linux-stable.git/mm/huge_memory.c, branch linux-3.8.y

thp: avoid dumping huge zero page

2013-02-05T09:38:46+00:00

No reason to preserve the huge zero page in core dumps.

Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: thp: acquire the anon_vma rwsem for write during split

2013-01-11T22:54:55+00:00

Zhouping Liu reported the following against 3.8-rc1 when running a mmap
testcase from LTP.

  mapcount 0 page_mapcount 3
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1798!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_nat ebtables bnep bluetooth rfkill iptable_mangle ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables be2iscsi iscsi_boot_sysfs bnx2i cnic uio cxgb4i cxgb4 cxgb3i cxgb3 mdio libcxgbi ib_iser rdma_cm ib_addr iw_cm ib_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi vfat fat dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod cdc_ether iTCO_wdt i7core_edac coretemp usbnet iTCO_vendor_support mii crc32c_intel edac_core lpc_ich shpchp ioatdma mfd_core i2c_i801 pcspkr serio_raw bnx2 microcode dca vhost_net tun macvtap macvlan kvm_intel kvm uinput mgag200 sr_mod cdrom i2c_algo_bit sd_mod drm_kms_helper crc_t10dif ata_generic pata_acpi ttm ata_piix drm libata i2c_core megaraid_sas
  CPU 1
  Pid: 23217, comm: mmap10 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc1mainline+ #17 IBM IBM System x3400 M3 Server -[7379I08]-/69Y4356
  RIP: __split_huge_page+0x677/0x6d0
  RSP: 0000:ffff88017a03fc08  EFLAGS: 00010293
  RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffff88027a6c22e0 RCX: 00000000000034d2
  RDX: 000000000000748b RSI: 0000000000000046 RDI: 0000000000000246
  RBP: ffff88017a03fcb8 R08: ffffffff819d2440 R09: 000000000000054a
  R10: 0000000000aaaaaa R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 00007f4f11a00000 R14: ffff880179e96e00 R15: ffffea0005c08000
  FS:  00007f4f11f4a740(0000) GS:ffff88017bc20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 00000037e9ebb404 CR3: 000000017a436000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process mmap10 (pid: 23217, threadinfo ffff88017a03e000, task ffff880172dd32e0)
  Stack:
   ffff88017a540ec8 ffff88017a03fc20 ffffffff816017b5 ffff88017a03fc88
   ffffffff812fa014 0000000000000000 ffff880279ebd5c0 00000000f4f11a4c
   00000007f4f11f49 00000007f4f11a00 ffff88017a540ef0 ffff88017a540ee8
  Call Trace:
    split_huge_page+0x68/0xb0
    __split_huge_page_pmd+0x134/0x330
    split_huge_page_pmd_mm+0x51/0x60
    split_huge_page_address+0x3b/0x50
    __vma_adjust_trans_huge+0x9c/0xf0
    vma_adjust+0x684/0x750
    __split_vma.isra.28+0x1fa/0x220
    do_munmap+0xf9/0x420
    vm_munmap+0x4e/0x70
    sys_munmap+0x2b/0x40
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Alexander Beregalov and Alex Xu reported similar bugs and Hillf Danton
identified that commit 5a505085f043 ("mm/rmap: Convert the struct
anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem") and commit 4fc3f1d66b1e ("mm/rmap,
migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable")
were likely the problem.  Reverting these commits was reported to solve
the problem for Alexander.

Despite the reason for these commits, NUMA balancing is not the direct
source of the problem.  split_huge_page() expects the anon_vma lock to
be exclusive to serialise the whole split operation.  Ordinarily it is
expected that the anon_vma lock would only be required when updating the
avcs but THP also uses the anon_vma rwsem for collapse and split
operations where the page lock or compound lock cannot be used (as the
page is changing from base to THP or vice versa) and the page table
locks are insufficient.

This patch takes the anon_vma lock for write to serialise against parallel
split_huge_page as THP expected before the conversion to rwsem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Zhouping Liu 
Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov 
Reported-by: Alex Xu 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: clean up transparent hugepage sysfs error messages

2012-12-21T01:40:20+00:00

Clarify error messages and correct a few typos in the transparent hugepage
sysfs init code.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Eder 
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix kernel BUG at huge_memory.c:1474!

2012-12-17T03:02:38+00:00

Andrea's autonuma-benchmark numa01 hits kernel BUG at huge_memory.c:1474!
in change_huge_pmd called from change_protection from change_prot_numa
from task_numa_work.

That BUG, introduced in the huge zero page commit cad7f613c4d0 ("thp:
change_huge_pmd(): make sure we don't try to make a page writable")
was trying to verify that newprot never adds write permission to an
anonymous huge page; but Automatic NUMA Balancing's 4b10e7d562c9 ("mm:
mempolicy: Implement change_prot_numa() in terms of change_protection()")
adds a new prot_numa path into change_huge_pmd(), which makes no use of
the newprot provided, and may retain the write bit in the pmd.

Just move the BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry)) up into the !prot_numa block.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma

2012-12-16T23:18:08+00:00

Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
 "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
  (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
  autonuma which is in aa.git.

  In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
  its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
  scheduling.  In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
  desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
  scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.

  The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are

    mel:    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
    mingo:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
    tglx:   https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
    srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397

  The results are a mixed bag.  In my own tests, balancenuma does
  reasonably well.  It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
  mainline.  On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
  incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
  but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts.  Thomas'
  results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
  numacore or autonuma.  Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
  large machine with imbalanced node sizes.

  My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
  dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
  We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
  migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
  There are also cases where it regresses.  Of interest is that for
  specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
  warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
  the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports.  Recently I
  reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
  NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
  this problem is.  Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
  handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case.  It's possible
  numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.

  These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
  with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
  not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."

* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
  mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
  mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
  mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
  mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
  mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
  mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
  mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
  mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
  mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
  mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
  sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
  mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
  mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
  mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
  mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
  mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
  ...

thp: avoid race on multiple parallel page faults to the same page

2012-12-13T01:38:32+00:00

pmd value is stable only with mm->page_table_lock taken. After taking
the lock we need to check that nobody modified the pmd before changing it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: introduce sysfs knob to disable huge zero page

2012-12-13T01:38:32+00:00

By default kernel tries to use huge zero page on read page fault.  It's
possible to disable huge zero page by writing 0 or enable it back by
writing 1:

echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page
echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp, vmstat: implement HZP_ALLOC and HZP_ALLOC_FAILED events

2012-12-13T01:38:32+00:00

hzp_alloc is incremented every time a huge zero page is successfully
	allocated. It includes allocations which where dropped due
	race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count every map
	of the huge zero page, only its allocation.

hzp_alloc_failed is incremented if kernel fails to allocate huge zero
	page and falls back to using small pages.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: implement refcounting for huge zero page

2012-12-13T01:38:31+00:00

H.  Peter Anvin doesn't like huge zero page which sticks in memory forever
after the first allocation.  Here's implementation of lockless refcounting
for huge zero page.

We have two basic primitives: {get,put}_huge_zero_page(). They
manipulate reference counter.

If counter is 0, get_huge_zero_page() allocates a new huge page and takes
two references: one for caller and one for shrinker.  We free the page
only in shrinker callback if counter is 1 (only shrinker has the
reference).

put_huge_zero_page() only decrements counter.  Counter is never zero in
put_huge_zero_page() since shrinker holds on reference.

Freeing huge zero page in shrinker callback helps to avoid frequent
allocate-free.

Refcounting has cost.  On 4 socket machine I observe ~1% slowdown on
parallel (40 processes) read page faulting comparing to lazy huge page
allocation.  I think it's pretty reasonable for synthetic benchmark.

[lliubbo@gmail.com: fix mismerge]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: lazy huge zero page allocation

2012-12-13T01:38:31+00:00

Instead of allocating huge zero page on hugepage_init() we can postpone it
until first huge zero page map. It saves memory if THP is not in use.

cmpxchg() is used to avoid race on huge_zero_pfn initialization.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds