kernel.git/mm/huge_memory.c, branch linux-5.5.y

mm: fix possible PMD dirty bit lost in set_pmd_migration_entry()

2020-03-12T06:18:32Z

commit 8a8683ad9ba48b4b52a57f013513d1635c1ca5c4 upstream. In set_pmd_migration_entry(), pmdp_invalidate() is used to change PMD atomically. But the PMD is read before that with an ordinary memory reading. If the THP (transparent huge page) is written between the PMD reading and pmdp_invalidate(), the PMD dirty bit may be lost, and cause data corruption. The race window is quite small, but still possible in theory, so need to be fixed. The race is fixed via using the return value of pmdp_invalidate() to get the original content of PMD, which is a read/modify/write atomic operation. So no THP writing can occur in between. The race has been introduced when the THP migration support is added in the commit 616b8371539a ("mm: thp: enable thp migration in generic path"). But this fix depends on the commit d52605d7cb30 ("mm: do not lose dirty and accessed bits in pmdp_invalidate()"). So it's easy to be backported after v4.16. But the race window is really small, so it may be fine not to backport the fix at all. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: William Kucharski Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220075220.2327056-1-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, thp: fix defrag setting if newline is not used

2020-03-05T15:45:25Z

commit f42f25526502d851d0e3ca1e46297da8aafce8a7 upstream. If thp defrag setting "defer" is used and a newline is *not* used when writing to the sysfs file, this is interpreted as the "defer+madvise" option. This is because we do prefix matching and if five characters are written without a newline, the current code ends up comparing to the first five bytes of the "defer+madvise" option and using that instead. Use the more appropriate sysfs_streq() that handles the trailing newline for us. Since this doubles as a nice cleanup, do it in enabled_store() as well. The current implementation relies on prefix matching: the number of bytes compared is either the number of bytes written or the length of the option being compared. With a newline, "defer\n" does not match "defer+"madvise"; without a newline, however, "defer" is considered to match "defer+madvise" (prefix matching is only comparing the first five bytes). End result is that writing "defer" is broken unless it has an additional trailing character. This means that writing "madv" in the past would match and set "madvise". With strict checking, that no longer is the case but it is unlikely anybody is currently doing this. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2001171411020.56385@chino.kir.corp.google.com Fixes: 21440d7eb904 ("mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option") Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory.c: use head to check huge zero page

2020-03-05T15:45:25Z

commit cb829624867b5ab10bc6a7036d183b1b82bfe9f8 upstream. The page could be a tail page, if this is the case, this BUG_ON will never be triggered. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110032610.26499-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com Fixes: e9b61f19858a ("thp: reintroduce split_huge_page()") Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory.c: thp: fix conflict of above-47bit hint address and PMD alignment

2020-01-14T02:19:01Z

Patch series "Fix two above-47bit hint address vs. THP bugs". The two get_unmapped_area() implementations have to be fixed to provide THP-friendly mappings if above-47bit hint address is specified. This patch (of 2): Filesystems use thp_get_unmapped_area() to provide THP-friendly mappings. For DAX in particular. Normally, the kernel doesn't create userspace mappings above 47-bit, even if the machine allows this (such as with 5-level paging on x86-64). Not all user space is ready to handle wide addresses. It's known that at least some JIT compilers use higher bits in pointers to encode their information. Userspace can ask for allocation from full address space by specifying hint address (with or without MAP_FIXED) above 47-bits. If the application doesn't need a particular address, but wants to allocate from whole address space it can specify -1 as a hint address. Unfortunately, this trick breaks thp_get_unmapped_area(): the function would not try to allocate PMD-aligned area if *any* hint address specified. Modify the routine to handle it correctly: - Try to allocate the space at the specified hint address with length padding required for PMD alignment. - If failed, retry without length padding (but with the same hint address); - If the returned address matches the hint address return it. - Otherwise, align the address as required for THP and return. The user specified hint address is passed down to get_unmapped_area() so above-47bit hint address will be taken into account without breaking alignment requirements. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191220142548.7118-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Fixes: b569bab78d8d ("x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reported-by: Thomas Willhalm Tested-by: Dan Williams Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" Cc: "Bruggeman, Otto G" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/huge_memory.c: split_huge_pages_fops should be defined with DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE

2019-12-01T20:59:09Z

split_huge_pages_fops is used for debugfs file. hence, it is more clear to use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1572347674-8111-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhong jiang Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/thp: fix node page state in split_huge_page_to_list()

2019-10-19T10:32:32Z

Make sure split_huge_page_to_list() handles the state of shmem THP and file THP properly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191017164223.2762148-3-songliubraving@fb.com Fixes: 60fbf0ab5da1 ("mm,thp: stats for file backed THP") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Song Liu Tested-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Yang Shi Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: William Kucharski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'hugepage-fallbacks' (hugepatch patches from David Rientjes)

2019-09-28T21:26:47Z

Merge hugepage allocation updates from David Rientjes: "We (mostly Linus, Andrea, and myself) have been discussing offlist how to implement a sane default allocation strategy for hugepages on NUMA platforms. With these reverts in place, the page allocator will happily allocate a remote hugepage immediately rather than try to make a local hugepage available. This incurs a substantial performance degradation when memory compaction would have otherwise made a local hugepage available. This series reverts those reverts and attempts to propose a more sane default allocation strategy specifically for hugepages. Andrea acknowledges this is likely to fix the swap storms that he originally reported that resulted in the patches that removed __GFP_THISNODE from hugepage allocations. The immediate goal is to return 5.3 to the behavior the kernel has implemented over the past several years so that remote hugepages are not immediately allocated when local hugepages could have been made available because the increased access latency is untenable. The next goal is to introduce a sane default allocation strategy for hugepages allocations in general regardless of the configuration of the system so that we prevent thrashing of local memory when compaction is unlikely to succeed and can prefer remote hugepages over remote native pages when the local node is low on memory." Note on timing: this reverts the hugepage VM behavior changes that got introduced fairly late in the 5.3 cycle, and that fixed a huge performance regression for certain loads that had been around since 4.18. Andrea had this note: "The regression of 4.18 was that it was taking hours to start a VM where 3.10 was only taking a few seconds, I reported all the details on lkml when it was finally tracked down in August 2018. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180820032640.9896-2-aarcange@redhat.com/ __GFP_THISNODE in MADV_HUGEPAGE made the above enterprise vfio workload degrade like in the "current upstream" above. And it still would have been that bad as above until 5.3-rc5" where the bad behavior ends up happening as you fill up a local node, and without that change, you'd get into the nasty swap storm behavior due to compaction working overtime to make room for more memory on the nodes. As a result 5.3 got the two performance fix reverts in rc5. However, David Rientjes then noted that those performance fixes in turn regressed performance for other loads - although not quite to the same degree. He suggested reverting the reverts and instead replacing them with two small changes to how hugepage allocations are done (patch descriptions rephrased by me): - "avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed": just admit that the allocation failed when you're trying to allocate a huge-page and compaction wasn't successful. - "allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised": when that node-local huge-page allocation failed, retry without forcing the local node. but by then I judged it too late to replace the fixes for a 5.3 release. So 5.3 was released with behavior that harked back to the pre-4.18 logic. But now we're in the merge window for 5.4, and we can see if this alternate model fixes not just the horrendous swap storm behavior, but also restores the performance regression that the late reverts caused. Fingers crossed. * emailed patches from David Rientjes : mm, page_alloc: allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised mm, page_alloc: avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed Revert "Revert "Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask"" Revert "Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations""

Revert "Revert "Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask""

2019-09-28T21:05:38Z

This reverts commit 92717d429b38e4f9f934eed7e605cc42858f1839. Since commit a8282608c88e ("Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations"") is reverted in this series, it is better to restore the previous 5.2 behavior between the thp allocation and the page allocator rather than to attempt any consolidation or cleanup for a policy that is now reverted. It's less risky during an rc cycle and subsequent patches in this series further modify the same policy that the pre-5.3 behavior implements. Consolidation and cleanup can be done subsequent to a sane default page allocation strategy, so this patch reverts a cleanup done on a strategy that is now reverted and thus is the least risky option. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations""

2019-09-28T21:05:38Z

This reverts commit a8282608c88e08b1782141026eab61204c1e533f. The commit references the original intended semantic for MADV_HUGEPAGE which has subsequently taken on three unique purposes: - enables or disables thp for a range of memory depending on the system's config (is thp "enabled" set to "always" or "madvise"), - determines the synchronous compaction behavior for thp allocations at fault (is thp "defrag" set to "always", "defer+madvise", or "madvise"), and - reverts a previous MADV_NOHUGEPAGE (there is no madvise mode to only clear previous hugepage advice). These are the three purposes that currently exist in 5.2 and over the past several years that userspace has been written around. Adding a NUMA locality preference adds a fourth dimension to an already conflated advice mode. Based on the semantic that MADV_HUGEPAGE has provided over the past several years, there exist workloads that use the tunable based on these principles: specifically that the allocation should attempt to defragment a local node before falling back. It is agreed that remote hugepages typically (but not always) have a better access latency than remote native pages, although on Naples this is at parity for intersocket. The revert commit that this patch reverts allows hugepage allocation to immediately allocate remotely when local memory is fragmented. This is contrary to the semantic of MADV_HUGEPAGE over the past several years: that is, memory compaction should be attempted locally before falling back. The performance degradation of remote hugepages over local hugepages on Rome, for example, is 53.5% increased access latency. For this reason, the goal is to revert back to the 5.2 and previous behavior that would attempt local defragmentation before falling back. With the patch that is reverted by this patch, we see performance degradations at the tail because the allocator happily allocates the remote hugepage rather than even attempting to make a local hugepage available. zone_reclaim_mode is not a solution to this problem since it does not only impact hugepage allocations but rather changes the memory allocation strategy for *all* page allocations. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware

2019-09-24T22:54:11Z

Currently THP deferred split shrinker is not memcg aware, this may cause premature OOM with some configuration. For example the below test would run into premature OOM easily: $ cgcreate -g memory:thp $ echo 4G > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/thp/memory/limit_in_bytes $ cgexec -g memory:thp transhuge-stress 4000 transhuge-stress comes from kernel selftest. It is easy to hit OOM, but there are still a lot THP on the deferred split queue, memcg direct reclaim can't touch them since the deferred split shrinker is not memcg aware. Convert deferred split shrinker memcg aware by introducing per memcg deferred split queue. The THP should be on either per node or per memcg deferred split queue if it belongs to a memcg. When the page is immigrated to the other memcg, it will be immigrated to the target memcg's deferred split queue too. Reuse the second tail page's deferred_list for per memcg list since the same THP can't be on multiple deferred split queues. [yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: simplify deferred split queue dereference per Kirill Tkhai] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566496227-84952-5-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565144277-36240-5-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Qian Cai Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds