linux.git/mm/page_alloc.c, branch v4.14

mm, page_alloc: add scheduling point to memmap_init_zone

2017-10-04T00:54:25+00:00

memmap_init_zone gets a pfn range to initialize and it can be really
large resulting in a soft lockup on non-preemptible kernels

  NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#31 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u642:5:1720]
  [...]
  task: ffff88ecd7e902c0 ti: ffff88eca4e50000 task.ti: ffff88eca4e50000
  RIP: move_pfn_range_to_zone+0x185/0x1d0
  [...]
  Call Trace:
    devm_memremap_pages+0x2c7/0x430
    pmem_attach_disk+0x2fd/0x3f0 [nd_pmem]
    nvdimm_bus_probe+0x64/0x110 [libnvdimm]
    driver_probe_device+0x1f7/0x420
    bus_for_each_drv+0x52/0x80
    __device_attach+0xb0/0x130
    bus_probe_device+0x87/0xa0
    device_add+0x3fc/0x5f0
    nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x40 [libnvdimm]
    async_run_entry_fn+0x43/0x150
    process_one_work+0x14e/0x410
    worker_thread+0x116/0x490
    kthread+0xc7/0xe0
    ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70

Fix this by adding a scheduling point once per page block.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170918121410.24466-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: meminit: mark init_reserved_page as __meminit

2017-10-04T00:54:24+00:00

The function is called from __meminit context and calls other __meminit
functions but isn't it self mark as such today:

  WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x4516): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_reserved_page() to the function .meminit.text:early_pfn_to_nid()
  The function init_reserved_page() references the function __meminit early_pfn_to_nid().
  This is often because init_reserved_page lacks a __meminit annotation or the annotation of early_pfn_to_nid is wrong.

On most compilers, we don't notice this because the function gets
inlined all the time.  Adding __meminit here fixes the harmless warning
for the old versions and is generally the correct annotation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170915193149.901180-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: 7e18adb4f80b ("mm: meminit: initialise remaining struct pages in parallel with kswapd")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc.c: apply gfp_allowed_mask before the first allocation attempt

2017-09-09T01:26:47+00:00

We are by error initializing alloc_flags before gfp_allowed_mask is
applied.  This could cause problems after pm_restrict_gfp_mask() is called
during suspend operation.  Apply gfp_allowed_mask before initializing
alloc_flags so that the first allocation attempt uses correct flags.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201709020016.ADJ21342.OFLJHOOSMFVtFQ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Fixes: 83d4ca8148fd9092 ("mm, page_alloc: move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: change the call sites of numa statistics items

2017-09-09T01:26:47+00:00

Patch series "Separate NUMA statistics from zone statistics", v2.

Each page allocation updates a set of per-zone statistics with a call to
zone_statistics().  As discussed in 2017 MM summit, these are a
substantial source of overhead in the page allocator and are very rarely
consumed.  This significant overhead in cache bouncing caused by zone
counters (NUMA associated counters) update in parallel in multi-threaded
page allocation (pointed out by Dave Hansen).

A link to the MM summit slides:
  http://people.netfilter.org/hawk/presentations/MM-summit2017/MM-summit2017-JesperBrouer.pdf

To mitigate this overhead, this patchset separates NUMA statistics from
zone statistics framework, and update NUMA counter threshold to a fixed
size of MAX_U16 - 2, as a small threshold greatly increases the update
frequency of the global counter from local per cpu counter (suggested by
Ying Huang).  The rationality is that these statistics counters don't
need to be read often, unlike other VM counters, so it's not a problem
to use a large threshold and make readers more expensive.

With this patchset, we see 31.3% drop of CPU cycles(537-->369, see
below) for per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's
page_bench03 benchmark.  Meanwhile, this patchset keeps the same style
of virtual memory statistics with little end-user-visible effects (only
move the numa stats to show behind zone page stats, see the first patch
for details).

I did an experiment of single page allocation and reclaim concurrently
using Jesper's page_bench03 benchmark on a 2-Socket Broadwell-based
server (88 processors with 126G memory) with different size of threshold
of pcp counter.

Benchmark provided by Jesper D Brouer(increase loop times to 10000000):
  https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench

   Threshold   CPU cycles    Throughput(88 threads)
      32        799         241760478
      64        640         301628829
      125       537         358906028 <==> system by default
      256       468         412397590
      512       428         450550704
      4096      399         482520943
      20000     394         489009617
      30000     395         488017817
      65533     369(-31.3%) 521661345(+45.3%) <==> with this patchset
      N/A       342(-36.3%) 562900157(+56.8%) <==> disable zone_statistics

This patch (of 3):

In this patch, NUMA statistics is separated from zone statistics
framework, all the call sites of NUMA stats are changed to use
numa-stats-specific functions, it does not have any functionality change
except that the number of NUMA stats is shown behind zone page stats
when users *read* the zone info.

E.g. cat /proc/zoneinfo
    ***Base***                           ***With this patch***
nr_free_pages 3976                         nr_free_pages 3976
nr_zone_inactive_anon 0                    nr_zone_inactive_anon 0
nr_zone_active_anon 0                      nr_zone_active_anon 0
nr_zone_inactive_file 0                    nr_zone_inactive_file 0
nr_zone_active_file 0                      nr_zone_active_file 0
nr_zone_unevictable 0                      nr_zone_unevictable 0
nr_zone_write_pending 0                    nr_zone_write_pending 0
nr_mlock     0                             nr_mlock     0
nr_page_table_pages 0                      nr_page_table_pages 0
nr_kernel_stack 0                          nr_kernel_stack 0
nr_bounce    0                             nr_bounce    0
nr_zspages   0                             nr_zspages   0
numa_hit 0                                *nr_free_cma  0*
numa_miss 0                                numa_hit     0
numa_foreign 0                             numa_miss    0
numa_interleave 0                          numa_foreign 0
numa_local   0                             numa_interleave 0
numa_other   0                             numa_local   0
*nr_free_cma 0*                            numa_other 0
    ...                                        ...
vm stats threshold: 10                     vm stats threshold: 10
    ...                                        ...

The next patch updates the numa stats counter size and threshold.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503568801-21305-2-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang 
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Christopher Lameter 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ying Huang 
Cc: Aaron Lu 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access

2017-09-07T00:27:30+00:00

For ages we have been relying on TIF_MEMDIE thread flag to mark OOM
victims and then, among other things, to give these threads full access
to memory reserves.  There are few shortcomings of this implementation,
though.

First of all and the most serious one is that the full access to memory
reserves is quite dangerous because we leave no safety room for the
system to operate and potentially do last emergency steps to move on.

Secondly this flag is per task_struct while the OOM killer operates on
mm_struct granularity so all processes sharing the given mm are killed.
Giving the full access to all these task_structs could lead to a quick
memory reserves depletion.  We have tried to reduce this risk by giving
TIF_MEMDIE only to the main thread and the currently allocating task but
that doesn't really solve this problem while it surely opens up a room
for corner cases - e.g.  GFP_NO{FS,IO} requests might loop inside the
allocator without access to memory reserves because a particular thread
was not the group leader.

Now that we have the oom reaper and that all oom victims are reapable
after 1b51e65eab64 ("oom, oom_reaper: allow to reap mm shared by the
kthreads") we can be more conservative and grant only partial access to
memory reserves because there are reasonable chances of the parallel
memory freeing.  We still want some access to reserves because we do not
want other consumers to eat up the victim's freed memory.  oom victims
will still contend with __GFP_HIGH users but those shouldn't be so
aggressive to starve oom victims completely.

Introduce ALLOC_OOM flag and give all tsk_is_oom_victim tasks access to
the half of the reserves.  This makes the access to reserves independent
on which task has passed through mark_oom_victim.  Also drop any usage
of TIF_MEMDIE from the page allocator proper and replace it by
tsk_is_oom_victim as well which will make page_alloc.c completely
TIF_MEMDIE free finally.

CONFIG_MMU=n doesn't have oom reaper so let's stick to the original
ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS approach.

There is a demand to make the oom killer memcg aware which will imply
many tasks killed at once.  This change will allow such a usecase
without worrying about complete memory reserves depletion.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170810075019.28998-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Roman Gushchin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state

2017-09-07T00:27:29+00:00

global_page_state is error prone as a recent bug report pointed out [1].
It only returns proper values for zone based counters as the enum it
gets suggests.  We already have global_node_page_state so let's rename
global_page_state to global_zone_page_state to be more explicit here.
All existing users seems to be correct:

$ git grep "global_page_state(NR_" | sed 's@.*(\(NR_[A-Z_]*\)).*@\1@' | sort | uniq -c
      2 NR_BOUNCE
      2 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES
     11 NR_FREE_PAGES
      1 NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB
      1 NR_MLOCK
      2 NR_PAGETABLE

This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201707260628.v6Q6SmaS030814@www262.sakura.ne.jp

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801134256.5400-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex

2017-09-07T00:27:26+00:00

zonelists_mutex was introduced by commit 4eaf3f64397c ("mem-hotplug: fix
potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone") to
protect zonelist building from races.  This is no longer needed though
because both memory online and offline are fully serialized.  New users
have grown since then.

Notably setup_per_zone_wmarks wants to prevent from races between memory
hotplug, khugepaged setup and manual min_free_kbytes update via sysctl
(see cfd3da1e49bb ("mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes").  Let's
add a private lock for that purpose.  This will not prevent from seeing
halfway through memory hotplug operation but that shouldn't be a big
deal becuse memory hotplug will update watermarks explicitly so we will
eventually get a full picture.  The lock just makes sure we won't race
when updating watermarks leading to weird results.

Also __build_all_zonelists manipulates global data so add a private lock
for it as well.  This doesn't seem to be necessary today but it is more
robust to have a lock there.

While we are at it make sure we document that memory online/offline
depends on a full serialization either via mem_hotplug_begin() or
device_lock.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-9-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Haicheng Li 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: remove stop_machine from build_all_zonelists

2017-09-07T00:27:26+00:00

build_all_zonelists has been (ab)using stop_machine to make sure that
zonelists do not change while somebody is looking at them.  This is is
just a gross hack because a) it complicates the context from which we
can call build_all_zonelists (see 3f906ba23689 ("mm/memory-hotplug:
switch locking to a percpu rwsem")) and b) is is not really necessary
especially after "mm, page_alloc: simplify zonelist initialization" and
c) it doesn't really provide the protection it claims (see below).

Updates of the zonelists happen very seldom, basically only when a zone
becomes populated during memory online or when it loses all the memory
during offline.  A racing iteration over zonelists could either miss a
zone or try to work on one zone twice.  Both of these are something we
can live with occasionally because there will always be at least one
zone visible so we are not likely to fail allocation too easily for
example.

Please note that the original stop_machine approach doesn't really
provide a better exclusion because the iteration might be interrupted
half way (unless the whole iteration is preempt disabled which is not
the case in most cases) so the some zones could still be seen twice or a
zone missed.

I have run the pathological online/offline of the single memblock in the
movable zone while stressing the same small node with some memory
pressure.

Node 1, zone      DMA
  pages free     0
        min      0
        low      0
        high     0
        spanned  0
        present  0
        managed  0
        protection: (0, 943, 943, 943)
Node 1, zone    DMA32
  pages free     227310
        min      8294
        low      10367
        high     12440
        spanned  262112
        present  262112
        managed  241436
        protection: (0, 0, 0, 0)
Node 1, zone   Normal
  pages free     0
        min      0
        low      0
        high     0
        spanned  0
        present  0
        managed  0
        protection: (0, 0, 0, 1024)
Node 1, zone  Movable
  pages free     32722
        min      85
        low      117
        high     149
        spanned  32768
        present  32768
        managed  32768
        protection: (0, 0, 0, 0)

root@test1:/sys/devices/system/node/node1# while true
do
	echo offline > memory34/state
	echo online_movable > memory34/state
done

root@test1:/mnt/data/test/linux-3.7-rc5# numactl --preferred=1 make -j4

and it survived without any unexpected behavior.  While this is not
really a great testing coverage it should exercise the allocation path
quite a lot.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-8-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: simplify zonelist initialization

2017-09-07T00:27:26+00:00

build_zonelists gradually builds zonelists from the nearest to the most
distant node.  As we do not know how many populated zones we will have
in each node we rely on the _zoneref to terminate initialized part of
the zonelist by a NULL zone.  While this is functionally correct it is
quite suboptimal because we cannot allow updaters to race with zonelists
users because they could see an empty zonelist and fail the allocation
or hit the OOM killer in the worst case.

We can do much better, though.  We can store the node ordering into an
already existing node_order array and then give this array to
build_zonelists_in_node_order and do the whole initialization at once.
zonelists consumers still might see halfway initialized state but that
should be much more tolerateable because the list will not be empty and
they would either see some zone twice or skip over some zone(s) in the
worst case which shouldn't lead to immediate failures.

While at it let's simplify build_zonelists_node which is rather
confusing now.  It gets an index into the zoneref array and returns the
updated index for the next iteration.  Let's rename the function to
build_zonerefs_node to better reflect its purpose and give it zoneref
array to update.  The function doesn't the index anymore.  It just
returns the number of added zones so that the caller can advance the
zonered array start for the next update.

This patch alone doesn't introduce any functional change yet, though, it
is merely a preparatory work for later changes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-7-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, memory_hotplug: drop zone from build_all_zonelists

2017-09-07T00:27:25+00:00

build_all_zonelists gets a zone parameter to initialize zone's pagesets.
There is only a single user which gives a non-NULL zone parameter and
that one doesn't really need the rest of the build_all_zonelists (see
commit 6dcd73d7011b ("memory-hotplug: allocate zone's pcp before
onlining pages")).

Therefore remove setup_zone_pageset from build_all_zonelists and call it
from its only user directly.  This will also remove a pointless zonlists
rebuilding which is always good.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Wen Congyang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds