linux.git/mm/slab.c, branch v4.11

sched/headers: Prepare to move kstack_end() from to

2017-03-02T07:42:39+00:00

But first update the usage sites with the new header dependency.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

slab: introduce __kmemcg_cache_deactivate()

2017-02-23T00:41:27+00:00

__kmem_cache_shrink() is called with %true @deactivate only for memcg
caches.  Remove @deactivate from __kmem_cache_shrink() and introduce
__kmemcg_cache_deactivate() instead.  Each memcg-supporting allocator
should implement it and it should deactivate and drain the cache.

This is to allow memcg cache deactivation behavior to further deviate
from simple shrinking without messing up __kmem_cache_shrink().

This is pure reorganization and doesn't introduce any observable
behavior changes.

v2: Dropped unnecessary ifdef in mm/slab.h as suggested by Vladimir.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-8-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "slub: move synchronize_sched out of slab_mutex on shrink"

2017-02-23T00:41:27+00:00

Patch series "slab: make memcg slab destruction scalable", v3.

With kmem cgroup support enabled, kmem_caches can be created and
destroyed frequently and a great number of near empty kmem_caches can
accumulate if there are a lot of transient cgroups and the system is not
under memory pressure.  When memory reclaim starts under such
conditions, it can lead to consecutive deactivation and destruction of
many kmem_caches, easily hundreds of thousands on moderately large
systems, exposing scalability issues in the current slab management
code.

I've seen machines which end up with hundred thousands of caches and
many millions of kernfs_nodes.  The current code is O(N^2) on the total
number of caches and has synchronous rcu_barrier() and
synchronize_sched() in cgroup offline / release path which is executed
while holding cgroup_mutex.  Combined, this leads to very expensive and
slow cache destruction operations which can easily keep running for half
a day.

This also messes up /proc/slabinfo along with other cache iterating
operations.  seq_file operates on 4k chunks and on each 4k boundary
tries to seek to the last position in the list.  With a huge number of
caches on the list, this becomes very slow and very prone to the list
content changing underneath it leading to a lot of missing and/or
duplicate entries.

This patchset addresses the scalability problem.

* Add root and per-memcg lists.  Update each user to use the
  appropriate list.

* Make rcu_barrier() for SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU caches globally batched
  and asynchronous.

* For dying empty slub caches, remove the sysfs files after
  deactivation so that we don't end up with millions of sysfs files
  without any useful information on them.

This patchset contains the following nine patches.

 0001-Revert-slub-move-synchronize_sched-out-of-slab_mutex.patch
 0002-slub-separate-out-sysfs_slab_release-from-sysfs_slab.patch
 0003-slab-remove-synchronous-rcu_barrier-call-in-memcg-ca.patch
 0004-slab-reorganize-memcg_cache_params.patch
 0005-slab-link-memcg-kmem_caches-on-their-associated-memo.patch
 0006-slab-implement-slab_root_caches-list.patch
 0007-slab-introduce-__kmemcg_cache_deactivate.patch
 0008-slab-remove-synchronous-synchronize_sched-from-memcg.patch
 0009-slab-remove-slub-sysfs-interface-files-early-for-emp.patch
 0010-slab-use-memcg_kmem_cache_wq-for-slab-destruction-op.patch

0001 reverts an existing optimization to prepare for the following
changes.  0002 is a prep patch.  0003 makes rcu_barrier() in release
path batched and asynchronous.  0004-0006 separate out the lists.
0007-0008 replace synchronize_sched() in slub destruction path with
call_rcu_sched().  0009 removes sysfs files early for empty dying
caches.  0010 makes destruction work items use a workqueue with limited
concurrency.

This patch (of 10):

Revert 89e364db71fb5e ("slub: move synchronize_sched out of slab_mutex on
shrink").

With kmem cgroup support enabled, kmem_caches can be created and destroyed
frequently and a great number of near empty kmem_caches can accumulate if
there are a lot of transient cgroups and the system is not under memory
pressure.  When memory reclaim starts under such conditions, it can lead
to consecutive deactivation and destruction of many kmem_caches, easily
hundreds of thousands on moderately large systems, exposing scalability
issues in the current slab management code.  This is one of the patches to
address the issue.

Moving synchronize_sched() out of slab_mutex isn't enough as it's still
inside cgroup_mutex.  The whole deactivation / release path will be
updated to avoid all synchronous RCU operations.  Revert this insufficient
optimization in preparation to ease future changes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-2-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-by: Jay Vana 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, slab: rename kmalloc-node cache to kmalloc-

2017-02-23T00:41:27+00:00

SLAB as part of its bootstrap pre-creates one kmalloc cache that can fit
the kmem_cache_node management structure, and puts it into the generic
kmalloc cache array (e.g. for 128b objects).  The name of this cache is
"kmalloc-node", which is confusing for readers of /proc/slabinfo as the
cache is used for generic allocations (and not just the kmem_cache_node
struct) and it appears as the kmalloc-128 cache is missing.

An easy solution is to use the kmalloc- name when pre-creating the
cache, which we can get from the kmalloc_info array.

Example /proc/slabinfo before the patch:

  ...
  kmalloc-256         1647   1984    256   16    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    124    124    828
  kmalloc-192         1974   1974    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     94     94    133
  kmalloc-96          1332   1344    128   32    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     42     42    219
  kmalloc-64          2505   5952     64   64    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     93     93    715
  kmalloc-32          4278   4464     32  124    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     36     36    346
  kmalloc-node        1352   1376    128   32    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     43     43     53
  kmem_cache           132    147    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata      7      7      0

After the patch:

  ...
  kmalloc-256         1672   2160    256   16    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    135    135    807
  kmalloc-192         1992   2016    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     96     96    203
  kmalloc-96          1159   1184    128   32    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     37     37    116
  kmalloc-64          2561   4864     64   64    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     76     76    785
  kmalloc-32          4253   4340     32  124    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     35     35    270
  kmalloc-128         1256   1280    128   32    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     40     40     39
  kmem_cache           125    147    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata      7      7      0

[vbabka@suse.cz: export the whole kmalloc_info structure instead of just a name accessor, per Christoph Lameter]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54e80303-b814-4232-66d4-95b34d3eb9d0@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203181008.24898-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab.c: fix SLAB freelist randomization duplicate entries

2017-01-11T02:31:55+00:00

This patch fixes a bug in the freelist randomization code.  When a high
random number is used, the freelist will contain duplicate entries.  It
will result in different allocations sharing the same chunk.

It will result in odd behaviours and crashes.  It should be uncommon but
it depends on the machines.  We saw it happening more often on some
machines (every few hours of running tests).

Fixes: c7ce4f60ac19 ("mm: SLAB freelist randomization")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103181908.143178-1-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2016-12-13T20:59:57+00:00

Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Mostly patches to initialize workqueue subsystem earlier and get rid
  of keventd_up().

  The patches were headed for the last merge cycle but got delayed due
  to a bug found late minute, which is fixed now.

  Also, to help debugging, destroy_workqueue() is more chatty now on a
  sanity check failure."

* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()
  workqueue: remove keventd_up()
  debugobj, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  power, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  tty, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
  workqueue: dump workqueue state on sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()

mm, slab: maintain total slab count instead of active count

2016-12-13T02:55:07+00:00

Rather than tracking the number of active slabs for each node, track the
total number of slabs.  This is a minor improvement that avoids active
slab tracking when a slab goes from free to partial or partial to free.

For slab debugging, this also removes an explicit free count since it
can easily be inferred by the difference in number of total objects and
number of active objects.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1612042020110.115755@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Aruna Ramakrishna 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, slab: faster active and free stats

2016-12-13T02:55:06+00:00

Reading /proc/slabinfo or monitoring slabtop(1) can become very
expensive if there are many slab caches and if there are very lengthy
per-node partial and/or free lists.

Commit 07a63c41fa1f ("mm/slab: improve performance of gathering slabinfo
stats") addressed the per-node full lists which showed a significant
improvement when no objects were freed.  This patch has the same
motivation and optimizes the remainder of the usecases where there are
very lengthy partial and free lists.

This patch maintains per-node active_slabs (full and partial) and
free_slabs rather than iterating the lists at runtime when reading
/proc/slabinfo.

When allocating 100GB of slab from a test cache where every slab page is
on the partial list, reading /proc/slabinfo (includes all other slab
caches on the system) takes ~247ms on average with 48 samples.

As a result of this patch, the same read takes ~0.856ms on average.

[rientjes@google.com: changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1611081505240.13403@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen 
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slub: move synchronize_sched out of slab_mutex on shrink

2016-12-13T02:55:06+00:00

synchronize_sched() is a heavy operation and calling it per each cache
owned by a memory cgroup being destroyed may take quite some time.  What
is worse, it's currently called under the slab_mutex, stalling all works
doing cache creation/destruction.

Actually, there isn't much point in calling synchronize_sched() for each
cache - it's enough to call it just once - after setting cpu_partial for
all caches and before shrinking them.  This way, we can also move it out
of the slab_mutex, which we have to hold for iterating over the slab
cache list.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a10d71ecae3db00fb4421bcd3f82bcc911f4be4.1475329751.git.vdavydov.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Reported-by: Doug Smythies 
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats

2016-10-28T01:43:43+00:00

On large systems, when some slab caches grow to millions of objects (and
many gigabytes), running 'cat /proc/slabinfo' can take up to 1-2
seconds.  During this time, interrupts are disabled while walking the
slab lists (slabs_full, slabs_partial, and slabs_free) for each node,
and this sometimes causes timeouts in other drivers (for instance,
Infiniband).

This patch optimizes 'cat /proc/slabinfo' by maintaining a counter for
total number of allocated slabs per node, per cache.  This counter is
updated when a slab is created or destroyed.  This enables us to skip
traversing the slabs_full list while gathering slabinfo statistics, and
since slabs_full tends to be the biggest list when the cache is large,
it results in a dramatic performance improvement.  Getting slabinfo
statistics now only requires walking the slabs_free and slabs_partial
lists, and those lists are usually much smaller than slabs_full.

We tested this after growing the dentry cache to 70GB, and the
performance improved from 2s to 5ms.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472517876-26814-1-git-send-email-aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Aruna Ramakrishna 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds