linux-toradex.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v5.1-rc1

mm: refactor readahead defines in mm.h

2019-03-12T17:04:01+00:00

All users of VM_MAX_READAHEAD actually convert it to kbytes and then to
pages. Define the macro explicitly as (SZ_128K / PAGE_SIZE). This
simplifies the expression in every filesystem. Also rename the macro to
VM_READAHEAD_PAGES to properly convey its meaning. Finally remove unused
VM_MIN_READAHEAD

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/io_uring.c, per Stephen]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181221144053.24318-1-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen 
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov 
Cc: Dominique Martinet 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: David Sterba 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: create the new vm_fault_t type

2019-03-08T02:32:03+00:00

Page fault handlers are supposed to return VM_FAULT codes, but some
drivers/file systems mistakenly return error numbers.  Now that all
drivers/file systems have been converted to use the vm_fault_t return
type, change the type definition to no longer be compatible with 'int'.
By making it an unsigned int, the function prototype becomes
incompatible with a function which returns int.  Sparse will detect any
attempts to return a value which is not a VM_FAULT code.

VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX and VM_FAULT_GET_HINDEX values are changed to avoid
conflict with other VM_FAULT codes.

[jrdr.linux@gmail.com: fix warnings]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190109183742.GA24326@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190108183041.GA12137@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder 
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: update get_user_pages_longterm to migrate pages allocated from CMA region

2019-03-06T05:07:19+00:00

This patch updates get_user_pages_longterm to migrate pages allocated
out of CMA region.  This makes sure that we don't keep non-movable pages
(due to page reference count) in the CMA area.

This will be used by ppc64 in a later patch to avoid pinning pages in
the CMA region.  ppc64 uses CMA region for allocation of the hardware
page table (hash page table) and not able to migrate pages out of CMA
region results in page table allocation failures.

One case where we hit this easy is when a guest using a VFIO passthrough
device.  VFIO locks all the guest's memory and if the guest memory is
backed by CMA region, it becomes unmovable resulting in fragmenting the
CMA and possibly preventing other guests from allocation a large enough
hash page table.

NOTE: We allocate the new page without using __GFP_THISNODE

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114095438.32470-3-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Gibson 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: don't open code lru_to_page()

2019-01-04T21:13:48+00:00

Multiple filesystems open code lru_to_page().  Rectify this by moving
the macro from mm_inline (which is specific to lru stuff) to the more
generic mm.h header and start using the macro where appropriate.

No functional changes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181129104810.23361-1-nborisov@suse.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181129075301.29087-1-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Pankaj gupta 
Acked-by: "Yan, Zheng" 		[ceph]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions

2019-01-04T21:13:47+00:00

Patch series "Add support for fast mremap".

This series speeds up the mremap(2) syscall by copying page tables at
the PMD level even for non-THP systems.  There is concern that the extra
'address' argument that mremap passes to pte_alloc may do something
subtle architecture related in the future that may make the scheme not
work.  Also we find that there is no point in passing the 'address' to
pte_alloc since its unused.  This patch therefore removes this argument
tree-wide resulting in a nice negative diff as well.  Also ensuring
along the way that the enabled architectures do not do anything funky
with the 'address' argument that goes unnoticed by the optimization.

Build and boot tested on x86-64.  Build tested on arm64.  The config
enablement patch for arm64 will be posted in the future after more
testing.

The changes were obtained by applying the following Coccinelle script.
(thanks Julia for answering all Coccinelle questions!).
Following fix ups were done manually:
* Removal of address argument from  pte_fragment_alloc
* Removal of pte_alloc_one_fast definitions from m68k and microblaze.

// Options: --include-headers --no-includes
// Note: I split the 'identifier fn' line, so if you are manually
// running it, please unsplit it so it runs for you.

virtual patch

@pte_alloc_func_def depends on patch exists@
identifier E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
type T2;
@@

 fn(...
- , T2 E2
 )
 { ... }

@pte_alloc_func_proto_noarg depends on patch exists@
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~ "^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1, T2);
+ T3 fn(T1);
|
- T3 fn(T1, T2, T4);
+ T3 fn(T1, T2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_proto depends on patch exists@
identifier E1, E2, E4;
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1);
|
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2, T4 E4);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_call depends on patch exists@
expression E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

 fn(...
-,  E2
 )

@pte_alloc_macro depends on patch exists@
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
identifier a, b, c;
expression e;
position p;
@@

(
- #define fn(a, b, c) e
+ #define fn(a, b) e
|
- #define fn(a, b) e
+ #define fn(a) e
)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-2-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) 
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: William Kucharski 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end calls v2

2018-12-28T20:11:50+00:00

To avoid having to change many call sites everytime we want to add a
parameter use a structure to group all parameters for the mmu_notifier
invalidate_range_start/end cakks.  No functional changes with this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181205053628.3210-3-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Acked-by: Christian König 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Radim Krcmar 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Felix Kuehling 
Cc: Ralph Campbell 
Cc: John Hubbard 
From: Jérôme Glisse 
Subject: mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end calls v3

fix build warning in migrate.c when CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER=n

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181213171330.8489-3-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove pte_lock_deinit()

2018-12-28T20:11:49+00:00

Pagetable page doesn't touch page->mapping or have any used field that
overlaps with it.  No need to clear mapping in dtor.  In fact, doing so
might mask problems that otherwise would be detected by bad_page().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181128235525.58780-1-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Pavel Tatashin 
Cc: Souptick Joarder 
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe 
Cc: Keith Busch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make free_reserved_area() return "const char *"

2018-12-28T20:11:48+00:00

and propagate through down the call stack.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181124091411.GC10969@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs

2018-12-28T20:11:48+00:00

An external fragmentation event was previously described as

    When the page allocator fragments memory, it records the event using
    the mm_page_alloc_extfrag event. If the fallback_order is smaller
    than a pageblock order (order-9 on 64-bit x86) then it's considered
    an event that will cause external fragmentation issues in the future.

The kernel reduces the probability of such events by increasing the
watermark sizes by calling set_recommended_min_free_kbytes early in the
lifetime of the system.  This works reasonably well in general but if
there are enough sparsely populated pageblocks then the problem can still
occur as enough memory is free overall and kswapd stays asleep.

This patch introduces a watermark_boost_factor sysctl that allows a zone
watermark to be temporarily boosted when an external fragmentation causing
events occurs.  The boosting will stall allocations that would decrease
free memory below the boosted low watermark and kswapd is woken if the
calling context allows to reclaim an amount of memory relative to the size
of the high watermark and the watermark_boost_factor until the boost is
cleared.  When kswapd finishes, it wakes kcompactd at the pageblock order
to clean some of the pageblocks that may have been affected by the
fragmentation event.  kswapd avoids any writeback, slab shrinkage and swap
from reclaim context during this operation to avoid excessive system
disruption in the name of fragmentation avoidance.  Care is taken so that
kswapd will do normal reclaim work if the system is really low on memory.

This was evaluated using the same workloads as "mm, page_alloc: Spread
allocations across zones before introducing fragmentation".

1-socket Skylake machine
config-global-dhp__workload_thpfioscale XFS (no special madvise)
4 fio threads, 1 THP allocating thread
--------------------------------------

4.20-rc3 extfrag events < order 9:   804694
4.20-rc3+patch:                      408912 (49% reduction)
4.20-rc3+patch1-4:                    18421 (98% reduction)

                                   4.20.0-rc3             4.20.0-rc3
                                 lowzone-v5r8             boost-v5r8
Amean     fault-base-1      653.58 (   0.00%)      652.71 (   0.13%)
Amean     fault-huge-1        0.00 (   0.00%)      178.93 * -99.00%*

                              4.20.0-rc3             4.20.0-rc3
                            lowzone-v5r8             boost-v5r8
Percentage huge-1        0.00 (   0.00%)        5.12 ( 100.00%)

Note that external fragmentation causing events are massively reduced by
this path whether in comparison to the previous kernel or the vanilla
kernel.  The fault latency for huge pages appears to be increased but that
is only because THP allocations were successful with the patch applied.

1-socket Skylake machine
global-dhp__workload_thpfioscale-madvhugepage-xfs (MADV_HUGEPAGE)
-----------------------------------------------------------------

4.20-rc3 extfrag events < order 9:  291392
4.20-rc3+patch:                     191187 (34% reduction)
4.20-rc3+patch1-4:                   13464 (95% reduction)

thpfioscale Fault Latencies
                                   4.20.0-rc3             4.20.0-rc3
                                 lowzone-v5r8             boost-v5r8
Min       fault-base-1      912.00 (   0.00%)      905.00 (   0.77%)
Min       fault-huge-1      127.00 (   0.00%)      135.00 (  -6.30%)
Amean     fault-base-1     1467.55 (   0.00%)     1481.67 (  -0.96%)
Amean     fault-huge-1     1127.11 (   0.00%)     1063.88 *   5.61%*

                              4.20.0-rc3             4.20.0-rc3
                            lowzone-v5r8             boost-v5r8
Percentage huge-1       77.64 (   0.00%)       83.46 (   7.49%)

As before, massive reduction in external fragmentation events, some jitter
on latencies and an increase in THP allocation success rates.

2-socket Haswell machine
config-global-dhp__workload_thpfioscale XFS (no special madvise)
4 fio threads, 5 THP allocating threads
----------------------------------------------------------------

4.20-rc3 extfrag events < order 9:  215698
4.20-rc3+patch:                     200210 (7% reduction)
4.20-rc3+patch1-4:                   14263 (93% reduction)

                                   4.20.0-rc3             4.20.0-rc3
                                 lowzone-v5r8             boost-v5r8
Amean     fault-base-5     1346.45 (   0.00%)     1306.87 (   2.94%)
Amean     fault-huge-5     3418.60 (   0.00%)     1348.94 (  60.54%)

                              4.20.0-rc3             4.20.0-rc3
                            lowzone-v5r8             boost-v5r8
Percentage huge-5        0.78 (   0.00%)        7.91 ( 910.64%)

There is a 93% reduction in fragmentation causing events, there is a big
reduction in the huge page fault latency and allocation success rate is
higher.

2-socket Haswell machine
global-dhp__workload_thpfioscale-madvhugepage-xfs (MADV_HUGEPAGE)
-----------------------------------------------------------------

4.20-rc3 extfrag events < order 9: 166352
4.20-rc3+patch:                    147463 (11% reduction)
4.20-rc3+patch1-4:                  11095 (93% reduction)

thpfioscale Fault Latencies
                                   4.20.0-rc3             4.20.0-rc3
                                 lowzone-v5r8             boost-v5r8
Amean     fault-base-5     6217.43 (   0.00%)     7419.67 * -19.34%*
Amean     fault-huge-5     3163.33 (   0.00%)     3263.80 (  -3.18%)

                              4.20.0-rc3             4.20.0-rc3
                            lowzone-v5r8             boost-v5r8
Percentage huge-5       95.14 (   0.00%)       87.98 (  -7.53%)

There is a large reduction in fragmentation events with some jitter around
the latencies and success rates.  As before, the high THP allocation
success rate does mean the system is under a lot of pressure.  However, as
the fragmentation events are reduced, it would be expected that the
long-term allocation success rate would be higher.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181123114528.28802-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic

2018-12-28T20:11:47+00:00

totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages are made static inline function.

Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things.  It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 So it seemes
better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic, with preventing
poteintial store-to-read tearing as a bonus.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-4-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS 
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko 
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds