- 16 Jan, 2016 40 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
In earlier versions, mem_cgroup_css_from_page() could return non-root css on a legacy hierarchy which can go away and required rcu locking; however, the eventual version simply returns the root cgroup if memcg is on a legacy hierarchy and thus doesn't need rcu locking around or in it. Remove spurious rcu lockings. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wang Xiaoqiang authored
Use "IS_ALIGNED" to judge the alignment, rather than directly judging. Signed-off-by:
Wang Xiaoqiang <wang_xiaoq@126.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
allmodconfig produces following warning for me: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x10314): Section mismatch in reference from the function movable_node_is_enabled() to the variable .meminit.data:movable_node_enabled The function movable_node_is_enabled() references the variable __meminitdata movable_node_enabled. This is often because movable_node_is_enabled lacks a __meminitdata annotation or the annotation of movable_node_enabled is wrong. Let's mark the function with __meminit. It fixes the warning. Signed-off-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dominik Dingel authored
By passing a non-null flag we allow fixup_user_fault to retry, which enables userfaultfd. As during these retries we might drop the mmap_sem we need to check if that happened and redo the complete chain of actions. Signed-off-by:
Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: "Jason J. Herne" <jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dominik Dingel authored
During Jason's work with postcopy migration support for s390 a problem regarding gmap faults was discovered. The gmap code will call fixup_user_fault which will end up always in handle_mm_fault. Till now we never cared about retries, but as the userfaultfd code kind of relies on it. this needs some fix. This patchset does not take care of the futex code. I will now look closer at this. This patch (of 2): With the introduction of userfaultfd, kvm on s390 needs fixup_user_fault to pass in FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY and give feedback if during the faulting we ever unlocked mmap_sem. This patch brings in the logic to handle retries as well as it cleans up the current documentation. fixup_user_fault was not having the same semantics as filemap_fault. It never indicated if a retry happened and so a caller wasn't able to handle that case. So we now changed the behaviour to always retry a locked mmap_sem. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Now that the get_user_pages() path knows how to handle dax-pmd mappings, remove the protections that disabled dax-pmd support. Tests available from github.com/pmem/ndctl: make TESTS="lib/test-dax.sh lib/test-mmap.sh" check Signed-off-by:Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
There is a wide gamut of conditions that can trigger the dax pmd path to fallback to pte mappings. Ideally we'd have a syscall interface to determine mapping characteristics after the fact. In the meantime provide debug messages. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
A dax mapping establishes a pte with _PAGE_DEVMAP set when the driver has established a devm_memremap_pages() mapping, i.e. when the pfn_t return from ->direct_access() has PFN_DEV and PFN_MAP set. Later, when encountering _PAGE_DEVMAP during a page table walk we lookup and pin a struct dev_pagemap instance to keep the result of pfn_to_page() valid until put_page(). Signed-off-by:
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
A dax-huge-page mapping while it uses some thp helpers is ultimately not a transparent huge page. The distinction is especially important in the get_user_pages() path. pmd_devmap() is used to distinguish dax-pmds from pmd_huge() and pmd_trans_huge() which have slightly different semantics. Explicitly mark the pmd_trans_huge() helpers that dax needs by adding pmd_devmap() checks. [kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: fix regression in handling mlocked pages in __split_huge_pmd()] Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
get_dev_page() enables paths like get_user_pages() to pin a dynamically mapped pfn-range (devm_memremap_pages()) while the resulting struct page objects are in use. Unlike get_page() it may fail if the device is, or is in the process of being, disabled. While the initial lookup of the range may be an expensive list walk, the result is cached to speed up subsequent lookups which are likely to be in the same mapped range. devm_memremap_pages() now requires a reference counter to be specified at init time. For pmem this means moving request_queue allocation into pmem_alloc() so the existing queue usage counter can track "device pages". ZONE_DEVICE pages always have an elevated count and will never be on an lru reclaim list. That space in 'struct page' can be redirected for other uses, but for safety introduce a poison value that will always trip __list_add() to assert. This allows half of the struct list_head storage to be reclaimed with some assurance to back up the assumption that the page count never goes to zero and a list_add() is never attempted. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Before the dynamically allocated struct pages from devm_memremap_pages() can be put to use outside the driver, we need a mechanism to track whether they are still in use at teardown. Towards that goal reorder the initialization sequence to allow the 'q_usage_counter' from the request_queue to be used by the devm_memremap_pages() implementation (in subsequent patches). Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Similar to the conversion of vm_insert_mixed() use pfn_t in the vmf_insert_pfn_pmd() to tag the resulting pte with _PAGE_DEVICE when the pfn is backed by a devm_memremap_pages() mapping. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Convert the raw unsigned long 'pfn' argument to pfn_t for the purpose of evaluating the PFN_MAP and PFN_DEV flags. When both are set it triggers _PAGE_DEVMAP to be set in the resulting pte. There are no functional changes to the gpu drivers as a result of this conversion. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
_PAGE_DEVMAP is a hardware-unused pte bit that will later be used in the get_user_pages() path to identify pfns backed by the dynamic allocation established by devm_memremap_pages. Upon seeing that bit the gup path will lookup and pin the allocation while the pages are in use. Since the _PAGE_DEVMAP bit is > 32 it must be cast to u64 instead of a pteval_t to allow pmd_flags() usage in the realmode boot code to build. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Take into account that the pmd_t type is a array inside a struct, so it needs two levels of brackets to initialize. Otherwise, a usage of __pmd generates a warning: include/linux/mm.h:986:2: warning: missing braces around initializer [-Wmissing-braces] Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Inlude asm/pgtable.h to get the definition for pud_t to fix: include/linux/hugetlb.h:203:29: error: unknown type name 'pud_t' Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Switch avr32/include/asm/page.h to use the common defintions for pfn_to_page(), page_to_pfn(), and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Use the new vmem_altmap capability to enable the pmem driver to arrange for a struct page memmap to be established in persistent memory. [linux@roeck-us.net: mn10300: declare __pfn_to_phys() to fix build error] Signed-off-by:
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
In support of providing struct page for large persistent memory capacities, use struct vmem_altmap to change the default policy for allocating memory for the memmap array. The default vmemmap_populate() allocates page table storage area from the page allocator. Given persistent memory capacities relative to DRAM it may not be feasible to store the memmap in 'System Memory'. Instead vmem_altmap represents pre-allocated "device pages" to satisfy vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() requests. Signed-off-by:
kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
There are several scenarios where we need to retrieve and update metadata associated with a given devm_memremap_pages() mapping, and the only lookup key available is a pfn in the range: 1/ We want to augment vmemmap_populate() (called via arch_add_memory()) to allocate memmap storage from pre-allocated pages reserved by the device driver. At vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() time it grabs device pages rather than page allocator pages. This is in support of devm_memremap_pages() mappings where the memmap is too large to fit in main memory (i.e. large persistent memory devices). 2/ Taking a reference against the mapping when inserting device pages into the address_space radix of a given inode. This facilitates unmap_mapping_range() and truncate_inode_pages() operations when the driver is tearing down the mapping. 3/ get_user_pages() operations on ZONE_DEVICE memory require taking a reference against the mapping so that the driver teardown path can revoke and drain usage of device pages. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
Prevent userspace from trying and failing to online ZONE_DEVICE pages which are meant to never be onlined. For example on platforms with a udev rule like the following: SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}=="offline", ATTR{state}="online" ...will generate futile attempts to online the ZONE_DEVICE sections. Example kernel messages: Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1004747 Policy zone: Normal online_pages [mem 0x248000000-0x24fffffff] failed Signed-off-by: -
Dan Williams authored
For the purpose of communicating the optional presence of a 'struct page' for the pfn returned from ->direct_access(), introduce a type that encapsulates a page-frame-number plus flags. These flags contain the historical "page_link" encoding for a scatterlist entry, but can also denote "device memory". Where "device memory" is a set of pfns that are not part of the kernel's linear mapping by default, but are accessed via the same memory controller as ram. The motivation for this new type is large capacity persistent memory that needs struct page entries in the 'memmap' to support 3rd party DMA (i.e. O_DIRECT I/O with a persistent memory source/target). However, we also need it in support of maintaining a list of mapped inodes which need to be unmapped at driver teardown or freeze_bdev() time. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
To date, we have implemented two I/O usage models for persistent memory, PMEM (a persistent "ram disk") and DAX (mmap persistent memory into userspace). This series adds a third, DAX-GUP, that allows DAX mappings to be the target of direct-i/o. It allows userspace to coordinate DMA/RDMA from/to persistent memory. The implementation leverages the ZONE_DEVICE mm-zone that went into 4.3-rc1 (also discussed at kernel summit) to flag pages that are owned and dynamically mapped by a device driver. The pmem driver, after mapping a persistent memory range into the system memmap via devm_memremap_pages(), arranges for DAX to distinguish pfn-only versus page-backed pmem-pfns via flags in the new pfn_t type. The DAX code, upon seeing a PFN_DEV+PFN_MAP flagged pfn, flags the resulting pte(s) inserted into the process page tables with a new _PAGE_DEVMAP flag. Later, when get_user_pages() is walking ptes it keys off _PAGE_DEVMAP to pin the device hosting the page range active. Finally, get_page() and put_page() are modified to take references against the device driver established page mapping. Finally, this need for "struct page" for persistent memory requires memory capacity to store the memmap array. Given the memmap array for a large pool of persistent may exhaust available DRAM introduce a mechanism to allocate the memmap from persistent memory. The new "struct vmem_altmap *" parameter to devm_memremap_pages() enables arch_add_memory() to use reserved pmem capacity rather than the page allocator. This patch (of 18): The core has developed a need for a "pfn_t" type [1]. Move the existing pfn_t in KVM to kvm_pfn_t [2]. [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002199.html [2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002218.htmlSigned-off-by:
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
The core has developed a need for a "pfn_t" type [1]. Convert the usage of pfn_t by usermode-linux to an unsigned long, and update pfn_to_phys() to drop its expectation of a typed pfn. [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-September/002199.htmlSigned-off-by:
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Toshi Kani authored
An infinite loop of PMD faults was observed when attempted to mlock() a private read-only PMD mmap'd range of a DAX file. __dax_pmd_fault() simply returns with VM_FAULT_FALLBACK when falling back to PTE on COW. However, __handle_mm_fault() returns without falling back to handle_pte_fault() because a PMD map is present in this case. Change __dax_pmd_fault() to split the PMD map, if present, before returning with VM_FAULT_FALLBACK. Signed-off-by:
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ross Zwisler authored
Prior to this change DAX PMD mappings that were made read-only were never able to be made writable again. This is because the code in insert_pfn_pmd() that calls pmd_mkdirty() and pmd_mkwrite() would skip these calls if the PMD already existed in the page table. Instead, if we are doing a write always mark the PMD entry as dirty and writeable. Without this code we can get into a condition where we mark the PMD as read-only, and then on a subsequent write fault we get into an infinite loop of PMD faults where we try unsuccessfully to make the PMD writeable. Signed-off-by:
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Reported-by:
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Dan Williams authored
The DAX implementation needs to protect new calls to ->direct_access() and usage of its return value against the driver for the underlying block device being disabled. Use blk_queue_enter()/blk_queue_exit() to hold off blk_cleanup_queue() from proceeding, or otherwise fail new mapping requests if the request_queue is being torn down. This also introduces blk_dax_ctl to simplify the interface from fs/dax.c through dax_map_atomic() to bdev_direct_access(). [willy@linux.intel.com: fix read() of a hole] Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
If a ->direct_access() implementation ever returns a map count less than PAGE_SIZE, catch the error in bdev_direct_access(). This simplifies error checking in upper layers. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
dax_clear_blocks is currently performing a cond_resched() after every PAGE_SIZE memset. We need not check so frequently, for example md-raid only calls cond_resched() at stripe granularity. Also, in preparation for introducing a dax_map_atomic() operation that temporarily pins a dax mapping move the call to cond_resched() to the outer loop. The worst case latency between calls to cond_resched() after this change is 500us the average latency is 133us. This is up from a 10us max and 4us average. Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Reviewed-by:
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Dan Williams authored
To date, we have implemented two I/O usage models for persistent memory, PMEM (a persistent "ram disk") and DAX (mmap persistent memory into userspace). This series adds a third, DAX-GUP, that allows DAX mappings to be the target of direct-i/o. It allows userspace to coordinate DMA/RDMA from/to persistent memory. The implementation leverages the ZONE_DEVICE mm-zone that went into 4.3-rc1 (also discussed at kernel summit) to flag pages that are owned and dynamically mapped by a device driver. The pmem driver, after mapping a persistent memory range into the system memmap via devm_memremap_pages(), arranges for DAX to distinguish pfn-only versus page-backed pmem-pfns via flags in the new pfn_t type. The DAX code, upon seeing a PFN_DEV+PFN_MAP flagged pfn, flags the resulting pte(s) inserted into the process page tables with a new _PAGE_DEVMAP flag. Later, when get_user_pages() is walking ptes it keys off _PAGE_DEVMAP to pin the device hosting the page range active. Finally, get_page() and put_page() are modified to take references against the device driver established page mapping. Finally, this need for "struct page" for persistent memory requires memory capacity to store the memmap array. Given the memmap array for a large pool of persistent may exhaust available DRAM introduce a mechanism to allocate the memmap from persistent memory. The new "struct vmem_altmap *" parameter to devm_memremap_pages() enables arch_add_memory() to use reserved pmem capacity rather than the page allocator. This patch (of 25): Both __dax_pmd_fault, and clear_pmem() were taking special steps to clear memory a page at a time to take advantage of non-temporal clear_page() implementations. However, x86_64 does not use non-temporal instructions for clear_page(), and arch_clear_pmem() was always incurring the cost of __arch_wb_cache_pmem(). Clean up the assumption that doing clear_pmem() a page at a time is more performant. Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Sasha Levin has reported KASAN out-of-bounds bug[1]. It points to "if (!is_swap_pte(pte[i]))" in unfreeze_page_vma() as a problematic access. The cause is that split_huge_page() doesn't handle THP correctly if it's not allingned to PMD boundary. It can happen after mremap(). Test-case (not always triggers the bug): #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #define MB (1024UL*1024) #define SIZE (2*MB) #define BASE ((void *)0x400000000000) int main() { char *p; p = mmap(BASE, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_POPULATE, -1, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) perror("mmap"), exit(1); p = mremap(BASE, SIZE, SIZE, MREMAP_FIXED | MREMAP_MAYMOVE, BASE + SIZE + 8192); if (p == MAP_FAILED) perror("mremap"), exit(1); system("echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/split_huge_pages"); return 0; } The patch fixes freeze and unfreeze paths to handle page table boundary crossing. It also makes mapcount vs count check in split_huge_page_to_list() stricter: - after freeze we don't expect any subpage mapped as we remove them from rmap when setting up migration entries; - count must be 1, meaning only caller has reference to the page; [1] https://gist.github.com/sashalevin/c67fbea55e7c0576972aSigned-off-by:Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
We don't need to split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called if [start, len] is aligned with THP size. The split could be done when VM decide to free it in reclaim path if memory pressure is heavy. With that, we could avoid unnecessary THP split. For the feature, this patch changes pte dirtness marking logic of THP. Now, it marks every ptes of pages dirty unconditionally in splitting, which makes MADV_FREE void. So, instead, this patch propagates pmd dirtiness to all pages via PG_dirty and restores pte dirtiness from PG_dirty. With this, if pmd is clean(ie, MADV_FREEed) when split happens(e,g, shrink_page_list), all of pages are clean too so we could discard them. Signed-off-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Jason Evans <je@fb.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mika Penttil <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
MADV_FREE needs pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for detecting recent overwrite of the contents since MADV_FREE syscall is called for THP page. This patch adds pmd_mkclean for THP page MADV_FREE support. Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
MADV_FREE needs pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for detecting recent overwrite of the contents since MADV_FREE syscall is called for THP page. This patch adds pmd_mkclean for THP page MADV_FREE support. Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
MADV_FREE needs pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for detecting recent overwrite of the contents since MADV_FREE syscall is called for THP page. This patch adds pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for THP page MADV_FREE support. Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
MADV_FREE needs pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for detecting recent overwrite of the contents since MADV_FREE syscall is called for THP page. This patch adds pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for THP page MADV_FREE support. Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
MADV_FREE needs pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for detecting recent overwrite of the contents since MADV_FREE syscall is called for THP page. This patch adds pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for THP page MADV_FREE support. Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
The MADV_FREE patchset changes page reclaim to simply free a clean anonymous page with no dirty ptes, instead of swapping it out; but KSM uses clean write-protected ptes to reference the stable ksm page. So be sure to mark that page dirty, so it's never mistakenly discarded. [hughd@google.com: adjusted comments] Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Jason Evans <je@fb.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mika Penttil <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
MADV_FREE is a hint that it's okay to discard pages if there is memory pressure and we use reclaimers(ie, kswapd and direct reclaim) to free them so there is no value keeping them in the active anonymous LRU so this patch moves them to inactive LRU list's head. This means that MADV_FREE-ed pages which were living on the inactive list are reclaimed first because they are more likely to be cold rather than recently active pages. An arguable issue for the approach would be whether we should put the page to the head or tail of the inactive list. I chose head because the kernel cannot make sure it's really cold or warm for every MADV_FREE usecase but at least we know it's not *hot*, so landing of inactive head would be a comprimise for various usecases. This fixes suboptimal behavior of MADV_FREE when pages living on the active list will sit there for a long time even under memory pressure while the inactive list is reclaimed heavily. This basically breaks the whole purpose of using MADV_FREE to help the system to free memory which is might not be used. Signed-off-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Jason Evans <je@fb.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Mika Penttil <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
When I test below piece of code with 12 processes(ie, 512M * 12 = 6G consume) on my (3G ram + 12 cpu + 8G swap, the madvise_free is siginficat slower (ie, 2x times) than madvise_dontneed. loop = 5; mmap(512M); while (loop--) { memset(512M); madvise(MADV_FREE or MADV_DONTNEED); } The reason is lots of swapin. 1) dontneed: 1,612 swapin 2) madvfree: 879,585 swapin If we find hinted pages were already swapped out when syscall is called, it's pointless to keep the swapped-out pages in pte. Instead, let's free the cold page because swapin is more expensive than (alloc page + zeroing). With this patch, it reduced swapin from 879,585 to 1,878 so elapsed time 1) dontneed: 6.10user 233.50system 0:50.44elapsed 2) madvfree: 6.03user 401.17system 1:30.67elapsed 2) madvfree + below patch: 6.70user 339.14system 1:04.45elapsed Signed-off-by:Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by:
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