linux-toradex.git/mm/percpu-vm.c, branch v5.12

mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups

2020-08-12T17:57:55+00:00

Percpu memory is becoming more and more widely used by various subsystems,
and the total amount of memory controlled by the percpu allocator can make
a good part of the total memory.

As an example, bpf maps can consume a lot of percpu memory, and they are
created by a user.  Also, some cgroup internals (e.g.  memory controller
statistics) can be quite large.  On a machine with many CPUs and big
number of cgroups they can consume hundreds of megabytes.

So the lack of memcg accounting is creating a breach in the memory
isolation.  Similar to the slab memory, percpu memory should be accounted
by default.

To implement the perpcu accounting it's possible to take the slab memory
accounting as a model to follow.  Let's introduce two types of percpu
chunks: root and memcg.  What makes memcg chunks different is an
additional space allocated to store memcg membership information.  If
__GFP_ACCOUNT is passed on allocation, a memcg chunk should be be used.
If it's possible to charge the corresponding size to the target memory
cgroup, allocation is performed, and the memcg ownership data is recorded.
System-wide allocations are performed using root chunks, so there is no
additional memory overhead.

To implement a fast reparenting of percpu memory on memcg removal, we
don't store mem_cgroup pointers directly: instead we use obj_cgroup API,
introduced for slab accounting.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n build errors and warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move unreachable code, per Roman]
[cuibixuan@huawei.com: mm/percpu: fix 'defined but not used' warning]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d41b939-a741-b521-a7a2-e7296ec16219@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Signed-off-by: Bixuan Cui 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Tobin C. Harding 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Bixuan Cui 
Cc: Michal Koutný 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623184515.4132564-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 428

2019-06-05T15:37:16+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this file is released under the gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 68 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531190114.292346262@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

percpu: allow select gfp to be passed to underlying allocators

2018-02-18T13:33:01+00:00

The prior patch added support for passing gfp flags through to the
underlying allocators. This patch allows users to pass along gfp flags
(currently only __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN) to the underlying
allocators. This should allow users to decide if they are ok with
failing allocations recovering in a more graceful way.

Additionally, gfp passing was done as additional flags in the previous
patch. Instead, change this to caller passed semantics. GFP_KERNEL is
also removed as the default flag. It continues to be used for internally
caused underlying percpu allocations.

V2:
Removed gfp_percpu_mask in favor of doing it inline.
Removed GFP_KERNEL as a default flag for __alloc_percpu_gfp.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

percpu: add __GFP_NORETRY semantics to the percpu balancing path

2018-02-18T13:33:00+00:00

Percpu memory using the vmalloc area based chunk allocator lazily
populates chunks by first requesting the full virtual address space
required for the chunk and subsequently adding pages as allocations come
through. To ensure atomic allocations can succeed, a workqueue item is
used to maintain a minimum number of empty pages. In certain scenarios,
such as reported in [1], it is possible that physical memory becomes
quite scarce which can result in either a rather long time spent trying
to find free pages or worse, a kernel panic.

This patch adds support for __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN passing them
through to the underlying allocators. This should prevent any
unnecessary panics potentially caused by the workqueue item. The passing
of gfp around is as additional flags rather than a full set of flags.
The next patch will change these to caller passed semantics.

V2:
Added const modifier to gfp flags in the balance path.
Removed an extra whitespace.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/12/551

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Reported-by: syzbot+adb03f3f0bb57ce3acda@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

mm: remove __GFP_COLD

2017-11-16T02:21:06+00:00

As the page free path makes no distinction between cache hot and cold
pages, there is no real useful ordering of pages in the free list that
allocation requests can take advantage of.  Juding from the users of
__GFP_COLD, it is likely that a number of them are the result of copying
other sites instead of actually measuring the impact.  Remove the
__GFP_COLD parameter which simplifies a number of paths in the page
allocator.

This is potentially controversial but bear in mind that the size of the
per-cpu pagelists versus modern cache sizes means that the whole per-cpu
list can often fit in the L3 cache.  Hence, there is only a potential
benefit for microbenchmarks that alloc/free pages in a tight loop.  It's
even worse when THP is taken into account which has little or no chance
of getting a cache-hot page as the per-cpu list is bypassed and the
zeroing of multiple pages will thrash the cache anyway.

The truncate microbenchmarks are not shown as this patch affects the
allocation path and not the free path.  A page fault microbenchmark was
tested but it showed no sigificant difference which is not surprising
given that the __GFP_COLD branches are a miniscule percentage of the
fault path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk

2017-06-29T15:23:38+00:00

From 5021b97f4026334d2c8dfad80797dd1028cddd73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Zhou 
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 07:11:41 -0700

Add NULL check in pcpu_destroy_chunk to correct static checker warnings.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

percpu: add tracepoint support for percpu memory

2017-06-20T19:31:43+00:00

Add support for tracepoints to the following events: chunk allocation,
chunk free, area allocation, area free, and area allocation failure.
This should let us replay percpu memory requests and evaluate
corresponding decisions.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs

2017-06-20T19:31:38+00:00

There is limited visibility into the use of percpu memory leaving us
unable to reason about correctness of parameters and overall use of
percpu memory. These counters and statistics aim to help understand
basic statistics about percpu memory such as number of allocations over
the lifetime, allocation sizes, and fragmentation.

New Config: PERCPU_STATS

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

percpu: remove unused chunk_alloc parameter from pcpu_get_pages()

2017-03-06T20:56:55+00:00

pcpu_get_pages() doesn't use chunk_alloc parameter, remove it.

Fixes: fbbb7f4e149f ("percpu: remove the usage of separate populated bitmap in percpu-vm")
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

percpu: move region iterations out of pcpu_[de]populate_chunk()

2014-09-02T18:46:02+00:00

Previously, pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() were called with the range which
may contain multiple target regions in it and
pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() iterated over the regions.  This has the
benefit of batching up cache flushes for all the regions; however,
we're planning to add more bookkeeping logic around [de]population to
support atomic allocations and this delegation of iterations gets in
the way.

This patch moves the region iterations out of
pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() into its callers - pcpu_alloc() and
pcpu_reclaim() - so that we can later add logic to track more states
around them.  This change may make cache and tlb flushes more frequent
but multi-region [de]populations are rare anyway and if this actually
becomes a problem, it's not difficult to factor out cache flushes as
separate callbacks which are directly invoked from percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo