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When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they
create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it
with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless
systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part
of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the
use of disks and thin clients.
The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block
Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download
There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at
places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The
nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact
is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap
is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem.
The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like
normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive
packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory
they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of
patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is
carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily
from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to
supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with
preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use
by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS.
Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to
preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations
to callers that are freeing memory.
Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks
Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC
reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC.
Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves
for later use by network packet processing.
Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required
Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set.
Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when
the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If
packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under
low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets
are dropped.
Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking
folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate
pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a
strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being
that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should
not fail.
Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the
common case.
Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use
PFMEMALLOC if necessary.
Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve
to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on
a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is
expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running
will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and
the throttled processes are woken up.
Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled
Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on
loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and
sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators
reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance
variances.
For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a
swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create
anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total
size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under
memory pressure.
Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes
and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is
different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched
kernel completed the test 45% faster.
MICRO
3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2
vanilla swapnbd
Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write
MMTests Statistics: duration
Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07
User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09
This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages
Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine
hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have
PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are
allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to
a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects
within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were
alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves.
When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark
are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to
determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any
page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to
access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is
made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more
relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated
from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does
not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be
sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining
smaller lists than SLAB.
In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail
a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are
being preserved for callers that are freeing pages.
[[email protected]: Original implementation]
[[email protected]: Correct order of page flag clearing]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Christie <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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When hotplug offlining happens on zone A, it starts to mark freed page as
MIGRATE_ISOLATE type in buddy for preventing further allocation.
(MIGRATE_ISOLATE is very irony type because it's apparently on buddy but
we can't allocate them).
When the memory shortage happens during hotplug offlining, current task
starts to reclaim, then wake up kswapd. Kswapd checks watermark, then go
sleep because current zone_watermark_ok_safe doesn't consider
MIGRATE_ISOLATE freed page count. Current task continue to reclaim in
direct reclaim path without kswapd's helping. The problem is that
zone->all_unreclaimable is set by only kswapd so that current task would
be looping forever like below.
__alloc_pages_slowpath
restart:
wake_all_kswapd
rebalance:
__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim
do_try_to_free_pages
if global_reclaim && !all_unreclaimable
return 1; /* It means we did did_some_progress */
skip __alloc_pages_may_oom
should_alloc_retry
goto rebalance;
If we apply KOSAKI's patch[1] which doesn't depends on kswapd about
setting zone->all_unreclaimable, we can solve this problem by killing some
task in direct reclaim path. But it doesn't wake up kswapd, still. It
could be a problem still if other subsystem needs GFP_ATOMIC request. So
kswapd should consider MIGRATE_ISOLATE when it calculate free pages BEFORE
going sleep.
This patch counts the number of MIGRATE_ISOLATE page block and
zone_watermark_ok_safe will consider it if the system has such blocks
(fortunately, it's very rare so no problem in POV overhead and kswapd is
never hotpath).
Copy/modify from Mel's quote
"
Ideal solution would be "allocating" the pageblock.
It would keep the free space accounting as it is but historically,
memory hotplug didn't allocate pages because it would be difficult to
detect if a pageblock was isolated or if part of some balloon.
Allocating just full pageblocks would work around this, However,
it would play very badly with CMA.
"
[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/14/74
[[email protected]: simplify nr_zone_isolate_freepages(), rework zone_watermark_ok_safe() comment, simplify set_pageblock_isolate() and restore_pageblock_isolate()]
[[email protected]: fix CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION=n build]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Aaditya Kumar <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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__zone_watermark_ok currently compares free_pages which is a signed type
with z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx] which is unsigned which might lead
to sign overflow if free_pages doesn't satisfy the given order (or it came
as negative already) and then we rely on the following order loop to fix
it (which doesn't work for order-0). Let's fix the type conversion and do
not rely on the given value of free_pages or follow up fixups.
This patch fixes it because "memory-hotplug: fix kswapd looping forever
problem" depends on this.
As benefit of this patch, it doesn't rely on the loop to exit
__zone_watermark_ok in case of high order check and make the first test
effective.(ie, if (free_pages <= min + lowmem_reserve))
Aaditya reported this problem when he test my hotplug patch.
Reported-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Aaditya Kumar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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mm/page_alloc.c has some memory isolation functions but they are used only
when we enable CONFIG_{CMA|MEMORY_HOTPLUG|MEMORY_FAILURE}. So let's make
it configurable by new CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION so that it can reduce
binary size and we can check it simple by CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION, not if
defined CONFIG_{CMA|MEMORY_HOTPLUG|MEMORY_FAILURE}.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Mark functions used by both boot and memory hotplug as __meminit to reduce
memory footprint when memory hotplug is disabled.
Alos guard zone_pcp_update() with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG because it's only
used by memory hotplug code.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Keping Chen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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When a zone becomes empty after memory offlining, free zone->pageset.
Otherwise it will cause memory leak when adding memory to the empty zone
again because build_all_zonelists() will allocate zone->pageset for an
empty zone.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Keping Chen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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When hotadd_new_pgdat() is called to create new pgdat for a new node, a
fallback zonelist should be created for the new node. There's code to try
to achieve that in hotadd_new_pgdat() as below:
/*
* The node we allocated has no zone fallback lists. For avoiding
* to access not-initialized zonelist, build here.
*/
mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
build_all_zonelists(pgdat, NULL);
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
But it doesn't work as expected. When hotadd_new_pgdat() is called, the
new node is still in offline state because node_set_online(nid) hasn't
been called yet. And build_all_zonelists() only builds zonelists for
online nodes as:
for_each_online_node(nid) {
pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
build_zonelists(pgdat);
build_zonelist_cache(pgdat);
}
Though we hope to create zonelist for the new pgdat, but it doesn't. So
add a new parameter "pgdat" the build_all_zonelists() to build pgdat for
the new pgdat too.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Keping Chen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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On architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE set, such as
Itanium, pageblock_order is a variable with default value of 0. It's set
to the right value by set_pageblock_order() in function
free_area_init_core().
But pageblock_order may be used by sparse_init() before free_area_init_core()
is called along path:
sparse_init()
->sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node()
->usemap_size()
->SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS
->((1UL << (PFN_SECTION_SHIFT - pageblock_order)) *
NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS)
The uninitialized pageblock_size will cause memory wasting because
usemap_size() returns a much bigger value then it's really needed.
For example, on an Itanium platform,
sparse_init() pageblock_order=0 usemap_size=24576
free_area_init_core() before pageblock_order=0, usemap_size=24576
free_area_init_core() after pageblock_order=12, usemap_size=8
That means 24K memory has been wasted for each section, so fix it by calling
set_pageblock_order() from sparse_init().
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Keping Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Order > 0 compaction stops when enough free pages of the correct page
order have been coalesced. When doing subsequent higher order
allocations, it is possible for compaction to be invoked many times.
However, the compaction code always starts out looking for things to
compact at the start of the zone, and for free pages to compact things to
at the end of the zone.
This can cause quadratic behaviour, with isolate_freepages starting at the
end of the zone each time, even though previous invocations of the
compaction code already filled up all free memory on that end of the zone.
This can cause isolate_freepages to take enormous amounts of CPU with
certain workloads on larger memory systems.
The obvious solution is to have isolate_freepages remember where it left
off last time, and continue at that point the next time it gets invoked
for an order > 0 compaction. This could cause compaction to fail if
cc->free_pfn and cc->migrate_pfn are close together initially, in that
case we restart from the end of the zone and try once more.
Forced full (order == -1) compactions are left alone.
[[email protected]: checkpatch fixes]
[[email protected]: s/laste/last/, use 80 cols]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jim Schutt <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jim Schutt <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The __count_immobile_pages() naming is rather awkward. Choose a more
clear name and add a comment.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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d179e84ba ("mm: vmscan: do not use page_count without a page pin") fixed
this problem in vmscan.c but same problem is in __count_immobile_pages().
I copy and paste d179e84ba's contents for description.
"It is unsafe to run page_count during the physical pfn scan because
compound_head could trip on a dangling pointer when reading
page->first_page if the compound page is being freed by another CPU."
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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allocator again
commit 2ff754fa8f ("mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds
pages to the buddy allocator again") fixed one free_pcppages_bulk()
misuse. But two another miuse still exist.
This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Currently, function should_fail() has "bool" for its return value, so it's
reasonable to change the return value of function should_fail_alloc_page()
into "bool" as well.
The patch does cleanup on function should_fail_alloc_page() to have "bool"
for its return value.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The filesystem layer expects pages in the block device's mapping to not
be in highmem (the mapping's gfp mask is set in bdget()), but CMA can
currently replace lowmem pages with highmem pages, leading to crashes in
filesystem code such as the one below:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000400
pgd = c0c98000
[00000400] *pgd=00c91831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 817 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.5.0-rc5+ #80)
PC is at __memzero+0x24/0x80
...
Process fsstress (pid: 323, stack limit = 0xc0cbc2f0)
Backtrace:
[<c010e3f0>] (ext4_getblk+0x0/0x180) from [<c010e58c>] (ext4_bread+0x1c/0x98)
[<c010e570>] (ext4_bread+0x0/0x98) from [<c0117944>] (ext4_mkdir+0x160/0x3bc)
r4:c15337f0
[<c01177e4>] (ext4_mkdir+0x0/0x3bc) from [<c00c29e0>] (vfs_mkdir+0x8c/0x98)
[<c00c2954>] (vfs_mkdir+0x0/0x98) from [<c00c2a60>] (sys_mkdirat+0x74/0xac)
r6:00000000 r5:c152eb40 r4:000001ff r3:c14b43f0
[<c00c29ec>] (sys_mkdirat+0x0/0xac) from [<c00c2ab8>] (sys_mkdir+0x20/0x24)
r6:beccdcf0 r5:00074000 r4:beccdbbc
[<c00c2a98>] (sys_mkdir+0x0/0x24) from [<c000e3c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
Fix this by replacing only highmem pages with highmem.
Reported-by: Laura Abbott <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
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This reverts commit 5ceb9ce6fe9462a298bb2cd5c9f1ca6cb80a0199.
That commit seems to be the cause of the mm compation list corruption
issues that Dave Jones reported. The locking (or rather, absense
there-of) is dubious, as is the use of the 'page' variable once it has
been found to be outside the pageblock range.
So revert it for now, we can re-visit this for 3.6. If we even need to:
as Minchan Kim says, "The patch wasn't a bug fix and even test workload
was very theoretical".
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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This is the first stage of struct mem_cgroup_zone removal. Further
patches replace struct mem_cgroup_zone with a pointer to struct lruvec.
If CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=n lruvec_zone() is just container_of().
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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With mem_cgroup_disabled() now explicit, it becomes clear that the
zone_reclaim_stat structure actually belongs in lruvec, per-zone when
memcg is disabled but per-memcg per-zone when it's enabled.
We can delete mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_stat(), and change
update_page_reclaim_stat() to update just the one set of stats, the one
which get_scan_count() will actually use.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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- make pageflag_names[] const
- remove null termination of pageflag_names[]
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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String tables with names of enum items are always prone to go out of
sync with the enums themselves. Ensure during compile time that the
name table of page flags has the same size as the page flags enum.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The array pageflag_names[] does conversion from page flags into their
corresponding names so that a meaningful representation of the
corresponding page flag can be printed. This mechanism is used while
dumping page frames. However, the array missed PG_compound_lock. So
the PG_compound_lock page flag would be printed as a digital number
instead of a meaningful string.
The patch fixes that and prints "compound_lock" for the PG_compound_lock
page flag.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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When MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE pages are freed from MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE type
pageblock (and some MIGRATE_MOVABLE pages are left in it) waiting until an
allocation takes ownership of the block may take too long. The type of
the pageblock remains unchanged so the pageblock cannot be used as a
migration target during compaction.
Fix it by:
* Adding enum compact_mode (COMPACT_ASYNC_[MOVABLE,UNMOVABLE], and
COMPACT_SYNC) and then converting sync field in struct compact_control
to use it.
* Adding nr_pageblocks_skipped field to struct compact_control and
tracking how many destination pageblocks were of MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE type.
If COMPACT_ASYNC_MOVABLE mode compaction ran fully in
try_to_compact_pages() (COMPACT_COMPLETE) it implies that there is not a
suitable page for allocation. In this case then check how if there were
enough MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE pageblocks to try a second pass in
COMPACT_ASYNC_UNMOVABLE mode.
* Scanning the MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE pageblocks (during COMPACT_SYNC and
COMPACT_ASYNC_UNMOVABLE compaction modes) and building a count based on
finding PageBuddy pages, page_count(page) == 0 or PageLRU pages. If all
pages within the MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE pageblock are in one of those three
sets change the whole pageblock type to MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
My particular test case (on a ARM EXYNOS4 device with 512 MiB, which means
131072 standard 4KiB pages in 'Normal' zone) is to:
- allocate 120000 pages for kernel's usage
- free every second page (60000 pages) of memory just allocated
- allocate and use 60000 pages from user space
- free remaining 60000 pages of kernel memory
(now we have fragmented memory occupied mostly by user space pages)
- try to allocate 100 order-9 (2048 KiB) pages for kernel's usage
The results:
- with compaction disabled I get 11 successful allocations
- with compaction enabled - 14 successful allocations
- with this patch I'm able to get all 100 successful allocations
NOTE: If we can make kswapd aware of order-0 request during compaction, we
can enhance kswapd with changing mode to COMPACT_ASYNC_FULL
(COMPACT_ASYNC_MOVABLE + COMPACT_ASYNC_UNMOVABLE). Please see the
following thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=133552069417068&w=2
[[email protected]: minor cleanups]
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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This has always been broken: one version takes an unsigned int and the
other version takes no arguments. This bug was hidden because one
version of set_pageblock_order() was a macro which doesn't evaluate its
argument.
Simplify it all and remove pageblock_default_order() altogether.
Reported-by: rajman mekaco <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Print physical address info in a style consistent with the %pR style used
elsewhere in the kernel. For example:
-Zone PFN ranges:
+Zone ranges:
- DMA32 0x00000010 -> 0x00100000
+ DMA32 [mem 0x00010000-0xffffffff]
- Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x01080000
+ Normal [mem 0x100000000-0x107fffffff]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping
Pull CMA and ARM DMA-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:
"These patches contain two major updates for DMA mapping subsystem
(mainly for ARM architecture). First one is Contiguous Memory
Allocator (CMA) which makes it possible for device drivers to allocate
big contiguous chunks of memory after the system has booted.
The main difference from the similar frameworks is the fact that CMA
allows to transparently reuse the memory region reserved for the big
chunk allocation as a system memory, so no memory is wasted when no
big chunk is allocated. Once the alloc request is issued, the
framework migrates system pages to create space for the required big
chunk of physically contiguous memory.
For more information one can refer to nice LWN articles:
- 'A reworked contiguous memory allocator':
http://lwn.net/Articles/447405/
- 'CMA and ARM':
http://lwn.net/Articles/450286/
- 'A deep dive into CMA':
http://lwn.net/Articles/486301/
- and the following thread with the patches and links to all previous
versions:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/3/204
The main client for this new framework is ARM DMA-mapping subsystem.
The second part provides a complete redesign in ARM DMA-mapping
subsystem. The core implementation has been changed to use common
struct dma_map_ops based infrastructure with the recent updates for
new dma attributes merged in v3.4-rc2. This allows to use more than
one implementation of dma-mapping calls and change/select them on the
struct device basis. The first client of this new infractructure is
dmabounce implementation which has been completely cut out of the
core, common code.
The last patch of this redesign update introduces a new, experimental
implementation of dma-mapping calls on top of generic IOMMU framework.
This lets ARM sub-platform to transparently use IOMMU for DMA-mapping
calls if one provides required IOMMU hardware.
For more information please refer to the following thread:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg175729.html
The last patch merges changes from both updates and provides a
resolution for the conflicts which cannot be avoided when patches have
been applied on the same files (mainly arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c)."
Acked by Andrew Morton <[email protected]>:
"Yup, this one please. It's had much work, plenty of review and I
think even Russell is happy with it."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping: (28 commits)
ARM: dma-mapping: use PMD size for section unmap
cma: fix migration mode
ARM: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem
X86: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem
drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator
mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() to stabilise watermarks
mm: extract reclaim code from __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim()
mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes
mm: page_isolation: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added
mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added
mm: page_alloc: change fallbacks array handling
mm: page_alloc: introduce alloc_contig_range()
mm: compaction: export some of the functions
mm: compaction: introduce isolate_freepages_range()
mm: compaction: introduce map_pages()
mm: compaction: introduce isolate_migratepages_range()
mm: page_alloc: remove trailing whitespace
ARM: dma-mapping: add support for IOMMU mapper
ARM: dma-mapping: use alloc, mmap, free from dma_ops
ARM: dma-mapping: remove redundant code and do the cleanup
...
Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
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Pull more networking updates from David Miller:
"Ok, everything from here on out will be bug fixes."
1) One final sync of wireless and bluetooth stuff from John Linville.
These changes have all been in his tree for more than a week, and
therefore have had the necessary -next exposure. John was just away
on a trip and didn't have a change to send the pull request until a
day or two ago.
2) Put back some defines in user exposed header file areas that were
removed during the tokenring purge. From Stephen Hemminger and Paul
Gortmaker.
3) A bug fix for UDP hash table allocation got lost in the pile due to
one of those "you got it.. no I've got it.." situations. :-)
From Tim Bird.
4) SKB coalescing in TCP needs to have stricter checks, otherwise we'll
try to coalesce overlapping frags and crash. Fix from Eric Dumazet.
5) RCU routing table lookups can race with free_fib_info(), causing
crashes when we deref the device pointers in the route. Fix by
releasing the net device in the RCU callback. From Yanmin Zhang.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (293 commits)
tcp: take care of overlaps in tcp_try_coalesce()
ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info and ip_route_output_slow
mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hash
ipx: restore token ring define to include/linux/ipx.h
if: restore token ring ARP type to header
xen: do not disable netfront in dom0
phy/micrel: Fix ID of KSZ9021
mISDN: Add X-Tensions USB ISDN TA XC-525
gianfar:don't add FCB length to hard_header_len
Bluetooth: Report proper error number in disconnection
Bluetooth: Create flags for bt_sk()
Bluetooth: report the right security level in getsockopt
Bluetooth: Lock the L2CAP channel when sending
Bluetooth: Restore locking semantics when looking up L2CAP channels
Bluetooth: Fix a redundant and problematic incoming MTU check
Bluetooth: Add support for Foxconn/Hon Hai AR5BBU22 0489:E03C
Bluetooth: Fix EIR data generation for mgmt_device_found
Bluetooth: Fix Inquiry with RSSI event mask
Bluetooth: improve readability of l2cap_seq_list code
Bluetooth: Fix skb length calculation
...
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UDP stack needs a minimum hash size value for proper operation and also
uses alloc_large_system_hash() for proper NUMA distribution of its hash
tables and automatic sizing depending on available system memory.
On some low memory situations, udp_table_init() must ignore the
alloc_large_system_hash() result and reallocs a bigger memory area.
As we cannot easily free old hash table, we leak it and kmemleak can
issue a warning.
This patch adds a low limit parameter to alloc_large_system_hash() to
solve this problem.
We then specify UDP_HTABLE_SIZE_MIN for UDP/UDPLite hash table
allocation.
Reported-by: Mark Asselstine <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Tim Bird <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here's the driver core, and other driver subsystems, pull request for
the 3.5-rc1 merge window.
Outside of a few minor driver core changes, we ended up with the
following different subsystem and core changes as well, due to
interdependancies on the driver core:
- hyperv driver updates
- drivers/memory being created and some drivers moved into it
- extcon driver subsystem created out of the old Android staging
switch driver code
- dynamic debug updates
- printk rework, and /dev/kmsg changes
All of this has been tested in the linux-next releases for a few weeks
with no reported problems.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>"
Fix up conflicts in drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c where git noticed
that a patch to the deleted drivers/misc/max8997-muic.c driver needs to
be applied to this one.
* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (90 commits)
uio_pdrv_genirq: get irq through platform resource if not set otherwise
memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Remove empty *_remove()
printk() - isolate KERN_CONT users from ordinary complete lines
sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives
Drivers: hv: util: Properly handle version negotiations.
Drivers: hv: Get rid of an unnecessary check in vmbus_prep_negotiate_resp()
memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Use dev_err_ratelimited()
driver core: Add dev_*_ratelimited() family
Driver Core: don't oops with unregistered driver in driver_find_device()
printk() - restore prefix/timestamp printing for multi-newline strings
printk: add stub for prepend_timestamp()
ARM: tegra30: Make MC optional in Kconfig
ARM: tegra20: Make MC optional in Kconfig
ARM: tegra30: MC: Remove unnecessary BUG*()
ARM: tegra20: MC: Remove unnecessary BUG*()
printk: correctly align __log_buf
ARM: tegra30: Add Tegra Memory Controller(MC) driver
ARM: tegra20: Add Tegra Memory Controller(MC) driver
printk() - restore timestamp printing at console output
printk() - do not merge continuation lines of different threads
...
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__alloc_contig_migrate_range calls migrate_pages with wrong argument
for migrate_mode. Fix it.
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
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alloc_contig_range() performs memory allocation so it also should keep
track on keeping the correct level of memory watermarks. This commit adds
a call to *_slowpath style reclaim to grab enough pages to make sure that
the final collection of contiguous pages from freelists will not starve
the system.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>
CC: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>
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This patch extracts common reclaim code from __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim()
function to separate function: __perform_reclaim() which can be later used
by alloc_contig_range().
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>
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There is a race between the min_free_kbytes sysctl, memory hotplug
and transparent hugepage support enablement. Memory hotplug uses a
zonelists_mutex to avoid a race when building zonelists. Reuse it to
serialise watermark updates.
[[email protected]: Older patch fixed the race with spinlock]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>
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This commit changes various functions that change pages and
pageblocks migrate type between MIGRATE_ISOLATE and
MIGRATE_MOVABLE in such a way as to allow to work with
MIGRATE_CMA migrate type.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>
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The MIGRATE_CMA migration type has two main characteristics:
(i) only movable pages can be allocated from MIGRATE_CMA
pageblocks and (ii) page allocator will never change migration
type of MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks.
This guarantees (to some degree) that page in a MIGRATE_CMA page
block can always be migrated somewhere else (unless there's no
memory left in the system).
It is designed to be used for allocating big chunks (eg. 10MiB)
of physically contiguous memory. Once driver requests
contiguous memory, pages from MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks may be
migrated away to create a contiguous block.
To minimise number of migrations, MIGRATE_CMA migration type
is the last type tried when page allocator falls back to other
migration types when requested.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>
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This commit adds a row for MIGRATE_ISOLATE type to the fallbacks array
which was missing from it. It also, changes the array traversal logic
a little making MIGRATE_RESERVE an end marker. The letter change,
removes the implicit MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE from the end of each row which
was read by __rmqueue_fallback() function.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>
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This commit adds the alloc_contig_range() function which tries
to allocate given range of pages. It tries to migrate all
already allocated pages that fall in the range thus freeing them.
Once all pages in the range are freed they are removed from the
buddy system thus allocated for the caller to use.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
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Why is there less MemFree than there used to be? It perturbed a test,
so I've just been bisecting linux-next, and now find the offender went
upstream yesterday.
Commit 93278814d359 "mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()"
mistakenly initialized percpu_pagelist_fraction to the sysctl's minimum 8,
which leaves 1/8th of memory on percpu lists (on each cpu??); but most of
us expect it to be left unset at 0 (and it's not then used as a divisor).
MemTotal: 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB
Repetitive test with percpu_pagelist_fraction 8:
MemFree: 6948420kB 6237172kB 6949696kB 6840692kB 6949048kB 6862984kB
Same test with percpu_pagelist_fraction back to 0:
MemFree: 7945000kB 7944908kB 7948568kB 7949060kB 7948796kB 7948812kB
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
[ We really should fix the crazy sysctl interface too, but that's a
separate thing - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler() has only considered -EINVAL as
a possible error from proc_dointvec_minmax().
If any other error is returned, it would proceed to divide by zero since
percpu_pagelist_fraction wasn't getting initialized at any point. For
example, writing 0 bytes into the proc file would trigger the issue.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Calculate a cpumask of CPUs with per-cpu pages in any zone and only send
an IPI requesting CPUs to drain these pages to the buddy allocator if they
actually have pages when asked to flush.
This patch saves 85%+ of IPIs asking to drain per-cpu pages in case of
severe memory pressure that leads to OOM since in these cases multiple,
possibly concurrent, allocation requests end up in the direct reclaim code
path so when the per-cpu pages end up reclaimed on first allocation
failure for most of the proceeding allocation attempts until the memory
pressure is off (possibly via the OOM killer) there are no per-cpu pages
on most CPUs (and there can easily be hundreds of them).
This also has the side effect of shortening the average latency of direct
reclaim by 1 or more order of magnitude since waiting for all the CPUs to
ACK the IPI takes a long time.
Tested by running "hackbench 400" on a 8 CPU x86 VM and observing the
difference between the number of direct reclaim attempts that end up in
drain_all_pages() and those were more then 1/2 of the online CPU had any
per-cpu page in them, using the vmstat counters introduced in the next
patch in the series and using proc/interrupts.
In the test sceanrio, this was seen to save around 3600 global
IPIs after trigerring an OOM on a concurrent workload:
$ cat /proc/vmstat | tail -n 2
pcp_global_drain 0
pcp_global_ipi_saved 0
$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep CAL
CAL: 1 2 1 2
2 2 2 2 Function call interrupts
$ hackbench 400
[OOM messages snipped]
$ cat /proc/vmstat | tail -n 2
pcp_global_drain 3647
pcp_global_ipi_saved 3642
$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep CAL
CAL: 6 13 6 3
3 3 1 2 7 Function call interrupts
Please note that if the global drain is removed from the direct reclaim
path as a patch from Mel Gorman currently suggests this should be replaced
with an on_each_cpu_cond invocation.
Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The size of coredump files is limited by RLIMIT_CORE, however, allocating
large amounts of memory results in three negative consequences:
- the coredumping process may be chosen for oom kill and quickly deplete
all memory reserves in oom conditions preventing further progress from
being made or tasks from exiting,
- the coredumping process may cause other processes to be oom killed
without fault of their own as the result of a SIGSEGV, for example, in
the coredumping process, or
- the coredumping process may result in a livelock while writing to the
dump file if it needs memory to allocate while other threads are in
the exit path waiting on the coredumper to complete.
This is fixed by implying __GFP_NORETRY in the page allocator for
coredumping processes when reclaim has failed so the allocations fail and
the process continues to exit.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes() does not use its argument.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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add_from_early_node_map() is unused.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when
changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of
memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit.
[get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory
barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while
investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time
after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by
oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page
allocator hot path.
For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an
implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex.
This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write
sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path
side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The
main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a
manner that can cause a false failure.
While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure
is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel
allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place.
In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from
__alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The
actual results were
3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3
rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1
Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%)
Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%)
Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%)
Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%)
Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%)
Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%)
Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%)
Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%)
Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%)
Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%)
Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%)
Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%)
Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%)
Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%)
Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%)
MMTests Statistics: duration
Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17
User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87
The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much
improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these
performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The
actual number of page faults is noticeably improved.
For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but
the system CPU time is slightly reduced.
To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The
first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that
faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the
cpuset was continually randomised in a loop.
Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually
within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine.
With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be
functionally equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Miao Xie <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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This cpu hotplug hook was accidentally removed in commit 00a62ce91e55
("mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment")
The visible effect of this accident: some pages are borrowed in per-cpu
page-vectors. Truncate can deal with it, but these pages cannot be
reused while this cpu is offline. So this is like a temporary memory
leak.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The oom killer chooses not to kill a thread if:
- an eligible thread has already been oom killed and has yet to exit,
and
- an eligible thread is exiting but has yet to free all its memory and
is not the thread attempting to currently allocate memory.
SysRq+F manually invokes the global oom killer to kill a memory-hogging
task. This is normally done as a last resort to free memory when no
progress is being made or to test the oom killer itself.
For both uses, we always want to kill a thread and never defer. This
patch causes SysRq+F to always kill an eligible thread and can be used to
force a kill even if another oom killed thread has failed to exit.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Currently a failed order-9 (transparent hugepage) compaction can lead to
memory compaction being temporarily disabled for a memory zone. Even if
we only need compaction for an order 2 allocation, eg. for jumbo frames
networking.
The fix is relatively straightforward: keep track of the highest order at
which compaction is succeeding, and only defer compaction for orders at
which compaction is failing.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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When the number of dentry cache hash table entries gets too high
(2147483648 entries), as happens by default on a 16TB system, use of a
signed integer in the dcache_init() initialization loop prevents the
dentry_hashtable from getting initialized, causing a panic in
__d_lookup(). Fix this in dcache_init() and similar areas.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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page_zone() requires an online node otherwise we are accessing NULL
NODE_DATA. This is not an issue at the moment because node_zones are
located at the structure beginning but this might change in the future
so better be careful about that.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Fix the following NULL ptr dereference caused by
cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory0/removable
Pid: 13979, comm: sed Not tainted 3.0.13-0.5-default #1 IBM BladeCenter LS21 -[7971PAM]-/Server Blade
RIP: __count_immobile_pages+0x4/0x100
Process sed (pid: 13979, threadinfo ffff880221c36000, task ffff88022e788480)
Call Trace:
is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x34/0x40
is_mem_section_removable+0x74/0xf0
show_mem_removable+0x41/0x70
sysfs_read_file+0xfe/0x1c0
vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
sys_read+0x53/0xa0
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
We are crashing because we are trying to dereference NULL zone which
came from pfn=0 (struct page ffffea0000000000). According to the boot
log this page is marked reserved:
e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)
and early_node_map confirms that:
early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
1: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009c
1: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bffa3
1: 0x00100000 -> 0x00240000
The problem is that memory_present works in PAGE_SECTION_MASK aligned
blocks so the reserved range sneaks into the the section as well. This
also means that free_area_init_node will not take care of those reserved
pages and they stay uninitialized.
When we try to read the removable status we walk through all available
sections and hope that the zone is valid for all pages in the section.
But this is not true in this case as the zone and nid are not initialized.
We have only one node in this particular case and it is marked as node=1
(rather than 0) and that made the problem visible because page_to_nid will
return 0 and there are no zones on the node.
Let's check that the zone is valid and that the given pfn falls into its
boundaries and mark the section not removable. This might cause some
false positives, probably, but we do not have any sane way to find out
whether the page is reserved by the platform or it is just not used for
whatever other reasons.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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