mm is unlikely helpful.
Let's always set MMF_OOM_REAPED.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-3-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tetsuo Handa [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:45 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm,oom_reaper: reduce find_lock_task_mm() usage
Patch series "fortify oom killer even more", v2.
This patch (of 9):
__oom_reap_task() can be simplified a bit if it receives a valid mm from
oom_reap_task() which also uses that mm when __oom_reap_task() failed.
We can drop one find_lock_task_mm() call and also make the
__oom_reap_task() code flow easier to follow. Moreover, this will make
later patch in the series easier to review. Pinning mm's mm_count for
longer time is not really harmful because this will not pin much memory.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Huang Ying [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:42 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm, swap: add swap_cluster_list
This is a code clean up patch without functionality changes. The
swap_cluster_list data structure and its operations are introduced to
provide some better encapsulation for the free cluster and discard
cluster list operations. This avoid some code duplication, improved the
code readability, and reduced the total line number.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472067356-16004-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bart Van Assche [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:33 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
do_generic_file_read(): fail immediately if killed
If a fatal signal has been received, fail immediately instead of trying
to read more data.
If wait_on_page_locked_killable() was interrupted then this page is most
likely is not PageUptodate() and in this case do_generic_file_read()
will fail after lock_page_killable().
See also commit ebded02788b5 ("mm: filemap: avoid unnecessary calls to
lock_page when waiting for IO to complete during a read")
[oleg@redhat.com: changelog addition] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/63068e8e-8bee-b208-8441-a3c39a9d9eb6@sandisk.com Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joonsoo Kim [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:30 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm/page_owner: don't define fields on struct page_ext by hard-coding
There is a memory waste problem if we define field on struct page_ext by
hard-coding. Entry size of struct page_ext includes the size of those
fields even if it is disabled at runtime. Now, extra memory request at
runtime is possible so page_owner don't need to define it's own fields
by hard-coding.
This patch removes hard-coded define and uses extra memory for storing
page_owner information in page_owner. Most of code are just mechanical
changes.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joonsoo Kim [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:27 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm/page_ext: support extra space allocation by page_ext user
Until now, if some page_ext users want to use it's own field on
page_ext, it should be defined in struct page_ext by hard-coding. It
has a problem that wastes memory in following situation.
struct page_ext {
#ifdef CONFIG_A
int a;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_B
int b;
#endif
};
Assume that kernel is built with both CONFIG_A and CONFIG_B. Even if we
enable feature A and doesn't enable feature B at runtime, each entry of
struct page_ext takes two int rather than one int. It's undesirable
result so this patch tries to fix it.
To solve above problem, this patch implements to support extra space
allocation at runtime. When need() callback returns true, it's extra
memory requirement is summed to entry size of page_ext. Also, offset
for each user's extra memory space is returned. With this offset, user
can use this extra space and there is no need to define needed field on
page_ext by hard-coding.
This patch only implements an infrastructure. Following patch will use
it for page_owner which is only user having it's own fields on page_ext.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-6-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joonsoo Kim [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:24 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm/page_ext: rename offset to index
Here, 'offset' means entry index in page_ext array. Following patch
will use 'offset' for field offset in each entry so rename current
'offset' to prevent confusion.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-5-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joonsoo Kim [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:18 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm/debug_pagealloc.c: don't allocate page_ext if we don't use guard page
What debug_pagealloc does is just mapping/unmapping page table.
Basically, it doesn't need additional memory space to memorize
something. But, with guard page feature, it requires additional memory
to distinguish if the page is for guard or not. Guard page is only used
when debug_guardpage_minorder is non-zero so this patch removes
additional memory allocation (page_ext) if debug_guardpage_minorder is
zero.
It saves memory if we just use debug_pagealloc and not guard page.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Reduce memory waste by page extension user".
This patchset tries to reduce memory waste by page extension user.
First case is architecture supported debug_pagealloc. It doesn't
requires additional memory if guard page isn't used. 8 bytes per page
will be saved in this case.
Second case is related to page owner feature. Until now, if page_ext
users want to use it's own fields on page_ext, fields should be defined
in struct page_ext by hard-coding. It has a following problem.
struct page_ext {
#ifdef CONFIG_A
int a;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_B
int b;
#endif
};
Assume that kernel is built with both CONFIG_A and CONFIG_B. Even if we
enable feature A and doesn't enable feature B at runtime, each entry of
struct page_ext takes two int rather than one int. It's undesirable
waste so this patch tries to reduce it. By this patchset, we can save
20 bytes per page dedicated for page owner feature in some
configurations.
This patch (of 6):
We can make code clean by moving decision condition for set_page_guard()
into set_page_guard() itself. It will help code readability. There is
no functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Hocko [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:12 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm, vmscan: get rid of throttle_vm_writeout
throttle_vm_writeout() was introduced back in 2005 to fix OOMs caused by
excessive pageout activity during the reclaim. Too many pages could be
put under writeback therefore LRUs would be full of unreclaimable pages
until the IO completes and in turn the OOM killer could be invoked.
There have been some important changes introduced since then in the
reclaim path though. Writers are throttled by balance_dirty_pages when
initiating the buffered IO and later during the memory pressure, the
direct reclaim is throttled by wait_iff_congested if the node is
considered congested by dirty pages on LRUs and the underlying bdi is
congested by the queued IO. The kswapd is throttled as well if it
encounters pages marked for immediate reclaim or under writeback which
signals that that there are too many pages under writeback already.
Finally should_reclaim_retry does congestion_wait if the reclaim cannot
make any progress and there are too many dirty/writeback pages.
Another important aspect is that we do not issue any IO from the direct
reclaim context anymore. In a heavy parallel load this could queue a
lot of IO which would be very scattered and thus unefficient which would
just make the problem worse.
This three mechanisms should throttle and keep the amount of IO in a
steady state even under heavy IO and memory pressure so yet another
throttling point doesn't really seem helpful. Quite contrary, Mikulas
Patocka has reported that swap backed by dm-crypt doesn't work properly
because the swapout IO cannot make sufficient progress as the writeout
path depends on dm_crypt worker which has to allocate memory to perform
the encryption. In order to guarantee a forward progress it relies on
the mempool allocator. mempool_alloc(), however, prefers to use the
underlying (usually page) allocator before it grabs objects from the
pool. Such an allocation can dive into the memory reclaim and
consequently to throttle_vm_writeout. If there are too many dirty or
pages under writeback it will get throttled even though it is in fact a
flusher to clear pending pages.
Let's just drop throttle_vm_writeout altogether. It is not very much
helpful anymore.
I have tried to test a potential writeback IO runaway similar to the one
described in the original patch which has introduced that [1]. Small
virtual machine (512MB RAM, 4 CPUs, 2G of swap space and disk image on a
rather slow NFS in a sync mode on the host) with 8 parallel writers each
writing 1G worth of data. As soon as the pagecache fills up and the
direct reclaim hits then I start anon memory consumer in a loop
(allocating 300M and exiting after populating it) in the background to
make the memory pressure even stronger as well as to disrupt the steady
state for the IO. The direct reclaim is throttled because of the
congestion as well as kswapd hitting congestion_wait due to nr_immediate
but throttle_vm_writeout doesn't ever trigger the sleep throughout the
test. Dirty+writeback are close to nr_dirty_threshold with some
fluctuations caused by the anon consumer.
Xishi Qiu [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:09 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm: fix set pageblock migratetype in deferred struct page init
On x86_64 MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES is usually 4M, and a pageblock is usually
2M, so we only set one pageblock's migratetype in deferred_free_range()
if pfn is aligned to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. That means it causes
uninitialized migratetype blocks, you can see from "cat
/proc/pagetypeinfo", almost half blocks are Unmovable.
Also we missed freeing the last block in deferred_init_memmap(), it
causes memory leak.
Fixes: ac5d2539b238 ("mm: meminit: reduce number of times pageblocks are set during struct page init") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57A3260F.4050709@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Xishi Qiu [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:06 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mem-hotplug: fix node spanned pages when we have a movable node
Commit 342332e6a925 ("mm/page_alloc.c: introduce kernelcore=mirror
option") rewrote the calculation of node spanned pages. But when we
have a movable node, the size of node spanned pages is double added.
That's because we have an empty normal zone, the present pages is zero,
but its spanned pages is not zero.
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:03 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm, vmscan: make compaction_ready() more accurate and readable
The compaction_ready() is used during direct reclaim for costly order
allocations to skip reclaim for zones where compaction should be
attempted instead. It's combining the standard compaction_suitable()
check with its own watermark check based on high watermark with extra
gap, and the result is confusing at best.
This patch attempts to better structure and document the checks
involved. First, compaction_suitable() can determine that the
allocation should either succeed already, or that compaction doesn't
have enough free pages to proceed. The third possibility is that
compaction has enough free pages, but we still decide to reclaim first -
unless we are already above the high watermark with gap. This does not
mean that the reclaim will actually reach this watermark during single
attempt, this is rather an over-reclaim protection. So document the
code as such. The check for compaction_deferred() is removed
completely, as it in fact had no proper role here.
The result after this patch is mainly a less confusing code. We also
skip some over-reclaim in cases where the allocation should already
succed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-12-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:58:00 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
mm, compaction: require only min watermarks for non-costly orders
The __compaction_suitable() function checks the low watermark plus a
compact_gap() gap to decide if there's enough free memory to perform
compaction. Then __isolate_free_page uses low watermark check to decide
if particular free page can be isolated. In the latter case, using low
watermark is needlessly pessimistic, as the free page isolations are
only temporary. For __compaction_suitable() the higher watermark makes
sense for high-order allocations where more freepages increase the
chance of success, and we can typically fail with some order-0 fallback
when the system is struggling to reach that watermark. But for
low-order allocation, forming the page should not be that hard. So
using low watermark here might just prevent compaction from even trying,
and eventually lead to OOM killer even if we are above min watermarks.
So after this patch, we use min watermark for non-costly orders in
__compaction_suitable(), and for all orders in __isolate_free_page().
[vbabka@suse.cz: clarify __isolate_free_page() comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ae4baec-4eca-e70b-2a69-94bea4fb19fa@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-11-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:57 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
mm, compaction: use proper alloc_flags in __compaction_suitable()
The __compaction_suitable() function checks the low watermark plus a
compact_gap() gap to decide if there's enough free memory to perform
compaction. This check uses direct compactor's alloc_flags, but that's
wrong, since these flags are not applicable for freepage isolation.
For example, alloc_flags may indicate access to memory reserves, making
compaction proceed, and then fail watermark check during the isolation.
A similar problem exists for ALLOC_CMA, which may be part of
alloc_flags, but not during freepage isolation. In this case however it
makes sense to use ALLOC_CMA both in __compaction_suitable() and
__isolate_free_page(), since there's actually nothing preventing the
freepage scanner to isolate from CMA pageblocks, with the assumption
that a page that could be migrated once by compaction can be migrated
also later by CMA allocation. Thus we should count pages in CMA
pageblocks when considering compaction suitability and when isolating
freepages.
To sum up, this patch should remove some false positives from
__compaction_suitable(), and allow compaction to proceed when free pages
required for compaction reside in the CMA pageblocks.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-10-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:53 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
mm, compaction: create compact_gap wrapper
Compaction uses a watermark gap of (2UL << order) pages at various
places and it's not immediately obvious why. Abstract it through a
compact_gap() wrapper to create a single place with a thorough
explanation.
[vbabka@suse.cz: clarify the comment of compact_gap()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b6aed1f-fdf8-2063-9ff4-bbe4de712d37@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-9-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:50 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
mm, compaction: use correct watermark when checking compaction success
The __compact_finished() function uses low watermark in a check that has
to pass if the direct compaction is to finish and allocation should
succeed. This is too pessimistic, as the allocation will typically use
min watermark. It may happen that during compaction, we drop below the
low watermark (due to parallel activity), but still form the target
high-order page. By checking against low watermark, we might needlessly
continue compaction.
Similarly, __compaction_suitable() uses low watermark in a check whether
allocation can succeed without compaction. Again, this is unnecessarily
pessimistic.
After this patch, these check will use direct compactor's alloc_flags to
determine the watermark, which is effectively the min watermark.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-8-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:47 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
mm, compaction: add the ultimate direct compaction priority
During reclaim/compaction loop, it's desirable to get a final answer
from unsuccessful compaction so we can either fail the allocation or
invoke the OOM killer. However, heuristics such as deferred compaction
or pageblock skip bits can cause compaction to skip parts or whole zones
and lead to premature OOM's, failures or excessive reclaim/compaction
retries.
To remedy this, we introduce a new direct compaction priority called
COMPACT_PRIO_SYNC_FULL, which instructs direct compaction to:
- ignore deferred compaction status for a zone
- ignore pageblock skip hints
- ignore cached scanner positions and scan the whole zone
The new priority should get eventually picked up by
should_compact_retry() and this should improve success rates for costly
allocations using __GFP_REPEAT, such as hugetlbfs allocations, and
reduce some corner-case OOM's for non-costly allocations.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-6-vbabka@suse.cz
[vbabka@suse.cz: use the MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY alias] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d443b884-87e7-1c93-8684-3a3a35759fb1@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:44 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
mm, compaction: don't recheck watermarks after COMPACT_SUCCESS
Joonsoo has reminded me that in a later patch changing watermark checks
throughout compaction I forgot to update checks in
try_to_compact_pages() and compactd_do_work(). Closer inspection
however shows that they are redundant now in the success case, because
compact_zone() now reliably reports this with COMPACT_SUCCESS. So
effectively the checks just repeat (a subset) of checks that have just
passed. So instead of checking watermarks again, just test the return
value.
Note it's also possible that compaction would declare failure e.g.
because its find_suitable_fallback() is more strict than simple
watermark check, and then the watermark check we are removing would then
still succeed. After this patch this is not possible and it's arguably
better, because for long-term fragmentation avoidance we should rather
try a different zone than allocate with the unsuitable fallback. If
compaction of all zones fail and the allocation is important enough, it
will retry and succeed anyway.
Also remove the stray "bool success" variable from kcompactd_do_work().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-5-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:41 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
mm, compaction: rename COMPACT_PARTIAL to COMPACT_SUCCESS
COMPACT_PARTIAL has historically meant that compaction returned after
doing some work without fully compacting a zone. It however didn't
distinguish if compaction terminated because it succeeded in creating
the requested high-order page. This has changed recently and now we
only return COMPACT_PARTIAL when compaction thinks it succeeded, or the
high-order watermark check in compaction_suitable() passes and no
compaction needs to be done.
So at this point we can make the return value clearer by renaming it to
COMPACT_SUCCESS. The next patch will remove some redundant tests for
success where compaction just returned COMPACT_SUCCESS.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-4-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:38 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
mm, compaction: cleanup unused functions
Since kswapd compaction moved to kcompactd, compact_pgdat() is not
called anymore, so we remove it. The only caller of __compact_pgdat()
is compact_node(), so we merge them and remove code that was only
reachable from kswapd.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vlastimil Babka [Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:35 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
mm, compaction: make whole_zone flag ignore cached scanner positions
Patch series "make direct compaction more deterministic")
This is mostly a followup to Michal's oom detection rework, which
highlighted the need for direct compaction to provide better feedback in
reclaim/compaction loop, so that it can reliably recognize when
compaction cannot make further progress, and allocation should invoke
OOM killer or fail. We've discussed this at LSF/MM [1] where I proposed
expanding the async/sync migration mode used in compaction to more
general "priorities". This patchset adds one new priority that just
overrides all the heuristics and makes compaction fully scan all zones.
I don't currently think that we need more fine-grained priorities, but
we'll see. Other than that there's some smaller fixes and cleanups,
mainly related to the THP-specific hacks.
I've tested this with stress-highalloc in GFP_KERNEL order-4 and
THP-like order-9 scenarios. There's some improvement for compaction
stats for the order-4, which is likely due to the better watermarks
handling. In the previous version I reported mostly noise wrt
compaction stats, and decreased direct reclaim - now the reclaim is
without difference. I believe this is due to the less aggressive
compaction priority increase in patch 6.
"before" is a mmotm tree prior to 4.7 release plus the first part of the
series that was sent and merged separately
A recent patch has added whole_zone flag that compaction sets when
scanning starts from the zone boundary, in order to report that zone has
been fully scanned in one attempt. For allocations that want to try
really hard or cannot fail, we will want to introduce a mode where
scanning whole zone is guaranteed regardless of the cached positions.
This patch reuses the whole_zone flag in a way that if it's already
passed true to compaction, the cached scanner positions are ignored.
Employing this flag during reclaim/compaction loop will be done in the
next patch. This patch however converts compaction invoked from
userspace via procfs to use this flag. Before this patch, the cached
positions were first reset to zone boundaries and then read back from
struct zone, so there was a window where a parallel compaction could
replace the reset values, making the manual compaction less effective.
Using the flag instead of performing reset is more robust.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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