linux-toradex.git/mm/vmalloc.c, branch v5.2-rc2

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/vmap: add DEBUG_AUGMENT_LOWEST_MATCH_CHECK macro

2019-05-18T22:52:26+00:00

This macro adds some debug code to check that vmap allocations are
happened in ascending order.

By default this option is set to 0 and not active.  It requires
recompilation of the kernel to activate it.  Set to 1, compile the
kernel.

[urezki@gmail.com: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190406183508.25273-4-urezki@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402162531.10888-4-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Garnier 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmap: add DEBUG_AUGMENT_PROPAGATE_CHECK macro

2019-05-18T22:52:26+00:00

This macro adds some debug code to check that the augment tree is
maintained correctly, meaning that every node contains valid
subtree_max_size value.

By default this option is set to 0 and not active.  It requires
recompilation of the kernel to activate it.  Set to 1, compile the
kernel.

[urezki@gmail.com: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190406183508.25273-3-urezki@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402162531.10888-3-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Garnier 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc.c: keep track of free blocks for vmap allocation

2019-05-18T22:52:26+00:00

Patch series "improve vmap allocation", v3.

Objective
---------

Please have a look for the description at:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/19/786

but let me also summarize it a bit here as well.

The current implementation has O(N) complexity. Requests with different
permissive parameters can lead to long allocation time. When i say
"long" i mean milliseconds.

Description
-----------

This approach organizes the KVA memory layout into free areas of the
1-ULONG_MAX range, i.e.  an allocation is done over free areas lookups,
instead of finding a hole between two busy blocks.  It allows to have
lower number of objects which represent the free space, therefore to have
less fragmented memory allocator.  Because free blocks are always as large
as possible.

It uses the augment tree where all free areas are sorted in ascending
order of va->va_start address in pair with linked list that provides
O(1) access to prev/next elements.

Since the tree is augment, we also maintain the "subtree_max_size" of VA
that reflects a maximum available free block in its left or right
sub-tree.  Knowing that, we can easily traversal toward the lowest (left
most path) free area.

Allocation: ~O(log(N)) complexity.  It is sequential allocation method
therefore tends to maximize locality.  The search is done until a first
suitable block is large enough to encompass the requested parameters.
Bigger areas are split.

I copy paste here the description of how the area is split, since i
described it in https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/19/786



A free block can be split by three different ways.  Their names are
FL_FIT_TYPE, LE_FIT_TYPE/RE_FIT_TYPE and NE_FIT_TYPE, i.e.  they
correspond to how requested size and alignment fit to a free block.

FL_FIT_TYPE - in this case a free block is just removed from the free
list/tree because it fully fits.  Comparing with current design there is
an extra work with rb-tree updating.

LE_FIT_TYPE/RE_FIT_TYPE - left/right edges fit.  In this case what we do
is just cutting a free block.  It is as fast as a current design.  Most of
the vmalloc allocations just end up with this case, because the edge is
always aligned to 1.

NE_FIT_TYPE - Is much less common case.  Basically it happens when
requested size and alignment does not fit left nor right edges, i.e.  it
is between them.  In this case during splitting we have to build a
remaining left free area and place it back to the free list/tree.

Comparing with current design there are two extra steps.  First one is we
have to allocate a new vmap_area structure.  Second one we have to insert
that remaining free block to the address sorted list/tree.

In order to optimize a first case there is a cache with free_vmap objects.
Instead of allocating from slab we just take an object from the cache and
reuse it.

Second one is pretty optimized.  Since we know a start point in the tree
we do not do a search from the top.  Instead a traversal begins from a
rb-tree node we split.


De-allocation.  ~O(log(N)) complexity.  An area is not inserted straight
away to the tree/list, instead we identify the spot first, checking if it
can be merged around neighbors.  The list provides O(1) access to
prev/next, so it is pretty fast to check it.  Summarizing.  If merged then
large coalesced areas are created, if not the area is just linked making
more fragments.

There is one more thing that i should mention here.  After modification of
VA node, its subtree_max_size is updated if it was/is the biggest area in
its left or right sub-tree.  Apart of that it can also be populated back
to upper levels to fix the tree.  For more details please have a look at
the __augment_tree_propagate_from() function and the description.

Tests and stressing
-------------------

I use the "test_vmalloc.sh" test driver available under
"tools/testing/selftests/vm/" since 5.1-rc1 kernel.  Just trigger "sudo
./test_vmalloc.sh" to find out how to deal with it.

Tested on different platforms including x86_64/i686/ARM64/x86_64_NUMA.
Regarding last one, i do not have any physical access to NUMA system,
therefore i emulated it.  The time of stressing is days.

