- 02 Apr, 2020 40 commits
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Pingfan Liu authored
After introducing mem sub section concept, pfn_present() loses its literal meaning, and will not be necessary a truth on partial populated mem section. Since all of the callers use it to judge an absent section, it is better to rename pfn_present() as pfn_in_present_section(). Signed-off-by:
Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc] Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581919110-29575-1-git-send-email-kernelfans@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wei Yang authored
memmap should be the address to page struct instead of address to pfn. As mentioned by David, if system memory and devmem sit within a section, the mismatch address would lead kdump to dump unexpected memory. Since sub-section only works for SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, pfn_to_page() is valid to get the page struct address at this point. Fixes: ba72b4c8 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug") Signed-off-by:
Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Brian Geffon authored
Add a few simple self tests for the new flag MREMAP_DONTUNMAP, they are simple smoke tests which also demonstrate the behavior. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: convert eight-spaces to hard tabs] [bgeffon@google.com: v7] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200221174248.244748-2-bgeffon@google.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Brian Geffon authored
When remapping an anonymous, private mapping, if MREMAP_DONTUNMAP is set, the source mapping will not be removed. The remap operation will be performed as it would have been normally by moving over the page tables to the new mapping. The old vma will have any locked flags cleared, have no pagetables, and any userfaultfds that were watching that range will continue watching it. For a mapping that is shared or not anonymous, MREMAP_DONTUNMAP will cause the mremap() call to fail. Because MREMAP_DONTUNMAP always results in moving a VMA you MUST use the MREMAP_MAYMOVE flag, it's not possible to resize a VMA while also moving with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP so old_len must always be equal to the new_len otherwise it will return -EINVAL. We hope to use this in Chrome OS where with userfaultfd we could write an anonymous mapping to disk without having to STOP the process or worry about VMA permission changes. This feature also has a use case in Android, Lokesh Gidra has said that "As part of using userfaultfd for GC, We'll have to move the physical pages of the java heap to a separate location. For this purpose mremap will be used. Without the MREMAP_DONTUNMAP flag, when I mremap the java heap, its virtual mapping will be removed as well. Therefore, we'll require performing mmap immediately after. This is not only time consuming but also opens a time window where a native thread may call mmap and reserve the java heap's address range for its own usage. This flag solves the problem." [bgeffon@google.com: v6] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200218173221.237674-1-bgeffon@google.com [bgeffon@google.com: v7] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200221174248.244748-1-bgeffon@google.comSigned-off-by:
Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207201856.46070-1-bgeffon@google.comSigned-off-by:
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Jaewon Kim authored
Even on 64 bit kernel, the mmap failure can happen for a 32 bit task. Virtual memory space shortage of a task on mmap is reported to userspace as -ENOMEM. It can be confused as physical memory shortage of overall system. The vm_unmapped_area can be called to by some drivers or other kernel core system like filesystem. In my platform, GPU driver calls to vm_unmapped_area and the driver returns -ENOMEM even in GPU side shortage. It can be hard to distinguish which code layer returns the -ENOMEM. Create mmap trace file and add trace point of vm_unmapped_area. i.e.) 277.156599: vm_unmapped_area: addr=77e0d03000 err=0 total_vm=0x17014b flags=0x1 len=0x400000 lo=0x8000 hi=0x7878c27000 mask=0x0 ofs=0x1 342.838740: vm_unmapped_area: addr=0 err=-12 total_vm=0xffb08 flags=0x0 len=0x100000 lo=0x40000000 hi=0xfffff000 mask=0x0 ofs=0x22 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: prefix address printk with 0x, per Matthew] Signed-off-by:
Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jaewon Kim authored
Patch series "mm: mmap: add mmap trace point", v3. Create mmap trace file and add trace point of vm_unmapped_area(). This patch (of 2): In preparation for next patch remove inline of vm_unmapped_area and move code to mmap.c. There is no logical change. Also remove unmapped_area[_topdown] out of mm.h, there is no code calling to them. Signed-off-by:
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Wang Wenhu authored
The param "start" actually referes to the physical memory start, which is to be mapped into virtual area vma. And it is the field vma->vm_start which stands for the start of the area. Most of the time, we do not read through whole implementation of a function but only the definition and essential comments. Accurate comments are definitely the base stone. Signed-off-by:
Wang Wenhu <wenhu.wang@vivo.com> Signed-off-by:
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WANG Wenhu authored
It really made me scratch my head. Replace the comment with an accurate and consistent description. The parameter pfn actually refers to the page frame number which is right-shifted by PAGE_SHIFT from the physical address. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Userfaultfd fault path was by default killable even if the caller does not have FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE. That makes sense before in that when with gup we don't have FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE properly set before. Now after previous patch we've got FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE applied even for gup code so it should also make sense to let userfaultfd to honor the FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE. Because we're unconditionally setting FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE in gup code right now, this patch should have no functional change. It also cleaned the code a little bit by introducing some helpers. Signed-off-by:
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
The existing gup code does not react to the fatal signals in many code paths. For example, in one retry path of gup we're still using down_read() rather than down_read_killable(). Also, when doing page faults we don't pass in FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE as well, which means that within the faulting process we'll wait in non-killable way as well. These were spotted by Linus during the code review of some other patches. Let's allow the gup code to react to fatal signals to improve the responsiveness of threads when during gup and being killed. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
This is the gup counterpart of the change that allows the VM_FAULT_RETRY to happen for more than once. One thing to mention is that we must check the fatal signal here before retry because the GUP can be interrupted by that, otherwise we can loop forever. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
The idea comes from a discussion between Linus and Andrea [1]. Before this patch we only allow a page fault to retry once. We achieved this by clearing the FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY flag when doing handle_mm_fault() the second time. This was majorly used to avoid unexpected starvation of the system by looping over forever to handle the page fault on a single page. However that should hardly happen, and after all for each code path to return a VM_FAULT_RETRY we'll first wait for a condition (during which time we should possibly yield the cpu) to happen before VM_FAULT_RETRY is really returned. This patch removes the restriction by keeping the FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY flag when we receive VM_FAULT_RETRY. It means that the page fault handler now can retry the page fault for multiple times if necessary without the need to generate another page fault event. Meanwhile we still keep the FAULT_FLAG_TRIED flag so page fault handler can still identify whether a page fault is the first attempt or not. Then we'll have these combinations of fault flags (only considering ALLOW_RETRY flag and TRIED flag): - ALLOW_RETRY and !TRIED: this means the page fault allows to retry, and this is the first try - ALLOW_RETRY and TRIED: this means the page fault allows to retry, and this is not the first try - !ALLOW_RETRY and !TRIED: this means the page fault does not allow to retry at all - !ALLOW_RETRY and TRIED: this is forbidden and should never be used In existing code we have multiple places that has taken special care of the first condition above by checking against (fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY). This patch introduces a simple helper to detect the first retry of a page fault by checking against both (fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) and !(fault_flag & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED) because now even the 2nd try will have the ALLOW_RETRY set, then use that helper in all existing special paths. One example is in __lock_page_or_retry(), now we'll drop the mmap_sem only in the first attempt of page fault and we'll keep it in follow up retries, so old locking behavior will be retained. This will be a nice enhancement for current code [2] at the same time a supporting material for the future userfaultfd-writeprotect work, since in that work there will always be an explicit userfault writeprotect retry for protected pages, and if that cannot resolve the page fault (e.g., when userfaultfd-writeprotect is used in conjunction with swapped pages) then we'll possibly need a 3rd retry of the page fault. It might also benefit other potential users who will have similar requirement like userfault write-protection. GUP code is not touched yet and will be covered in follow up patch. Please read the thread below for more information. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171102193644.GB22686@redhat.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181230154648.GB9832@redhat.com/Suggested-by:Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
handle_userfaultfd() is currently the only one place in the kernel page fault procedures that can respond to non-fatal userspace signals. It was trying to detect such an allowance by checking against USER & KILLABLE flags, which was "un-official". In this patch, we introduced a new flag (FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE) to show that the fault handler allows the fault procedure to respond even to non-fatal signals. Meanwhile, add this new flag to the default fault flags so that all the page fault handlers can benefit from the new flag. With that, replacing the userfault check to this one. Since the line is getting even longer, clean up the fault flags a bit too to ease TTY users. Although we've got a new flag and applied it, we shouldn't have any functional change with this patch so far. Suggested-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Although there're tons of arch-specific page fault handlers, most of them are still sharing the same initial value of the page fault flags. Say, merely all of the page fault handlers would allow the fault to be retried, and they also allow the fault to respond to SIGKILL. Let's define a default value for the fault flags to replace those initial page fault flags that were copied over. With this, it'll be far easier to introduce new fault flag that can be used by all the architectures instead of touching all the archs. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
This patch removes the risk path in handle_userfault() then we will be sure that the callers of handle_mm_fault() will know that the VMAs might have changed. Meanwhile with previous patch we don't lose responsiveness as well since the core mm code now can handle the nonfatal userspace signals even if we return VM_FAULT_RETRY. Suggested-by:
Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160234.9646-1-peterx@redhat.comSigned-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
The idea comes from the upstream discussion between Linus and Andrea: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171102193644.GB22686@redhat.com/ A summary to the issue: there was a special path in handle_userfault() in the past that we'll return a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE when we detected non-fatal signals when waiting for userfault handling. We did that by reacquiring the mmap_sem before returning. However that brings a risk in that the vmas might have changed when we retake the mmap_sem and even we could be holding an invalid vma structure. This patch is a preparation of removing that special path by allowing the page fault to return even faster if we were interrupted by a non-fatal signal during a user-mode page fault handling routine. Suggested-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Let SH to use the new fault_signal_pending() helper. Here we'll need to move the up_read() out because that's actually needed as long as !RETRY cases. At the meantime we can drop all the rest of up_read()s now (which seems to be cleaner). Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Let powerpc code to use the new helper, by moving the signal handling earlier before the retry logic. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Let the arm64 fault handling to use the new fault_signal_pending() helper, by moving the signal handling out of the retry logic. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Let ARC to use the new helper fault_signal_pending() by moving the signal check out of the retry logic as standalone. This should also helps to simplify the code a bit. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Let's move the fatal signal check even earlier so that we can directly use the new fault_signal_pending() in x86 mm code. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
For most architectures, we've got a quick path to detect fatal signal after a handle_mm_fault(). Introduce a helper for that quick path. It cleans the current codes a bit so we don't need to duplicate the same check across archs. More importantly, this will be an unified place that we handle the signal immediately right after an interrupted page fault, so it'll be much easier for us if we want to change the behavior of handling signals later on for all the archs. Note that currently only part of the archs are using this new helper, because some archs have their own way to handle signals. In the follow up patches, we'll try to apply this helper to all the rest of archs. Another note is that the "regs" parameter in the new helper is not used yet. It'll be used very soon. Now we kept it in this patch only to avoid touching all the archs again in the follow up patches. [peterx@redhat.com: fix sparse warnings] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311145921.GD479302@xz-x1Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
When follow_hugetlb_page() returns with *locked==0, it means we've got a VM_FAULT_RETRY within the fauling process and we've released the mmap_sem. When that happens, we should stop and bail out. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Patch series "mm: Page fault enhancements", v6. This series contains cleanups and enhancements to current page fault logic. The whole idea comes from the discussion between Andrea and Linus on the bug reported by syzbot here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/2/833 Basically it does two things: (a) Allows the page fault logic to be more interactive on not only SIGKILL, but also the rest of userspace signals, and, (b) Allows the page fault retry (VM_FAULT_RETRY) to happen for more than once. For (a): with the changes we should be able to react faster when page faults are working in parallel with userspace signals like SIGSTOP and SIGCONT (and more), and with that we can remove the buggy part in userfaultfd and benefit the whole page fault mechanism on faster signal processing to reach the userspace. For (b), we should be able to allow the page fault handler to loop for even more than twice. Some context: for now since we have FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY we can allow to retry the page fault once with the same interrupt context, however never more than twice. This can be not only a potential cleanup to remove this assumption since AFAIU the code itself doesn't really have this twice-only limitation (though that should be a protective approach in the past), at the same time it'll greatly simplify future works like userfaultfd write-protect where it's possible to retry for more than twice (please have a look at [1] below for a possible user that might require the page fault to be handled for a third time; if we can remove the retry limitation we can simply drop that patch and those complexity). This patch (of 16): There's plenty of places around __get_user_pages() that has a parameter "nonblocking" which does not really mean that "it won't block" (because it can really block) but instead it shows whether the mmap_sem is released by up_read() during the page fault handling mostly when VM_FAULT_RETRY is returned. We have the correct naming in e.g. get_user_pages_locked() or get_user_pages_remote() as "locked", however there're still many places that are using the "nonblocking" as name. Renaming the places to "locked" where proper to better suite the functionality of the variable. While at it, fixing up some of the comments accordingly. Signed-off-by:
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) authored
The documentation currently does not include the deathless prose written to describe functions in pagemap.h because it's not included in any rst file. Fix up the mismatches between parameter names and the documentation and add the file to mm-api. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by:
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200221220045.24989-1-willy@infradead.orgSigned-off-by:
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Anshuman Khandual authored
Currently the declaration and definition for is_vma_temporary_stack() are scattered. Lets make is_vma_temporary_stack() helper available for general use and also drop the declaration from (include/linux/huge_mm.h) which is no longer required. While at this, rename this as vma_is_temporary_stack() in line with existing helpers. This should not cause any functional change. Signed-off-by:
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Anshuman Khandual authored
Idea of a foreign VMA with respect to the present context is very generic. But currently there are two identical definitions for this in powerpc and x86 platforms. Lets consolidate those redundant definitions while making vma_is_foreign() available for general use later. This should not cause any functional change. Signed-off-by:
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Anshuman Khandual authored
Patch series "mm/vma: some more minor changes", v2. The motivation here is to consolidate VMA flags and helpers in generic memory header and reduce code duplication when ever applicable. If there are other possible similar instances which might be missing here, please do let me me know. I will be happy to incorporate them. This patch (of 3): Move VM_NO_KHUGEPAGED into generic header (include/linux/mm.h). This just makes sure that no VMA flag is scattered in individual function files any longer. While at this, fix an old comment which is no longer valid. This should not cause any functional change. Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Hellstrom authored
Following the update of pagewalk code commit a07984d48146 ("mm: pagewalk: add p4d_entry() and pgd_entry()") we can modify the mapping_dirty_helpers' huge page-table entry callbacks to avoid splitting when a huge pud or -pmd is encountered. Signed-off-by:Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by:
Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200203154305.15045-1-thomas_os@shipmail.orgSigned-off-by:
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Roman Gushchin authored
If a task is getting moved out of the OOMing cgroup, it might result in unexpected OOM killings if memory.oom.group is used anywhere in the cgroup tree. Imagine the following example: A (oom.group = 1) / \ (OOM) B C Let's say B's memory.max is exceeded and it's OOMing. The OOM killer selects a task in B as a victim, but someone asynchronously moves the task into C. mem_cgroup_get_oom_group() will iterate over all ancestors of C up to the root cgroup. In theory it had to stop at the oom_domain level - the memory cgroup which is OOMing. But because B is not an ancestor of C, it's not happening. Instead it chooses A (because it's oom.group is set), and kills all tasks in A. This behavior is wrong because the OOM happened in B, so there is no reason to kill anything outside. Fix this by checking it the memory cgroup to which the task belongs is a descendant of the oom_domain. If not, memory.oom.group should be ignored, and the OOM killer should kill only the victim task. Reported-by:Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200316223510.3176148-1-guro@fb.comSigned-off-by:
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Chris Down authored
The read side of this is all protected, but we can still tear if multiple iterations of mem_cgroup_protected are going at the same time. There's some intentional racing in mem_cgroup_protected which is ok, but load/store tearing should be avoided. Signed-off-by:
Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Signed-off-by:
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Chris Down authored
The write side of this is xchg()/smp_mb(), so that's all good. Just a few sites missing a READ_ONCE. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Down authored
This can be set concurrently with reads, which may cause the wrong value to be propagated. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Down authored
This can be set concurrently with reads, which may cause the wrong value to be propagated. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Down authored
This one is a bit more nuanced because we have memcg_max_mutex, which is mostly just used for enforcing invariants, but we still need to READ_ONCE since (despite its name) it doesn't really protect memory.max access. On write (page_counter_set_max() and memory_max_write()) we use xchg(), which uses smp_mb(), so that's already fine. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Down authored
A mem_cgroup's high attribute can be concurrently set at the same time as we are trying to read it -- for example, if we are in memory_high_write at the same time as we are trying to do high reclaim. Signed-off-by:
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Vincenzo Frascino authored
mem_cgroup_id_get_many() is currently used only when MMU or MEMCG_SWAP configuration options are enabled. Having them disabled triggers the following warning at compile time: linux/mm/memcontrol.c:4797:13: warning: `mem_cgroup_id_get_many' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] static void mem_cgroup_id_get_many(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int n) Make mem_cgroup_id_get_many() __maybe_unused to address the issue. Signed-off-by:
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shakeel Butt authored
Currently multiple locations in memcg code, css_tryget_online() is being used. However it doesn't matter whether the cgroup is online for the callers. Online used to matter when we had reparenting on offlining and we needed a way to prevent new ones from showing up. The failure case for couple of these css_tryget_online usage is to fallback to root_mem_cgroup which kind of make bypassing the memcg limits possible for some workloads. For example creating an inotify group in a subcontainer and then deleting that container after moving the process to a different container will make all the event objects allocated for that group to the root_mem_cgroup. So, using css_tryget_online() is dangerous for such cases. Two locations still use the online version. The swapin of offlined memcg's pages and the memcg kmem cache creation. The kmem cache indeed needs the online version as the kernel does the reparenting of memcg kmem caches. For the swapin case, it has been left for later as the fallback is not really that concerning. With swap accounting enabled, if the memcg of the swapped out page is not online then the memcg extracted from the given 'mm' will be charged and if 'mm' is NULL then root memcg will be charged. However I could not find a code path where the given 'mm' will be NULL for swap-in case. Signed-off-by:
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Right now, the effective protection of any given cgroup is capped by its own explicit memory.low setting, regardless of what the parent says. The reasons for this are mostly historical and ease of implementation: to make delegation of memory.low safe, effective protection is the min() of all memory.low up the tree. Unfortunately, this limitation makes it impossible to protect an entire subtree from another without forcing the user to make explicit protection allocations all the way to the leaf cgroups - something that is highly undesirable in real life scenarios. Consider memory in a data center host. At the cgroup top level, we have a distinction between system management software and the actual workload the system is executing. Both branches are further subdivided into individual services, job components etc. We want to protect the workload as a whole from the system management software, but that doesn't mean we want to protect and prioritize individual workload wrt each other. Their memory demand can vary over time, and we'd want the VM to simply cache the hottest data within the workload subtree. Yet, the current memory.low limitations force us to allocate a fixed amount of protection to each workload component in order to get protection from system management software in general. This results in very inefficient resource distribution. Another concern with mandating downward allocation is that, as the complexity of the cgroup tree grows, it gets harder for the lower levels to be informed about decisions made at the host-level. Consider a container inside a namespace that in turn creates its own nested tree of cgroups to run multiple workloads. It'd be extremely difficult to configure memory.low parameters in those leaf cgroups that on one hand balance pressure among siblings as the container desires, while also reflecting the host-level protection from e.g. rpm upgrades, that lie beyond one or more delegation and namespacing points in the tree. It's highly unusual from a cgroup interface POV that nested levels have to be aware of and reflect decisions made at higher levels for them to be effective. To enable such use cases and scale configurability for complex trees, this patch implements a resource inheritance model for memory that is similar to how the CPU and the IO controller implement work-conserving resource allocations: a share of a resource allocated to a subree always applies to the entire subtree recursively, while allowing, but not mandating, children to further specify distribution rules. That means that if protection is explicitly allocated among siblings, those configured shares are being followed during page reclaim just like they are now. However, if the memory.low set at a higher level is not fully claimed by the children in that subtree, the "floating" remainder is applied to each cgroup in the tree in proportion to its size. Since reclaim pressure is applied in proportion to size as well, each child in that tree gets the same boost, and the effect is neutral among siblings - with respect to each other, they behave as if no memory control was enabled at all, and the VM simply balances the memory demands optimally within the subtree. But collectively those cgroups enjoy a boost over the cgroups in neighboring trees. E.g. a leaf cgroup with a memory.low setting of 0 no longer means that it's not getting a share of the hierarchically assigned resource, just that it doesn't claim a fixed amount of it to protect from its siblings. This allows us to recursively protect one subtree (workload) from another (system management), while letting subgroups compete freely among each other - without having to assign fixed shares to each leaf, and without nested groups having to echo higher-level settings. The floating protection composes naturally with fixed protection. Consider the following example tree: A A: low = 2G / \ A1: low = 1G A1 A2 A2: low = 0G As outside pressure is applied to this tree, A1 will enjoy a fixed protection from A2 of 1G, but the remaining, unclaimed 1G from A is split evenly among A1 and A2, coming out to 1.5G and 0.5G. There is a slight risk of regressing theoretical setups where the top-level cgroups don't know about the true budgeting and set bogusly high "bypass" values that are meaningfully allocated down the tree. Such setups would rely on unclaimed protection to be discarded, and distributing it would change the intended behavior. Be safe and hide the new behavior behind a mount option, 'memory_recursiveprot'. Signed-off-by:Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
The effective protection of any given cgroup is a somewhat complicated construct that depends on the ancestor's configuration, siblings' configurations, as well as current memory utilization in all these groups. It's done this way to satisfy hierarchical delegation requirements while also making the configuration semantics flexible and expressive in complex real life scenarios. Unfortunately, all the rules and requirements are sparsely documented, and the code is a little too clever in merging different scenarios into a single min() expression. This makes it hard to reason about the implementation and avoid breaking semantics when making changes to it. This patch documents each semantic rule individually and splits out the handling of the overcommit case from the regular case. Michal Koutný also points out that the points of equilibrium as described in the existing example scenarios aren't actually accurate. Delete these examples for now to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by:
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