linux-stable.git/include/linux/vm_event_item.h, branch v5.13.2

x86/mm: track linear mapping split events

2021-05-05T18:27:25+00:00

To help with debugging the sluggishness caused by TLB miss/reload, we
introduce monotonic hugepage [direct mapped] split event counts since
system state: SYSTEM_RUNNING to be displayed as part of /proc/vmstat in
x86 servers

The lifetime split event information will be displayed at the bottom of
/proc/vmstat
  ....
  swap_ra 0
  swap_ra_hit 0
  direct_map_level2_splits 94
  direct_map_level3_splits 4
  nr_unstable 0
  ....

One of the many lasting sources of direct hugepage splits is kernel
tracing (kprobes, tracepoints).

Note that the kernel's code segment [512 MB] points to the same physical
addresses that have been already mapped in the kernel's direct mapping
range.

Source : Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst

When we enable kernel tracing, the kernel has to modify
attributes/permissions of the text segment hugepages that are direct
mapped causing them to split.

Kernel's direct mapped hugepages do not coalesce back after split and
remain in place for the remainder of the lifetime.

An instance of direct page splits when we turn on dynamic kernel tracing
....
cat /proc/vmstat | grep -i direct_map_level
direct_map_level2_splits 784
direct_map_level3_splits 12
bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @ [pid, comm] =
count(); }'
cat /proc/vmstat | grep -i
direct_map_level
direct_map_level2_splits 789
direct_map_level3_splits 12
....

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210218235744.1040634-1-saravanand@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Saravanan D 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmstat: add cma statistics

2021-05-05T18:27:24+00:00

Since CMA is used more widely, it's worth to have CMA allocation
statistics into vmstat.  With it, we could know how agressively system
uses cma allocation and how often it fails.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302183346.3707237-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard 
Cc: John Dias 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'simplify-do_wp_page'

2020-09-04T16:31:54+00:00

Merge emailed patches from Peter Xu:
 "This is a small series that I picked up from Linus's suggestion to
  simplify cow handling (and also make it more strict) by checking
  against page refcounts rather than mapcounts.

  This makes uffd-wp work again (verified by running upmapsort)"

Note: this is horrendously bad timing, and making this kind of
fundamental vm change after -rc3 is not at all how things should work.
The saving grace is that it really is a a nice simplification:

 8 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)

The reason for the bad timing is that it turns out that commit
17839856fd58 ("gup: document and work around 'COW can break either way'
issue" broke not just UFFD functionality (as Peter noticed), but Mikulas
Patocka also reports that it caused issues for strace when running in a
DAX environment with ext4 on a persistent memory setup.

And we can't just revert that commit without re-introducing the original
issue that is a potential security hole, so making COW stricter (and in
the process much simpler) is a step to then undoing the forced COW that
broke other uses.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LRH.2.02.2009031328040.6929@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com/

* emailed patches from Peter Xu :
  mm: Add PGREUSE counter
  mm/gup: Remove enfornced COW mechanism
  mm/ksm: Remove reuse_ksm_page()
  mm: do_wp_page() simplification

mm: Add PGREUSE counter

2020-09-04T16:25:20+00:00

This accounts for wp_page_reuse() case, where we reused a page for COW.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmstat: add events for THP migration without split

2020-08-12T17:57:57+00:00

Add following new vmstat events which will help in validating THP
migration without split.  Statistics reported through these new VM events
will help in performance debugging.

1. THP_MIGRATION_SUCCESS
2. THP_MIGRATION_FAILURE
3. THP_MIGRATION_SPLIT

In addition, these new events also update normal page migration statistics
appropriately via PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS and PGMIGRATE_FAILURE.  While here,
this updates current trace event 'mm_migrate_pages' to accommodate now
available THP statistics.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/hpage_nr_pages/thp_nr_pages/]
[ziy@nvidia.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/C5E3C65C-8253-4638-9D3C-71A61858BB8B@nvidia.com
[anshuman.khandual@arm.com: s/thp_nr_pages/hpage_nr_pages/]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594287583-16568-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594080415-27924-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: keep separate anon and file statistics on page reclaim activity

2020-06-04T03:09:48+00:00

Having statistics on pages scanned and pages reclaimed for both anon and
file pages makes it easier to evaluate changes to LRU balancing.

While at it, clean up the stat-keeping mess for isolation, putback,
reclaim stats etc.  a bit: first the physical LRU operation (isolation and
putback), followed by vmstats, reclaim_stats, and then vm events.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, thp: track fallbacks due to failed memcg charges separately

2020-04-07T17:43:38+00:00

The thp_fault_fallback and thp_file_fallback vmstats are incremented if
either the hugepage allocation fails through the page allocator or the
hugepage charge fails through mem cgroup.

This patch leaves this field untouched but adds two new fields,
thp_{fault,file}_fallback_charge, which is incremented only when the mem
cgroup charge fails.

This distinguishes between attempted hugepage allocations that fail due to
fragmentation (or low memory conditions) and those that fail due to mem
cgroup limits.  That can be used to determine the impact of fragmentation
on the system by excluding faults that failed due to memcg usage.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Jeremy Cline 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2003061422070.7412@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, shmem: add vmstat for hugepage fallback

2020-04-07T17:43:38+00:00

The existing thp_fault_fallback indicates when thp attempts to allocate a
hugepage but fails, or if the hugepage cannot be charged to the mem cgroup
hierarchy.

Extend this to shmem as well.  Adds a new thp_file_fallback to complement
thp_file_alloc that gets incremented when a hugepage is attempted to be
allocated but fails, or if it cannot be charged to the mem cgroup
hierarchy.

Additionally, remove the check for CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE from
shmem_alloc_hugepage() since it is only called with this configuration
option.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Jeremy Cline 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2003061421240.7412@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely

2018-09-14T01:18:04+00:00

Jann Horn points out that the vmacache_flush_all() function is not only
potentially expensive, it's buggy too.  It also happens to be entirely
unnecessary, because the sequence number overflow case can be avoided by
simply making the sequence number be 64-bit.  That doesn't even grow the
data structures in question, because the other adjacent fields are
already 64-bit.

So simplify the whole thing by just making the sequence number overflow
case go away entirely, which gets rid of all the complications and makes
the code faster too.  Win-win.

[ Oleg Nesterov points out that the VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES statistics
  also just goes away entirely with this ]

Reported-by: Jann Horn 
Suggested-by: Will Deacon 
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman