- 15 Jan, 2016 40 commits
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Johannes Weiner authored
A later patch will need this symbol in files other than memcontrol.c, so export it now and replace mem_cgroup_root_css at the same time. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by:
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Geliang Tang authored
Use list_for_each_entry_safe() instead of list_for_each_safe() to simplify the code. Signed-off-by:
Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Geliang Tang authored
list_to_page() in readahead.c is the same as lru_to_page() in vmscan.c. So I move lru_to_page to internal.h and drop list_to_page(). Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
This patch uses is_via_compact_memory() to distinguish compaction from sysfs or sysctl. And, this patch also reduces indentation on compaction_defer_reset() by filtering these cases first before checking watermark. There is no functional change. Signed-off-by:
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by:
Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Geliang Tang authored
To make the intention clearer, use list_{next,first}_entry instead of list_entry(). Signed-off-by: -
Alexander Kuleshov authored
We already have the for_each_memblock() macro in <linux/memblock.h> which provides ability to iterate over memblock regions of a known type. The for_each_memblock() macro allows us to pass the pointer to the struct memblock_type, instead we need to pass name of the type. This patch introduces a new macro for_each_memblock_type() which allows us iterate over memblock regions with the given type when the type is unknown. Signed-off-by:
Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexander Kuleshov authored
Remove rgnbase and rgnsize variables from memblock_overlaps_region(). We use these variables only for passing to the memblock_addrs_overlap() function and that's all. Let's remove them. Signed-off-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
__GFP_NOFAIL is a big hammer used to ensure that the allocation request can never fail. This is a strong requirement and as such it also deserves a special treatment when the system is OOM. The primary problem here is that the allocation request might have come with some locks held and the oom victim might be blocked on the same locks. This is basically an OOM deadlock situation. This patch tries to reduce the risk of such a deadlocks by giving __GFP_NOFAIL allocations a special treatment and let them dive into memory reserves after oom killer invocation. This should help them to make a progress and release resources they are holding. The OOM victim should compensate for the reserves consumption. Signed-off-by:
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by:
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Geliang Tang authored
Use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each + list_entry to simplify the code. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by:
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Geliang Tang authored
To make the intention clearer, use list_{first,last}_entry instead of list_entry. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Commit 0aaa29a5 ("mm, page_alloc: reserve pageblocks for high-order atomic allocations on demand") added an unnecessary and unused parameter to __rmqueue. It was a parameter that was used in an earlier version of the patch and then left behind. This patch cleans it up. Signed-off-by:
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Seth Jennings authored
The function removes a section, not a block. Rename to reflect actual functionality. Signed-off-by:
Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com> Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Seth Jennings authored
Right now, section_count is calculated in add_memory_block(). However, init_memory_block() increments section_count as well, which, at first, seems like it would lead to an off-by-one error. There is no harm done because add_memory_block() immediately overwrites the mem->section_count, but it is messy. This commit moves the increment out of the common init_memory_block() (called by both add_memory_block() and register_new_memory()) and adds it to register_new_memory(). Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
The MemAvailable item in /proc/meminfo is to give users a hint of how much memory is allocatable without causing swapping, so it excludes the zones' low watermarks as unavailable to userspace. However, for a userspace allocation, kswapd will actually reclaim until the free pages hit a combination of the high watermark and the page allocator's lowmem protection that keeps a certain amount of DMA and DMA32 memory from userspace as well. Subtract the full amount we know to be unavailable to userspace from the number of free pages when calculating MemAvailable. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
The dirty balance reserve that dirty throttling has to consider is merely memory not available to userspace allocations. There is nothing writeback-specific about it. Generalize the name so that it's reusable outside of that context. Signed-off-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
page_cache_read has been historically using page_cache_alloc_cold to allocate a new page. This means that mapping_gfp_mask is used as the base for the gfp_mask. Many filesystems are setting this mask to GFP_NOFS to prevent from fs recursion issues. page_cache_read is called from the vm_operations_struct::fault() context during the page fault. This context doesn't need the reclaim protection normally. ceph and ocfs2 which call filemap_fault from their fault handlers seem to be OK because they are not taking any fs lock before invoking generic implementation. xfs which takes XFS_MMAPLOCK_SHARED is safe from the reclaim recursion POV because this lock serializes truncate and punch hole with the page faults and it doesn't get involved in the reclaim. There is simply no reason to deliberately use a weaker allocation context when a __GFP_FS | __GFP_IO can be used. The GFP_NOFS protection might be even harmful. There is a push to fail GFP_NOFS allocations rather than loop within allocator indefinitely with a very limited reclaim ability. Once we start failing those requests the OOM killer might be triggered prematurely because the page cache allocation failure is propagated up the page fault path and end up in pagefault_out_of_memory. We cannot play with mapping_gfp_mask directly because that would be racy wrt. parallel page faults and it might interfere with other users who really rely on NOFS semantic from the stored gfp_mask. The mask is also inode proper so it would even be a layering violation. What we can do instead is to push the gfp_mask into struct vm_fault and allow fs layer to overwrite it should the callback need to be called with a different allocation context. Initialize the default to (mapping_gfp_mask | __GFP_FS | __GFP_IO) because this should be safe from the page fault path normally. Why do we care about mapping_gfp_mask at all then? Because this doesn't hold only reclaim protection flags but it also might contain zone and movability restrictions (GFP_DMA32, __GFP_MOVABLE and others) so we have to respect those. Signed-off-by:
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Acked-by:
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Yaowei Bai authored
sysctl_compaction_handler() is the handler function for compact_memory tunable knob under /proc/sys/vm, add the missing knob name to make this more accurate in comment. No functional change. Signed-off-by:
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Cashman authored
x86: arch_mmap_rnd() uses hard-coded values, 8 for 32-bit and 28 for 64-bit, to generate the random offset for the mmap base address. This value represents a compromise between increased ASLR effectiveness and avoiding address-space fragmentation. Replace it with a Kconfig option, which is sensibly bounded, so that platform developers may choose where to place this compromise. Keep default values as new minimums. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Cashman <dcashman@google.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com> Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Cashman authored
arm64: arch_mmap_rnd() uses STACK_RND_MASK to generate the random offset for the mmap base address. This value represents a compromise between increased ASLR effectiveness and avoiding address-space fragmentation. Replace it with a Kconfig option, which is sensibly bounded, so that platform developers may choose where to place this compromise. Keep default values as new minimums. Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Cashman authored
arm: arch_mmap_rnd() uses a hard-code value of 8 to generate the random offset for the mmap base address. This value represents a compromise between increased ASLR effectiveness and avoiding address-space fragmentation. Replace it with a Kconfig option, which is sensibly bounded, so that platform developers may choose where to place this compromise. Keep 8 as the minimum acceptable value. [arnd@arndb.de: ARM: avoid ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS for NOMMU] Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Cashman authored
Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) provides a barrier to exploitation of user-space processes in the presence of security vulnerabilities by making it more difficult to find desired code/data which could help an attack. This is done by adding a random offset to the location of regions in the process address space, with a greater range of potential offset values corresponding to better protection/a larger search-space for brute force, but also to greater potential for fragmentation. The offset added to the mmap_base address, which provides the basis for the majority of the mappings for a process, is set once on process exec in arch_pick_mmap_layout() and is done via hard-coded per-arch values, which reflect, hopefully, the best compromise for all systems. The trade-off between increased entropy in the offset value generation and the corresponding increased variability in address space fragmentation is not absolute, however, and some platforms may tolerate higher amounts of entropy. This patch introduces both new Kconfig values and a sysctl interface which may be used to change the amount of entropy used for offset generation on a system. The direct motivation for this change was in response to the libstagefright vulnerabilities that affected Android, specifically to information provided by Google's project zero at: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/09/stagefrightened.html The attack presented therein, by Google's project zero, specifically targeted the limited randomness used to generate the offset added to the mmap_base address in order to craft a brute-force-based attack. Concretely, the attack was against the mediaserver process, which was limited to respawning every 5 seconds, on an arm device. The hard-coded 8 bits used resulted in an average expected success rate of defeating the mmap ASLR after just over 10 minutes (128 tries at 5 seconds a piece). With this patch, and an accompanying increase in the entropy value to 16 bits, the same attack would take an average expected time of over 45 hours (32768 tries), which makes it both less feasible and more likely to be noticed. The introduced Kconfig and sysctl options are limited by per-arch minimum and maximum values, the minimum of which was chosen to match the current hard-coded value and the maximum of which was chosen so as to give the greatest flexibility without generating an invalid mmap_base address, generally a 3-4 bits less than the number of bits in the user-space accessible virtual address space. When decided whether or not to change the default value, a system developer should consider that mmap_base address could be placed anywhere up to 2^(value) bits away from the non-randomized location, which would introduce variable-sized areas above and below the mmap_base address such that the maximum vm_area_struct size may be reduced, preventing very large allocations. This patch (of 4): ASLR only uses as few as 8 bits to generate the random offset for the mmap base address on 32 bit architectures. This value was chosen to prevent a poorly chosen value from dividing the address space in such a way as to prevent large allocations. This may not be an issue on all platforms. Allow the specification of a minimum number of bits so that platforms desiring greater ASLR protection may determine where to place the trade-off. Signed-off-by:
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Piotr Kwapulinski authored
The following flag comparison in mmap_region makes no sense: if (!(vm_flags & MAP_FIXED)) return -ENOMEM; The condition is always false and thus the above "return -ENOMEM" is never executed. The vm_flags must not be compared with MAP_FIXED flag. The vm_flags may only be compared with VM_* flags. MAP_FIXED has the same value as VM_MAYREAD. Hitting the rlimit is a slow path and find_vma_intersection should realize that there is no overlapping VMA for !MAP_FIXED case pretty quickly. Signed-off-by:Piotr Kwapulinski <kwapulinski.piotr@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
zone_reclaimable_pages counts how many pages are reclaimable in the given zone. This currently includes all pages on file lrus and anon lrus if there is an available swap storage. We do not consider NR_ISOLATED_{ANON,FILE} counters though which is not correct because these counters reflect temporarily isolated pages which are still reclaimable because they either get back to their LRU or get freed either by the page reclaim or page migration. The number of these pages might be sufficiently high to confuse users of zone_reclaimable_pages (e.g. mbind can migrate large ranges of memory at once). Signed-off-by: -
Andrew Morton authored
bdev_write_page() is used by swapout and by writepage where we cannot use __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO. So it is misleading to mention GFP_KERNEL here. blk_queue_enter() only actually looks at __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, so no bugs were harmed in the making of this patch. Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
There are two bits defined for cg_proto->flags - MEMCG_SOCK_ACTIVATED and MEMCG_SOCK_ACTIVE - both are set in tcp_update_limit, but the former is never cleared while the latter can be cleared by unsetting the limit. This allows to disable tcp socket accounting for new sockets after it was enabled by writing -1 to memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes while still guaranteeing that memcg_socket_limit_enabled static key will be decremented on memcg destruction. This functionality looks dubious, because it is not clear what a use case would be. By enabling tcp accounting a user accepts the price. If they then find the performance degradation unacceptable, they can always restart their workload with tcp accounting disabled. It does not seem there is any need to flip it while the workload is running. Besides, it contradicts to how kmem accounting API works: writing whatever to memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes enables kmem accounting for the cgroup in question, after which it cannot be disabled. Therefore one might expect that writing -1 to memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes just enables socket accounting w/o limiting it, which might be useful by itself, but it isn't true. Since this API peculiarity is not documented anywhere, I propose to drop it. This will allow to simplify the code by dropping cg_proto->flags. Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
We assume there is enough inactive page cache if the size of inactive file lru is greater than the size of active file lru, in which case we force-scan file lru ignoring anonymous pages. While this logic works fine when there are plenty of page cache pages, it fails if the size of file lru is small (several MB): in this case (lru_size >> prio) will be 0 for normal scan priorities, as a result, if inactive file lru happens to be larger than active file lru, anonymous pages of a cgroup will never get evicted unless the system experiences severe memory pressure, even if there are gigabytes of unused anonymous memory there, which is unfair in respect to other cgroups, whose workloads might be page cache oriented. This patch attempts to fix this by elaborating the "enough inactive page cache" check: it makes it not only check that inactive lru size > active lru size, but also that we will scan something from the cgroup at the current scan priority. If these conditions do not hold, we proceed to SCAN_FRACT as usual. Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
VM_VPAGES is unnecessary, it's easier to check is_vmalloc_addr() when reading /proc/vmallocinfo. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove VM_VPAGES reference via kvfree()] Signed-off-by:
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Geliang Tang authored
Simplify the code with list_first_entry_or_null(). Signed-off-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jerome Marchand authored
There are several shortcomings with the accounting of shared memory (SysV shm, shared anonymous mapping, mapping of a tmpfs file). The values in /proc/<pid>/status and <...>/statm don't allow to distinguish between shmem memory and a shared mapping to a regular file, even though theirs implication on memory usage are quite different: during reclaim, file mapping can be dropped or written back on disk, while shmem needs a place in swap. Also, to distinguish the memory occupied by anonymous and file mappings, one has to read the /proc/pid/statm file, which has a field for the file mappings (again, including shmem) and total memory occupied by these mappings (i.e. equivalent to VmRSS in the <...>/status file. Getting the value for anonymous mappings only is thus not exactly user-friendly (the statm file is intended to be rather efficiently machine-readable). To address both of these shortcomings, this patch adds a breakdown of VmRSS in /proc/<pid>/status via new fields RssAnon, RssFile and RssShmem, making use of the previous preparatory patch. These fields tell the user the memory occupied by private anonymous pages, mapped regular files and shmem, respectively. Other existing fields in /status and /statm files are left without change. The /statm file can be extended in the future, if there's a need for that. Example (part of) /proc/pid/status output including the new Rss* fields: VmPeak: 2001008 kB VmSize: 2001004 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmPin: 0 kB VmHWM: 5108 kB VmRSS: 5108 kB RssAnon: 92 kB RssFile: 1324 kB RssShmem: 3692 kB VmData: 192 kB VmStk: 136 kB VmExe: 4 kB VmLib: 1784 kB VmPTE: 3928 kB VmPMD: 20 kB VmSwap: 0 kB HugetlbPages: 0 kB [vbabka@suse.cz: forward-porting, tweak changelog] Signed-off-by:
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jerome Marchand authored
Currently looking at /proc/<pid>/status or statm, there is no way to distinguish shmem pages from pages mapped to a regular file (shmem pages are mapped to /dev/zero), even though their implication in actual memory use is quite different. The internal accounting currently counts shmem pages together with regular files. As a preparation to extend the userspace interfaces, this patch adds MM_SHMEMPAGES counter to mm_rss_stat to account for shmem pages separately from MM_FILEPAGES. The next patch will expose it to userspace - this patch doesn't change the exported values yet, by adding up MM_SHMEMPAGES to MM_FILEPAGES at places where MM_FILEPAGES was used before. The only user-visible change after this patch is the OOM killer message that separates the reported "shmem-rss" from "file-rss". [vbabka@suse.cz: forward-porting, tweak changelog] Signed-off-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
Following the previous patch, further reduction of /proc/pid/smaps cost is possible for private writable shmem mappings with unpopulated areas where the page walk invokes the .pte_hole function. We can use radix tree iterator for each such area instead of calling find_get_entry() in a loop. This is possible at the extra maintenance cost of introducing another shmem function shmem_partial_swap_usage(). To demonstrate the diference, I have measured this on a process that creates a private writable 2GB mapping of a partially swapped out /dev/shm/file (which cannot employ the optimizations from the prvious patch) and doesn't populate it at all. I time how long does it take to cat /proc/pid/smaps of this process 100 times. Before this patch: real 0m3.831s user 0m0.180s sys 0m3.212s After this patch: real 0m1.176s user 0m0.180s sys 0m0.684s The time is similar to the case where a radix tree iterator is employed on the whole mapping. Signed-off-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
The previous patch has improved swap accounting for shmem mapping, which however made /proc/pid/smaps more expensive for shmem mappings, as we consult the radix tree for each pte_none entry, so the overal complexity is O(n*log(n)). We can reduce this significantly for mappings that cannot contain COWed pages, because then we can either use the statistics tha shmem object itself tracks (if the mapping contains the whole object, or the swap usage of the whole object is zero), or use the radix tree iterator, which is much more effective than repeated find_get_entry() calls. This patch therefore introduces a function shmem_swap_usage(vma) and makes /proc/pid/smaps use it when possible. Only for writable private mappings of shmem objects (i.e. tmpfs files) with the shmem object itself (partially) swapped outwe have to resort to the find_get_entry() approach. Hopefully such mappings are relatively uncommon. To demonstrate the diference, I have measured this on a process that creates a 2GB mapping and dirties single pages with a stride of 2MB, and time how long does it take to cat /proc/pid/smaps of this process 100 times. Private writable mapping of a /dev/shm/file (the most complex case): real 0m3.831s user 0m0.180s sys 0m3.212s Shared mapping of an almost full mapping of a partially swapped /dev/shm/file (which needs to employ the radix tree iterator). real 0m1.351s user 0m0.096s sys 0m0.768s Same, but with /dev/shm/file not swapped (so no radix tree walk needed) real 0m0.935s user 0m0.128s sys 0m0.344s Private anonymous mapping: real 0m0.949s user 0m0.116s sys 0m0.348s The cost is now much closer to the private anonymous mapping case, unless the shmem mapping is private and writable. Signed-off-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
Currently, /proc/pid/smaps will always show "Swap: 0 kB" for shmem-backed mappings, even if the mapped portion does contain pages that were swapped out. This is because unlike private anonymous mappings, shmem does not change pte to swap entry, but pte_none when swapping the page out. In the smaps page walk, such page thus looks like it was never faulted in. This patch changes smaps_pte_entry() to determine the swap status for such pte_none entries for shmem mappings, similarly to how mincore_page() does it. Swapped out shmem pages are thus accounted for. For private mappings of tmpfs files that COWed some of the pages, swaped out status of the original shmem pages is naturally ignored. If some of the private copies was also swapped out, they are accounted via their page table swap entries, so the resulting reported swap usage is then a sum of both swapped out private copies, and swapped out shmem pages that were not COWed. No double accounting can thus happen. The accounting is arguably still not as precise as for private anonymous mappings, since now we will count also pages that the process in question never accessed, but another process populated them and then let them become swapped out. I believe it is still less confusing and subtle than not showing any swap usage by shmem mappings at all. Swapped out counter might of interest of users who would like to prevent from future swapins during performance critical operation and pre-fault them at their convenience. Especially for larger swapped out regions the cost of swapin is much higher than a fresh page allocation. So a differentiation between pte_none vs. swapped out is important for those usecases. One downside of this patch is that it makes /proc/pid/smaps more expensive for shmem mappings, as we consult the radix tree for each pte_none entry, so the overal complexity is O(n*log(n)). I have measured this on a process that creates a 2GB mapping and dirties single pages with a stride of 2MB, and time how long does it take to cat /proc/pid/smaps of this process 100 times. Private anonymous mapping: real 0m0.949s user 0m0.116s sys 0m0.348s Mapping of a /dev/shm/file: real 0m3.831s user 0m0.180s sys 0m3.212s The difference is rather substantial, so the next patch will reduce the cost for shared or read-only mappings. In a less controlled experiment, I've gathered pids of processes on my desktop that have either '/dev/shm/*' or 'SYSV*' in smaps. This included the Chrome browser and some KDE processes. Again, I've run cat /proc/pid/smaps on each 100 times. Before this patch: real 0m9.050s user 0m0.518s sys 0m8.066s After this patch: real 0m9.221s user 0m0.541s sys 0m8.187s This suggests low impact on average systems. Note that this patch doesn't attempt to adjust the SwapPss field for shmem mappings, which would need extra work to determine who else could have the pages mapped. Thus the value stays zero except for COWed swapped out pages in a shmem mapping, which are accounted as usual. Signed-off-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
This series is based on Jerome Marchand's [1] so let me quote the first paragraph from there: There are several shortcomings with the accounting of shared memory (sysV shm, shared anonymous mapping, mapping to a tmpfs file). The values in /proc/<pid>/status and statm don't allow to distinguish between shmem memory and a shared mapping to a regular file, even though their implications on memory usage are quite different: at reclaim, file mapping can be dropped or written back on disk while shmem needs a place in swap. As for shmem pages that are swapped-out or in swap cache, they aren't accounted at all. The original motivation for myself is that a customer found (IMHO rightfully) confusing that e.g. top output for process swap usage is unreliable with respect to swapped out shmem pages, which are not accounted for. The fundamental difference between private anonymous and shmem pages is that the latter has PTE's converted to pte_none, and not swapents. As such, they are not accounted to the number of swapents visible e.g. in /proc/pid/status VmSwap row. It might be theoretically possible to use swapents when swapping out shmem (without extra cost, as one has to change all mappers anyway), and on swap in only convert the swapent for the faulting process, leaving swapents in other processes until they also fault (so again no extra cost). But I don't know how many assumptions this would break, and it would be too disruptive change for a relatively small benefit. Instead, my approach is to document the limitation of VmSwap, and provide means to determine the swap usage for shmem areas for those who are interested and willing to pay the price, using /proc/pid/smaps. Because outside of ipcs, I don't think it's possible to currently to determine the usage at all. The previous patchset [1] did introduce new shmem-specific fields into smaps output, and functions to determine the values. I take a simpler approach, noting that smaps output already has a "Swap: X kB" line, where currently X == 0 always for shmem areas. I think we can just consider this a bug and provide the proper value by consulting the radix tree, as e.g. mincore_page() does. In the patch changelog I explain why this is also not perfect (and cannot be without swapents), but still arguably much better than showing a 0. The last two patches are adapted from Jerome's patchset and provide a VmRSS breakdown to RssAnon, RssFile and RssShm in /proc/pid/status. Hugh noted that this is a welcome addition, and I agree that it might help e.g. debugging process memory usage at albeit non-zero, but still rather low cost of extra per-mm counter and some page flag checks. [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/611966/ This patch (of 6): The documentation for /proc/pid/status does not mention that the value of VmSwap counts only swapped out anonymous private pages, and not swapped out pages of the underlying shmem objects (for shmem mappings). This is not obvious, so document this limitation. Signed-off-by:
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Yaowei Bai authored
Make memmap_valid_within return bool due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its return value. No functional change. Signed-off-by:
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Geliang Tang authored
To make the intention clearer, use list_{next,first}_entry instead of list_entry. Signed-off-by: -
Michal Hocko authored
__alloc_pages_slowpath is looping over ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS requests if __GFP_NOFAIL is requested. This is fragile because we are basically relying on somebody else to make the reclaim (be it the direct reclaim or OOM killer) for us. The caller might be holding resources (e.g. locks) which block other other reclaimers from making any progress for example. Remove the retry loop and rely on __alloc_pages_slowpath to invoke all allowed reclaim steps and retry logic. We have to be careful about __GFP_NOFAIL allocations from the PF_MEMALLOC context even though this is a very bad idea to begin with because no progress can be gurateed at all. We shouldn't break the __GFP_NOFAIL semantic here though. It could be argued that this is essentially GFP_NOWAIT context which we do not support but PF_MEMALLOC is much harder to check for existing users because they might happen deep down the code path performed much later after setting the flag so we cannot really rule out there is no kernel path triggering this combination. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
__alloc_pages_high_priority doesn't do anything special other than it calls get_page_from_freelist and loops around GFP_NOFAIL allocation until it succeeds. It would be better if the first part was done in __alloc_pages_slowpath where we modify the zonelist because this would be easier to read and understand. Opencoding the function into its only caller allows to simplify it a bit as well. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Yaowei Bai authored
Hardcoding index to zonelists array in gfp_zonelist() is not a good idea, let's enumerate it to improve readability. No functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build] [n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com: fix warning in comparing enumerator] Signed-off-by:
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Yaowei Bai authored
Since commit a0b8cab3 ("mm: remove lru parameter from __pagevec_lru_add and remove parts of pagevec API") there's no user of this function anymore, so remove it. Signed-off-by:
Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by:
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