linux-toradex.git/mm/internal.h, branch v4.10

mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit

2016-12-25T19:54:48+00:00

Add a new page flag, PageWaiters, to indicate the page waitqueue has
tasks waiting. This can be tested rather than testing waitqueue_active
which requires another cacheline load.

This bit is always set when the page has tasks on page_waitqueue(page),
and is set and cleared under the waitqueue lock. It may be set when
there are no tasks on the waitqueue, which will cause a harmless extra
wakeup check that will clears the bit.

The generic bit-waitqueue infrastructure is no longer used for pages.
Instead, waitqueues are used directly with a custom key type. The
generic code was not flexible enough to have PageWaiters manipulation
under the waitqueue lock (which simplifies concurrency).

This improves the performance of page lock intensive microbenchmarks by
2-3%.

Putting two bits in the same word opens the opportunity to remove the
memory barrier between clearing the lock bit and testing the waiters
bit, after some work on the arch primitives (e.g., ensuring memory
operand widths match and cover both bits).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Bob Peterson 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski 
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: add orig_pte field into vm_fault

2016-12-15T00:04:09+00:00

Add orig_pte field to vm_fault structure to allow ->page_mkwrite
handlers to fully handle the fault.

This also allows us to save some passing of extra arguments around.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479460644-25076-8-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: join struct fault_env and vm_fault

2016-12-15T00:04:09+00:00

Currently we have two different structures for passing fault information
around - struct vm_fault and struct fault_env.  DAX will need more
information in struct vm_fault to handle its faults so the content of
that structure would become event closer to fault_env.  Furthermore it
would need to generate struct fault_env to be able to call some of the
generic functions.  So at this point I don't think there's much use in
keeping these two structures separate.  Just embed into struct vm_fault
all that is needed to use it for both purposes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479460644-25076-2-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: make full priority ignore pageblock suitability

2016-10-08T01:46:29+00:00

Several people have reported premature OOMs for order-2 allocations
(stack) due to OOM rework in 4.7.  In the scenario (parallel kernel
build and dd writing to two drives) many pageblocks get marked as
Unmovable and compaction free scanner struggles to isolate free pages.
Joonsoo Kim pointed out that the free scanner skips pageblocks that are
not movable to prevent filling them and forcing non-movable allocations
to fallback to other pageblocks.  Such heuristic makes sense to help
prevent long-term fragmentation, but premature OOMs are relatively more
urgent problem.  As a compromise, this patch disables the heuristic only
for the ultimate compaction priority.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Reported-by: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck 
Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 
Reported-by: Olaf Hering 
Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: make whole_zone flag ignore cached scanner positions

2016-10-08T01:46:27+00:00

Patch series "make direct compaction more deterministic")

This is mostly a followup to Michal's oom detection rework, which
highlighted the need for direct compaction to provide better feedback in
reclaim/compaction loop, so that it can reliably recognize when
compaction cannot make further progress, and allocation should invoke
OOM killer or fail.  We've discussed this at LSF/MM [1] where I proposed
expanding the async/sync migration mode used in compaction to more
general "priorities".  This patchset adds one new priority that just
overrides all the heuristics and makes compaction fully scan all zones.
I don't currently think that we need more fine-grained priorities, but
we'll see.  Other than that there's some smaller fixes and cleanups,
mainly related to the THP-specific hacks.

I've tested this with stress-highalloc in GFP_KERNEL order-4 and
THP-like order-9 scenarios.  There's some improvement for compaction
stats for the order-4, which is likely due to the better watermarks
handling.  In the previous version I reported mostly noise wrt
compaction stats, and decreased direct reclaim - now the reclaim is
without difference.  I believe this is due to the less aggressive
compaction priority increase in patch 6.

"before" is a mmotm tree prior to 4.7 release plus the first part of the
series that was sent and merged separately

                                    before        after
order-4:

Compaction stalls                    27216       30759
Compaction success                   19598       25475
Compaction failures                   7617        5283
Page migrate success                370510      464919
Page migrate failure                 25712       27987
Compaction pages isolated           849601     1041581
Compaction migrate scanned       143146541   101084990
Compaction free scanned          208355124   144863510
Compaction cost                       1403        1210

order-9:

Compaction stalls                     7311        7401
Compaction success                    1634        1683
Compaction failures                   5677        5718
Page migrate success                194657      183988
Page migrate failure                  4753        4170
Compaction pages isolated           498790      456130
Compaction migrate scanned          565371      524174
Compaction free scanned            4230296     4250744
Compaction cost                        215         203

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/684611/

This patch (of 11):

A recent patch has added whole_zone flag that compaction sets when
scanning starts from the zone boundary, in order to report that zone has
been fully scanned in one attempt.  For allocations that want to try
really hard or cannot fail, we will want to introduce a mode where
scanning whole zone is guaranteed regardless of the cached positions.

This patch reuses the whole_zone flag in a way that if it's already
passed true to compaction, the cached scanner positions are ignored.
Employing this flag during reclaim/compaction loop will be done in the
next patch.  This patch however converts compaction invoked from
userspace via procfs to use this flag.  Before this patch, the cached
positions were first reset to zone boundaries and then read back from
struct zone, so there was a window where a parallel compaction could
replace the reset values, making the manual compaction less effective.
Using the flag instead of performing reset is more robust.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: simplify contended compaction handling

2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00

Async compaction detects contention either due to failing trylock on
zone->lock or lru_lock, or by need_resched().  Since 1f9efdef4f3f ("mm,
compaction: khugepaged should not give up due to need_resched()") the
code got quite complicated to distinguish these two up to the
__alloc_pages_slowpath() level, so different decisions could be taken
for khugepaged allocations.

After the recent changes, khugepaged allocations don't check for
contended compaction anymore, so we again don't need to distinguish lock
and sched contention, and simplify the current convoluted code a lot.

However, I believe it's also possible to simplify even more and
completely remove the check for contended compaction after the initial
async compaction for costly orders, which was originally aimed at THP
page fault allocations.  There are several reasons why this can be done
now:

- with the new defaults, THP page faults no longer do reclaim/compaction at
  all, unless the system admin has overridden the default, or application has
  indicated via madvise that it can benefit from THP's. In both cases, it
  means that the potential extra latency is expected and worth the benefits.
- even if reclaim/compaction proceeds after this patch where it previously
  wouldn't, the second compaction attempt is still async and will detect the
  contention and back off, if the contention persists
- there are still heuristics like deferred compaction and pageblock skip bits
  in place that prevent excessive THP page fault latencies

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-9-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: remove fair zone allocation policy

2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00

The fair zone allocation policy interleaves allocation requests between
zones to avoid an age inversion problem whereby new pages are reclaimed
to balance a zone.  Reclaim is now node-based so this should no longer
be an issue and the fair zone allocation policy is not free.  This patch
removes it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-30-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: convert zone_reclaim to node_reclaim

2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00

As reclaim is now per-node based, convert zone_reclaim to be
node_reclaim.  It is possible that a node will be reclaimed multiple
times if it has multiple zones but this is unavoidable without caching
all nodes traversed so far.  The documentation and interface to
userspace is the same from a configuration perspective and will will be
similar in behaviour unless the node-local allocation requests were also
limited to lower zones.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-24-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node

2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00

This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such
as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking.

Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is
necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node
logic.  Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry
logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and
active sizes.  It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a
per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache
lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks.

Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note
that it introduces a number of anomalies.  For example, the scans are
per-zone but using per-node counters.  We also mark a node as congested
when a zone is congested.  This causes weird problems that are fixed
later but is easier to review.

In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to
the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions

1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem

   When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU
   list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same
   highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem
   keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages
   arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially
   could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list.

   That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that
   highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages.

2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails

   This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during
   memory pressure than skipping LRU pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce fault_env

2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00

The idea borrowed from Peter's patch from patchset on speculative page
faults[1]:

Instead of passing around the endless list of function arguments,
replace the lot with a single structure so we can change context without
endless function signature changes.

The changes are mostly mechanical with exception of faultaround code:
filemap_map_pages() got reworked a bit.

This patch is preparation for the next one.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141020222841.302891540@infradead.org

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-9-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds