Commit f56ce412a5 ("mm: memcontrol: fix occasional OOMs due to
proportional memory.low reclaim") introduced a divide by zero corner
case when oomd is being used in combination with cgroup memory.low
protection.
When oomd decides to kill a cgroup, it will force the cgroup memory to
be reclaimed after killing the tasks, by writing to the memory.max file
for that cgroup, forcing the remaining page cache and reclaimable slab
to be reclaimed down to zero.
Previously, on cgroups with some memory.low protection that would result
in the memory being reclaimed down to the memory.low limit, or likely
not at all, having the page cache reclaimed asynchronously later.
With f56ce412a5 the oomd write to memory.max tries to reclaim all the
way down to zero, which may race with another reclaimer, to the point of
ending up with the divide by zero below.
This patch implements the obvious fix.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210826220149.058089c6@imladris.surriel.com
Fixes: f56ce412a5 ("mm: memcontrol: fix occasional OOMs due to proportional memory.low reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drop_slab_node() is called as part of echo 2>/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
operation. It iterates over all memcgs and calls shrink_slab() which in
turn iterates over all slab shrinkers. Freed objects are counted and as
long as the total number of freed objects from all memcgs and shrinkers is
higher than 10, drop_slab_node() loops for another full memcgs*shrinkers
iteration.
This arbitrary constant threshold of 10 can result in effectively an
infinite loop on a system with large number of memcgs and/or parallel
activity that allocates new objects. This has been reported previously by
Chunxin Zang [1] and recently by our customer.
The previous report [1] has resulted in commit 069c411de4 ("mm/vmscan:
fix infinite loop in drop_slab_node") which added a check for signals
allowing the user to terminate the command writing to drop_caches. At the
time it was also considered to make the threshold grow with each iteration
to guarantee termination, but such patch hasn't been formally proposed
yet.
This patch implements the dynamically growing threshold. At first
iteration it's enough to free one object to continue, and this threshold
effectively doubles with each iteration. Our customer's feedback was
positive.
There is always a risk that this change will result on some system in a
previously terminating drop_caches operation to terminate sooner and free
fewer objects. Ideally the semantics would guarantee freeing all freeable
objects that existed at the moment of starting the operation, while not
looping forever for newly allocated objects, but that's not feasible to
track. In the less ideal solution based on thresholds, arguably the
termination guarantee is more important than the exhaustiveness guarantee.
If there are reports of large regression wrt being exhaustive, we can
tune how fast the threshold grows.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200909152047.27905-1-zangchunxin@bytedance.com/T/#u
[vbabka@suse.cz: avoid undefined shift behaviour]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2f034e6f-a753-550a-f374-e4e23899d3d5@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818152239.25502-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@bytedance.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some method is obviously needed to enable reclaim-based migration.
Just like traditional autonuma, there will be some workloads that will
benefit like workloads with more "static" configurations where hot pages
stay hot and cold pages stay cold. If pages come and go from the hot and
cold sets, the benefits of this approach will be more limited.
The benefits are truly workload-based and *not* hardware-based. We do not
believe that there is a viable threshold where certain hardware
configurations should have this mechanism enabled while others do not.
To be conservative, earlier work defaulted to disable reclaim- based
migration and did not include a mechanism to enable it. This proposes add
a new sysfs file
/sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
as a method to enable it.
We are open to any alternative that allows end users to enable this
mechanism or disable it if workload harm is detected (just like
traditional autonuma).
Once this is enabled page demotion may move data to a NUMA node that does
not fall into the cpuset of the allocating process. This could be
construed to violate the guarantees of cpusets. However, since this is an
opt-in mechanism, the assumption is that anyone enabling it is content to
relax the guarantees.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-9-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-10-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Originally-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At the moment memcg stats are read in four contexts:
1. memcg stat user interfaces
2. dirty throttling
3. page fault
4. memory reclaim
Currently the kernel flushes the stats for first two cases. Flushing the
stats for remaining two casese may have performance impact. Always
flushing the memcg stats on the page fault code path may negatively
impacts the performance of the applications. In addition flushing in the
memory reclaim code path, though treated as slowpath, can become the
source of contention for the global lock taken for stat flushing because
when system or memcg is under memory pressure, many tasks may enter the
reclaim path.
This patch uses following mechanisms to solve these challenges:
1. Periodically flush the stats from root memcg every 2 seconds. This
will time limit the out of sync stats.
2. Asynchronously flush the stats after fixed number of stat updates.
In the worst case the stat can be out of sync by O(nr_cpus * BATCH) for
2 seconds.
3. For avoiding thundering herd to flush the stats particularly from
the memory reclaim context, introduce memcg local spinlock and let only
one flusher active at a time. This could have been done through
cgroup_rstat_lock lock but that lock is used by other subsystem and for
userspace reading memcg stats. So, it is better to keep flushers
introduced by this patch decoupled from cgroup_rstat_lock. However we
would have to use irqsafe version of rstat flush but that is fine as
this code path will be flushing for whole tree and do the work for
everyone. No one will be waiting for that worker.
[shakeelb@google.com: fix sleep-in-wrong context bug]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716212137.1391164-2-shakeelb@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714013948.270662-2-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A recent lockdep report included these lines:
[ 96.177910] 3 locks held by containerd/770:
[ 96.177934] #0: ffff88810815ea28 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{3:3},
at: do_user_addr_fault+0x115/0x770
[ 96.177999] #1: ffffffff82915020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at:
get_swap_device+0x33/0x140
[ 96.178057] #2: ffffffff82955ba0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at:
__fs_reclaim_acquire+0x5/0x30
While it was not useful to that bug report to know where the reclaim lock
had been acquired, it might be useful under other circumstances. Allow
the caller of __fs_reclaim_acquire to specify the instruction pointer to
use.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210719185709.1755149-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While unplugging a device the TTM shrinker implementation
needs a barrier to make sure that all concurrent shrink
operations are done and no other CPU is referring to a
device specific pool any more.
Taking and releasing the shrinker semaphore on the write
side after unmapping and freeing all pages from the device
pool should make sure that no shrinker is running in
paralell.
This allows us to avoid the contented mutex in the TTM pool
implementation for every alloc/free operation.
v2: rework the commit message to make clear why we need this
v3: rename the function and add more doc as suggested by Daniel
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210820120528.81114-2-christian.koenig@amd.com
In a debugging session the other day, Rik noticed that node_reclaim()
was missing memstall annotations. This means we'll miss pressure and
lost productivity resulting from reclaim on an overloaded local NUMA
node when vm.zone_reclaim_mode is enabled.
There haven't been any reports, but that's likely because
vm.zone_reclaim_mode hasn't been a commonly used feature recently, and
the intersection between such setups and psi users is probably nil.
But secondary memory such as CXL-connected DIMMS, persistent memory etc,
and the page demotion patches that handle them
(https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210401183216.443C4443@viggo.jf.intel.com/)
could soon make this a more common codepath again.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818152457.35846-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We've noticed occasional OOM killing when memory.low settings are in
effect for cgroups. This is unexpected and undesirable as memory.low is
supposed to express non-OOMing memory priorities between cgroups.
The reason for this is proportional memory.low reclaim. When cgroups
are below their memory.low threshold, reclaim passes them over in the
first round, and then retries if it couldn't find pages anywhere else.
But when cgroups are slightly above their memory.low setting, page scan
force is scaled down and diminished in proportion to the overage, to the
point where it can cause reclaim to fail as well - only in that case we
currently don't retry, and instead trigger OOM.
To fix this, hook proportional reclaim into the same retry logic we have
in place for when cgroups are skipped entirely. This way if reclaim
fails and some cgroups were scanned with diminished pressure, we'll try
another full-force cycle before giving up and OOMing.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210817180506.220056-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: 9783aa9917 ("mm, memcg: proportional memory.{low,min} reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Leon Yang <lnyng@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Clean W=1 build warnings for mm/".
This is a janitorial only. During development of a tool to catch build
warnings early to avoid tripping the Intel lkp-robot, I noticed that mm/
is not clean for W=1. This is generally harmless but there is no harm in
cleaning it up. It disrupts git blame a little but on relatively obvious
lines that are unlikely to be git blame targets.
This patch (of 13):
make W=1 generates the following warning for vmscan.c
mm/vmscan.c:1814: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
It is not a kerneldoc comment and isolate_lru_pages() is a static
function. While the detailed comment is nice, it does not need to be
exposed via kernel-doc.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210520084809.8576-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210520084809.8576-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Theoretically without the protect from memalloc_noreclaim_save() and
memalloc_noreclaim_restore(), reclaim_pages() can go into the block
I/O layer recursively and deadlock.
Querying 'reclaim_pages' in our kernel crash databases didn't yield
any results. So the deadlock seems unlikely to happen. A possible
explanation is that the only user of reclaim_pages(), i.e.,
MADV_PAGEOUT, is usually called before memory pressure builds up,
e.g., on Android and Chrome OS. Under such a condition, allocations in
the block I/O layer can be fulfilled without diverting to direct
reclaim and therefore the recursion is avoided.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210622074642.785473-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614194727.2684053-1-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently the number of deferred objects are per shrinker, but some
slabs, for example, vfs inode/dentry cache are per memcg, this would
result in poor isolation among memcgs.
The deferred objects typically are generated by __GFP_NOFS allocations,
one memcg with excessive __GFP_NOFS allocations may blow up deferred
objects, then other innocent memcgs may suffer from over shrink,
excessive reclaim latency, etc.
For example, two workloads run in memcgA and memcgB respectively,
workload in B is vfs heavy workload. Workload in A generates excessive
deferred objects, then B's vfs cache might be hit heavily (drop half of
caches) by B's limit reclaim or global reclaim.
We observed this hit in our production environment which was running vfs
heavy workload shown as the below tracing log:
<...>-409454 [016] .... 28286961.747146: mm_shrink_slab_start: super_cache_scan+0x0/0x1a0 ffff9a83046f3458:
nid: 1 objects to shrink 3641681686040 gfp_flags GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO pgs_scanned 1 lru_pgs 15721
cache items 246404277 delta 31345 total_scan 123202138
<...>-409454 [022] .... 28287105.928018: mm_shrink_slab_end: super_cache_scan+0x0/0x1a0 ffff9a83046f3458:
nid: 1 unused scan count 3641681686040 new scan count 3641798379189 total_scan 602
last shrinker return val 123186855
The vfs cache and page cache ratio was 10:1 on this machine, and half of
caches were dropped. This also resulted in significant amount of page
caches were dropped due to inodes eviction.
Make nr_deferred per memcg for memcg aware shrinkers would solve the
unfairness and bring better isolation.
The following patch will add nr_deferred to parent memcg when memcg
offline. To preserve nr_deferred when reparenting memcgs to root, root
memcg needs shrinker_info allocated too.
When memcg is not enabled (!CONFIG_MEMCG or memcg disabled), the
shrinker's nr_deferred would be used. And non memcg aware shrinkers use
shrinker's nr_deferred all the time.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311190845.9708-10-shy828301@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since memcg_shrinker_map_size just can be changed under holding
shrinker_rwsem exclusively, the read side can be protected by holding read
lock, so it sounds superfluous to have a dedicated mutex.
Kirill Tkhai suggested use write lock since:
* We want the assignment to shrinker_maps is visible for shrink_slab_memcg().
* The rcu_dereference_protected() dereferrencing in shrink_slab_memcg(), but
in case of we use READ lock in alloc_shrinker_maps(), the dereferrencing
is not actually protected.
* READ lock makes alloc_shrinker_info() racy against memory allocation fail.
alloc_shrinker_info()->free_shrinker_info() may free memory right after
shrink_slab_memcg() dereferenced it. You may say
shrink_slab_memcg()->mem_cgroup_online() protects us from it? Yes, sure,
but this is not the thing we want to remember in the future, since this
spreads modularity.
And a test with heavy paging workload didn't show write lock makes things worse.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311190845.9708-4-shy828301@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Make shrinker's nr_deferred memcg aware", v10.
Recently huge amount one-off slab drop was seen on some vfs metadata
heavy workloads, it turned out there were huge amount accumulated
nr_deferred objects seen by the shrinker.
On our production machine, I saw absurd number of nr_deferred shown as
the below tracing result:
<...>-48776 [032] .... 27970562.458916: mm_shrink_slab_start:
super_cache_scan+0x0/0x1a0 ffff9a83046f3458: nid: 0 objects to shrink
2531805877005 gfp_flags GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE pgs_scanned 32 lru_pgs
9300 cache items 1667 delta 11 total_scan 833
There are 2.5 trillion deferred objects on one node, assuming all of them
are dentry (192 bytes per object), so the total size of deferred on one
node is ~480TB. It is definitely ridiculous.
I managed to reproduce this problem with kernel build workload plus
negative dentry generator.
First step, run the below kernel build test script:
NR_CPUS=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -e processor | wc -l`
cd /root/Buildarea/linux-stable
for i in `seq 1500`; do
cgcreate -g memory:kern_build
echo 4G > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/kern_build/memory.limit_in_bytes
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
cgexec -g memory:kern_build make clean > /dev/null 2>&1
cgexec -g memory:kern_build make -j$NR_CPUS > /dev/null 2>&1
cgdelete -g memory:kern_build
done
Then run the below negative dentry generator script:
NR_CPUS=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -e processor | wc -l`
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test
echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/tasks
for i in `seq $NR_CPUS`; do
while true; do
FILE=`head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 64`
cat $FILE 2>/dev/null
done &
done
Then kswapd will shrink half of dentry cache in just one loop as the below
tracing result showed:
kswapd0-475 [028] .... 305968.252561: mm_shrink_slab_start: super_cache_scan+0x0/0x190 0000000024acf00c: nid: 0 objects to shrink 4994376020 gfp_flags GFP_KERNEL cache items 93689873 delta 45746 total_scan 46844936 priority 12
kswapd0-475 [021] .... 306013.099399: mm_shrink_slab_end: super_cache_scan+0x0/0x190 0000000024acf00c: nid: 0 unused scan count 4994376020 new scan count 4947576838 total_scan 8 last shrinker return val 46844928
There were huge number of deferred objects before the shrinker was called,
the behavior does match the code but it might be not desirable from the
user's stand of point.
The excessive amount of nr_deferred might be accumulated due to various
reasons, for example:
* GFP_NOFS allocation
* Significant times of small amount scan (< scan_batch, 1024 for vfs
metadata)
However the LRUs of slabs are per memcg (memcg-aware shrinkers) but the
deferred objects is per shrinker, this may have some bad effects:
* Poor isolation among memcgs. Some memcgs which happen to have
frequent limit reclaim may get nr_deferred accumulated to a huge number,
then other innocent memcgs may take the fall. In our case the main
workload was hit.
* Unbounded deferred objects. There is no cap for deferred objects, it
can outgrow ridiculously as the tracing result showed.
* Easy to get out of control. Although shrinkers take into account
deferred objects, but it can go out of control easily. One
misconfigured memcg could incur absurd amount of deferred objects in a
period of time.
* Sort of reclaim problems, i.e. over reclaim, long reclaim latency,
etc. There may be hundred GB slab caches for vfe metadata heavy
workload, shrink half of them may take minutes. We observed latency
spike due to the prolonged reclaim.
These issues also have been discussed in
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200916185823.5347-1-shy828301@gmail.com/.
The patchset is the outcome of that discussion.
So this patchset makes nr_deferred per-memcg to tackle the problem. It
does:
* Have memcg_shrinker_deferred per memcg per node, just like what
shrinker_map does. Instead it is an atomic_long_t array, each element
represent one shrinker even though the shrinker is not memcg aware, this
simplifies the implementation. For memcg aware shrinkers, the deferred
objects are just accumulated to its own memcg. The shrinkers just see
nr_deferred from its own memcg. Non memcg aware shrinkers still use
global nr_deferred from struct shrinker.
* Once the memcg is offlined, its nr_deferred will be reparented to its
parent along with LRUs.
* The root memcg has memcg_shrinker_deferred array too. It simplifies
the handling of reparenting to root memcg.
* Cap nr_deferred to 2x of the length of lru. The idea is borrowed from
Dave Chinner's series
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20191031234618.15403-1-david@fromorbit.com/)
The downside is each memcg has to allocate extra memory to store the
nr_deferred array. On our production environment, there are typically
around 40 shrinkers, so each memcg needs ~320 bytes. 10K memcgs would
need ~3.2MB memory. It seems fine.
We have been running the patched kernel on some hosts of our fleet (test
and production) for months, it works very well. The monitor data shows
the working set is sustained as expected.
This patch (of 13):
The tracepoint's nid should show what node the shrink happens on, the
start tracepoint uses nid from shrinkctl, but the nid might be set to 0
before end tracepoint if the shrinker is not NUMA aware, so the tracing
log may show the shrink happens on one node but end up on the other node.
It seems confusing. And the following patch will remove using nid
directly in do_shrink_slab(), this patch also helps cleanup the code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311190845.9708-1-shy828301@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311190845.9708-2-shy828301@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I went to go add a new RECLAIM_* mode for the zone_reclaim_mode sysctl.
Like a good kernel developer, I also went to go update the
documentation. I noticed that the bits in the documentation didn't
match the bits in the #defines.
The VM never explicitly checks the RECLAIM_ZONE bit. The bit is,
however implicitly checked when checking 'node_reclaim_mode==0'. The
RECLAIM_ZONE #define was removed in a cleanup. That, by itself is fine.
But, when the bit was removed (bit 0) the _other_ bit locations also got
changed. That's not OK because the bit values are documented to mean
one specific thing. Users surely do not expect the meaning to change
from kernel to kernel.
The end result is that if someone had a script that did:
sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode=1
it would have gone from enabling node reclaim for clean unmapped pages
to writing out pages during node reclaim after the commit in question.
That's not great.
Put the bits back the way they were and add a comment so something like
this is a bit harder to do again. Update the documentation to make it
clear that the first bit is ignored.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210219172555.FF0CDF23@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 648b5cf368 ("mm/vmscan: remove unused RECLAIM_OFF/RECLAIM_ZONE")
Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: lru related cleanups", v2.
The cleanups are intended to reduce the verbosity in lru list operations
and make them less error-prone. A typical example would be how the
patches change __activate_page():
static void __activate_page(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec)
{
if (!PageActive(page) && !PageUnevictable(page)) {
- int lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
int nr_pages = thp_nr_pages(page);
- del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
+ del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec);
SetPageActive(page);
- lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
- add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
+ add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
trace_mm_lru_activate(page);
There are a few more places like __activate_page() and they are
unnecessarily repetitive in terms of figuring out which list a page should
be added onto or deleted from. And with the duplicated code removed, they
are easier to read, IMO.
Patch 1 to 5 basically cover the above. Patch 6 and 7 make code more
robust by improving bug reporting. Patch 8, 9 and 10 take care of some
dangling helpers left in header files.
This patch (of 10):
There is add_page_to_lru_list(), and move_pages_to_lru() should reuse it,
not duplicate it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210122220600.906146-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201207220949.830352-2-yuzhao@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210122220600.906146-2-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
So technically there is nothing wrong with adding a pinned page to the
swap cache, but the pinning obviously means that the page can't actually
be free'd right now anyway, so it's a bit pointless.
However, the real problem is not with it being a bit pointless: the real
issue is that after we've added it to the swap cache, we'll try to unmap
the page. That will succeed, because the code in mm/rmap.c doesn't know
or care about pinned pages.
Even the unmapping isn't fatal per se, since the page will stay around
in memory due to the pinning, and we do hold the connection to it using
the swap cache. But when we then touch it next and take a page fault,
the logic in do_swap_page() will map it back into the process as a
possibly read-only page, and we'll then break the page association on
the next COW fault.
Honestly, this issue could have been fixed in any of those other places:
(a) we could refuse to unmap a pinned page (which makes conceptual
sense), or (b) we could make sure to re-map a pinned page writably in
do_swap_page(), or (c) we could just make do_wp_page() not COW the
pinned page (which was what we historically did before that "mm:
do_wp_page() simplification" commit).
But while all of them are equally valid models for breaking this chain,
not putting pinned pages into the swap cache in the first place is the
simplest one by far.
It's also the safest one: the reason why do_wp_page() was changed in the
first place was that getting the "can I re-use this page" wrong is so
fraught with errors. If you do it wrong, you end up with an incorrectly
shared page.
As a result, using "page_maybe_dma_pinned()" in either do_wp_page() or
do_swap_page() would be a serious bug since it is only a (very good)
heuristic. Re-using the page requires a hard black-and-white rule with
no room for ambiguity.
In contrast, saying "this page is very likely dma pinned, so let's not
add it to the swap cache and try to unmap it" is an obviously safe thing
to do, and if the heuristic might very rarely be a false positive, no
harm is done.
Fixes: 09854ba94c ("mm: do_wp_page() simplification")
Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Raiber <martin@urbackup.org>
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
