Currently we remove pages from the radix tree one by one. To speed up
page cache truncation, lock several pages at once and free them in one
go. This allows us to batch radix tree operations in a more efficient
way and also save round-trips on mapping->tree_lock. As a result we
gain about 20% speed improvement in page cache truncation.
Data from a simple benchmark timing 10000 truncates of 1024 pages (on
ext4 on ramdisk but the filesystem is barely visible in the profiles).
The range shows 1% and 95% percentiles of the measured times:
4.14-rc2 4.14-rc2 + batched truncation
248-256 209-219
249-258 209-217
248-255 211-239
248-255 209-217
247-256 210-218
[jack@suse.cz: convert delete_from_page_cache_batch() to pagevec]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018111648.13714-1-jack@suse.cz
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move struct pagevec forward declaration to top-of-file]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010151937.26984-8-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Speed up page cache truncation", v1.
When rebasing our enterprise distro to a newer kernel (from 4.4 to 4.12)
we have noticed a regression in bonnie++ benchmark when deleting files.
Eventually we have tracked this down to a fact that page cache
truncation got slower by about 10%. There were both gains and losses in
the above interval of kernels but we have been able to identify that
commit 83929372f6 ("filemap: prepare find and delete operations for
huge pages") caused about 10% regression on its own.
After some investigation it didn't seem easily possible to fix the
regression while maintaining the THP in page cache functionality so
we've decided to optimize the page cache truncation path instead to make
up for the change. This series is a result of that effort.
Patch 1 is an easy speedup of cancel_dirty_page(). Patches 2-6 refactor
page cache truncation code so that it is easier to batch radix tree
operations. Patch 7 implements batching of deletes from the radix tree
which more than makes up for the original regression.
This patch (of 7):
cancel_dirty_page() does quite some work even for clean pages (fetching
of mapping, locking of memcg, atomic bit op on page flags) so it
accounts for ~2.5% of cost of truncation of a clean page. That is not
much but still dumb for something we don't need at all. Check whether a
page is actually dirty and avoid any work if not.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010151937.26984-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__rmqueue(), __rmqueue_fallback(), __rmqueue_smallest() and
__rmqueue_cma_fallback() are all in page allocator's hot path and better
be finished as soon as possible. One way to make them faster is by making
them inline. But as Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen pointed out:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/1252https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/1279
To make sure they are inlined, we should use __always_inline for them.
With the will-it-scale/page_fault1/process benchmark, when using nr_cpu
processes to stress buddy, the results for will-it-scale.processes with
and without the patch are:
On a 2-sockets Intel-Skylake machine:
compiler base head
gcc-4.4.7 6496131 6911823 +6.4%
gcc-4.9.4 7225110 7731072 +7.0%
gcc-5.4.1 7054224 7688146 +9.0%
gcc-6.2.0 7059794 7651675 +8.4%
On a 4-sockets Intel-Skylake machine:
compiler base head
gcc-4.4.7 13162890 13508193 +2.6%
gcc-4.9.4 14997463 15484353 +3.2%
gcc-5.4.1 14708711 15449805 +5.0%
gcc-6.2.0 14574099 15349204 +5.3%
The above 4 compilers are used because I've done the tests through
Intel's Linux Kernel Performance(LKP) infrastructure and they are the
available compilers there.
The benefit being less on 4 sockets machine is due to the lock
contention there(perf-profile/native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath=81%) is
less severe than on the 2 sockets machine(85%).
What the benchmark does is: it forks nr_cpu processes and then each
process does the following:
1 mmap() 128M anonymous space;
2 writes to each page there to trigger actual page allocation;
3 munmap() it.
in a loop.
https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale/blob/master/tests/page_fault1.c
Binary size wise, I have locally built them with different compilers:
[aaron@aaronlu obj]$ size */*/mm/page_alloc.o
text data bss dec hex filename
37409 9904 8524 55837 da1d gcc-4.9.4/base/mm/page_alloc.o
38273 9904 8524 56701 dd7d gcc-4.9.4/head/mm/page_alloc.o
37465 9840 8428 55733 d9b5 gcc-5.5.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
38169 9840 8428 56437 dc75 gcc-5.5.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
37573 9840 8428 55841 da21 gcc-6.4.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
38261 9840 8428 56529 dcd1 gcc-6.4.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
36863 9840 8428 55131 d75b gcc-7.2.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
37711 9840 8428 55979 daab gcc-7.2.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
Text size increased about 800 bytes for mm/page_alloc.o.
[aaron@aaronlu obj]$ size */*/vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
10342757 5903208 17723392 33969357 20654cd gcc-4.9.4/base/vmlinux
10342757 5903208 17723392 33969357 20654cd gcc-4.9.4/head/vmlinux
10332448 5836608 17715200 33884256 2050860 gcc-5.5.0/base/vmlinux
10332448 5836608 17715200 33884256 2050860 gcc-5.5.0/head/vmlinux
10094546 5836696 17715200 33646442 201676a gcc-6.4.0/base/vmlinux
10094546 5836696 17715200 33646442 201676a gcc-6.4.0/head/vmlinux
10018775 5828732 17715200 33562707 2002053 gcc-7.2.0/base/vmlinux
10018775 5828732 17715200 33562707 2002053 gcc-7.2.0/head/vmlinux
Text size for vmlinux has no change though, probably due to function
alignment.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013063111.GA26032@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some memory is reserved but unavailable: not present in memblock.memory
(because not backed by physical pages), but present in memblock.reserved.
Such memory has backing struct pages, but they are not initialized by
going through __init_single_page().
In some cases these struct pages are accessed even if they do not
contain any data. One example is page_to_pfn() might access page->flags
if this is where section information is stored (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM,
SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS).
One example of such memory: trim_low_memory_range() unconditionally
reserves from pfn 0, but e820__memblock_setup() might provide the
exiting memory from pfn 1 (i.e. KVM).
Since struct pages are zeroed in __init_single_page(), and not during
allocation time, we must zero such struct pages explicitly.
The patch involves adding a new memblock iterator:
for_each_resv_unavail_range(i, p_start, p_end)
Which iterates through reserved && !memory lists, and we zero struct pages
explicitly by calling mm_zero_struct_page().
===
Here is more detailed example of problem that this patch is addressing:
Run tested on qemu with the following arguments:
-enable-kvm -cpu kvm64 -m 512 -smp 2
This patch reports that there are 98 unavailable pages.
They are: pfn 0 and pfns in range [159, 255].
Note, trim_low_memory_range() reserves only pfns in range [0, 15], it does
not reserve [159, 255] ones.
e820__memblock_setup() reports linux that the following physical ranges are
available:
[1 , 158]
[256, 130783]
Notice, that exactly unavailable pfns are missing!
Now, lets check what we have in zone 0: [1, 131039]
pfn 0, is not part of the zone, but pfns [1, 158], are.
However, the bigger problem we have if we do not initialize these struct
pages is with memory hotplug. Because, that path operates at 2M
boundaries (section_nr). And checks if 2M range of pages is hot
removable. It starts with first pfn from zone, rounds it down to 2M
boundary (sturct pages are allocated at 2M boundaries when vmemmap is
created), and checks if that section is hot removable. In this case
start with pfn 1 and convert it down to pfn 0. Later pfn is converted
to struct page, and some fields are checked. Now, if we do not zero
struct pages, we get unpredictable results.
In fact when CONFIG_VM_DEBUG is enabled, and we explicitly set all
vmemmap memory to ones, the following panic is observed with kernel test
without this patch applied:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x35/0x90
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
...
task: ffff88001f4e2900 task.stack: ffffc90000314000
RIP: 0010:is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x35/0x90
Call Trace:
? is_mem_section_removable+0x5a/0xd0
show_mem_removable+0x6b/0xa0
dev_attr_show+0x1b/0x50
sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xa1/0x100
kernfs_seq_show+0x22/0x30
seq_read+0x1ac/0x3a0
kernfs_fop_read+0x36/0x190
? security_file_permission+0x90/0xb0
__vfs_read+0x16/0x30
vfs_read+0x81/0x130
SyS_read+0x44/0xa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-7-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Without deferred struct page feature (CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT),
flags and other fields in "struct page"es are never changed prior to
first initializing struct pages by going through __init_single_page().
With deferred struct page feature enabled there is a case where we set
some fields prior to initializing:
mem_init() {
register_page_bootmem_info();
free_all_bootmem();
...
}
When register_page_bootmem_info() is called only non-deferred struct
pages are initialized. But, this function goes through some reserved
pages which might be part of the deferred, and thus are not yet
initialized.
mem_init
register_page_bootmem_info
register_page_bootmem_info_node
get_page_bootmem
.. setting fields here ..
such as: page->freelist = (void *)type;
free_all_bootmem()
free_low_memory_core_early()
for_each_reserved_mem_region()
reserve_bootmem_region()
init_reserved_page() <- Only if this is deferred reserved page
__init_single_pfn()
__init_single_page()
memset(0) <-- Loose the set fields here
We end up with similar issue as in the previous patch, where currently
we do not observe problem as memory is zeroed. But, if flag asserts are
changed we can start hitting issues.
Also, because in this patch series we will stop zeroing struct page
memory during allocation, we must make sure that struct pages are
properly initialized prior to using them.
The deferred-reserved pages are initialized in free_all_bootmem().
Therefore, the fix is to switch the above calls.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-4-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Without deferred struct page feature (CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT),
flags and other fields in "struct page"es are never changed prior to
first initializing struct pages by going through __init_single_page().
With deferred struct page feature enabled, however, we set fields in
register_page_bootmem_info that are subsequently clobbered right after
in free_all_bootmem:
mem_init() {
register_page_bootmem_info();
free_all_bootmem();
...
}
When register_page_bootmem_info() is called only non-deferred struct
pages are initialized. But, this function goes through some reserved
pages which might be part of the deferred, and thus are not yet
initialized.
mem_init
register_page_bootmem_info
register_page_bootmem_info_node
get_page_bootmem
.. setting fields here ..
such as: page->freelist = (void *)type;
free_all_bootmem()
free_low_memory_core_early()
for_each_reserved_mem_region()
reserve_bootmem_region()
init_reserved_page() <- Only if this is deferred reserved page
__init_single_pfn()
__init_single_page()
memset(0) <-- Loose the set fields here
We end up with issue where, currently we do not observe problem as
memory is explicitly zeroed. But, if flag asserts are changed we can
start hitting issues.
Also, because in this patch series we will stop zeroing struct page
memory during allocation, we must make sure that struct pages are
properly initialized prior to using them.
The deferred-reserved pages are initialized in free_all_bootmem().
Therefore, the fix is to switch the above calls.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-3-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "complete deferred page initialization", v12.
SMP machines can benefit from the DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT config
option, which defers initializing struct pages until all cpus have been
started so it can be done in parallel.
However, this feature is sub-optimal, because the deferred page
initialization code expects that the struct pages have already been
zeroed, and the zeroing is done early in boot with a single thread only.
Also, we access that memory and set flags before struct pages are
initialized. All of this is fixed in this patchset.
In this work we do the following:
- Never read access struct page until it was initialized
- Never set any fields in struct pages before they are initialized
- Zero struct page at the beginning of struct page initialization
==========================================================================
Performance improvements on x86 machine with 8 nodes:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895 v3 @ 2.60GHz and 1T of memory:
TIME SPEED UP
base no deferred: 95.796233s
fix no deferred: 79.978956s 19.77%
base deferred: 77.254713s
fix deferred: 55.050509s 40.34%
==========================================================================
SPARC M6 3600 MHz with 15T of memory
TIME SPEED UP
base no deferred: 358.335727s
fix no deferred: 302.320936s 18.52%
base deferred: 237.534603s
fix deferred: 182.103003s 30.44%
==========================================================================
Raw dmesg output with timestamps:
x86 base no deferred: https://hastebin.com/ofunepurit.scala
x86 base deferred: https://hastebin.com/ifazegeyas.scala
x86 fix no deferred: https://hastebin.com/pegocohevo.scala
x86 fix deferred: https://hastebin.com/ofupevikuk.scala
sparc base no deferred: https://hastebin.com/ibobeteken.go
sparc base deferred: https://hastebin.com/fariqimiyu.go
sparc fix no deferred: https://hastebin.com/muhegoheyi.go
sparc fix deferred: https://hastebin.com/xadinobutu.go
This patch (of 11):
deferred_init_memmap() is called when struct pages are initialized later
in boot by slave CPUs. This patch simplifies and optimizes this
function, and also fixes a couple issues (described below).
The main change is that now we are iterating through free memblock areas
instead of all configured memory. Thus, we do not have to check if the
struct page has already been initialized.
=====
In deferred_init_memmap() where all deferred struct pages are
initialized we have a check like this:
if (page->flags) {
VM_BUG_ON(page_zone(page) != zone);
goto free_range;
}
This way we are checking if the current deferred page has already been
initialized. It works, because memory for struct pages has been zeroed,
and the only way flags are not zero if it went through
__init_single_page() before. But, once we change the current behavior
and won't zero the memory in memblock allocator, we cannot trust
anything inside "struct page"es until they are initialized. This patch
fixes this.
The deferred_init_memmap() is re-written to loop through only free
memory ranges provided by memblock.
Note, this first issue is relevant only when the following change is
merged:
=====
This patch fixes another existing issue on systems that have holes in
zones i.e CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is defined.
In for_each_mem_pfn_range() we have code like this:
if (!pfn_valid_within(pfn)
goto free_range;
Note: 'page' is not set to NULL and is not incremented but 'pfn'
advances. Thus means if deferred struct pages are enabled on systems
with these kind of holes, linux would get memory corruptions. I have
fixed this issue by defining a new macro that performs all the necessary
operations when we free the current set of pages.
[pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: buddy page accessed before initialized]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102170221.7401-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The allocations from filp cache can be directly triggered by userspace
applications. A buggy application can consume a significant amount of
unaccounted system memory. Though we have not noticed such buggy
applications in our production but upon close inspection, we found that
a lot of machines spend very significant amount of memory on these
caches.
One way to limit allocations from filp cache is to set system level
limit of maximum number of open files. However this limit is shared
between different users on the system and one user can hog this
resource. To cater that, we can charge filp to kmemcg and set the
maximum limit very high and let the memory limit of each user limit the
number of files they can open and indirectly limiting their allocations
from filp cache.
One side effect of this change is that it will allow _sysctl() to return
ENOMEM and the man page of _sysctl() does not specify that. However the
man page also discourages to use _sysctl() at all.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171011190359.34926-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, we account page tables separately for each page table level,
but that's redundant -- we only make use of total memory allocated to
page tables for oom_badness calculation. We also provide the
information to userspace, but it has dubious value there too.
This patch switches page table accounting to single counter.
mm->pgtables_bytes is now used to account all page table levels. We use
bytes, because page table size for different levels of page table tree
may be different.
The change has user-visible effect: we don't have VmPMD and VmPUD
reported in /proc/[pid]/status. Not sure if anybody uses them. (As
alternative, we can always report 0 kB for them.)
OOM-killer report is also slightly changed: we now report pgtables_bytes
instead of nr_ptes, nr_pmd, nr_puds.
Apart from reducing number of counters per-mm, the benefit is that we
now calculate oom_badness() more correctly for machines which have
different size of page tables depending on level or where page tables
are less than a page in size.
The only downside can be debuggability because we do not know which page
table level could leak. But I do not remember many bugs that would be
caught by separate counters so I wouldn't lose sleep over this.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/huge_memory.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006100651.44742-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: fix build]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171016150113.ikfxy3e7zzfvsr4w@black.fi.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
