linux-toradex.git/include/linux/swap.h, branch v4.14-rc7

mm/ZONE_DEVICE: new type of ZONE_DEVICE for unaddressable memory

2017-09-09T01:26:46+00:00

HMM (heterogeneous memory management) need struct page to support
migration from system main memory to device memory.  Reasons for HMM and
migration to device memory is explained with HMM core patch.

This patch deals with device memory that is un-addressable memory (ie CPU
can not access it).  Hence we do not want those struct page to be manage
like regular memory.  That is why we extend ZONE_DEVICE to support
different types of memory.

A persistent memory type is define for existing user of ZONE_DEVICE and a
new device un-addressable type is added for the un-addressable memory
type.  There is a clear separation between what is expected from each
memory type and existing user of ZONE_DEVICE are un-affected by new
requirement and new use of the un-addressable type.  All specific code
path are protect with test against the memory type.

Because memory is un-addressable we use a new special swap type for when a
page is migrated to device memory (this reduces the number of maximum swap
file).

The main two additions beside memory type to ZONE_DEVICE is two callbacks.
First one, page_free() is call whenever page refcount reach 1 (which
means the page is free as ZONE_DEVICE page never reach a refcount of 0).
This allow device driver to manage its memory and associated struct page.

The second callback page_fault() happens when there is a CPU access to an
address that is back by a device page (which are un-addressable by the
CPU).  This callback is responsible to migrate the page back to system
main memory.  Device driver can not block migration back to system memory,
HMM make sure that such page can not be pin into device memory.

If device is in some error condition and can not migrate memory back then
a CPU page fault to device memory should end with SIGBUS.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix warning]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823133213.712917-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170817000548.32038-8-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Dan Williams 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Nellans 
Cc: Evgeny Baskakov 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mark Hairgrove 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Sherry Cheung 
Cc: Subhash Gutti 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap: choose swap device according to numa node

2017-09-07T00:27:30+00:00

If the system has more than one swap device and swap device has the node
information, we can make use of this information to decide which swap
device to use in get_swap_pages() to get better performance.

The current code uses a priority based list, swap_avail_list, to decide
which swap device to use and if multiple swap devices share the same
priority, they are used round robin.  This patch changes the previous
single global swap_avail_list into a per-numa-node list, i.e.  for each
numa node, it sees its own priority based list of available swap
devices.  Swap device's priority can be promoted on its matching node's
swap_avail_list.

The current swap device's priority is set as: user can set a >=0 value,
or the system will pick one starting from -1 then downwards.  The
priority value in the swap_avail_list is the negated value of the swap
device's due to plist being sorted from low to high.  The new policy
doesn't change the semantics for priority >=0 cases, the previous
starting from -1 then downwards now becomes starting from -2 then
downwards and -1 is reserved as the promoted value.

Take 4-node EX machine as an example, suppose 4 swap devices are
available, each sit on a different node:
swapA on node 0
swapB on node 1
swapC on node 2
swapD on node 3

After they are all swapped on in the sequence of ABCD.

Current behaviour:
their priorities will be:
swapA: -1
swapB: -2
swapC: -3
swapD: -4
And their position in the global swap_avail_list will be:
swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC   -> swapD
prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:4

New behaviour:
their priorities will be(note that -1 is skipped):
swapA: -2
swapB: -3
swapC: -4
swapD: -5
And their positions in the 4 swap_avail_lists[nid] will be:
swap_avail_lists[0]: /* node 0's available swap device list */
swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC   -> swapD
prio:1     prio:3     prio:4     prio:5
swap_avali_lists[1]: /* node 1's available swap device list */
swapB   -> swapA   -> swapC   -> swapD
prio:1     prio:2     prio:4     prio:5
swap_avail_lists[2]: /* node 2's available swap device list */
swapC   -> swapA   -> swapB   -> swapD
prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:5
swap_avail_lists[3]: /* node 3's available swap device list */
swapD   -> swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC
prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:4

To see the effect of the patch, a test that starts N process, each mmap
a region of anonymous memory and then continually write to it at random
position to trigger both swap in and out is used.

On a 2 node Skylake EP machine with 64GiB memory, two 170GB SSD drives
are used as swap devices with each attached to a different node, the
result is:

runtime=30m/processes=32/total test size=128G/each process mmap region=4G
kernel         throughput
vanilla        13306
auto-binding   15169 +14%

runtime=30m/processes=64/total test size=128G/each process mmap region=2G
kernel         throughput
vanilla        11885
auto-binding   14879 +25%

[aaron.lu@intel.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814053130.GD2369@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816024439.GA10925@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kmalloc_array()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814053130.GD2369@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816024439.GA10925@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu 
Cc: "Chen, Tim C" 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap

2017-09-07T00:27:30+00:00

VMA based swap readahead will readahead the virtual pages that is
continuous in the virtual address space.  While the original swap
readahead will readahead the swap slots that is continuous in the swap
device.  Although VMA based swap readahead is more correct for the swap
slots to be readahead, it will trigger more small random readings, which
may cause the performance of HDD (hard disk) to degrade heavily, and may
finally exceed the benefit.

To avoid the issue, in this patch, if the HDD is used as swap, the VMA
based swap readahead will be disabled, and the original swap readahead
will be used instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-6-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Fengguang Wu 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead

2017-09-07T00:27:29+00:00

The swap readahead is an important mechanism to reduce the swap in
latency.  Although pure sequential memory access pattern isn't very
popular for anonymous memory, the space locality is still considered
valid.

In the original swap readahead implementation, the consecutive blocks in
swap device are readahead based on the global space locality estimation.
But the consecutive blocks in swap device just reflect the order of page
reclaiming, don't necessarily reflect the access pattern in virtual
memory.  And the different tasks in the system may have different access
patterns, which makes the global space locality estimation incorrect.

In this patch, when page fault occurs, the virtual pages near the fault
address will be readahead instead of the swap slots near the fault swap
slot in swap device.  This avoid to readahead the unrelated swap slots.
At the same time, the swap readahead is changed to work on per-VMA from
globally.  So that the different access patterns of the different VMAs
could be distinguished, and the different readahead policy could be
applied accordingly.  The original core readahead detection and scaling
algorithm is reused, because it is an effect algorithm to detect the
space locality.

The test and result is as follow,

Common test condition
=====================

Test Machine: Xeon E5 v3 (2 sockets, 72 threads, 32G RAM) Swap device:
NVMe disk

Micro-benchmark with combined access pattern
============================================

vm-scalability, sequential swap test case, 4 processes to eat 50G
virtual memory space, repeat the sequential memory writing until 300
seconds.  The first round writing will trigger swap out, the following
rounds will trigger sequential swap in and out.

At the same time, run vm-scalability random swap test case in
background, 8 processes to eat 30G virtual memory space, repeat the
random memory write until 300 seconds.  This will trigger random swap-in
in the background.

This is a combined workload with sequential and random memory accessing
at the same time.  The result (for sequential workload) is as follow,

			Base		Optimized
			----		---------
throughput		345413 KB/s	414029 KB/s (+19.9%)
latency.average		97.14 us	61.06 us (-37.1%)
latency.50th		2 us		1 us
latency.60th		2 us		1 us
latency.70th		98 us		2 us
latency.80th		160 us		2 us
latency.90th		260 us		217 us
latency.95th		346 us		369 us
latency.99th		1.34 ms		1.09 ms
ra_hit%			52.69%		99.98%

The original swap readahead algorithm is confused by the background
random access workload, so readahead hit rate is lower.  The VMA-base
readahead algorithm works much better.

Linpack
=======

The test memory size is bigger than RAM to trigger swapping.

			Base		Optimized
			----		---------
elapsed_time		393.49 s	329.88 s (-16.2%)
ra_hit%			86.21%		98.82%

The score of base and optimized kernel hasn't visible changes.  But the
elapsed time reduced and readahead hit rate improved, so the optimized
kernel runs better for startup and tear down stages.  And the absolute
value of readahead hit rate is high, shows that the space locality is
still valid in some practical workloads.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Fengguang Wu 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state

2017-09-07T00:27:29+00:00

global_page_state is error prone as a recent bug report pointed out [1].
It only returns proper values for zone based counters as the enum it
gets suggests.  We already have global_node_page_state so let's rename
global_page_state to global_zone_page_state to be more explicit here.
All existing users seems to be correct:

$ git grep "global_page_state(NR_" | sed 's@.*(\(NR_[A-Z_]*\)).*@\1@' | sort | uniq -c
      2 NR_BOUNCE
      2 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES
     11 NR_FREE_PAGES
      1 NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB
      1 NR_MLOCK
      2 NR_PAGETABLE

This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201707260628.v6Q6SmaS030814@www262.sakura.ne.jp

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801134256.5400-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, THP, swap: support splitting THP for THP swap out

2017-09-07T00:27:28+00:00

After adding swapping out support for THP (Transparent Huge Page), it is
possible that a THP in swap cache (partly swapped out) need to be split.
To split such a THP, the swap cluster backing the THP need to be split
too, that is, the CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE flag need to be cleared for the swap
cluster.  The patch implemented this.

And because the THP swap writing needs the THP keeps as huge page during
writing.  The PageWriteback flag is checked before splitting.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-8-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Ross Zwisler  [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
Cc: Vishal L Verma 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, THP, swap: make reuse_swap_page() works for THP swapped out

2017-09-07T00:27:27+00:00

After supporting to delay THP (Transparent Huge Page) splitting after
swapped out, it is possible that some page table mappings of the THP are
turned into swap entries.  So reuse_swap_page() need to check the swap
count in addition to the map count as before.  This patch done that.

In the huge PMD write protect fault handler, in addition to the page map
count, the swap count need to be checked too, so the page lock need to
be acquired too when calling reuse_swap_page() in addition to the page
table lock.

[ying.huang@intel.com: silence a compiler warning]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bmnzizjy.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Ross Zwisler  [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
Cc: Vishal L Verma 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, THP, swap: support to reclaim swap space for THP swapped out

2017-09-07T00:27:27+00:00

The normal swap slot reclaiming can be done when the swap count reaches
SWAP_HAS_CACHE.  But for the swap slot which is backing a THP, all swap
slots backing one THP must be reclaimed together, because the swap slot
may be used again when the THP is swapped out again later.  So the swap
slots backing one THP can be reclaimed together when the swap count for
all swap slots for the THP reached SWAP_HAS_CACHE.  In the patch, the
functions to check whether the swap count for all swap slots backing one
THP reached SWAP_HAS_CACHE are implemented and used when checking
whether a swap slot can be reclaimed.

To make it easier to determine whether a swap slot is backing a THP, a
new swap cluster flag named CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE is added to mark a swap
cluster which is backing a THP (Transparent Huge Page).  Because THP
swap in as a whole isn't supported now.  After deleting the THP from the
swap cache (for example, swapping out finished), the CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE
flag will be cleared.  So that, the normal pages inside THP can be
swapped in individually.

[ying.huang@intel.com: fix swap_page_trans_huge_swapped on HDD]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/874ltsm0bi.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-3-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Ross Zwisler  [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
Cc: Vishal L Verma 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: swap: provide lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked()

2017-07-10T23:32:33+00:00

The rework of the cpu hotplug locking unearthed potential deadlocks with
the memory hotplug locking code.

The solution for these is to rework the memory hotplug locking code as
well and take the cpu hotplug lock before the memory hotplug lock in
mem_hotplug_begin(), but this will cause a recursive locking of the cpu
hotplug lock when the memory hotplug code calls lru_add_drain_all().

Split out the inner workings of lru_add_drain_all() into
lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked() so this function can be invoked from the
memory hotplug code with the cpu hotplug lock held.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170704093421.419329357@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap: add block io poll in swapin path

2017-07-10T23:32:30+00:00

For fast flash disk, async IO could introduce overhead because of
context switch.  block-mq now supports IO poll, which improves
performance and latency a lot.  swapin is a good place to use this
technique, because the task is waiting for the swapin page to continue
execution.

In my virtual machine, directly read 4k data from a NVMe with iopoll is
about 60% better than that without poll.  With iopoll support in swapin
patch, my microbenchmark (a task does random memory write) is about
10%~25% faster.  CPU utilization increases a lot though, 2x and even 3x
CPU utilization.  This will depend on disk speed.

While iopoll in swapin isn't intended for all usage cases, it's a win
for latency sensistive workloads with high speed swap disk.  block layer
has knob to control poll in runtime.  If poll isn't enabled in block
layer, there should be no noticeable change in swapin.

I got a chance to run the same test in a NVMe with DRAM as the media.
In simple fio IO test, blkpoll boosts 50% performance in single thread
test and ~20% in 8 threads test.  So this is the base line.  In above
swap test, blkpoll boosts ~27% performance in single thread test.
blkpoll uses 2x CPU time though.

If we enable hybid polling, the performance gain has very slight drop
but CPU time is only 50% worse than that without blkpoll.  Also we can
adjust parameter of hybid poll, with it, the CPU time penality is
reduced further.  In 8 threads test, blkpoll doesn't help though.  The
performance is similar to that without blkpoll, but cpu utilization is
similar too.  There is lock contention in swap path.  The cpu time
spending on blkpoll isn't high.  So overall, blkpoll swapin isn't worse
than that without it.

The swapin readahead might read several pages in in the same time and
form a big IO request.  Since the IO will take longer time, it doesn't
make sense to do poll, so the patch only does iopoll for single page
swapin.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/070c3c3e40b711e7b1390002c991e86a-b5408f0@7511894063d3764ff01ea8111f5a004d7dd700ed078797c204a24e620ddb965c
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds