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Vlastimil Babka
3dfbb555c9 mm, vmscan: remove ISOLATE_UNMAPPED
This isolate_mode_t flag is effectively unused since 89f6c88a6a ("mm:
__isolate_lru_page_prepare() in isolate_migratepages_block()") as
sc->may_unmap is now checked directly (and only node_reclaim has a mode
that sets it to 0).  The last remaining place is mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
tracepoint for the isolate_mode parameter.  That one was mainly used to
indicate the active/inactive mode, which the trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl
script consumed, but that got silently broken.  After fixing the script by
the previous patch, it does not need the isolate_mode anymore.  So just
remove the parameter and with that the whole ISOLATE_UNMAPPED flag.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230914131637.12204-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04 10:32:29 -07:00
Vasily Averin
2b132903de tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
Fixes following sparse warnings:

  CHECK   mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmscan.c: note: in included file (through
include/trace/trace_events.h, include/trace/define_trace.h,
include/trace/events/vmscan.h):
./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning:
 cast to restricted isolate_mode_t
./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning:
 restricted isolate_mode_t degrades to integer

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e85d7ff2-fd10-53f8-c24e-ba0458439c1b@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-19 14:08:55 -07:00
Vasily Averin
fe573327ff tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion
Fixes the following sparse warnings:

include/trace/events/*: sparse: cast to restricted gfp_t
include/trace/events/*: sparse: restricted gfp_t degrades to integer

gfp_t type is bitwise and requires __force attributes for any casts.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/331d88fe-f4f7-657c-02a2-d977f15fbff6@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-05-13 07:20:18 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
e0cd5e7ffa mm/vmscan: Convert pageout() to take a folio
We always write out an entire folio at once.  This conversion removes
a few calls to compound_head() and gets the NR_VMSCAN_WRITE statistic
right when writing out a large folio.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
2022-03-21 13:01:35 -04:00
Mel Gorman
1b4e3f26f9 mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress
Mike Galbraith, Alexey Avramov and Darrick Wong all reported similar
problems due to reclaim throttling for excessive lengths of time.  In
Alexey's case, a memory hog that should go OOM quickly stalls for
several minutes before stalling.  In Mike and Darrick's cases, a small
memcg environment stalled excessively even though the system had enough
memory overall.

Commit 69392a403f ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is
being made") introduced the problem although commit a19594ca4a
("mm/vmscan: increase the timeout if page reclaim is not making
progress") made it worse.  Systems at or near an OOM state that cannot
be recovered must reach OOM quickly and memcg should kill tasks if a
memcg is near OOM.

To address this, only stall for the first zone in the zonelist, reduce
the timeout to 1 tick for VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS and only stall if
the scan control nr_reclaimed is 0, kswapd is still active and there
were excessive pages pending for writeback.  If kswapd has stopped
reclaiming due to excessive failures, do not stall at all so that OOM
triggers relatively quickly.  Similarly, if an LRU is simply congested,
only lightly throttle similar to NOPROGRESS.

Alexey's original case was the most straight forward

	for i in {1..3}; do tail /dev/zero; done

On vanilla 5.16-rc1, this test stalled heavily, after the patch the test
completes in a few seconds similar to 5.15.

Alexey's second test case added watching a youtube video while tail runs
10 times.  On 5.15, playback only jitters slightly, 5.16-rc1 stalls a
lot with lots of frames missing and numerous audio glitches.  With this
patch applies, the video plays similarly to 5.15.

[lkp@intel.com: Fix W=1 build warning]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/99e779783d6c7fce96448a3402061b9dc1b3b602.camel@gmx.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202150614.22440-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv/
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Avramov <hakavlad@inbox.lv>
Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tracked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Fixes: 69392a403f ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-31 11:17:07 -08:00
Mel Gorman
69392a403f mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made
Memcg reclaim throttles on congestion if no reclaim progress is made.
This makes little sense, it might be due to writeback or a host of other
factors.

For !memcg reclaim, it's messy.  Direct reclaim primarily is throttled
in the page allocator if it is failing to make progress.  Kswapd
throttles if too many pages are under writeback and marked for immediate
reclaim.

This patch explicitly throttles if reclaim is failing to make progress.

