- Oct 14, 2020
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Mateusz Nosek authored
The same code can work both for 'zone->compact_considered > defer_limit' and 'zone->compact_considered >= defer_limit'. In the latter there is one branch less which is more effective considering performance. Signed-off-by:
Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Aug 15, 2020
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) authored
The thp prefix is more frequently used than hpage and we should be consistent between the various functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/migrate.c] Signed-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629151959.15779-6-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by:
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- Aug 12, 2020
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Randy Dunlap authored
Drop the repeated word "a". Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Shi authored
There is no compact_defer_limit. It should be compact_defer_shift in use. and add compact_order_failed explanation. Signed-off-by:
Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by:
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3bd60e1b-a74e-050d-ade4-6e8f54e00b92@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by:
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Nitin Gupta authored
Proactive compaction uses per-node/zone "fragmentation score" which is always in range [0, 100], so use unsigned type of these scores as well as for related constants. Signed-off-by:
Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by:
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618010319.13159-1-nigupta@nvidia.com Signed-off-by:
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Nitin Gupta authored
Fix compile error when COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER is assigned to HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER. The correct way to check if this constant is defined is to check for CONFIG_HUGETLBFS. Reported-by:
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nitin Gupta authored
For some applications, we need to allocate almost all memory as hugepages. However, on a running system, higher-order allocations can fail if the memory is fragmented. Linux kernel currently does on-demand compaction as we request more hugepages, but this style of compaction incurs very high latency. Experiments with one-time full memory compaction (followed by hugepage allocations) show that kernel is able to restore a highly fragmented memory state to a fairly compacted memory state within <1 sec for a 32G system. Such data suggests that a more proactive compaction can help us allocate a large fraction of memory as hugepages keeping allocation latencies low. For a more proactive compaction, the approach taken here is to define a new sysctl called 'vm.compaction_proactiveness' which dictates bounds for external fragmentation which kcompactd tries to maintain. The tunable takes a value in range [0, 100], with a default of 20. Note that a previous version of this patch [1] was found to introduce too many tunables (per-order extfrag{low, high}), but this one reduces them to just one sysctl. Also, the new tunable is an opaque value instead of asking for specific bounds of "external fragmentation", which would have been difficult to estimate. The internal interpretation of this opaque value allows for future fine-tuning. Currently, we use a simple translation from this tunable to [low, high] "fragmentation score" thresholds (low=100-proactiveness, high=low+10%). The score for a node is defined as weighted mean of per-zone external fragmentation. A zone's present_pages determines its weight. To periodically check per-node score, we reuse per-node kcompactd threads, which are woken up every 500 milliseconds to check the same. If a node's score exceeds its high threshold (as derived from user-provided proactiveness value), proactive compaction is started until its score reaches its low threshold value. By default, proactiveness is set to 20, which implies threshold values of low=80 and high=90. This patch is largely based on ideas from Michal Hocko [2]. See also the LWN article [3]. Performance data ================ System: x64_64, 1T RAM, 80 CPU threads. Kernel: 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag Before starting the driver, the system was fragmented from a userspace program that allocates all memory and then for each 2M aligned section, frees 3/4 of base pages using munmap. The workload is mainly anonymous userspace pages, which are easy to move around. I intentionally avoided unmovable pages in this test to see how much latency we incur when hugepage allocations hit direct compaction. 1. Kernel hugepage allocation latencies With the system in such a fragmented state, a kernel driver then allocates as many hugepages as possible and measures allocation latency: (all latency values are in microseconds) - With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3 percentile latency –––––––––– ––––––– 5 7894 10 9496 25 12561 30 15295 40 18244 50 21229 60 27556 75 30147 80 31047 90 32859 95 33799 Total 2M hugepages allocated = 383859 (749G worth of hugepages out of 762G total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages) - With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20 sysctl -w vm.compaction_proactiveness=20 percentile latency –––––––––– ––––––– 5 2 10 2 25 3 30 3 40 3 50 4 60 4 75 4 80 4 90 5 95 429 Total 2M hugepages allocated = 384105 (750G worth of hugepages out of 762G total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages) 2. JAVA heap allocation In this test, we first fragment memory using the same method as for (1). Then, we start a Java process with a heap size set to 700G and request the heap to be allocated with THP hugepages. We also set THP to madvise to allow hugepage backing of this heap. /usr/bin/time java -Xms700G -Xmx700G -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch The above command allocates 700G of Java heap using hugepages. - With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3 17.39user 1666.48system 27:37.89elapsed - With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20 8.35user 194.58system 3:19.62elapsed Elapsed time remains around 3:15, as proactiveness is further increased. Note that proactive compaction happens throughout the runtime of these workloads. The situation of one-time compaction, sufficient to supply hugepages for following allocation stream, can probably happen for more extreme proactiveness values, like 80 or 90. In the above Java workload, proactiveness is set to 20. The test starts with a node's score of 80 or higher, depending on the delay between the fragmentation step and starting the benchmark, which gives more-or-less time for the initial round of compaction. As t he benchmark consumes hugepages, node's score quickly rises above the high threshold (90) and proactive compaction starts again, which brings down the score to the low threshold level (80). Repeat. bpftrace also confirms proactive compaction running 20+ times during the runtime of this Java benchmark. kcompactd threads consume 100% of one of the CPUs while it tries to bring a node's score within thresholds. Backoff behavior ================ Above workloads produce a memory state which is easy to compact. However, if memory is filled with unmovable pages, proactive compaction should essentially back off. To test this aspect: - Created a kernel driver that allocates almost all memory as hugepages followed by freeing first 3/4 of each hugepage. - Set proactiveness=40 - Note that proactive_compact_node() is deferred maximum number of times with HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC of wait between each check (=> ~30 seconds between retries). [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11098289/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20161230131412.GI13301@dhcp22.suse.cz/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/817905/ Signed-off-by:Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by:
Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
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- Jun 26, 2020
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Vlastimil Babka authored
Hugh reports: "While stressing compaction, one run oopsed on NULL capc->cc in __free_one_page()'s task_capc(zone): compact_zone_order() had been interrupted, and a page was being freed in the return from interrupt. Though you would not expect it from the source, both gccs I was using (4.8.1 and 7.5.0) had chosen to compile compact_zone_order() with the ".cc = &cc" implemented by mov %rbx,-0xb0(%rbp) immediately before callq compact_zone - long after the "current->capture_control = &capc". An interrupt in between those finds capc->cc NULL (zeroed by an earlier rep stos). This could presumably be fixed by a barrier() before setting current->capture_control in compact_zone_order(); but would also need more care on return from compact_zone(), in order not to risk leaking a page captured by interrupt just before capture_control is reset. Maybe that is the preferable fix, but I felt safer for task_capc() to exclude the rather surprising possibility of capture at interrupt time" I have checked that gcc10 also behaves the same. The advantage of fix in compact_zone_order() is that we don't add another test in the page freeing hot path, and that it might prevent future problems if we stop exposing pointers to uninitialized structures in current task. So this patch implements the suggestion for compact_zone_order() with barrier() (and WRITE_ONCE() to prevent store tearing) for setting current->capture_control, and prevents page leaking with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE in the proper order. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616082649.27173-1-vbabka@suse.cz Fixes: 5e1f0f09 ("mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction") Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by:
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- Jun 05, 2020
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Ethon Paul authored
There is a typo in comment, fix it. Signed-off-by:
Ethon Paul <ethp@qq.com> Signed-off-by:
Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200411070307.16021-1-ethp@qq.com Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 04, 2020
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Wei Yang authored
Pageblock migrate type is encoded in GFP flags, just as zone_type and zonelist. Currently we use gfp_zone() and gfp_zonelist() to extract related information, it would be proper to use the same naming convention for migrate type. Signed-off-by:
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200329080823.7735-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
classzone_idx is just different name for high_zoneidx now. So, integrate them and add some comment to struct alloc_context in order to reduce future confusion about the meaning of this variable. The accessor, ac_classzone_idx() is also removed since it isn't needed after integration. In addition to integration, this patch also renames high_zoneidx to highest_zoneidx since it represents more precise meaning. Signed-off-by:
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587095923-7515-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by:
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Baoquan He authored
When called during boot the memmap_init_zone() function checks if each PFN is valid and actually belongs to the node being initialized using early_pfn_valid() and early_pfn_in_nid(). Each such check may cost up to O(log(n)) where n is the number of memory banks, so for large amount of memory overall time spent in early_pfn*() becomes substantial. Since the information is anyway present in memblock, we can iterate over memblock memory regions in memmap_init() and only call memmap_init_zone() for PFN ranges that are know to be valid and in the appropriate node. [cai@lca.pw: fix a compilation warning from Clang] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CF6E407F-17DC-427C-8203-21979FB882EF@lca.pw [bhe@redhat.com: fix the incorrect hole in fast_isolate_freepages()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8C537EB7-85EE-4DCF-943E-3CC0ED0DF56D@lca.pw Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521014407.29690-1-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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- May 28, 2020
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Ingo Molnar authored
The various struct pagevec per CPU variables are protected by disabling either preemption or interrupts across the critical sections. Inside these sections spinlocks have to be acquired. These spinlocks are regular spinlock_t types which are converted to "sleeping" spinlocks on PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels. Obviously sleeping locks cannot be acquired in preemption or interrupt disabled sections. local locks provide a trivial way to substitute preempt and interrupt disable instances. On a non PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel local_lock() maps to preempt_disable() and local_lock_irq() to local_irq_disable(). Create lru_rotate_pvecs containing the pagevec and the locallock. Create lru_pvecs containing the remaining pagevecs and the locallock. Add lru_add_drain_cpu_zone() which is used from compact_zone() to avoid exporting the pvec structure. Change the relevant call sites to acquire these locks instead of using preempt_disable() / get_cpu() / get_cpu_var() and local_irq_disable() / local_irq_save(). There is neither a functional change nor a change in the generated binary code for non PREEMPT_RT enabled non-debug kernels. When lockdep is enabled local locks have lockdep maps embedded. These allow lockdep to validate the protections, i.e. inappropriate usage of a preemption only protected sections would result in a lockdep warning while the same problem would not be noticed with a plain preempt_disable() based protection. local locks also improve readability as they provide a named scope for the protections while preempt/interrupt disable are opaque scopeless. Finally local locks allow PREEMPT_RT to substitute them with real locking primitives to ensure the correctness of operation in a fully preemptible kernel. [ bigeasy: Adopted to use local_lock ] Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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- Apr 27, 2020
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit safer. As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers a lot of the changes are mechnical. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by:
Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- Apr 07, 2020
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Jules Irenge authored
Sparse reports a warning at compact_lock_irqsave() warning: context imbalance in compact_lock_irqsave() - wrong count at exit The root cause is the missing annotation at compact_lock_irqsave() Add the missing __acquires(lock) annotation. Signed-off-by:
Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Huang Ying authored
Some comments for MADV_FREE is revised and added to help people understand the MADV_FREE code, especially the page flag, PG_swapbacked. This makes page_is_file_cache() isn't consistent with its comments. So the function is renamed to page_is_file_lru() to make them consistent again. All these are put in one patch as one logical change. Suggested-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Suggested-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by:
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Acked-by:
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- Apr 02, 2020
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Mateusz Nosek authored
Previously 0 was assigned to variable 'last_migrated_pfn'. But the variable is not read after that, so the assignment can be removed. Signed-off-by:
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
Since commit 5bbe3547 ("mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages") it is allowed to examine mlocked pages and compact them by default. On -RT even minor pagefaults are problematic because it may take a few 100us to resolve them and until then the task is blocked. Make compact_unevictable_allowed = 0 default and issue a warning on RT if it is changed. [bigeasy@linutronix.de: v5] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190710144138.qyn4tuttdq6h7kqx@linutronix.de/ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200319165536.ovi75tsr2seared4@linutronix.de Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
Dan reports: The patch 5e1f0f09: "mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction" from Mar 5, 2019, leads to the following Smatch complaint: mm/compaction.c:2321 compact_zone_order() error: we previously assumed 'capture' could be null (see line 2313) mm/compaction.c 2288 static enum compact_result compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone, int order, 2289 gfp_t gfp_mask, enum compact_priority prio, 2290 unsigned int alloc_flags, int classzone_idx, 2291 struct page **capture) ^^^^^^^ 2313 if (capture) ^^^^^^^ Check for NULL 2314 current->capture_control = &capc; 2315 2316 ret = compact_zone(&cc, &capc); 2317 2318 VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc.freepages)); 2319 VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc.migratepages)); 2320 2321 *capture = capc.page; ^^^^^^^^ Unchecked dereference. 2322 current->capture_control = NULL; 2323 In practice this is not an issue, as the only caller path passes non-NULL capture: __alloc_pages_direct_compact() struct page *page = NULL; try_to_compact_pages(capture = &page); compact_zone_order(capture = capture); So let's remove the unnecessary check, which should also make Smatch happy. Fixes: 5e1f0f09 ("mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction") Reported-by:
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Suggested-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
The code to implement THP migrations already exists, and the code for CMA to clear out a region of memory already exists. Only a few small tweaks are needed to allow CMA to move THP memory when attempting an allocation from alloc_contig_range. With these changes, migrating THPs from a CMA area works when allocating a 1GB hugepage from CMA memory. [riel@surriel.com: fix hugetlbfs pages per Mike, cleanup per Vlastimil] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200228104700.0af2f18d@imladris.surriel.com Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Oct 14, 2019
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Vlastimil Babka authored
Florian and Dave reported [1] a NULL pointer dereference in __reset_isolation_pfn(). While the exact cause is unclear, staring at the code revealed two bugs, which might be related. One bug is that if zone starts in the middle of pageblock, block_page might correspond to different pfn than block_pfn, and then the pfn_valid_within() checks will check different pfn's than those accessed via struct page. This might result in acessing an unitialized page in CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE configs. The other bug is that end_page refers to the first page of next pageblock and not last page of current pageblock. The online and valid check is then wrong and with sections, the while (page < end_page) loop might wander off actual struct page arrays. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/87o8z1fvqu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191008152915.24704-1-vbabka@suse.cz Fixes: 6b0868c8 ("mm/compaction.c: correct zone boundary handling when resetting pageblock skip hints") Signed-off-by:
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> Reported-by:
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Acked-by:
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- Sep 24, 2019
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Pengfei Li authored
Like commit 40cacbcb ("mm, compaction: remove unnecessary zone parameter in some instances"), remove unnecessary zone parameter. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806151616.21107-1-lpf.vector@gmail.com Signed-off-by:
Pengfei Li <lpf.vector@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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Yafang Shao authored
total_{migrate,free}_scanned will be added to COMPACTMIGRATE_SCANNED and COMPACTFREE_SCANNED in compact_zone(). We should clear them before scanning a new zone. In the proc triggered compaction, we forgot clearing them. [laoar.shao@gmail.com: introduce a helper compact_zone_counters_init()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563869295-25748-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: expand compact_zone_counters_init() into its single callsite, per mhocko] [vbabka@suse.cz: squash compact_zone() list_head init as well] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1fb6f7da-f776-9e42-22f8-bbb79b030b98@suse.cz [akpm@linux-foundation.org: kcompactd_do_work(): avoid unnecessary initialization of cc.zone] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563789275-9639-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com Fixes: 7f354a54 ("mm, compaction: add vmstats for kcompactd work") Signed-off-by:Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) authored
Replace 1 << compound_order(page) with compound_nr(page). Minor improvements in readability. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190721104612.19120-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by:
Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Acked-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Aug 03, 2019
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Mel Gorman authored
"howaboutsynergy" reported via kernel buzilla number 204165 that compact_zone_order was consuming 100% CPU during a stress test for prolonged periods of time. Specifically the following command, which should exit in 10 seconds, was taking an excessive time to finish while the CPU was pegged at 100%. stress -m 220 --vm-bytes 1000000000 --timeout 10 Tracing indicated a pattern as follows stress-3923 [007] 519.106208: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106212: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106216: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106219: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106223: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106227: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106231: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106235: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106238: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 stress-3923 [007] 519.106242: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x70bb80 ~ 0x70bb80) nr_scanned=0 nr_taken=0 Note that compaction is entered in rapid succession while scanning and isolating nothing. The problem is that when a task that is compacting receives a fatal signal, it retries indefinitely instead of exiting while making no progress as a fatal signal is pending. It's not easy to trigger this condition although enabling zswap helps on the basis that the timing is altered. A very small window has to be hit for the problem to occur (signal delivered while compacting and isolating a PFN for migration that is not aligned to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX). This was reproduced locally -- 16G single socket system, 8G swap, 30% zswap configured, vm-bytes 22000000000 using Colin Kings stress-ng implementation from github running in a loop until the problem hits). Tracing recorded the problem occurring almost 200K times in a short window. With this patch, the problem hit 4 times but the task existed normally instead of consuming CPU. This problem has existed for some time but it was made worse by commit cf66f070 ("mm, compaction: do not consider a need to reschedule as contention"). Before that commit, if the same condition was hit then locks would be quickly contended and compaction would exit that way. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204165 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190718085708.GE24383@techsingularity.net Fixes: cf66f070 ("mm, compaction: do not consider a need to reschedule as contention") Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 01, 2019
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Suzuki K Poulose authored
When we have holes in a normal memory zone, we could endup having cached_migrate_pfns which may not necessarily be valid, under heavy memory pressure with swapping enabled ( via __reset_isolation_suitable(), triggered by kswapd). Later if we fail to find a page via fast_isolate_freepages(), we may end up using the migrate_pfn we started the search with, as valid page. This could lead to accessing NULL pointer derefernces like below, due to an invalid mem_section pointer. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 [47/1825] Mem abort info: ESR = 0x96000004 Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 Data abort info: ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004 CM = 0, WnR = 0 user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 0000000082f94ae9 [0000000000000008] pgd=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP ... CPU: 10 PID: 6080 Comm: qemu-system-aar Not tainted 510-rc1+ #6 Hardware name: AmpereComputing(R) OSPREY EV-883832-X3-0001/OSPREY, BIOS 4819 09/25/2018 pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO) pc : set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x58/0xe8 lr : compaction_alloc+0x300/0x950 [...] Process qemu-system-aar (pid: 6080, stack limit = 0x0000000095070da5) Call trace: set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x58/0xe8 compaction_alloc+0x300/0x950 migrate_pages+0x1a4/0xbb0 compact_zone+0x750/0xde8 compact_zone_order+0xd8/0x118 try_to_compact_pages+0xb4/0x290 __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x84/0x1e0 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5e0/0xe18 alloc_pages_vma+0x1cc/0x210 do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x108/0x7c8 __handle_mm_fault+0xdd4/0x1190 handle_mm_fault+0x114/0x1c0 __get_user_pages+0x198/0x3c0 get_user_pages_unlocked+0xb4/0x1d8 __gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x12c/0x3b8 gfn_to_pfn_prot+0x4c/0x60 kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x4b0/0xcd8 handle_exit+0x140/0x1b8 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x260/0x768 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x490/0x898 do_vfs_ioctl+0xc4/0x898 ksys_ioctl+0x8c/0xa0 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0x38 el0_svc_common+0x74/0x118 el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78 el0_svc+0x8/0xc Code: f8607840 f100001f 8b011401 9a801020 (f9400400) ---[ end trace af6a35219325a9b6 ]--- The issue was reported on an arm64 server with 128GB with holes in the zone (e.g, [32GB@4GB, 96GB@544GB]), with a swap device enabled, while running 100 KVM guest instances. This patch fixes the issue by ensuring that the page belongs to a valid PFN when we fallback to using the lower limit of the scan range upon failure in fast_isolate_freepages(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1558711908-15688-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Fixes: 5a811889 ("mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration target") Signed-off-by:
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Reported-by:
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Reviewed-by:
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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- May 18, 2019
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Mel Gorman authored
syzbot reported the following error from a tree with a head commit of baf76f0c ("slip: make slhc_free() silently accept an error pointer") BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea0003348000 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] PGD 12c3f9067 P4D 12c3f9067 PUD 12c3f8067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 1 PID: 28916 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.1.0-rc6+ #89 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:constant_test_bit arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:314 [inline] RIP: 0010:PageCompound include/linux/page-flags.h:186 [inline] RIP: 0010:isolate_freepages_block+0x1c0/0xd40 mm/compaction.c:579 Code: 01 d8 ff 4d 85 ed 0f 84 ef 07 00 00 e8 29 00 d8 ff 4c 89 e0 83 85 38 ff ff ff 01 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 38 00 0f 85 31 0a 00 00 <4d> 8b 2c 24 31 ff 49 c1 ed 10 41 83 e5 01 44 89 ee e8 3a 01 d8 ff RSP: 0018:ffff88802b31eab8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 1ffffd4000669000 RBX: 00000000000cd200 RCX: ffffc9000a235000 RDX: 000000000001ca5e RSI: ffffffff81988cc7 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff88802b31ebd8 R08: ffff88805af700c0 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffea0003348000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88802b31f030 R15: dffffc0000000000 FS: 00007f61648dc700(0000) GS:ffff8880ae900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffea0003348000 CR3: 0000000037c64000 CR4: 00000000001426e0 Call Trace: fast_isolate_around mm/compaction.c:1243 [inline] fast_isolate_freepages mm/compaction.c:1418 [inline] isolate_freepages mm/compaction.c:1438 [inline] compaction_alloc+0x1aee/0x22e0 mm/compaction.c:1550 There is no reproducer and it is difficult to hit -- 1 crash every few days. The issue is very similar to the fix in commit 6b0868c8 ("mm/compaction.c: correct zone boundary handling when resetting pageblock skip hints"). When isolating free pages around a target pageblock, the boundary handling is off by one and can stray into the next pageblock. Triggering the syzbot error requires that the end of pageblock is section or zone aligned, and that the next section is unpopulated. A more subtle consequence of the bug is that pageblocks were being improperly used as migration targets which potentially hurts fragmentation avoidance in the long-term one page at a time. A debugging patch revealed that it's definitely possible to stray outside of a pageblock which is not intended. While syzbot cannot be used to verify this patch, it was confirmed that the debugging warning no longer triggers with this patch applied. It has also been confirmed that the THP allocation stress tests are not degraded by this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190510182124.GI18914@techsingularity.net Fixes: e332f741 ("mm, compaction: be selective about what pageblocks to clear skip hints") Signed-off-by:
<syzbot+d84c80f9fe26a0f7a734@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.1+ Signed-off-by:
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- May 15, 2019
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Dan Williams authored
In preparation for runtime randomization of the zone lists, take all (well, most of) the list_*() functions in the buddy allocator and put them in helper functions. Provide a common control point for injecting additional behavior when freeing pages. [dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix buddy list helpers] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155033679702.1773410.13041474192173212653.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com [vbabka@suse.cz: remove del_page_from_free_area() migratetype parameter] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4672701b-6775-6efd-0797-b6242591419e@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899812264.3165233.5219320056406926223.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by:
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com> Signed-off-by:
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- May 14, 2019
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Qian Cai authored
In a low-memory situation, cc->fast_search_fail can keep increasing as it is unable to find an available page to isolate in fast_isolate_freepages(). As the result, it could trigger an error below, so just compare with the maximum bits can be shifted first. UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in mm/compaction.c:1160:30 shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long' CPU: 131 PID: 1308 Comm: kcompactd1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W L 5.0.0+ #17 Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x450 show_stack+0x20/0x2c dump_stack+0xc8/0x14c __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x7e8/0x8c4 compaction_alloc+0x2344/0x2484 unmap_and_move+0xdc/0x1dbc migrate_pages+0x274/0x1310 compact_zone+0x26ec/0x43bc kcompactd+0x15b8/0x1a24 kthread+0x374/0x390 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: code cleanup] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320203338.53367-1-cai@lca.pw Fixes: 70b44595 ("mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration source") Signed-off-by:
Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Acked-by:
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- Apr 04, 2019
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Qian Cai authored
Running LTP oom01 in a tight loop or memory stress testing put the system in a low-memory situation could triggers random memory corruption like page flag corruption below due to in fast_isolate_freepages(), if isolation fails, next_search_order() does not abort the search immediately could lead to improper accesses. UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in ./include/linux/mm.h:1195:50 index 7 is out of range for type 'zone [5]' Call Trace: dump_stack+0x62/0x9a ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x7f __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x14d/0x192 __isolate_free_page+0x52c/0x600 compaction_alloc+0x886/0x25f0 unmap_and_move+0x37/0x1e70 migrate_pages+0x2ca/0xb20 compact_zone+0x19cb/0x3620 kcompactd_do_work+0x2df/0x680 kcompactd+0x1d8/0x6c0 kthread+0x32c/0x3f0 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:3124! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN PTI RIP: 0010:__isolate_free_page+0x464/0x600 RSP: 0000:ffff888b9e1af848 EFLAGS: 00010007 RAX: 0000000030000000 RBX: ffff888c39fcf0f8 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 1ffff111873f9e25 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffed1173c35ef6 RBP: ffff888b9e1af898 R08: fffffbfff4fc2461 R09: fffffbfff4fc2460 R10: fffffbfff4fc2460 R11: ffffffffa7e12303 R12: 0000000000000008 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000007 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888ba8e80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fc7abc00000 CR3: 0000000752416004 CR4: 00000000001606a0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: compaction_alloc+0x886/0x25f0 unmap_and_move+0x37/0x1e70 migrate_pages+0x2ca/0xb20 compact_zone+0x19cb/0x3620 kcompactd_do_work+0x2df/0x680 kcompactd+0x1d8/0x6c0 kthread+0x32c/0x3f0 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320192648.52499-1-cai@lca.pw Fixes: dbe2d4e4 ("mm, compaction: round-robin the order while searching the free lists for a target") Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Mikhail Gavrilo reported the following bug being triggered in a Fedora kernel based on 5.1-rc1 but it is relevant to a vanilla kernel. kernel: page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p)) kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1021! kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI kernel: CPU: 6 PID: 116 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G C 5.1.0-0.rc1.git1.3.fc31.x86_64 #1 kernel: Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/ROG STRIX X470-I GAMING, BIOS 1201 12/07/2018 kernel: RIP: 0010:__reset_isolation_pfn+0x244/0x2b0 kernel: Code: fe 06 e8 0f 8e fc ff 44 0f b6 4c 24 04 48 85 c0 0f 85 dc fe ff ff e9 68 fe ff ff 48 c7 c6 58 b7 2e 8c 4c 89 ff e8 0c 75 00 00 <0f> 0b 48 c7 c6 58 b7 2e 8c e8 fe 74 00 00 0f 0b 48 89 fa 41 b8 01 kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff9e2d03f0fde8 EFLAGS: 00010246 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000034 RBX: 000000000081f380 RCX: ffff8cffbddd6c20 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffff8cffbddd6c20 kernel: RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000009898b94613 R09: 0000000000000000 kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000100000 kernel: R13: 0000000000100000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffca7de07ce000 kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8cffbdc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 kernel: CR2: 00007fc1670e9000 CR3: 00000007f5276000 CR4: 00000000003406e0 kernel: Call Trace: kernel: __reset_isolation_suitable+0x62/0x120 kernel: reset_isolation_suitable+0x3b/0x40 kernel: kswapd+0x147/0x540 kernel: ? finish_wait+0x90/0x90 kernel: kthread+0x108/0x140 kernel: ? balance_pgdat+0x560/0x560 kernel: ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90 kernel: ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50 He bisected it down to e332f741 ("mm, compaction: be selective about what pageblocks to clear skip hints"). The problem is that the patch in question was sloppy with respect to the handling of zone boundaries. In some instances, it was possible for PFNs outside of a zone to be examined and if those were not properly initialised or poisoned then it would trigger the VM_BUG_ON. This patch corrects the zone boundary issues when resetting pageblock skip hints and Mikhail reported that the bug did not trigger after 30 hours of testing. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327085424.GL3189@techsingularity.net Fixes: e332f741 ("mm, compaction: be selective about what pageblocks to clear skip hints") Reported-by:
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- Mar 06, 2019
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Andrey Ryabinin authored
too_many_isolated() in mm/compaction.c looks only at node state, so it makes more sense to change argument to pgdat instead of zone. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190228083329.31892-3-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Ryabinin authored
We have common pattern to access lru_lock from a page pointer: zone_lru_lock(page_zone(page)) Which is silly, because it unfolds to this: &NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->node_zones[page_zonenum(page)]->zone_pgdat->lru_lock while we can simply do &NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->lru_lock Remove zone_lru_lock() function, since it's only complicate things. Use 'page_pgdat(page)->lru_lock' pattern instead. [aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: a slightly better version of __split_huge_page()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190301121651.7741-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190228083329.31892-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Compaction is inherently race-prone as a suitable page freed during compaction can be allocated by any parallel task. This patch uses a capture_control structure to isolate a page immediately when it is freed by a direct compactor in the slow path of the page allocator. The intent is to avoid redundant scanning. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 2582.11 ( 0.00%) 2563.68 ( 0.71%) Amean fault-both-5 4500.26 ( 0.00%) 4233.52 ( 5.93%) Amean fault-both-7 5819.53 ( 0.00%) 6333.65 ( -8.83%) Amean fault-both-12 9321.18 ( 0.00%) 9759.38 ( -4.70%) Amean fault-both-18 9782.76 ( 0.00%) 10338.76 ( -5.68%) Amean fault-both-24 15272.81 ( 0.00%) 13379.55 * 12.40%* Amean fault-both-30 15121.34 ( 0.00%) 16158.25 ( -6.86%) Amean fault-both-32 18466.67 ( 0.00%) 18971.21 ( -2.73%) Latency is only moderately affected but the devil is in the details. A closer examination indicates that base page fault latency is reduced but latency of huge pages is increased as it takes creater care to succeed. Part of the "problem" is that allocation success rates are close to 100% even when under pressure and compaction gets harder 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19 Percentage huge-3 96.70 ( 0.00%) 98.23 ( 1.58%) Percentage huge-5 96.99 ( 0.00%) 95.30 ( -1.75%) Percentage huge-7 94.19 ( 0.00%) 97.24 ( 3.24%) Percentage huge-12 94.95 ( 0.00%) 97.35 ( 2.53%) Percentage huge-18 96.74 ( 0.00%) 97.30 ( 0.58%) Percentage huge-24 97.07 ( 0.00%) 97.55 ( 0.50%) Percentage huge-30 95.69 ( 0.00%) 98.50 ( 2.95%) Percentage huge-32 96.70 ( 0.00%) 99.27 ( 2.65%) And scan rates are reduced as expected by 6% for the migration scanner and 29% for the free scanner indicating that there is less redundant work. Compaction migrate scanned 20815362 19573286 Compaction free scanned 16352612 11510663 [mgorman@techsingularity.net: remove redundant check] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190201143853.GH9565@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-23-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Pageblock hints are cleared when compaction restarts or kswapd makes enough progress that it can sleep but it's over-eager in that the bit is cleared for migration sources with no LRU pages and migration targets with no free pages. As pageblock skip hint flushes are relatively rare and out-of-band with respect to kswapd, this patch makes a few more expensive checks to see if it's appropriate to even clear the bit. Every pageblock that is not cleared will avoid 512 pages being scanned unnecessarily on x86-64. The impact is variable with different workloads showing small differences in latency, success rates and scan rates. This is expected as clearing the hints is not that common but doing a small amount of work out-of-band to avoid a large amount of work in-band later is generally a good thing. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-22-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Once fast searching finishes, there is a possibility that the linear scanner is scanning full blocks found by the fast scanner earlier. This patch uses an adaptive stride to sample pageblocks for free pages. The more consecutive full pageblocks encountered, the larger the stride until a pageblock with free pages is found. The scanners might meet slightly sooner but it is an acceptable risk given that the search of the free lists may still encounter the pages and adjust the cached PFN of the free scanner accordingly. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 roundrobin-v3r17 samplefree-v3r17 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 2752.37 ( 0.00%) 2729.95 ( 0.81%) Amean fault-both-5 4341.69 ( 0.00%) 4397.80 ( -1.29%) Amean fault-both-7 6308.75 ( 0.00%) 6097.61 ( 3.35%) Amean fault-both-12 10241.81 ( 0.00%) 9407.15 ( 8.15%) Amean fault-both-18 13736.09 ( 0.00%) 10857.63 * 20.96%* Amean fault-both-24 16853.95 ( 0.00%) 13323.24 * 20.95%* Amean fault-both-30 15862.61 ( 0.00%) 17345.44 ( -9.35%) Amean fault-both-32 18450.85 ( 0.00%) 16892.00 ( 8.45%) The latency is mildly improved offseting some overhead from earlier patches that are prerequisites for the rest of the series. However, a major impact is on the free scan rate with an 82% reduction. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 roundrobin-v3r17 samplefree-v3r17 Compaction migrate scanned 21607271 20116887 Compaction free scanned 95336406 16668703 It's also the first time in the series where the number of pages scanned by the migration scanner is greater than the free scanner due to the increased search efficiency. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-21-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
As compaction proceeds and creates high-order blocks, the free list search gets less efficient as the larger blocks are used as compaction targets. Eventually, the larger blocks will be behind the migration scanner for partially migrated pageblocks and the search fails. This patch round-robins what orders are searched so that larger blocks can be ignored and find smaller blocks that can be used as migration targets. The overall impact was small on 1-socket but it avoids corner cases where the migration/free scanners meet prematurely or situations where many of the pageblocks encountered by the free scanner are almost full instead of being properly packed. Previous testing had indicated that without this patch there were occasional large spikes in the free scanner without this patch. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: fix static checker warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-20-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The fast isolation of free pages allows the cached PFN of the free scanner to advance faster than necessary depending on the contents of the free list. The key is that fast_isolate_freepages() can update zone->compact_cached_free_pfn via isolate_freepages_block(). When the fast search fails, the linear scan can start from a point that has skipped valid migration targets, particularly pageblocks with just low-order free pages. This can cause the migration source/target scanners to meet prematurely causing a reset. This patch starts by avoiding an update of the pageblock skip information and cached PFN from isolate_freepages_block() and puts the responsibility of updating that information in the callers. The fast scanner will update the cached PFN if and only if it finds a block that is higher than the existing cached PFN and sets the skip if the pageblock is full or nearly full. The linear scanner will update skipped information and the cached PFN only when a block is completely scanned. The total impact is that the free scanner advances more slowly as it is primarily driven by the linear scanner instead of the fast search. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 noresched-v3r17 slowfree-v3r17 Amean fault-both-3 2965.68 ( 0.00%) 3036.75 ( -2.40%) Amean fault-both-5 3995.90 ( 0.00%) 4522.24 * -13.17%* Amean fault-both-7 5842.12 ( 0.00%) 6365.35 ( -8.96%) Amean fault-both-12 9550.87 ( 0.00%) 10340.93 ( -8.27%) Amean fault-both-18 13304.72 ( 0.00%) 14732.46 ( -10.73%) Amean fault-both-24 14618.59 ( 0.00%) 16288.96 ( -11.43%) Amean fault-both-30 16650.96 ( 0.00%) 16346.21 ( 1.83%) Amean fault-both-32 17145.15 ( 0.00%) 19317.49 ( -12.67%) The impact to latency is higher than the last version but it appears to be due to a slight increase in the free scan rates which is a potential side-effect of the patch. However, this is necessary for later patches that are more careful about how pageblocks are treated as earlier iterations of those patches hit corner cases where the restarts were punishing and very visible. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-19-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Scanning on large machines can take a considerable length of time and eventually need to be rescheduled. This is treated as an abort event but that's not appropriate as the attempt is likely to be retried after making numerous checks and taking another cycle through the page allocator. This patch will check the need to reschedule if necessary but continue the scanning. The main benefit is reduced scanning when compaction is taking a long time or the machine is over-saturated. It also avoids an unnecessary exit of compaction that ends up being retried by the page allocator in the outer loop. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 synccached-v3r16 noresched-v3r17 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 2958.27 ( 0.00%) 2965.68 ( -0.25%) Amean fault-both-5 4091.90 ( 0.00%) 3995.90 ( 2.35%) Amean fault-both-7 5803.05 ( 0.00%) 5842.12 ( -0.67%) Amean fault-both-12 9481.06 ( 0.00%) 9550.87 ( -0.74%) Amean fault-both-18 14141.51 ( 0.00%) 13304.72 ( 5.92%) Amean fault-both-24 16438.00 ( 0.00%) 14618.59 ( 11.07%) Amean fault-both-30 17531.72 ( 0.00%) 16650.96 ( 5.02%) Amean fault-both-32 17101.96 ( 0.00%) 17145.15 ( -0.25%) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-18-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
With incremental changes, compact_should_abort no longer makes any documented sense. Rename to compact_check_resched and update the associated comments. There is no benefit other than reducing redundant code and making the intent slightly clearer. It could potentially be merged with earlier patches but it just makes the review slightly harder. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-17-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by:
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