If you run the test driver in "stress mode", you also need the patch that
is in Andrew's tree but not in Linux 5.1-rc1.  So, please apply it:

http://git.cmpxchg.org/cgit.cgi/linux-mmotm.git/commit/?id=e0cf7749bade6da318e98e934a24d8b62fab512c

After massive testing, i have not identified any problems like memory
leaks, crashes or kernel panics.  I find it stable, but more testing would
be good.

Performance analysis
--------------------

I have used two systems to test.  One is i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz and
another is HiKey960(arm64) board.  i5-3320M runs on 4.20 kernel, whereas
Hikey960 uses 4.15 kernel.  I have both system which could run on 5.1-rc1
as well, but the results have not been ready by time i an writing this.

Currently it consist of 8 tests.  There are three of them which correspond
to different types of splitting(to compare with default).  We have 3
ones(see above).  Another 5 do allocations in different conditions.

a) sudo ./test_vmalloc.sh performance

When the test driver is run in "performance" mode, it runs all available
tests pinned to first online CPU with sequential execution test order.  We
do it in order to get stable and repeatable results.  Take a look at time
difference in "long_busy_list_alloc_test".  It is not surprising because
the worst case is O(N).

# i5-3320M
How many cycles all tests took:
CPU0=646919905370(default) cycles vs CPU0=193290498550(patched) cycles

# See detailed table with results here:
ftp://vps418301.ovh.net/incoming/vmap_test_results_v2/i5-3320M_performance_default.txt
ftp://vps418301.ovh.net/incoming/vmap_test_results_v2/i5-3320M_performance_patched.txt

# Hikey960 8x CPUs
How many cycles all tests took:
CPU0=3478683207 cycles vs CPU0=463767978 cycles

# See detailed table with results here:
ftp://vps418301.ovh.net/incoming/vmap_test_results_v2/HiKey960_performance_default.txt
ftp://vps418301.ovh.net/incoming/vmap_test_results_v2/HiKey960_performance_patched.txt

b) time sudo ./test_vmalloc.sh test_repeat_count=1

With this configuration, all tests are run on all available online CPUs.
Before running each CPU shuffles its tests execution order.  It gives
random allocation behaviour.  So it is rough comparison, but it puts in
the picture for sure.

# i5-3320M
            vs            
real    101m22.813s                real    0m56.805s
user    0m0.011s                   user    0m0.015s
sys     0m5.076s                   sys     0m0.023s

# See detailed table with results here:
ftp://vps418301.ovh.net/incoming/vmap_test_results_v2/i5-3320M_test_repeat_count_1_default.txt
ftp://vps418301.ovh.net/incoming/vmap_test_results_v2/i5-3320M_test_repeat_count_1_patched.txt

# Hikey960 8x CPUs
            vs            
real    unknown                    real    4m25.214s
user    unknown                    user    0m0.011s
sys     unknown                    sys     0m0.670s

I did not manage to complete this test on "default Hikey960" kernel
version.  After 24 hours it was still running, therefore i had to cancel
it.  That is why real/user/sys are "unknown".

This patch (of 3):

Currently an allocation of the new vmap area is done over busy list
iteration(complexity O(n)) until a suitable hole is found between two busy
areas.  Therefore each new allocation causes the list being grown.  Due to
over fragmented list and different permissive parameters an allocation can
take a long time.  For example on embedded devices it is milliseconds.

This patch organizes the KVA memory layout into free areas of the
1-ULONG_MAX range.  It uses an augment red-black tree that keeps blocks
sorted by their offsets in pair with linked list keeping the free space in
order of increasing addresses.

Nodes are augmented with the size of the maximum available free block in
its left or right sub-tree.  Thus, that allows to take a decision and
traversal toward the block that will fit and will have the lowest start
address, i.e.  it is sequential allocation.

Allocation: to allocate a new block a search is done over the tree until a
suitable lowest(left most) block is large enough to encompass: the
requested size, alignment and vstart point.  If the block is bigger than
requested size - it is split.

De-allocation: when a busy vmap area is freed it can either be merged or
inserted to the tree.  Red-black tree allows efficiently find a spot
whereas a linked list provides a constant-time access to previous and next
blocks to check if merging can be done.  In case of merging of
de-allocated memory chunk a large coalesced area is created.

Complexity: ~O(log(N))

[urezki@gmail.com: v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402162531.10888-2-urezki@gmail.com
[urezki@gmail.com: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190406183508.25273-2-urezki@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190321190327.11813-2-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Thomas Garnier 
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc.c: convert vmap_lazy_nr to atomic_long_t

2019-05-15T02:52:48+00:00

vmap_lazy_nr variable has atomic_t type that is 4 bytes integer value on
both 32 and 64 bit systems.  lazy_max_pages() deals with "unsigned long"
that is 8 bytes on 64 bit system, thus vmap_lazy_nr should be 8 bytes on
64 bit as well.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190131162452.25879-1-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Thomas Garnier 
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc.c: add priority threshold to __purge_vmap_area_lazy()

2019-05-15T02:52:48+00:00

Commit 763b218ddfaf ("mm: add preempt points into __purge_vmap_area_lazy()")
introduced some preempt points, one of those is making an allocation
more prioritized over lazy free of vmap areas.

Prioritizing an allocation over freeing does not work well all the time,
i.e.  it should be rather a compromise.

1) Number of lazy pages directly influences the busy list length thus
   on operations like: allocation, lookup, unmap, remove, etc.

2) Under heavy stress of vmalloc subsystem I run into a situation when
   memory usage gets increased hitting out_of_memory -> panic state due to
   completely blocking of logic that frees vmap areas in the
   __purge_vmap_area_lazy() function.

Establish a threshold passing which the freeing is prioritized back over
allocation creating a balance between each other.

Using vmalloc test driver in "stress mode", i.e.  When all available
test cases are run simultaneously on all online CPUs applying a
pressure on the vmalloc subsystem, my HiKey 960 board runs out of
memory due to the fact that __purge_vmap_area_lazy() logic simply is
not able to free pages in time.

How I run it:

1) You should build your kernel with CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC=m
2) ./tools/testing/selftests/vm/test_vmalloc.sh stress

During this test "vmap_lazy_nr" pages will go far beyond acceptable
lazy_max_pages() threshold, that will lead to enormous busy list size
and other problems including allocation time and so on.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124115648.9433-3-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Thomas Garnier 
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc: Add flag for freeing of special permsissions

2019-04-30T10:37:58+00:00

Add a new flag VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, for enabling vfree operations to
immediately clear executable TLB entries before freeing pages, and handle
resetting permissions on the directmap. This flag is useful for any kind
of memory with elevated permissions, or where there can be related
permissions changes on the directmap. Today this is RO+X and RO memory.

Although this enables directly vfreeing non-writeable memory now,
non-writable memory cannot be freed in an interrupt because the allocation
itself is used as a node on deferred free list. So when RO memory needs to
be freed in an interrupt the code doing the vfree needs to have its own
work queue, as was the case before the deferred vfree list was added to
vmalloc.

For architectures with set_direct_map_ implementations this whole operation
can be done with one TLB flush when centralized like this. For others with
directmap permissions, currently only arm64, a backup method using
set_memory functions is used to reset the directmap. When arm64 adds
set_direct_map_ functions, this backup can be removed.

When the TLB is flushed to both remove TLB entries for the vmalloc range
mapping and the direct map permissions, the lazy purge operation could be
done to try to save a TLB flush later. However today vm_unmap_aliases
could flush a TLB range that does not include the directmap. So a helper
is added with extra parameters that can allow both the vmalloc address and
the direct mapping to be flushed during this operation. The behavior of the
normal vm_unmap_aliases function is unchanged.

Suggested-by: Dave Hansen 
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Suggested-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Nadav Amit 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426001143.4983-17-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

docs/core-api/mm: fix return value descriptions in mm/

2019-03-06T05:07:20+00:00

Many kernel-doc comments in mm/ have the return value descriptions
either misformatted or omitted at all which makes kernel-doc script
unhappy:

$ make V=1 htmldocs
...
./mm/util.c:36: info: Scanning doc for kstrdup
./mm/util.c:41: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrdup'
./mm/util.c:57: info: Scanning doc for kstrdup_const
./mm/util.c:66: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrdup_const'
./mm/util.c:75: info: Scanning doc for kstrndup
./mm/util.c:83: warning: No description found for return value of 'kstrndup'
...

Fixing the formatting and adding the missing return value descriptions
eliminates ~100 such warnings.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549549644-4903-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docs/mm: vmalloc: re-indent kernel-doc comemnts

2019-03-06T05:07:20+00:00

Some kernel-doc comments in mm/vmalloc.c have leading tab in
indentation.  This leads to excessive indentation in the generated HTML
and to the inconsistency of its layout ([1] vs [2]).

Besides, multi-line Note: sections are not handled properly with extra
indentation.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.20/core-api/mm-api.html?#c.vm_map_ram
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.20/core-api/mm-api.html?#c.vfree

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549549644-4903-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc.c: fix kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:512!

2019-03-06T05:07:17+00:00

One of the vmalloc stress test case triggers the kernel BUG():

  
  [60.562151] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [60.562154] kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:512!
  [60.562206] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  [60.562247] CPU: 0 PID: 430 Comm: vmalloc_test/0 Not tainted 4.20.0+ #161
  [60.562293] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
  [60.562351] RIP: 0010:alloc_vmap_area+0x36f/0x390
  

it can happen due to big align request resulting in overflowing of
calculated address, i.e.  it becomes 0 after ALIGN()'s fixup.

Fix it by checking if calculated address is within vstart/vend range.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124115648.9433-2-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Garnier 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds