If a library wants to get information from auxv (for instance,
AT_HWCAP/AT_HWCAP2), it has a few options, none of them perfectly reliable
or ideal:
- Be main or the pre-main startup code, and grub through the stack above
main. Doesn't work for a library.
- Call libc getauxval. Not ideal for libraries that are trying to be
libc-independent and/or don't otherwise require anything from other
libraries.
- Open and read /proc/self/auxv. Doesn't work for libraries that may run
in arbitrarily constrained environments that may not have /proc
mounted (e.g. libraries that might be used by an init program or a
container setup tool).
- Assume you're on the main thread and still on the original stack, and
try to walk the stack upwards, hoping to find auxv. Extremely bad
idea.
- Ask the caller to pass auxv in for you. Not ideal for a user-friendly
library, and then your caller may have the same problem.
Add a prctl that copies current->mm->saved_auxv to a userspace buffer.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d81864a7f7f43bca6afa2a09fc2e850e4050ab42.1680611394.git.josh@joshtriplett.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Make sure that collapse_file respects any userfaultfds registered with
MODE_MISSING. If userspace has any such userfaultfds registered, then for
any page which it knows to be missing, it may expect a
UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT. This means collapse_file needs to be careful when
collapsing a shmem range would result in replacing an empty page with a
THP, to avoid breaking userfaultfd.
Synchronization when checking for userfaultfds in collapse_file is tricky
because the mmap locks can't be used to prevent races with the
registration of new userfaultfds. Instead, we provide synchronization by
ensuring that userspace cannot observe the fact that pages are missing
before we check for userfaultfds. Although this allows registration of a
userfaultfd to race with collapse_file, it ensures that userspace cannot
observe any pages transition from missing to present after such a race
occurs. This makes such a race indistinguishable to the collapse
occurring immediately before the userfaultfd registration.
The first step to provide this synchronization is to stop filling gaps
during the loop iterating over the target range, since the page cache lock
can be dropped during that loop. The second step is to fill the gaps with
XA_RETRY_ENTRY after the page cache lock is acquired the final time, to
avoid races with accesses to the page cache that only take the RCU read
lock.
The fact that we don't fill holes during the initial iteration means that
collapse_file now has to handle faults occurring during the collapse.
This is done by re-validating the number of missing pages after acquiring
the page cache lock for the final time.
This fix is targeted at khugepaged, but the change also applies to
MADV_COLLAPSE. MADV_COLLAPSE on a range with a userfaultfd will now
return EBUSY if there are any missing pages (instead of succeeding on
shmem and returning EINVAL on anonymous memory). There is also now a
window during MADV_COLLAPSE where a fault on a missing page will cause the
syscall to fail with EAGAIN.
The fact that intermediate page cache state can no longer be observed
before the rollback of a failed collapse is also technically a
userspace-visible change (via at least SEEK_DATA and SEEK_END), but it is
exceedingly unlikely that anything relies on being able to observe that
transient state.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230404120117.2562166-4-stevensd@google.com
Signed-off-by: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Problem
=======
Memory DIMMs are subject to multi-bit flips, i.e. memory errors. As
memory size and density increase, the chances of and number of memory
errors increase. The increasing size and density of server RAM in the
data center and cloud have shown increased uncorrectable memory errors.
There are already mechanisms in the kernel to recover from uncorrectable
memory errors. This series of patches provides the recovery mechanism for
the particular kernel agent khugepaged when it collapses memory pages.
Impact
======
The main reason we chose to make khugepaged collapsing tolerant of memory
failures was its high possibility of accessing poisoned memory while
performing functionally optional compaction actions. Standard
applications typically don't have strict requirements on the size of its
pages. So they are given 4K pages by the kernel. The kernel is able to
improve application performance by either
1) giving applications 2M pages to begin with, or
2) collapsing 4K pages into 2M pages when possible.
This collapsing operation is done by khugepaged, a kernel agent that is
constantly scanning memory. When collapsing 4K pages into a 2M page, it
must copy the data from the 4K pages into a physically contiguous 2M page.
Therefore, as long as there exists one poisoned cache line in collapsible
4K pages, khugepaged will eventually access it. The current impact to
users is a machine check exception triggered kernel panic. However,
khugepaged’s compaction operations are not functionally required kernel
actions. Therefore making khugepaged tolerant to poisoned memory will
greatly improve user experience.
This patch series is for cases where khugepaged is the first guy that
detects the memory errors on the poisoned pages. IOW, the pages are not
known to have memory errors when khugepaged collapsing gets to them. In
our observation, this happens frequently when the huge page ratio of the
system is relatively low, which is fairly common in virtual machines
running on cloud.
Solution
========
As stated before, it is less desirable to crash the system only because
khugepaged accesses poisoned pages while it is collapsing 4K pages. The
high level idea of this patch series is to skip the group of pages
(usually 512 4K-size pages) once khugepaged finds one of them is poisoned,
as these pages have become ineligible to be collapsed.
We are also careful to unwind operations khuagepaged has performed before
it detects memory failures. For example, before copying and collapsing a
group of anonymous pages into a huge page, the source pages will be
isolated and their page table is unlinked from their PMD. These
operations need to be undone in order to ensure these pages are not
changed/lost from the perspective of other threads (both user and kernel
space). As for file backed memory pages, there already exists a rollback
case. This patch just extends it so that khugepaged also correctly rolls
back when it fails to copy poisoned 4K pages.
This patch (of 3):
Make __collapse_huge_page_copy return whether copying anonymous pages
succeeded, and make collapse_huge_page handle the return status.
Break existing PTE scan loop into two for-loops. The first loop copies
source pages into target huge page, and can fail gracefully when running
into memory errors in source pages. If copying all pages succeeds, the
second loop releases and clears up these normal pages. Otherwise, the
second loop rolls back the page table and page states by:
- re-establishing the original PTEs-to-PMD connection.
- releasing source pages back to their LRU list.
Tested manually:
0. Enable khugepaged on system under test.
1. Start a two-thread application. Each thread allocates a chunk of
non-huge anonymous memory buffer.
2. Pick 4 random buffer locations (2 in each thread) and inject
uncorrectable memory errors at corresponding physical addresses.
3. Signal both threads to make their memory buffer collapsible, i.e.
calling madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE).
4. Wait and check kernel log: khugepaged is able to recover from poisoned
pages and skips collapsing them.
5. Signal both threads to inspect their buffer contents and make sure no
data corruption.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230329151121.949896-1-jiaqiyan@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230329151121.949896-2-jiaqiyan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, all contexts that flush memcg stats do so with sleeping not
allowed. Some of these contexts are perfectly safe to sleep in, such as
reading cgroup files from userspace or the background periodic flusher.
Flushing is an expensive operation that scales with the number of cpus and
the number of cgroups in the system, so avoid doing it atomically where
possible.
Refactor the code to make mem_cgroup_flush_stats() non-atomic (aka
sleepable), and provide a separate atomic version. The atomic version is
used in reclaim, refault, writeback, and in mem_cgroup_usage(). All other
code paths are left to use the non-atomic version. This includes
callbacks for userspace reads and the periodic flusher.
Since refault is the only caller of mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(),
change it to mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited(). Reclaim and
refault code paths are modified to do non-atomic flushing in separate
later patches -- so it will eventually be changed back to
mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-6-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "memcg: avoid flushing stats atomically where possible", v3.
rstat flushing is an expensive operation that scales with the number of
cpus and the number of cgroups in the system. The purpose of this series
is to minimize the contexts where we flush stats atomically.
Patches 1 and 2 are cleanups requested during reviews of prior versions of
this series.
Patch 3 makes sure we never try to flush from within an irq context.
Patches 4 to 7 introduce separate variants of mem_cgroup_flush_stats() for
atomic and non-atomic flushing, and make sure we only flush the stats
atomically when necessary.
Patch 8 is a slightly tangential optimization that limits the work done by
rstat flushing in some scenarios.
This patch (of 8):
cgroup_rstat_flush_irqsafe() can be a confusing name. It may read as
"irqs are disabled throughout", which is what the current implementation
does (currently under discussion [1]), but is not the intention. The
intention is that this function is safe to call from atomic contexts.
Name it as such.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-2-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "memcg, cpuisol: do not interfere pcp cache charges draining
with cpuisol workloads".
Leonardo has reported [1] that pcp memcg charge draining can interfere
with cpu isolated workloads. The said draining is done from a WQ context
with a pcp worker scheduled on each CPU which holds any cached charges for
a specific memcg hierarchy. Operation is not really a common operation
[2]. It can be triggered from the userspace though so some care is
definitely due.
Leonardo has tried to address the issue by allowing remote charge draining
[3]. This approach requires an additional locking to synchronize pcp
caches sync from a remote cpu from local pcp consumers. Even though the
proposed lock was per-cpu there is still potential for contention and less
predictable behavior.
This patchset addresses the issue from a different angle. Rather than
dealing with a potential synchronization, cpus which are isolated are
simply never scheduled to be drained. This means that a small amount of
charges could be laying around and waiting for a later use or they are
flushed when a different memcg is charged from the same cpu. More details
are in patch 2. The first patch from Frederic is implementing an
abstraction to tell whether a specific cpu has been isolated and therefore
require a special treatment.
This patch (of 2):
Provide this new API to check if a CPU has been isolated either through
isolcpus= or nohz_full= kernel parameter.
It aims at avoiding kernel load deemed to be safely spared on CPUs running
sensitive workload that can't bear any disturbance, such as pcp cache
draining.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230317134448.11082-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230317134448.11082-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
clang produces a build failure on x86 for some randconfig builds after a
change that moves around code to mm/mm_init.c:
Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
mm/mm_init.o: failed
I have not been able to figure out why this happens, but the __weak
annotation on arch_has_descending_max_zone_pfns() is the trigger here.
Removing the weak function in favor of an open-coded Kconfig option check
avoids the problem and becomes clearer as well as better to optimize by
the compiler.
[arnd@arndb.de: fix logic bug]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230415081904.969049-1-arnd@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414080418.110236-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 9420f89db2 ("mm: move most of core MM initialization to mm/mm_init.c")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
During Numa scanning make sure only relevant vmas of the tasks are
scanned.
Before:
All the tasks of a process participate in scanning the vma even if they
do not access vma in it's lifespan.
Now:
Except cases of first few unconditional scans, if a process do
not touch vma (exluding false positive cases of PID collisions)
tasks no longer scan all vma
Logic used:
1) 6 bits of PID used to mark active bit in vma numab status during
fault to remember PIDs accessing vma. (Thanks Mel)
2) Subsequently in scan path, vma scanning is skipped if current PID
had not accessed vma.
3) First two times we do allow unconditional scan to preserve earlier
behaviour of scanning.
Acknowledgement to Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> for initial patch to
store pid information and Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> (Usage of
test and set bit)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/092f03105c7c1d3450f4636b1ea350407f07640e.1677672277.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Disha Talreja <dishaa.talreja@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pach series "sched/numa: Enhance vma scanning", v3.
The patchset proposes one of the enhancements to numa vma scanning
suggested by Mel. This is continuation of [3].
Reposting the rebased patchset to akpm mm-unstable tree (March 1)
Existing mechanism of scan period involves, scan period derived from
per-thread stats. Process Adaptive autoNUMA [1] proposed to gather NUMA
fault stats at per-process level to capture aplication behaviour better.
During that course of discussion, Mel proposed several ideas to enhance
current numa balancing. One of the suggestion was below
Track what threads access a VMA. The suggestion was to use an unsigned
long pid_mask and use the lower bits to tag approximately what threads
access a VMA. Skip VMAs that did not trap a fault. This would be
approximate because of PID collisions but would reduce scanning of areas
the thread is not interested in. The above suggestion intends not to
penalize threads that has no interest in the vma, thus reduce scanning
overhead.
V3 changes are mostly based on PeterZ comments (details below in changes)
Summary of patchset:
Current patchset implements:
1. Delay the vma scanning logic for newly created VMA's so that
additional overhead of scanning is not incurred for short lived tasks
(implementation by Mel)
2. Store the information of tasks accessing VMA in 2 windows. It is
regularly cleared in (4*sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay) interval.
The above time is derived from experimenting (Suggested by PeterZ) to
balance between frequent clearing vs obsolete access data
3. hash_32 used to encode task index accessing VMA information
4. VMA's acess information is used to skip scanning for the tasks
which had not accessed VMA
Changes since V2:
patch1:
- Renaming of structure, macro to function,
- Add explanation to heuristics
- Adding more details from result (PeterZ)
Patch2:
- Usage of test and set bit (PeterZ)
- Move storing access PID info to numa_migrate_prep()
- Add a note on fainess among tasks allowed to scan
(PeterZ)
Patch3:
- Maintain two windows of access PID information
(PeterZ supported implementation and Gave idea to extend
to N if needed)
Patch4:
- Apply hash_32 function to track VMA accessing PIDs (PeterZ)
Changes since RFC V1:
- Include Mel's vma scan delay patch
- Change the accessing pid store logic (Thanks Mel)
- Fencing structure / code to NUMA_BALANCING (David, Mel)
- Adding clearing access PID logic (Mel)
- Descriptive change log ( Mike Rapoport)
Things to ponder over:
==========================================
- Improvement to clearing accessing PIDs logic (discussed in-detail in
patch3 itself (Done in this patchset by implementing 2 window history)
- Current scan period is not changed in the patchset, so we do see
frequent tries to scan. Relaxing scan period dynamically could improve
results further.
[1] sched/numa: Process Adaptive autoNUMA
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220128052851.17162-1-bharata@amd.com/T/
[2] RFC V1 Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1673610485.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com/
[3] V2 Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1675159422.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com/
Results:
Summary: Huge autonuma cost reduction seen in mmtest. Kernbench improvement
is more than 5% and huge system time (80%+) improvement from mmtest autonuma.
(dbench had huge std deviation to post)
kernbench
===========
6.2.0-mmunstable-base 6.2.0-mmunstable-patched
Amean user-256 22002.51 ( 0.00%) 22649.95 * -2.94%*
Amean syst-256 10162.78 ( 0.00%) 8214.13 * 19.17%*
Amean elsp-256 160.74 ( 0.00%) 156.92 * 2.38%*
Duration User 66017.43 67959.84
Duration System 30503.15 24657.03
Duration Elapsed 504.61 493.12
6.2.0-mmunstable-base 6.2.0-mmunstable-patched
Ops NUMA alloc hit 1738835089.00 1738780310.00
Ops NUMA alloc local 1738834448.00 1738779711.00
Ops NUMA base-page range updates 477310.00 392566.00
Ops NUMA PTE updates 477310.00 392566.00
Ops NUMA hint faults 96817.00 87555.00
Ops NUMA hint local faults % 10150.00 2192.00
Ops NUMA hint local percent 10.48 2.50
Ops NUMA pages migrated 86660.00 85363.00
Ops AutoNUMA cost 489.07 442.14
autonumabench
===============
6.2.0-mmunstable-base 6.2.0-mmunstable-patched
Amean syst-NUMA01 399.50 ( 0.00%) 52.05 * 86.97%*
Amean syst-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 0.21 ( 0.00%) 0.22 * -5.41%*
Amean syst-NUMA02 0.80 ( 0.00%) 0.78 * 2.68%*
Amean syst-NUMA02_SMT 0.65 ( 0.00%) 0.68 * -3.95%*
Amean elsp-NUMA01 313.26 ( 0.00%) 313.11 * 0.05%*
Amean elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 1.06 ( 0.00%) 1.08 * -1.76%*
Amean elsp-NUMA02 3.19 ( 0.00%) 3.24 * -1.52%*
Amean elsp-NUMA02_SMT 3.72 ( 0.00%) 3.61 * 2.92%*
Duration User 396433.47 324835.96
Duration System 2808.70 376.66
Duration Elapsed 2258.61 2258.12
6.2.0-mmunstable-base 6.2.0-mmunstable-patched
Ops NUMA alloc hit 59921806.00 49623489.00
Ops NUMA alloc miss 0.00 0.00
Ops NUMA interleave hit 0.00 0.00
Ops NUMA alloc local 59920880.00 49622594.00
Ops NUMA base-page range updates 152259275.00 50075.00
Ops NUMA PTE updates 152259275.00 50075.00
Ops NUMA PMD updates 0.00 0.00
Ops NUMA hint faults 154660352.00 39014.00
Ops NUMA hint local faults % 138550501.00 23139.00
Ops NUMA hint local percent 89.58 59.31
Ops NUMA pages migrated 8179067.00 14147.00
Ops AutoNUMA cost 774522.98 195.69
This patch (of 4):
Currently whenever a new task is created we wait for
sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay to avoid unnessary scanning overhead.
Extend the same logic to new or very short-lived VMAs.
[raghavendra.kt@amd.com: add initialization in vm_area_dup())]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1677672277.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7a6fbba87c8b51e67efd3e74285bb4cb311a16ca.1677672277.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Disha Talreja <dishaa.talreja@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
vma->lock being part of the vm_area_struct causes performance regression
during page faults because during contention its count and owner fields
are constantly updated and having other parts of vm_area_struct used
during page fault handling next to them causes constant cache line
bouncing. Fix that by moving the lock outside of the vm_area_struct.
All attempts to keep vma->lock inside vm_area_struct in a separate cache
line still produce performance regression especially on NUMA machines.
Smallest regression was achieved when lock is placed in the fourth cache
line but that bloats vm_area_struct to 256 bytes.
Considering performance and memory impact, separate lock looks like the
best option. It increases memory footprint of each VMA but that can be
optimized later if the new size causes issues. Note that after this
change vma_init() does not allocate or initialize vma->lock anymore. A
number of drivers allocate a pseudo VMA on the stack but they never use
the VMA's lock, therefore it does not need to be allocated. The future
drivers which might need the VMA lock should use
vm_area_alloc()/vm_area_free() to allocate the VMA.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-34-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
call_rcu() can take a long time when callback offloading is enabled. Its
use in the vm_area_free can cause regressions in the exit path when
multiple VMAs are being freed.
Because exit_mmap() is called only after the last mm user drops its
refcount, the page fault handlers can't be racing with it. Any other
possible user like oom-reaper or process_mrelease are already synchronized
using mmap_lock. Therefore exit_mmap() can free VMAs directly, without
the use of call_rcu().
Expose __vm_area_free() and use it from exit_mmap() to avoid possible
call_rcu() floods and performance regressions caused by it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-33-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce lock_vma_under_rcu function to lookup and lock a VMA during page
fault handling. When VMA is not found, can't be locked or changes after
being locked, the function returns NULL. The lookup is performed under
RCU protection to prevent the found VMA from being destroyed before the
VMA lock is acquired. VMA lock statistics are updated according to the
results. For now only anonymous VMAs can be searched this way. In other
cases the function returns NULL.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-24-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Per-vma locking mechanism will search for VMA under RCU protection and
then after locking it, has to ensure it was not removed from the VMA tree
after we found it. To make this check efficient, introduce a
vma->detached flag to mark VMAs which were removed from the VMA tree.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-23-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Protect VMA from concurrent page fault handler while collapsing a huge
page. Page fault handler needs a stable PMD to use PTL and relies on
per-VMA lock to prevent concurrent PMD changes. pmdp_collapse_flush(),
set_huge_pmd() and collapse_and_free_pmd() can modify a PMD, which will
not be detected by a page fault handler without proper locking.
Before this patch, page tables can be walked under any one of the
mmap_lock, the mapping lock, and the anon_vma lock; so when khugepaged
unlinks and frees page tables, it must ensure that all of those either are
locked or don't exist. This patch adds a fourth lock under which page
tables can be traversed, and so khugepaged must also lock out that one.
[surenb@google.com: vm_lock/i_mmap_rwsem inversion in retract_page_tables]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230303213250.3555716-1-surenb@google.com
[surenb@google.com: build fix]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJuCfpFjWhtzRE1X=J+_JjgJzNKhq-=JT8yTBSTHthwp0pqWZw@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-16-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce per-VMA locking. The lock implementation relies on a per-vma
and per-mm sequence counters to note exclusive locking:
- read lock - (implemented by vma_start_read) requires the vma
(vm_lock_seq) and mm (mm_lock_seq) sequence counters to differ.
If they match then there must be a vma exclusive lock held somewhere.
- read unlock - (implemented by vma_end_read) is a trivial vma->lock
unlock.
- write lock - (vma_start_write) requires the mmap_lock to be held
exclusively and the current mm counter is assigned to the vma counter.
This will allow multiple vmas to be locked under a single mmap_lock
write lock (e.g. during vma merging). The vma counter is modified
under exclusive vma lock.
- write unlock - (vma_end_write_all) is a batch release of all vma
locks held. It doesn't pair with a specific vma_start_write! It is
done before exclusive mmap_lock is released by incrementing mm
sequence counter (mm_lock_seq).
- write downgrade - if the mmap_lock is downgraded to the read lock, all
vma write locks are released as well (effectivelly same as write
unlock).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-13-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Provide a means to copy a page to user space from an iterator, aborting if
a page fault would occur. This supports compound pages, but may be passed
a tail page with an offset extending further into the compound page, so we
cannot pass a folio.
This allows for this function to be called from atomic context and _try_
to user pages if they are faulted in, aborting if not.
The function does not use _copy_to_iter() in order to not specify
might_fault(), this is similar to copy_page_from_iter_atomic().
This is being added in order that an iteratable form of vread() can be
implemented while holding spinlocks.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/19734729defb0f498a76bdec1bef3ac48a3af3e8.1679511146.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently the memtest results were only presented in dmesg.
When running a large fleet of devices without ECC RAM it's currently not
easy to do bulk monitoring for memory corruption. You have to parse
dmesg, but that's a ring buffer so the error might disappear after some
time. In general I do not consider dmesg to be a great API to query RAM
status.
In several companies I've seen such errors remain undetected and cause
issues for way too long. So I think it makes sense to provide a
monitoring API, so that we can safely detect and act upon them.
This adds /proc/meminfo entry which can be easily used by scripts.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321103430.7130-1-tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
