When mprotect() is used to make unwritable VMAs writable, they have the
VM_ACCOUNT flag applied and memory accounted accordingly.
If the VMA has had no pages faulted in and is then made unwritable once
again, it will remain accounted for, despite not being capable of
extending memory usage.
Consider:-
ptr = mmap(NULL, page_size * 3, PROT_READ, MAP_ANON | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
mprotect(ptr + page_size, page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE);
mprotect(ptr + page_size, page_size, PROT_READ);
The first mprotect() splits the range into 3 VMAs and the second fails to
merge the three as the middle VMA has VM_ACCOUNT set and the others do
not, rendering them unmergeable.
This is unnecessary, since no pages have actually been allocated and the
middle VMA is not capable of utilising more memory, thereby introducing
unnecessary VMA fragmentation (and accounting for more memory than is
necessary).
Since we cannot efficiently determine which pages map to an anonymous VMA,
we have to be very conservative - determining whether any pages at all
have been faulted in, by checking whether vma->anon_vma is NULL.
We can see that the lack of anon_vma implies that no anonymous pages are
present as evidenced by vma_needs_copy() utilising this on fork to
determine whether page tables need to be copied.
The only place where anon_vma is set NULL explicitly is on fork with
VM_WIPEONFORK set, however since this flag is intended to cause the child
process to not CoW on a given memory range, it is right to interpret this
as indicating the VMA has no faulted-in anonymous memory mapped.
If the VMA was forked without VM_WIPEONFORK set, then anon_vma_fork() will
have ensured that a new anon_vma is assigned (and correctly related to its
parent anon_vma) should any pages be CoW-mapped.
The overall operation is safe against races as we hold a write lock against
mm->mmap_lock.
If we could efficiently look up the VMA's faulted-in pages then we would
unaccount all those pages not yet faulted in. However as the original
comment alludes this simply isn't currently possible, so we are
conservative and account all pages or none at all.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ad5540371a16623a069f03f4db1739f33cde1fab.1696921767.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The 6.0 commits:
commit 9fec51689f ("mm: thp: kill transparent_hugepage_active()")
commit 7da4e2cb8b ("mm: thp: kill __transhuge_page_enabled()")
merged "can we have THPs in this VMA?" logic that was previously done
separately by fault-path, khugepaged, and smaps "THPeligible" checks.
During the process, the semantics of the fault path check changed in two
ways:
1) A VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED check was introduced (also added to smaps path).
2) We no longer checked if non-anonymous memory had a vm_ops->huge_fault
handler that could satisfy the fault. Previously, this check had been
done in create_huge_pud() and create_huge_pmd() routines, but after
the changes, we never reach those routines.
During the review of the above commits, it was determined that in-tree
users weren't affected by the change; most notably, since the only
relevant user (in terms of THP) of VM_MIXEDMAP or ->huge_fault is DAX,
which is explicitly approved early in approval logic. However, this was a
bad assumption to make as it assumes the only reason to support
->huge_fault was for DAX (which is not true in general).
Remove the VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED check when not in collapse path and give any
->huge_fault handler a chance to handle the fault. Note that we don't
validate the file mode or mapping alignment, which is consistent with the
behavior before the aforementioned commits.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230925200110.1979606-1-zokeefe@google.com
Fixes: 7da4e2cb8b ("mm: thp: kill __transhuge_page_enabled()")
Reported-by: Saurabh Singh Sengar <ssengar@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, hugetlb memory usage is not acounted for in the memory
controller, which could lead to memory overprotection for cgroups with
hugetlb-backed memory. This has been observed in our production system.
For instance, here is one of our usecases: suppose there are two 32G
containers. The machine is booted with hugetlb_cma=6G, and each container
may or may not use up to 3 gigantic page, depending on the workload within
it. The rest is anon, cache, slab, etc. We can set the hugetlb cgroup
limit of each cgroup to 3G to enforce hugetlb fairness. But it is very
difficult to configure memory.max to keep overall consumption, including
anon, cache, slab etc. fair.
What we have had to resort to is to constantly poll hugetlb usage and
readjust memory.max. Similar procedure is done to other memory limits
(memory.low for e.g). However, this is rather cumbersome and buggy.
Furthermore, when there is a delay in memory limits correction, (for e.g
when hugetlb usage changes within consecutive runs of the userspace
agent), the system could be in an over/underprotected state.
This patch rectifies this issue by charging the memcg when the hugetlb
folio is utilized, and uncharging when the folio is freed (analogous to
the hugetlb controller). Note that we do not charge when the folio is
allocated to the hugetlb pool, because at this point it is not owned by
any memcg.
Some caveats to consider:
* This feature is only available on cgroup v2.
* There is no hugetlb pool management involved in the memory
controller. As stated above, hugetlb folios are only charged towards
the memory controller when it is used. Host overcommit management
has to consider it when configuring hard limits.
* Failure to charge towards the memcg results in SIGBUS. This could
happen even if the hugetlb pool still has pages (but the cgroup
limit is hit and reclaim attempt fails).
* When this feature is enabled, hugetlb pages contribute to memory
reclaim protection. low, min limits tuning must take into account
hugetlb memory.
* Hugetlb pages utilized while this option is not selected will not
be tracked by the memory controller (even if cgroup v2 is remounted
later on).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006184629.155543-4-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "hugetlb memcg accounting", v4.
Currently, hugetlb memory usage is not acounted for in the memory
controller, which could lead to memory overprotection for cgroups with
hugetlb-backed memory. This has been observed in our production system.
For instance, here is one of our usecases: suppose there are two 32G
containers. The machine is booted with hugetlb_cma=6G, and each container
may or may not use up to 3 gigantic page, depending on the workload within
it. The rest is anon, cache, slab, etc. We can set the hugetlb cgroup
limit of each cgroup to 3G to enforce hugetlb fairness. But it is very
difficult to configure memory.max to keep overall consumption, including
anon, cache, slab etcetera fair.
What we have had to resort to is to constantly poll hugetlb usage and
readjust memory.max. Similar procedure is done to other memory limits
(memory.low for e.g). However, this is rather cumbersome and buggy.
Furthermore, when there is a delay in memory limits correction, (for e.g
when hugetlb usage changes within consecutive runs of the userspace
agent), the system could be in an over/underprotected state.
This patch series rectifies this issue by charging the memcg when the
hugetlb folio is allocated, and uncharging when the folio is freed. In
addition, a new selftest is added to demonstrate and verify this new
behavior.
This patch (of 4):
This patch exposes charge committing and cancelling as parts of the memory
controller interface. These functionalities are useful when the
try_charge() and commit_charge() stages have to be separated by other
actions in between (which can fail). One such example is the new hugetlb
accounting behavior in the following patch.
The patch also adds a helper function to obtain a reference to the
current task's memcg.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006184629.155543-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006184629.155543-2-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Originally, hugetlb_cgroup was the only hugetlb user of tail page
structure fields. So, the code defined and checked against
HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER to make sure pages weren't too small to use.
However, by now, tail page #2 is used to store hugetlb hwpoison and
subpool information as well. In other words, without that tail page
hugetlb doesn't work.
Acknowledge this fact by getting rid of HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER and
checks against it. Instead, just check for the minimum viable page order
at hstate creation time.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231004153248.3842997-1-fvdl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Create a selftest that exercises the race between page faults and
madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) in the same huge page. Do it by running two
threads that touches the huge page and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) at the same
time.
In case of a SIGBUS coming at pagefault, the test should fail, since we
hit the bug.
The test doesn't have a signal handler, and if it fails, it fails like
the following
----------------------------------
running ./hugetlb_fault_after_madv
----------------------------------
./run_vmtests.sh: line 186: 595563 Bus error (core dumped) "$@"
[FAIL]
This selftest goes together with the fix of the bug[1] itself.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231001005659.2185316-1-riel@surriel.com/#r
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231005163922.87568-3-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Tested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "various improvements to the GUP interface", v2.
A series of fixes to simplify and improve the GUP interface with an eye to
providing groundwork to future improvements:-
* __access_remote_vm() and access_remote_vm() are functionally identical,
so make the former static such that in future we can potentially change
the external-facing implementation details of this function.
* Extend is_valid_gup_args() to cover the missing FOLL_TOUCH case, and
simplify things by defining INTERNAL_GUP_FLAGS to check against.
* Adjust __get_user_pages_locked() to explicitly treat a failure to pin any
pages as an error in all circumstances other than FOLL_NOWAIT being
specified, bringing it in line with the nommu implementation of this
function.
* (With many thanks to Arnd who suggested this in the first instance)
Update get_user_page_vma_remote() to explicitly only return a page or an
error, simplifying the interface and avoiding the questionable
IS_ERR_OR_NULL() pattern.
This patch (of 4):
access_remote_vm() passes through parameters to __access_remote_vm()
directly, so remove the __access_remote_vm() function from mm.h and use
access_remote_vm() in the one caller that needs it (ptrace_access_vm()).
This allows future adjustments to the GUP-internal __access_remote_vm()
function while keeping the access_remote_vm() function stable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1696288092.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f7877c5039ce1c202a514a8aeeefc5cdd5e32d19.1696288092.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
folio_move_anon_rmap()".
Convert page_move_anon_rmap() to folio_move_anon_rmap(), letting the
callers handle PageAnonExclusive. I'm including cleanup patch #3 because
it fits into the picture and can be done cleaner by the conversion.
This patch (of 3):
Let's move it into the caller: there is a difference between whether an
anon folio can only be mapped by one process (e.g., into one VMA), and
whether it is truly exclusive (e.g., no references -- including GUP --
from other processes).
Further, for large folios the page might not actually be pointing at the
head page of the folio, so it better be handled in the caller. This is a
preparation for converting page_move_anon_rmap() to consume a folio.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231002142949.235104-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231002142949.235104-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
