Commit 19eaf44954 adds multi-size THP (mTHP) for anonymous pages, that
can allow THP to be configured through the sysfs interface located at
'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepage-XXkb/enabled'.
However, the anonymous shmem will ignore the anonymous mTHP rule
configured through the sysfs interface, and can only use the PMD-mapped
THP, that is not reasonable. Users expect to apply the mTHP rule for all
anonymous pages, including the anonymous shmem, in order to enjoy the
benefits of mTHP. For example, lower latency than PMD-mapped THP, smaller
memory bloat than PMD-mapped THP, contiguous PTEs on ARM architecture to
reduce TLB miss etc. In addition, the mTHP interfaces can be extended to
support all shmem/tmpfs scenarios in the future, especially for the shmem
mmap() case.
The primary strategy is similar to supporting anonymous mTHP. Introduce a
new interface '/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepage-XXkb/shmem_enabled',
which can have almost the same values as the top-level
'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled', with adding a new
additional "inherit" option and dropping the testing options 'force' and
'deny'. By default all sizes will be set to "never" except PMD size,
which is set to "inherit". This ensures backward compatibility with the
anonymous shmem enabled of the top level, meanwhile also allows
independent control of anonymous shmem enabled for each mTHP.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/65796c1e72e51e15f3410195b5c2d5b6c160d411.1718090413.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "add mTHP support for anonymous shmem", v5.
Anonymous pages have already been supported for multi-size (mTHP)
allocation through commit 19eaf44954, that can allow THP to be
configured through the sysfs interface located at
'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepage-XXkb/enabled'.
However, the anonymous shmem will ignore the anonymous mTHP rule
configured through the sysfs interface, and can only use the PMD-mapped
THP, that is not reasonable. Many implement anonymous page sharing
through mmap(MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS), especially in database usage
scenarios, therefore, users expect to apply an unified mTHP strategy for
anonymous pages, also including the anonymous shared pages, in order to
enjoy the benefits of mTHP. For example, lower latency than PMD-mapped
THP, smaller memory bloat than PMD-mapped THP, contiguous PTEs on ARM
architecture to reduce TLB miss etc.
As discussed in the bi-weekly MM meeting[1], the mTHP controls should
control all of shmem, not only anonymous shmem, but support will be added
iteratively. Therefore, this patch set starts with support for anonymous
shmem.
The primary strategy is similar to supporting anonymous mTHP. Introduce a
new interface '/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepage-XXkb/shmem_enabled',
which can have almost the same values as the top-level
'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled', with adding a new
additional "inherit" option and dropping the testing options 'force' and
'deny'. By default all sizes will be set to "never" except PMD size,
which is set to "inherit". This ensures backward compatibility with the
anonymous shmem enabled of the top level, meanwhile also allows
independent control of anonymous shmem enabled for each mTHP.
Use the page fault latency tool to measure the performance of 1G anonymous shmem
with 32 threads on my machine environment with: ARM64 Architecture, 32 cores,
125G memory:
base: mm-unstable
user-time sys_time faults_per_sec_per_cpu faults_per_sec
0.04s 3.10s 83516.416 2669684.890
mm-unstable + patchset, anon shmem mTHP disabled
user-time sys_time faults_per_sec_per_cpu faults_per_sec
0.02s 3.14s 82936.359 2630746.027
mm-unstable + patchset, anon shmem 64K mTHP enabled
user-time sys_time faults_per_sec_per_cpu faults_per_sec
0.08s 0.31s 678630.231 17082522.495
From the data above, it is observed that the patchset has a minimal impact
when mTHP is not enabled (some fluctuations observed during testing).
When enabling 64K mTHP, there is a significant improvement of the page
fault latency.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/f1783ff0-65bd-4b2b-8952-52b6822a0835@redhat.com/
This patch (of 6):
Add large folio mapping establishment support for finish_fault() as a
preparation, to support multi-size THP allocation of anonymous shmem pages
in the following patches.
Keep the same behavior (per-page fault) for non-anon shmem to avoid
inflating the RSS unintentionally, and we can discuss what size of mapping
to build when extending mTHP to control non-anon shmem in the future.
[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: avoid going beyond the PMD pagetable size]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b0e6a8b1-a32c-459e-ae67-fde5d28773e6@linux.alibaba.com
[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: use 'PTRS_PER_PTE' instead of 'PTRS_PER_PTE - 1']
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e1f5767a-2c9b-4e37-afe6-1de26fe54e41@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1718090413.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a190892355989d42f59cf9f2f98b94694b0d24d.1718090413.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm,swap: cleanup VMA based swap readahead window
calculation".
When VMA based swap readahead is introduced in commit ec560175c0 ("mm,
swap: VMA based swap readahead"), "struct vma_swap_readahead" is defined
to describe the readahead window. Because we wanted to save the PTE
entries in the struct at that time. But after commit 4f8fcf4ced
("mm/swap: swap_vma_readahead() do the pte_offset_map()"), we no longer
save PTE entries in the struct. The size of the struct becomes so small,
that it's better to use the fields of the struct directly. This can
simplify the code to improve the code readability. The line number of
source code reduces too.
A theoretical underflow issue and some related code cleanup is done in the
series too.
This patch (of 3):
In swap readahead window calculation, if the fault PFN is smaller than the
readahead window size, underflow may occurs. This is only possible in
theory, because the start of the virtual address space will not be used
for anonymous pages in practice. Even if underflow occurs, there will be
no functional bugs. In the worst cases, some swap entries may be swapped
in incorrectly and some pages may be allocate on the wrong nodes.
Anyway, we still needs to fix the issue via some underflow checking.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240531081230.310128-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240531081230.310128-2-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: ec560175c0 ("mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Kernel test robot reported [1] performance regression for will-it-scale
test suite's page_fault2 test case for the commit 70a64b7919 ("memcg:
dynamically allocate lruvec_stats"). After inspection it seems like the
commit has unintentionally introduced false cache sharing.
After the commit the fields of mem_cgroup_per_node which get read on the
performance critical path share the cacheline with the fields which get
updated often on LRU page allocations or deallocations. This has caused
contention on that cacheline and the workloads which manipulates a lot of
LRU pages are regressed as reported by the test report.
The solution is to rearrange the fields of mem_cgroup_per_node such that
the false sharing is eliminated. Let's move all the read only pointers at
the start of the struct, followed by memcg-v1 only fields and at the end
fields which get updated often.
Experiment setup: Ran fallocate1, fallocate2, page_fault1, page_fault2 and
page_fault3 from the will-it-scale test suite inside a three level memcg
with /tmp mounted as tmpfs on two different machines, one a single numa
node and the other one, two node machine.
$ ./[testcase]_processes -t $NR_CPUS -s 50
Results for single node, 52 CPU machine:
Testcase base with-patch
fallocate1 1031081 1431291 (38.80 %)
fallocate2 1029993 1421421 (38.00 %)
page_fault1 2269440 3405788 (50.07 %)
page_fault2 2375799 3572868 (50.30 %)
page_fault3 28641143 28673950 ( 0.11 %)
Results for dual node, 80 CPU machine:
Testcase base with-patch
fallocate1 2976288 3641185 (22.33 %)
fallocate2 2979366 3638181 (22.11 %)
page_fault1 6221790 7748245 (24.53 %)
page_fault2 6482854 7847698 (21.05 %)
page_fault3 28804324 28991870 ( 0.65 %)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240528164050.2625718-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Fixes: 70a64b7919 ("memcg: dynamically allocate lruvec_stats")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 1b151e2435 ("block: Remove special-casing of compound pages")
caused a change in behaviour when releasing the pages if the buffer does
not start at the beginning of the page. This was because the calculation
of the number of pages to release was incorrect. This was fixed by commit
38b43539d6 ("block: Fix page refcounts for unaligned buffers in
__bio_release_pages()").
We pin the user buffer during direct I/O writes. If this buffer is a
hugepage, bio_release_page() will unpin it and decrement all references
and pin counts at ->bi_end_io. However, if any references to the hugepage
remain post-I/O, the hugepage will not be freed upon unmap, leading to a
memory leak.
This patch verifies that a hugepage, used as a user buffer for DIO
operations, is correctly freed upon unmapping, regardless of whether the
offsets are aligned or unaligned w.r.t page boundary.
Test Result Fail Scenario (Without the fix)
--------------------------------------------------------
[]# ./hugetlb_dio
TAP version 13
1..4
No. Free pages before allocation : 7
No. Free pages after munmap : 7
ok 1 : Huge pages freed successfully !
No. Free pages before allocation : 7
No. Free pages after munmap : 7
ok 2 : Huge pages freed successfully !
No. Free pages before allocation : 7
No. Free pages after munmap : 7
ok 3 : Huge pages freed successfully !
No. Free pages before allocation : 7
No. Free pages after munmap : 6
not ok 4 : Huge pages not freed!
Totals: pass:3 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
Test Result PASS Scenario (With the fix)
---------------------------------------------------------
[]#./hugetlb_dio
TAP version 13
1..4
No. Free pages before allocation : 7
No. Free pages after munmap : 7
ok 1 : Huge pages freed successfully !
No. Free pages before allocation : 7
No. Free pages after munmap : 7
ok 2 : Huge pages freed successfully !
No. Free pages before allocation : 7
No. Free pages after munmap : 7
ok 3 : Huge pages freed successfully !
No. Free pages before allocation : 7
No. Free pages after munmap : 7
ok 4 : Huge pages freed successfully !
Totals: pass:4 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
[donettom@linux.ibm.com: address review comments from Muhammad]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240604132801.23377-1-donettom@linux.ibm.com
[donettom@linux.ibm.com: add this test to run_vmtests.sh]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240607182000.6494-1-donettom@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240523063905.3173-1-donettom@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 38b43539d6 ("block: Fix page refcounts for unaligned buffers in __bio_release_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Execs of dynamically linked binaries at 20-ish cores are bottlenecked on
the i_mmap_rwsem semaphore, while the biggest singular contributor is
free_pgd_range inducing the lock acquire back-to-back for all consecutive
mappings of a given file.
Tracing the count of said acquires while building the kernel shows:
[1, 2) 799579 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[2, 3) 0 | |
[3, 4) 3009 | |
[4, 5) 3009 | |
[5, 6) 326442 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
So in particular there were 326442 opportunities to coalesce 5 acquires
into 1.
Doing so increases execs per second by 4% (~50k to ~52k) when running
the benchmark linked below.
The lock remains the main bottleneck, I have not looked at other spots
yet.
Bench can be found here:
http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/doexec.c
$ cc -O2 -o shared-doexec doexec.c
$ ./shared-doexec $(nproc)
Note this particular test makes sure binaries are separate, but the
loader is shared.
Stats collected on the patched kernel (+ "noinline") with:
bpftrace -e 'kprobe:unlink_file_vma_batch_process
{ @ = lhist(((struct unlink_vma_file_batch *)arg0)->count, 0, 8, 1); }'
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240521234321.359501-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The soft hwpoison injector via madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) operates in a
synchrous way in a sense, the injector is also a process under test, and
should it have the poisoned page mapped in its address space, it should
get killed as much as in a real UE situation. Doing so align with what
the madvise(2) man page says: " "This operation may result in the calling
process receiving a SIGBUS and the page being unmapped."
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524215306.2705454-3-jane.chu@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <oalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Enhance soft hwpoison handling and injection", v4.
This series is aimed at the following enhancements:
- Let one hwpoison injector, that is, madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) to behave
more like as if a real UE occurred. Because the other two injectors
such as hwpoison-inject and the 'einj' on x86 can't, and it seems to me
we need a better simulation to real UE scenario.
- For years, if the kernel is unable to unmap a hwpoisoned page, it send
a SIGKILL instead of SIGBUS to prevent user process from potentially
accessing the page again. But in doing so, the user process also lose
important information: vaddr, for recovery. Fortunately, the kernel
already has code to kill process re-accessing a hwpoisoned page, so
remove the '!unmap_success' check.
- Right now, if a thp page under GUP longterm pin is hwpoisoned, and
kernel cannot split the thp page, memory-failure simply ignores the UE
and returns. That's not ideal, it could deliver a SIGBUS with useful
information for userspace recovery.
This patch (of 5):
For years when it comes down to kill a process due to hwpoison, a SIGBUS
is delivered only if unmap has been successful. Otherwise, a SIGKILL is
delivered. And the reason for that is to prevent the involved process
from accessing the hwpoisoned page again.
Since then a lot has changed, a hwpoisoned page is marked and upon being
re-accessed, the memory-failure handler invokes kill_accessing_process()
to kill the process immediately. So let's take out the '!unmap_success'
factor and try to deliver SIGBUS if possible.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524215306.2705454-1-jane.chu@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524215306.2705454-2-jane.chu@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <oalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