[vbabka@suse.cz: Remove redundant code]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
Mel Gorman
d818fca1ca mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated
Page reclaim throttles on congestion if too many parallel reclaim
instances have isolated too many pages.  This makes no sense, excessive
parallelisation has nothing to do with writeback or congestion.

This patch creates an additional workqueue to sleep on when too many
pages are isolated.  The throttled tasks are woken when the number of
isolated pages is reduced or a timeout occurs.  There may be some false
positive wakeups for GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS callers but the tasks will
throttle again if necessary.

[shy828301@gmail.com: Wake up from compaction context]
[vbabka@suse.cz: Account number of throttled tasks only for writeback]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
Mel Gorman
8cd7c588de mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested
Patch series "Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/", v5.

This series that removes all calls to congestion_wait in mm/ and deletes
wait_iff_congested.  It's not a clever implementation but
congestion_wait has been broken for a long time [1].

Even if congestion throttling worked, it was never a great idea.  While
excessive dirty/writeback pages at the tail of the LRU is one
possibility that reclaim may be slow, there is also the problem of too
many pages being isolated and reclaim failing for other reasons
(elevated references, too many pages isolated, excessive LRU contention
etc).

This series replaces the "congestion" throttling with 3 different types.

 - If there are too many dirty/writeback pages, sleep until a timeout or
   enough pages get cleaned

 - If too many pages are isolated, sleep until enough isolated pages are
   either reclaimed or put back on the LRU

 - If no progress is being made, direct reclaim tasks sleep until
   another task makes progress with acceptable efficiency.

This was initially tested with a mix of workloads that used to trigger
corner cases that no longer work.  A new test case was created called
"stutterp" (pagereclaim-stutterp-noreaders in mmtests) using a freshly
created XFS filesystem.  Note that it may be necessary to increase the
timeout of ssh if executing remotely as ssh itself can get throttled and
the connection may timeout.

stutterp varies the number of "worker" processes from 4 up to NR_CPUS*4
to check the impact as the number of direct reclaimers increase.  It has
four types of worker.

 - One "anon latency" worker creates small mappings with mmap() and
   times how long it takes to fault the mapping reading it 4K at a time

 - X file writers which is fio randomly writing X files where the total
   size of the files add up to the allowed dirty_ratio. fio is allowed
   to run for a warmup period to allow some file-backed pages to
   accumulate. The duration of the warmup is based on the best-case
   linear write speed of the storage.

 - Y file readers which is fio randomly reading small files

 - Z anon memory hogs which continually map (100-dirty_ratio)% of memory

 - Total estimated WSS = (100+dirty_ration) percentage of memory

X+Y+Z+1 == NR_WORKERS varying from 4 up to NR_CPUS*4

The intent is to maximise the total WSS with a mix of file and anon
memory where some anonymous memory must be swapped and there is a high
likelihood of dirty/writeback pages reaching the end of the LRU.

The test can be configured to have no background readers to stress
dirty/writeback pages.  The results below are based on having zero
readers.

The short summary of the results is that the series works and stalls
until some event occurs but the timeouts may need adjustment.

The test results are not broken down by patch as the series should be
treated as one block that replaces a broken throttling mechanism with a
working one.

Finally, three machines were tested but I'm reporting the worst set of
results.  The other two machines had much better latencies for example.

First the results of the "anon latency" latency

  stutterp
                                5.15.0-rc1             5.15.0-rc1
                                   vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r4
  Amean     mmap-4      31.4003 (   0.00%)   2661.0198 (-8374.52%)
  Amean     mmap-7      38.1641 (   0.00%)    149.2891 (-291.18%)
  Amean     mmap-12     60.0981 (   0.00%)    187.8105 (-212.51%)
  Amean     mmap-21    161.2699 (   0.00%)    213.9107 ( -32.64%)
  Amean     mmap-30    174.5589 (   0.00%)    377.7548 (-116.41%)
  Amean     mmap-48   8106.8160 (   0.00%)   1070.5616 (  86.79%)
  Stddev    mmap-4      41.3455 (   0.00%)  27573.9676 (-66591.66%)
  Stddev    mmap-7      53.5556 (   0.00%)   4608.5860 (-8505.23%)
  Stddev    mmap-12    171.3897 (   0.00%)   5559.4542 (-3143.75%)
  Stddev    mmap-21   1506.6752 (   0.00%)   5746.2507 (-281.39%)
  Stddev    mmap-30    557.5806 (   0.00%)   7678.1624 (-1277.05%)
  Stddev    mmap-48  61681.5718 (   0.00%)  14507.2830 (  76.48%)
  Max-90    mmap-4      31.4243 (   0.00%)     83.1457 (-164.59%)
  Max-90    mmap-7      41.0410 (   0.00%)     41.0720 (  -0.08%)
  Max-90    mmap-12     66.5255 (   0.00%)     53.9073 (  18.97%)
  Max-90    mmap-21    146.7479 (   0.00%)    105.9540 (  27.80%)
  Max-90    mmap-30    193.9513 (   0.00%)     64.3067 (  66.84%)
  Max-90    mmap-48    277.9137 (   0.00%)    591.0594 (-112.68%)
  Max       mmap-4    1913.8009 (   0.00%) 299623.9695 (-15555.96%)
  Max       mmap-7    2423.9665 (   0.00%) 204453.1708 (-8334.65%)
  Max       mmap-12   6845.6573 (   0.00%) 221090.3366 (-3129.64%)
  Max       mmap-21  56278.6508 (   0.00%) 213877.3496 (-280.03%)
  Max       mmap-30  19716.2990 (   0.00%) 216287.6229 (-997.00%)
  Max       mmap-48 477923.9400 (   0.00%) 245414.8238 (  48.65%)

For most thread counts, the time to mmap() is unfortunately increased.
In earlier versions of the series, this was lower but a large number of
throttling events were reaching their timeout increasing the amount of
inefficient scanning of the LRU.  There is no prioritisation of reclaim
tasks making progress based on each tasks rate of page allocation versus
progress of reclaim.  The variance is also impacted for high worker
counts but in all cases, the differences in latency are not
statistically significant due to very large maximum outliers.  Max-90
shows that 90% of the stalls are comparable but the Max results show the
massive outliers which are increased to to stalling.

It is expected that this will be very machine dependant.  Due to the
test design, reclaim is difficult so allocations stall and there are
variances depending on whether THPs can be allocated or not.  The amount
of memory will affect exactly how bad the corner cases are and how often
they trigger.  The warmup period calculation is not ideal as it's based
on linear writes where as fio is randomly writing multiple files from
multiple tasks so the start state of the test is variable.  For example,
these are the latencies on a single-socket machine that had more memory

  Amean     mmap-4      42.2287 (   0.00%)     49.6838 * -17.65%*
  Amean     mmap-7     216.4326 (   0.00%)     47.4451 *  78.08%*
  Amean     mmap-12   2412.0588 (   0.00%)     51.7497 (  97.85%)
  Amean     mmap-21   5546.2548 (   0.00%)     51.8862 (  99.06%)
  Amean     mmap-30   1085.3121 (   0.00%)     72.1004 (  93.36%)

The overall system CPU usage and elapsed time is as follows

                    5.15.0-rc3  5.15.0-rc3
                       vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r4
  Duration User        6989.03      983.42
  Duration System      7308.12      799.68
  Duration Elapsed     2277.67     2092.98

The patches reduce system CPU usage by 89% as the vanilla kernel is rarely
stalling.

The high-level /proc/vmstats show

                                       5.15.0-rc1     5.15.0-rc1
                                          vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r2
  Ops Direct pages scanned          1056608451.00   503594991.00
  Ops Kswapd pages scanned           109795048.00   147289810.00
  Ops Kswapd pages reclaimed          63269243.00    31036005.00
  Ops Direct pages reclaimed          10803973.00     6328887.00
  Ops Kswapd efficiency %                   57.62          21.07
  Ops Kswapd velocity                    48204.98       57572.86
  Ops Direct efficiency %                    1.02           1.26
  Ops Direct velocity                   463898.83      196845.97

Kswapd scanned less pages but the detailed pattern is different.  The
vanilla kernel scans slowly over time where as the patches exhibits
burst patterns of scan activity.  Direct reclaim scanning is reduced by
52% due to stalling.

The pattern for stealing pages is also slightly different.  Both kernels
exhibit spikes but the vanilla kernel when reclaiming shows pages being
reclaimed over a period of time where as the patches tend to reclaim in
spikes.  The difference is that vanilla is not throttling and instead
scanning constantly finding some pages over time where as the patched
kernel throttles and reclaims in spikes.

  Ops Percentage direct scans               90.59          77.37

For direct reclaim, vanilla scanned 90.59% of pages where as with the
patches, 77.37% were direct reclaim due to throttling

  Ops Page writes by reclaim           2613590.00     1687131.00

Page writes from reclaim context are reduced.

  Ops Page writes anon                 2932752.00     1917048.00

And there is less swapping.

  Ops Page reclaim immediate         996248528.00   107664764.00

The number of pages encountered at the tail of the LRU tagged for
immediate reclaim but still dirty/writeback is reduced by 89%.

  Ops Slabs scanned                     164284.00      153608.00

Slab scan activity is similar.

ftrace was used to gather stall activity

  Vanilla
  -------
      1 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=16000
      2 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=12000
      8 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=8000
     29 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=4000
  82394 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=0

The fast majority of wait_iff_congested calls do not stall at all.  What
is likely happening is that cond_resched() reschedules the task for a
short period when the BDI is not registering congestion (which it never
will in this test setup).

      1 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=120000
      2 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=132000
      4 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=112000
    380 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=108000
    778 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=104000

congestion_wait if called always exceeds the timeout as there is no
trigger to wake it up.

Bottom line: Vanilla will throttle but it's not effective.

Patch series
------------

Kswapd throttle activity was always due to scanning pages tagged for
immediate reclaim at the tail of the LRU

      1 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      4 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      6 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     94 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
    112 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The majority of events did not stall or stalled for a short period.
Roughly 16% of stalls reached the timeout before expiry.  For direct
reclaim, the number of times stalled for each reason were

   6624 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
  93246 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
  96934 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The most common reason to stall was due to excessive pages tagged for
immediate reclaim at the tail of the LRU followed by a failure to make
forward.  A relatively small number were due to too many pages isolated
from the LRU by parallel threads

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, the breakdown of delays was

      9 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
     12 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
     83 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
   6520 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED

Most did not stall at all.  A small number reached the timeout.

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS, the breakdown of stalls were all over
the map

      1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=324000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=332000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=348000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=360000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=228000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=260000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=340000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=364000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=372000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=428000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=460000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=464000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=244000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=252000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=272000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=188000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=268000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=328000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=380000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=392000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=432000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=204000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=220000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=412000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=436000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      6 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=488000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=212000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=300000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=316000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=472000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=248000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=356000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=456000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=124000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=376000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=484000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=172000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=420000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=452000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     11 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=256000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=112000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=116000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=144000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=152000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=264000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=384000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=424000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=492000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     13 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=184000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     13 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=444000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=308000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=440000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=476000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     16 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=140000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=232000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=240000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=280000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     18 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=404000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=148000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=216000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=468000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     21 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=448000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     23 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=168000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     23 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=296000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     25 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=132000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     25 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=352000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     26 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=180000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     27 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=284000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     28 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=164000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     29 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=136000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     30 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=200000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     30 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=400000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     31 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=196000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     32 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=156000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     33 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=224000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     35 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=128000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     35 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=176000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     36 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=368000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     36 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=496000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     37 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=312000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     38 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=304000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     40 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=288000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     43 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=408000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     55 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=416000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     56 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=76000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     58 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=120000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     59 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=208000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     61 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=68000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     71 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=192000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     71 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=480000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     79 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=60000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     82 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=320000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     82 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=92000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     85 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=64000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     85 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=80000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     88 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=84000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     90 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=160000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     90 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=292000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     94 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=56000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    118 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=88000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    119 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    126 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=108000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    146 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=52000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    148 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=36000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    148 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=48000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    159 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=28000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    178 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=44000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    183 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=40000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    237 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    266 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=32000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    313 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=24000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    347 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=96000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    470 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    559 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    964 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
   2001 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=104000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
   2447 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
   7888 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
  22727 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
  51305 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=500000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS

The full timeout is often hit but a large number also do not stall at
all.  The remainder slept a little allowing other reclaim tasks to make
progress.

While this timeout could be further increased, it could also negatively
impact worst-case behaviour when there is no prioritisation of what task
should make progress.

