kernel.git/mm/damon/core.c, branch linux-5.16.y

mm/damon/core: remove unnecessary error messages

2021-12-11T01:10:55Z

DAMON core prints error messages when damon_target object creation is failed or wrong monitoring attributes are given. Because appropriate error code is returned for each case, the messages are not essential. Also, because the code path can be triggered with user-specified input, this could result in kernel log mistakenly being messy. To avoid the case, this commit removes the messages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211201150440.1088-4-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 4bc05954d007 ("mm/damon: implement a debugfs-based user space interface") Fixes: b9a6ac4e4ede ("mm/damon: adaptively adjust regions") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: kernel test robot Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon/core: use better timer mechanisms selection threshold

2021-12-11T01:10:55Z

Patch series "mm/damon: Trivial fixups and improvements". This patchset contains trivial fixups and improvements for DAMON and its kunit/kselftest tests. This patch (of 11): DAMON is using hrtimer if requested sleep time is <=100ms, while the suggested threshold[1] is <=20ms. This commit applies the threshold. [1] Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211201150440.1088-2-sj@kernel.org Fixes: ee801b7dd7822 ("mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Brendan Higgins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon/core: fix fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps

2021-12-11T01:10:55Z

Because DAMON sleeps in uninterruptible mode, /proc/loadavg reports fake load while DAMON is turned on, though it is doing nothing. This can confuse users[1]. To avoid the case, this commit makes DAMON sleeps in idle mode. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/11868371.O9o76ZdvQC@natalenko.name/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211126145015.15862-3-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 2224d8485492 ("mm: introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)") Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Cc: John Stultz Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message

2021-11-06T20:30:46Z

There are a few spelling mistakes in the code. Fix these. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211028184157.614544-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism

2021-11-06T20:30:46Z

A kernel thread can exit gracefully with kthread_stop(). So we don't need a new flag 'kdamond_stop'. And to make sure the task struct is not freed when accessing it, get reference to it before termination. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027130517.4404-1-changbin.du@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Changbin Du Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on

2021-11-06T20:30:46Z

When the ctx->adaptive_targets list is empty, I did some test on monitor_on interface like this. # cat /sys/kernel/debug/damon/target_ids # # echo on > /sys/kernel/debug/damon/monitor_on # damon: kdamond (5390) starts Though the ctx->adaptive_targets list is empty, but the kthread_run still be called, and the kdamond.x thread still be created, this is meaningless. So there adds a judgment in 'dbgfs_monitor_on_write', if the ctx->adaptive_targets list is empty, return -EINVAL. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a60a6e8ec9d71989e0848a4dc3311996ca3b5d4.1634720326.git.xhao@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Xin Hao Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism

2021-11-06T20:30:45Z

DAMON-based operation schemes need to be manually turned on and off. In some use cases, however, the condition for turning a scheme on and off would depend on the system's situation. For example, schemes for proactive pages reclamation would need to be turned on when some memory pressure is detected, and turned off when the system has enough free memory. For easier control of schemes activation based on the system situation, this introduces a watermarks-based mechanism. The client can describe the watermark metric (e.g., amount of free memory in the system), watermark check interval, and three watermarks, namely high, mid, and low. If the scheme is deactivated, it only gets the metric and compare that to the three watermarks for every check interval. If the metric is higher than the high watermark, the scheme is deactivated. If the metric is between the mid watermark and the low watermark, the scheme is activated. If the metric is lower than the low watermark, the scheme is deactivated again. This is to allow users fall back to traditional page-granularity mechanisms. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-12-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Amit Shah Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Leonard Foerster Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Markus Boehme Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas

2021-11-06T20:30:45Z

This makes DAMON apply schemes to regions having higher priority first, if it cannot apply schemes to all regions due to the quotas. The prioritization function should be implemented in the monitoring primitives. Those would commonly calculate the priority of the region using attributes of regions, namely 'size', 'nr_accesses', and 'age'. For example, some primitive would calculate the priority of each region using a weighted sum of 'nr_accesses' and 'age' of the region. The optimal weights would depend on give environments, so this makes those customizable. Nevertheless, the score calculation functions are only encouraged to respect the weights, not mandated. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Amit Shah Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Leonard Foerster Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Markus Boehme Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon/schemes: implement time quota

2021-11-06T20:30:45Z

The size quota feature of DAMOS is useful for IO resource-critical systems, but not so intuitive for CPU time-critical systems. Systems using zram or zswap-like swap device would be examples. To provide another intuitive ways for such systems, this implements time-based quota for DAMON-based Operation Schemes. If the quota is set, DAMOS tries to use only up to the user-defined quota of CPU time within a given time window. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Amit Shah Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Leonard Foerster Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Markus Boehme Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/damon/schemes: skip already charged targets and regions

2021-11-06T20:30:45Z

If DAMOS has stopped applying action in the middle of a group of memory regions due to its size quota, it starts the work again from the beginning of the address space in the next charge window. If there is a huge memory region at the beginning of the address space and it fulfills the scheme's target data access pattern always, the action will applied to only the region. This mitigates the case by skipping memory regions that charged in current charge window at the beginning of next charge window. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Amit Shah Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Leonard Foerster Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Markus Boehme Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds