kernel.git/mm/vmscan.c, branch linux-5.7.y

mm/vmscan: remove unnecessary argument description of isolate_lru_pages()

2020-05-08T02:27:21Z

Since commit a9e7c39fa9fd9 ("mm/vmscan.c: remove 7th argument of isolate_lru_pages()"), the explanation of 'mode' argument has been unnecessary. Let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Qiwu Chen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200501090346.2894-1-chenqiwu@xiaomi.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: code cleanup for MADV_FREE

2020-04-07T17:43:38Z

Some comments for MADV_FREE is revised and added to help people understand the MADV_FREE code, especially the page flag, PG_swapbacked. This makes page_is_file_cache() isn't consistent with its comments. So the function is renamed to page_is_file_lru() to make them consistent again. All these are put in one patch as one logical change. Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner Suggested-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317100342.2730705-1-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmscan.c: do_try_to_free_pages(): clean code by removing unnecessary assignment

2020-04-02T16:35:31Z

sc->memcg_low_skipped resets skipped_deactivate to 0 but this is not needed as this code path is never reachable with skipped_deactivate != 0 due to previous sc->skipped_deactivate branch. [mhocko@kernel.org: rewrite changelog] Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200319165938.23354-1-mateusznosek0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmscan.c: make may_enter_fs bool in shrink_page_list()

2020-04-02T16:35:31Z

This gives some size improvement: $size mm/vmscan.o (before) text data bss dec hex filename 53670 24123 12 77805 12fed mm/vmscan.o $size mm/vmscan.o (after) text data bss dec hex filename 53648 24123 12 77783 12fd7 mm/vmscan.o Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/Message-ID: Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmscan.c: clean code by removing unnecessary assignment

2020-04-02T16:35:31Z

Previously 0 was assigned to variable 'lruvec_size', but the variable was never read later. So the assignment can be removed. Fixes: f87bccde6a7d ("mm/vmscan: remove unused lru_pages argument") Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200229214022.11853-1-mateusznosek0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmscan.c: fix data races using kswapd_classzone_idx

2020-04-02T16:35:31Z

pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx could be accessed concurrently in wakeup_kswapd(). Plain writes and reads without any lock protection result in data races. Fix them by adding a pair of READ|WRITE_ONCE() as well as saving a branch (compilers might well optimize the original code in an unintentional way anyway). While at it, also take care of pgdat->kswapd_order and non-kswapd threads in allow_direct_reclaim(). The data races were reported by KCSAN, BUG: KCSAN: data-race in wakeup_kswapd / wakeup_kswapd write to 0xffff9f427ffff2dc of 4 bytes by task 7454 on cpu 13: wakeup_kswapd+0xf1/0x400 wakeup_kswapd at mm/vmscan.c:3967 wake_all_kswapds+0x59/0xc0 wake_all_kswapds at mm/page_alloc.c:4241 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xdcc/0x1290 __alloc_pages_slowpath at mm/page_alloc.c:4512 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3bb/0x450 alloc_pages_vma+0x8a/0x2c0 do_anonymous_page+0x16e/0x6f0 __handle_mm_fault+0xcd5/0xd40 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9 page_fault+0x34/0x40 1 lock held by mtest01/7454: #0: ffff9f425afe8808 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}, at: do_page_fault+0x143/0x6f9 do_user_addr_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1405 (inlined by) do_page_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1539 irq event stamp: 6944085 count_memcg_event_mm+0x1a6/0x270 count_memcg_event_mm+0x119/0x270 __do_softirq+0x34c/0x57c irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0 read to 0xffff9f427ffff2dc of 4 bytes by task 7472 on cpu 38: wakeup_kswapd+0xc8/0x400 wake_all_kswapds+0x59/0xc0 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xdcc/0x1290 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3bb/0x450 alloc_pages_vma+0x8a/0x2c0 do_anonymous_page+0x16e/0x6f0 __handle_mm_fault+0xcd5/0xd40 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9 page_fault+0x34/0x40 1 lock held by mtest01/7472: #0: ffff9f425a9ac148 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}, at: do_page_fault+0x143/0x6f9 irq event stamp: 6793561 count_memcg_event_mm+0x1a6/0x270 count_memcg_event_mm+0x119/0x270 __do_softirq+0x34c/0x57c irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in kswapd / wakeup_kswapd write to 0xffff90973ffff2dc of 4 bytes by task 820 on cpu 6: kswapd+0x27c/0x8d0 kthread+0x1e0/0x200 ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50 read to 0xffff90973ffff2dc of 4 bytes by task 6299 on cpu 0: wakeup_kswapd+0xf3/0x450 wake_all_kswapds+0x59/0xc0 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xdcc/0x1290 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3bb/0x450 alloc_pages_vma+0x8a/0x2c0 do_anonymous_page+0x170/0x700 __handle_mm_fault+0xc9f/0xd00 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x6f9 page_fault+0x34/0x40 Signed-off-by: Qian Cai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Matthew Wilcox Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1582749472-5171-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmscan.c: remove cpu online notification for now

2020-04-02T16:35:31Z

kswapd kernel thread starts either with a CPU affinity set to the full cpu mask of its target node or without any affinity at all if the node is CPUless. There is a cpu hotplug callback (kswapd_cpu_online) that implements an elaborate way to update this mask when a cpu is onlined. It is not really clear whether there is any actual benefit from this scheme. Completely CPU-less NUMA nodes rarely gain a new CPU during runtime. Drop the code for that reason. If there is a real usecase then we can resurrect and simplify the code. [mhocko@suse.com rewrite changelog] Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200218224422.3407-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmscan: replace open codings to NUMA_NO_NODE

2020-04-02T16:35:31Z

The commit 98fa15f34cb3 ("mm: replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE") did the replacement across the kernel tree, but we got some more in vmscan.c since then. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Acked-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: David Rientjes Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581568298-45317-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: swap: make page_evictable() inline

2020-04-02T16:35:27Z

When backporting commit 9c4e6b1a7027 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs") to our 4.9 kernel, our test bench noticed around 10% down with a couple of vm-scalability's test cases (lru-file-readonce, lru-file-readtwice and lru-file-mmap-read). I didn't see that much down on my VM (32c-64g-2nodes). It might be caused by the test configuration, which is 32c-256g with NUMA disabled and the tests were run in root memcg, so the tests actually stress only one inactive and active lru. It sounds not very usual in mordern production environment. That commit did two major changes: 1. Call page_evictable() 2. Use smp_mb to force the PG_lru set visible It looks they contribute the most overhead. The page_evictable() is a function which does function prologue and epilogue, and that was used by page reclaim path only. However, lru add is a very hot path, so it sounds better to make it inline. However, it calls page_mapping() which is not inlined either, but the disassemble shows it doesn't do push and pop operations and it sounds not very straightforward to inline it. Other than this, it sounds smp_mb() is not necessary for x86 since SetPageLRU is atomic which enforces memory barrier already, replace it with smp_mb__after_atomic() in the following patch. With the two fixes applied, the tests can get back around 5% on that test bench and get back normal on my VM. Since the test bench configuration is not that usual and I also saw around 6% up on the latest upstream, so it sounds good enough IMHO. The below is test data (lru-file-readtwice throughput) against the v5.6-rc4: mainline w/ inline fix 150MB 154MB With this patch the throughput gets 2.67% up. The data with using smp_mb__after_atomic() is showed in the following patch. Shakeel Butt did the below test: On a real machine with limiting the 'dd' on a single node and reading 100 GiB sparse file (less than a single node). Just ran a single instance to not cause the lru lock contention. The cmdline used is "dd if=file-100GiB of=/dev/null bs=4k". Ran the cmd 10 times with drop_caches in between and measured the time it took. Without patch: 56.64143 +- 0.672 sec With patches: 56.10 +- 0.21 sec [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move page_evictable() to internal.h] Fixes: 9c4e6b1a7027 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs") Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: Shakeel Butt Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584500541-46817-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmscan.c: don't round up scan size for online memory cgroup

2020-02-21T19:22:15Z

Commit 68600f623d69 ("mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error") makes the scan size round up to @denominator regardless of the memory cgroup's state, online or offline. This affects the overall reclaiming behavior: the corresponding LRU list is eligible for reclaiming only when its size logically right shifted by @sc->priority is bigger than zero in the former formula. For example, the inactive anonymous LRU list should have at least 0x4000 pages to be eligible for reclaiming when we have 60/12 for swappiness/priority and without taking scan/rotation ratio into account. After the roundup is applied, the inactive anonymous LRU list becomes eligible for reclaiming when its size is bigger than or equal to 0x1000 in the same condition. (0x4000 >> 12) * 60 / (60 + 140 + 1) = 1 ((0x1000 >> 12) * 60) + 200) / (60 + 140 + 1) = 1 aarch64 has 512MB huge page size when the base page size is 64KB. The memory cgroup that has a huge page is always eligible for reclaiming in that case. The reclaiming is likely to stop after the huge page is reclaimed, meaing the further iteration on @sc->priority and the silbing and child memory cgroups will be skipped. The overall behaviour has been changed. This fixes the issue by applying the roundup to offlined memory cgroups only, to give more preference to reclaim memory from offlined memory cgroup. It sounds reasonable as those memory is unlikedly to be used by anyone. The issue was found by starting up 8 VMs on a Ampere Mustang machine, which has 8 CPUs and 16 GB memory. Each VM is given with 2 vCPUs and 2GB memory. It took 264 seconds for all VMs to be completely up and 784MB swap is consumed after that. With this patch applied, it took 236 seconds and 60MB swap to do same thing. So there is 10% performance improvement for my case. Note that KSM is disable while THP is enabled in the testing. total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 16196 10065 2049 16 4081 3749 Swap: 8175 784 7391 total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 16196 11324 3656 24 1215 2936 Swap: 8175 60 8115 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211024514.8730-1-gshan@redhat.com Fixes: 68600f623d69 ("mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error") Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: [4.20+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds