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authorMel Gorman <[email protected]>2022-06-24 13:54:17 +0100
committerakpm <[email protected]>2022-07-17 17:14:34 -0700
commitbf75f200569dd05ac2112797f44548beb6b4be26 (patch)
tree83dfcb196b7c08f915be2aa83b3702d6a55155bf
parentbcd51a3c679d179cf526414f859c57d081fd37e7 (diff)
mm/page_alloc: add page->buddy_list and page->pcp_list
Patch series "Drain remote per-cpu directly", v5. Some setups, notably NOHZ_FULL CPUs, may be running realtime or latency-sensitive applications that cannot tolerate interference due to per-cpu drain work queued by __drain_all_pages(). Introduce a new mechanism to remotely drain the per-cpu lists. It is made possible by remotely locking 'struct per_cpu_pages' new per-cpu spinlocks. This has two advantages, the time to drain is more predictable and other unrelated tasks are not interrupted. This series has the same intent as Nicolas' series "mm/page_alloc: Remote per-cpu lists drain support" -- avoid interference of a high priority task due to a workqueue item draining per-cpu page lists. While many workloads can tolerate a brief interruption, it may cause a real-time task running on a NOHZ_FULL CPU to miss a deadline and at minimum, the draining is non-deterministic. Currently an IRQ-safe local_lock protects the page allocator per-cpu lists. The local_lock on its own prevents migration and the IRQ disabling protects from corruption due to an interrupt arriving while a page allocation is in progress. This series adjusts the locking. A spinlock is added to struct per_cpu_pages to protect the list contents while local_lock_irq is ultimately replaced by just the spinlock in the final patch. This allows a remote CPU to safely. Follow-on work should allow the spin_lock_irqsave to be converted to spin_lock to avoid IRQs being disabled/enabled in most cases. The follow-on patch will be one kernel release later as it is relatively high risk and it'll make bisections more clear if there are any problems. Patch 1 is a cosmetic patch to clarify when page->lru is storing buddy pages and when it is storing per-cpu pages. Patch 2 shrinks per_cpu_pages to make room for a spin lock. Strictly speaking this is not necessary but it avoids per_cpu_pages consuming another cache line. Patch 3 is a preparation patch to avoid code duplication. Patch 4 is a minor correction. Patch 5 uses a spin_lock to protect the per_cpu_pages contents while still relying on local_lock to prevent migration, stabilise the pcp lookup and prevent IRQ reentrancy. Patch 6 remote drains per-cpu pages directly instead of using a workqueue. Patch 7 uses a normal spinlock instead of local_lock for remote draining This patch (of 7): The page allocator uses page->lru for storing pages on either buddy or PCP lists. Create page->buddy_list and page->pcp_list as a union with page->lru. This is simply to clarify what type of list a page is on in the page allocator. No functional change intended. [[email protected]: fix page lru fields in macros] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Tested-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <[email protected]> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h5
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c24
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 6b961a29bf26..cf97f3884fda 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ struct page {
*/
union {
struct list_head lru;
+
/* Or, for the Unevictable "LRU list" slot */
struct {
/* Always even, to negate PageTail */
@@ -94,6 +95,10 @@ struct page {
/* Count page's or folio's mlocks */
unsigned int mlock_count;
};
+
+ /* Or, free page */
+ struct list_head buddy_list;
+ struct list_head pcp_list;
};
/* See page-flags.h for PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS */
struct address_space *mapping;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c9c02b23f02f..78ba5ba66586 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ static inline bool set_page_guard(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
return false;
__SetPageGuard(page);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->buddy_list);
set_page_private(page, order);
/* Guard pages are not available for any usage */
__mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, -(1 << order), migratetype);
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ static inline void add_to_free_list(struct page *page, struct zone *zone,
{
struct free_area *area = &zone->free_area[order];
- list_add(&page->lru, &area->free_list[migratetype]);
+ list_add(&page->buddy_list, &area->free_list[migratetype]);
area->nr_free++;
}
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ static inline void add_to_free_list_tail(struct page *page, struct zone *zone,
{
struct free_area *area = &zone->free_area[order];
- list_add_tail(&page->lru, &area->free_list[migratetype]);
+ list_add_tail(&page->buddy_list, &area->free_list[migratetype]);
area->nr_free++;
}
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ static inline void move_to_free_list(struct page *page, struct zone *zone,
{
struct free_area *area = &zone->free_area[order];
- list_move_tail(&page->lru, &area->free_list[migratetype]);
+ list_move_tail(&page->buddy_list, &area->free_list[migratetype]);
}
static inline void del_page_from_free_list(struct page *page, struct zone *zone,
@@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ static inline void del_page_from_free_list(struct page *page, struct zone *zone,
if (page_reported(page))
__ClearPageReported(page);
- list_del(&page->lru);
+ list_del(&page->buddy_list);
__ClearPageBuddy(page);
set_page_private(page, 0);
zone->free_area[order].nr_free--;
@@ -1508,11 +1508,11 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
do {
int mt;
- page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
+ page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, pcp_list);
mt = get_pcppage_migratetype(page);
/* must delete to avoid corrupting pcp list */
- list_del(&page->lru);
+ list_del(&page->pcp_list);
count -= nr_pages;
pcp->count -= nr_pages;
@@ -3072,7 +3072,7 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
* for IO devices that can merge IO requests if the physical
* pages are ordered properly.
*/
- list_add_tail(&page->lru, list);
+ list_add_tail(&page->pcp_list, list);
allocated++;
if (is_migrate_cma(get_pcppage_migratetype(page)))
__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES,
@@ -3322,7 +3322,7 @@ void mark_free_pages(struct zone *zone)
for_each_migratetype_order(order, t) {
list_for_each_entry(page,
- &zone->free_area[order].free_list[t], lru) {
+ &zone->free_area[order].free_list[t], buddy_list) {
unsigned long i;
pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
@@ -3411,7 +3411,7 @@ static void free_unref_page_commit(struct page *page, int migratetype,
__count_vm_event(PGFREE);
pcp = this_cpu_ptr(zone->per_cpu_pageset);
pindex = order_to_pindex(migratetype, order);
- list_add(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[pindex]);
+ list_add(&page->pcp_list, &pcp->lists[pindex]);
pcp->count += 1 << order;
/*
@@ -3674,8 +3674,8 @@ struct page *__rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
return NULL;
}
- page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
- list_del(&page->lru);
+ page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, pcp_list);
+ list_del(&page->pcp_list);
pcp->count -= 1 << order;
} while (check_new_pcp(page, order));