If hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized is enabled, folio_clear_hugetlb_hwpoison()
called from try_memory_failure_hugetlb() won't transfer HWPoison flag to
subpages while folio's HWPoison flag is cleared. So when trying to free
this hugetlb page into buddy, folio_clear_hugetlb_hwpoison() is not called
to move HWPoison flag from head page to the raw error pages even if now
hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized is cleared. This will results in HWPoisoned
page being used again and raw_hwp_page leak.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230711055016.2286677-3-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Fixes: ac5fcde0a9 ("mm, hwpoison: make unpoison aware of raw error info in hwpoisoned hugepage")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let's update the documentation that any signal is sufficient, and add a
comment that not only checking for fatal signals is historical baggage:
changing it now could break existing user space. although unlikely.
For example, when an app provides a custom SIGALRM handler and triggers
memory offlining, the timeout cmd would no longer stop memory offlining,
because SIGALRM would no longer be considered a fatal signal.
Note that using signal_pending() instead of fatal_signal_pending() is
an anti-pattern, but slowly deprecating that behavior to eventually
change it in the far future is probably not worth the effort. If this
ever becomes relevant for user-space, we might want to rethink.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230711174050.603820-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The basic idea here is to "simulate" memory poisoning for VMs. A VM
running on some host might encounter a memory error, after which some
page(s) are poisoned (i.e., future accesses SIGBUS). They expect that
once poisoned, pages can never become "un-poisoned". So, when we live
migrate the VM, we need to preserve the poisoned status of these pages.
When live migrating, we try to get the guest running on its new host as
quickly as possible. So, we start it running before all memory has been
copied, and before we're certain which pages should be poisoned or not.
So the basic way to use this new feature is:
- On the new host, the guest's memory is registered with userfaultfd, in
either MISSING or MINOR mode (doesn't really matter for this purpose).
- On any first access, we get a userfaultfd event. At this point we can
communicate with the old host to find out if the page was poisoned.
- If so, we can respond with a UFFDIO_POISON - this places a swap marker
so any future accesses will SIGBUS. Because the pte is now "present",
future accesses won't generate more userfaultfd events, they'll just
SIGBUS directly.
UFFDIO_POISON does not handle unmapping previously-present PTEs. This
isn't needed, because during live migration we want to intercept all
accesses with userfaultfd (not just writes, so WP mode isn't useful for
this). So whether minor or missing mode is being used (or both), the PTE
won't be present in any case, so handling that case isn't needed.
Similarly, UFFDIO_POISON won't replace existing PTE markers. This might
be okay to do, but it seems to be safer to just refuse to overwrite any
existing entry (like a UFFD_WP PTE marker).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707215540.2324998-5-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Cc: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with UFFD",
v4.
This series adds a new userfaultfd feature, UFFDIO_POISON. See commit 4
for a detailed description of the feature.
This patch (of 8):
Future patches will reuse PTE_MARKER_SWAPIN_ERROR to implement
UFFDIO_POISON, so make some various preparations for that:
First, rename it to just PTE_MARKER_POISONED. The "SWAPIN" can be
confusing since we're going to re-use it for something not really related
to swap. This can be particularly confusing for things like hugetlbfs,
which doesn't support swap whatsoever. Also rename some various helper
functions.
Next, fix pte marker copying for hugetlbfs. Previously, it would WARN on
seeing a PTE_MARKER_SWAPIN_ERROR, since hugetlbfs doesn't support swap.
But, since we're going to re-use it, we want it to go ahead and copy it
just like non-hugetlbfs memory does today. Since the code to do this is
more complicated now, pull it out into a helper which can be re-used in
both places. While we're at it, also make it slightly more explicit in
its handling of e.g. uffd wp markers.
For non-hugetlbfs page faults, instead of returning VM_FAULT_SIGBUS for an
error entry, return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON. For most cases this change doesn't
matter, e.g. a userspace program would receive a SIGBUS either way. But
for UFFDIO_POISON, this change will let KVM guests get an MCE out of the
box, instead of giving a SIGBUS to the hypervisor and requiring it to
somehow inject an MCE.
Finally, for hugetlbfs faults, handle PTE_MARKER_POISONED, and return
VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE in such cases. Note that this can't happen today
because the lack of swap support means we'll never end up with such a PTE
anyway, but this behavior will be needed once such entries *can* show up
via UFFDIO_POISON.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707215540.2324998-1-axelrasmussen@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707215540.2324998-2-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Cc: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The local variable @page in __split_vmemmap_huge_pmd() to obtain a pmd
page without holding page_table_lock may possiblely get the page table
page instead of a huge pmd page.
The effect may be in set_pte_at() since we may pass an invalid page
struct, if set_pte_at() wants to access the page struct (e.g.
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK is enabled), it may crash the kernel.
So fix it. And inline __split_vmemmap_huge_pmd() since it only has one
user.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707033859.16148-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: d8d55f5616 ("mm: sparsemem: use page table lock to protect kernel pmd operations")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Just like commit 9721fd8235 ("mm: compaction: skip memory hole
rapidly when isolating migratable pages"), I can see it will also take
more time to skip the larger memory hole (range: 0x1000000000 -
0x1800000000) when isolating free pages on my machine with below memory
layout. So like commit 9721fd8235, adding a new helper to skip the
memory hole rapidly, which can reduce the time consumed from about 70us
to less than 1us.
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000ffffffff]
[ 0.000000] DMA32 empty
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000001fa7ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x0000000fffffffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001800000000-0x0000001fa3c7ffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa3c80000-0x0000001fa3ffffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa4000000-0x0000001fa402ffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa4030000-0x0000001fa40effff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa40f0000-0x0000001fa73cffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa73d0000-0x0000001fa745ffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa7460000-0x0000001fa746ffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa7470000-0x0000001fa758ffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa7590000-0x0000001fa7ffffff]
[shikemeng@huaweicloud.com: avoid missing last page block in section after skip offline sections]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804110454.2935878-1-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804110454.2935878-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2ba7e41ee566309b594311207ffca736375fc16.1688715750.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fscache has an optimisation by which reads from the cache are skipped
until we know that (a) there's data there to be read and (b) that data
isn't entirely covered by pages resident in the netfs pagecache. This is
done with two flags manipulated by fscache_note_page_release():
if (...
test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_HAVE_DATA, &cookie->flags) &&
test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags))
clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags);
where the NO_DATA_TO_READ flag causes cachefiles_prepare_read() to
indicate that netfslib should download from the server or clear the page
instead.
The fscache_note_page_release() function is intended to be called from
->releasepage() - but that only gets called if PG_private or PG_private_2
is set - and currently the former is at the discretion of the network
filesystem and the latter is only set whilst a page is being written to
the cache, so sometimes we miss clearing the optimisation.
Fix this by following Willy's suggestion[1] and adding an address_space
flag, AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, that causes filemap_release_folio() to always call
->release_folio() if it's set, even if PG_private or PG_private_2 aren't
set.
Note that this would require folio_test_private() and page_has_private() to
become more complicated. To avoid that, in the places[*] where these are
used to conditionalise calls to filemap_release_folio() and
try_to_release_page(), the tests are removed the those functions just
jumped to unconditionally and the test is performed there.
[*] There are some exceptions in vmscan.c where the check guards more than
just a call to the releaser. I've added a function, folio_needs_release()
to wrap all the checks for that.
AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS should be set if a non-NULL cookie is obtained from
fscache and cleared in ->evict_inode() before truncate_inode_pages_final()
is called.
Additionally, the FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ flag needs to be cleared
and the optimisation cancelled if a cachefiles object already contains data
when we open it.
[dwysocha@redhat.com: call folio_mapping() inside folio_needs_release()]
Link: 902c990e31
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230628104852.3391651-3-dhowells@redhat.com
Fixes: 1f67e6d0b1 ("fscache: Provide a function to note the release of a page")
Fixes: 047487c947 ("cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Daire Byrne <daire.byrne@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
Cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio
removed from pagecache", v7.
This fixes an optimisation in fscache whereby we don't read from the cache
for a particular file until we know that there's data there that we don't
have in the pagecache. The problem is that I'm no longer using PG_fscache
(aka PG_private_2) to indicate that the page is cached and so I don't get
a notification when a cached page is dropped from the pagecache.
The first patch merges some folio_has_private() and
filemap_release_folio() pairs and introduces a helper,
folio_needs_release(), to indicate if a release is required.
The second patch is the actual fix. Following Willy's suggestions[1], it
adds an AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS flag to an address_space that will make
filemap_release_folio() always call ->release_folio(), even if
PG_private/PG_private_2 aren't set. folio_needs_release() is altered to
add a check for this.
This patch (of 2):
Make filemap_release_folio() check folio_has_private(). Then, in most
cases, where a call to folio_has_private() is immediately followed by a
call to filemap_release_folio(), we can get rid of the test in the pair.
There are a couple of sites in mm/vscan.c that this can't so easily be
done. In shrink_folio_list(), there are actually three cases (something
different is done for incompletely invalidated buffers), but
filemap_release_folio() elides two of them.
In shrink_active_list(), we don't have have the folio lock yet, so the
check allows us to avoid locking the page unnecessarily.
A wrapper function to check if a folio needs release is provided for those
places that still need to do it in the mm/ directory. This will acquire
additional parts to the condition in a future patch.
After this, the only remaining caller of folio_has_private() outside of
mm/ is a check in fuse.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230628104852.3391651-1-dhowells@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230628104852.3391651-2-dhowells@redhat.com
Reported-by: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
Cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Cc: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kmem.limit_in_bytes (v1 way to limit kernel memory usage) has been
deprecated since 58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate
kmem.limit_in_bytes") merged in 5.16. We haven't heard about any serious
users since then but it seems that the mere presence of the file is
causing more harm thatn good. We (SUSE) have had several bug reports from
customers where Docker based containers started to fail because a write to
kmem.limit_in_bytes has failed.
This was unexpected because runc code only expects ENOENT (kmem disabled)
or EBUSY (tasks already running within cgroup). So a new error code was
unexpected and the whole container startup failed. This has been later
addressed by
52390d6804
so current Docker runtimes do not suffer from the problem anymore. There
are still older version of Docker in use and likely hard to get rid of
completely.
Address this by wiping out the file completely and effectively get back to
pre 4.5 era and CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n configuration.
I would recommend backporting to stable trees which have picked up
58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes").
[mhocko@suse.com: restore _KMEM switch case]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZKe5wxdbvPi5Cwd7@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230704115240.14672-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If pfn is outside zone boundaries in the first round, ret will be set to
1. But if pfn is changed to inside the zone boundaries in zone span
seqretry path, ret is still set to 1 leading to false page outside zone
error info.
This is from code inspection. The race window should be really small thus
hard to trigger in real world.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: code simplification, per Matthew]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230704111823.940331-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Fixes: bdc8cb9845 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a function test_unmerge_zero_page() to test the functionality on
unsharing and counting ksm-placed zero pages and counting of this patch
series.
test_unmerge_zero_page() actually contains four subjct test objects:
(1) whether the count of ksm zero pages can update correctly after merging;
(2) whether the count of ksm zero pages can update correctly after
unmerging by madvise(...MADV_UNMERGEABLE);
(3) whether the count of ksm zero pages can update correctly after
unmerging by triggering write fault.
(4) whether ksm zero pages are really unmerged.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230613030947.186089-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Xuexin Jiang <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
As the number of ksm zero pages is not included in ksm_merging_pages per
process when enabling use_zero_pages, it's unclear of how many actual
pages are merged by KSM. To let users accurately estimate their memory
demands when unsharing KSM zero-pages, it's necessary to show KSM zero-
pages per process. In addition, it help users to know the actual KSM
profit because KSM-placed zero pages are also benefit from KSM.
since unsharing zero pages placed by KSM accurately is achieved, then
tracking empty pages merging and unmerging is not a difficult thing any
longer.
Since we already have /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat, just add the information of
'ksm_zero_pages' in it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230613030938.185993-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Xuexin Jiang <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
As pages_sharing and pages_shared don't include the number of zero pages
merged by KSM, we cannot know how many pages are zero pages placed by KSM
when enabling use_zero_pages, which leads to KSM not being transparent
with all actual merged pages by KSM. In the early days of use_zero_pages,
zero-pages was unable to get unshared by the ways like MADV_UNMERGEABLE so
it's hard to count how many times one of those zeropages was then
unmerged.
But now, unsharing KSM-placed zero page accurately has been achieved, so
we can easily count both how many times a page full of zeroes was merged
with zero-page and how many times one of those pages was then unmerged.
and so, it helps to estimate memory demands when each and every shared
page could get unshared.
So we add ksm_zero_pages under /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/ to show the number
of all zero pages placed by KSM. Meanwhile, we update the Documentation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230613030934.185944-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Xuexin Jiang <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages", v10.
The core idea of this patch set is to enable users to perceive the number
of any pages merged by KSM, regardless of whether use_zero_page switch has
been turned on, so that users can know how much free memory increase is
really due to their madvise(MERGEABLE) actions. But the problem is, when
enabling use_zero_pages, all empty pages will be merged with kernel zero
pages instead of with each other as use_zero_pages is disabled, and then
these zero-pages are no longer monitored by KSM.
The motivations to do this is seen at:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202302100915227721315@zte.com.cn/
In one word, we hope to implement the support for KSM-placed zero pages
tracking without affecting the feature of use_zero_pages, so that app
developer can also benefit from knowing the actual KSM profit by getting
KSM-placed zero pages to optimize applications eventually when
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/use_zero_pages is enabled.
This patch (of 5):
When use_zero_pages of ksm is enabled, madvise(addr, len,
MADV_UNMERGEABLE) and other ways (like write 2 to /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run)
to trigger unsharing will *not* actually unshare the shared zeropage as
placed by KSM (which is against the MADV_UNMERGEABLE documentation). As
these KSM-placed zero pages are out of the control of KSM, the related
counts of ksm pages don't expose how many zero pages are placed by KSM
(these special zero pages are different from those initially mapped zero
pages, because the zero pages mapped to MADV_UNMERGEABLE areas are
expected to be a complete and unshared page).
To not blindly unshare all shared zero_pages in applicable VMAs, the patch
use pte_mkdirty (related with architecture) to mark KSM-placed zero pages.
Thus, MADV_UNMERGEABLE will only unshare those KSM-placed zero pages.
In addition, we'll reuse this mechanism to reliably identify KSM-placed
ZeroPages to properly account for them (e.g., calculating the KSM profit
that includes zeropages) in the latter patches.
The patch will not degrade the performance of use_zero_pages as it doesn't
change the way of merging empty pages in use_zero_pages's feature.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202306131104554703428@zte.com.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230613030928.185882-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Xuexin Jiang <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Xiaokai Ran <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
__build_all_zonelists() acquires zonelist_update_seq by first disabling
interrupts via local_irq_save() and then acquiring the seqlock with
write_seqlock(). This is troublesome and leads to problems on PREEMPT_RT.
The problem is that the inner spinlock_t becomes a sleeping lock on
PREEMPT_RT and must not be acquired with disabled interrupts.
The API provides write_seqlock_irqsave() which does the right thing in one
step. printk_deferred_enter() has to be invoked in non-migrate-able
context to ensure that deferred printing is enabled and disabled on the
same CPU. This is the case after zonelist_update_seq has been acquired.
There was discussion on the first submission that the order should be:
local_irq_disable();
printk_deferred_enter();
write_seqlock();
to avoid pitfalls like having an unaccounted printk() coming from
write_seqlock_irqsave() before printk_deferred_enter() is invoked. The
only origin of such a printk() can be a lockdep splat because the lockdep
annotation happens after the sequence count is incremented. This is
exceptional and subject to change.
It was also pointed that PREEMPT_RT can be affected by the printk problem
since its write_seqlock_irqsave() does not really disable interrupts.
This isn't the case because PREEMPT_RT's printk implementation differs
from the mainline implementation in two important aspects:
- Printing happens in a dedicated threads and not at during the
invocation of printk().
- In emergency cases where synchronous printing is used, a different
driver is used which does not use tty_port::lock.
Acquire zonelist_update_seq with write_seqlock_irqsave() and then defer
printk output.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230623201517.yw286Knb@linutronix.de
Fixes: 1007843a91 ("mm/page_alloc: fix potential deadlock on zonelist_update_seq seqlock")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