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK, the breakdown was

      1 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=44000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      2 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=76000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      3 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=80000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=48000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=84000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      6 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
      7 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=88000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=56000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     12 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=64000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     16 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=92000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     24 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=68000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     28 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=32000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     30 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=60000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     30 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=96000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     32 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=52000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     42 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=40000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     77 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=28000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
     99 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=36000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
    137 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=24000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
    190 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
    339 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
    518 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
    852 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
   3359 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
   7147 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
  83962 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The majority hit the timeout in direct reclaim context although a
sizable number did not stall at all.  This is very different to kswapd
where only a tiny percentage of stalls due to writeback reached the
timeout.

Bottom line, the throttling appears to work and the wakeup events may
limit worst case stalls.  There might be some grounds for adjusting
timeouts but it's likely futile as the worst-case scenarios depend on
the workload, memory size and the speed of the storage.  A better
approach to improve the series further would be to prioritise tasks
based on their rate of allocation with the caveat that it may be very
expensive to track.

This patch (of 5):

Page reclaim throttles on wait_iff_congested under the following
conditions:

 - kswapd is encountering pages under writeback and marked for immediate
   reclaim implying that pages are cycling through the LRU faster than
   pages can be cleaned.

 - Direct reclaim will stall if all dirty pages are backed by congested
   inodes.

wait_iff_congested is almost completely broken with few exceptions.
This patch adds a new node-based workqueue and tracks the number of
throttled tasks and pages written back since throttling started.  If
enough pages belonging to the node are written back then the throttled
tasks will wake early.  If not, the throttled tasks sleeps until the
timeout expires.

[neilb@suse.de: Uninterruptible sleep and simpler wakeups]
[hdanton@sina.com: Avoid race when reclaim starts]
[vbabka@suse.cz: vmstat irq-safe api, clarifications]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/45d8b7a6-8548-65f5-cccf-9f451d4ae3d4@kernel.dk/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
Yu Zhao
764c04a9cb include/trace/events/vmscan.h: remove mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low
mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low has no users after commit b91ac37434
("mm: vmscan: enforce inactive:active ratio at the reclaim root").

Remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614194554.2683395-1-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-30 20:47:28 -07:00
Vincent Whitchurch
53d884a667 mm, tracing: unify PFN format strings
Some trace event formats print PFNs as hex while others print them as
decimal.  This is rather annoying when attempting to grep through traces
to understand what's going on with a particular page.

 $ git grep -ho 'pfn=[0x%lu]\+' include/trace/events/ | sort | uniq -c
      11 pfn=0x%lx
      12 pfn=%lu
       2 pfn=%lx

Printing as hex is in the majority in the trace events, and all the normal
printks in mm/ also print PFNs as hex, so change all the PFN formats in
the trace events to use 0x%lx.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210602092608.1493-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:52 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
97a225e69a mm/page_alloc: integrate classzone_idx and high_zoneidx
classzone_idx is just different name for high_zoneidx now.  So, integrate
them and add some comment to struct alloc_context in order to reduce
future confusion about the meaning of this variable.

The accessor, ac_classzone_idx() is also removed since it isn't needed
after integration.

In addition to integration, this patch also renames high_zoneidx to
highest_zoneidx since it represents more precise meaning.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587095923-7515-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-03 20:09:44 -07:00
Huang Ying
9de4f22a60 mm: code cleanup for MADV_FREE
Some comments for MADV_FREE is revised and added to help people understand
the MADV_FREE code, especially the page flag, PG_swapbacked.  This makes
page_is_file_cache() isn't consistent with its comments.  So the function
is renamed to page_is_file_lru() to make them consistent again.  All these
are put in one patch as one logical change.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317100342.2730705-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-07 10:43:38 -07:00
Yafang Shao
60b62ff7cc mm/vmscan: simplify trace_reclaim_flags and trace_shrink_flags
trace_reclaim_flags and trace_shrink_flags are almost the same.
We can simplify them to avoid redundant code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556169203-5858-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14 09:47:51 -07:00
Yafang Shao
3481c37ffa mm/vmscan: drop may_writepage and classzone_idx from direct reclaim begin template
There are three tracepoints using this template, which are
mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin,
mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin,
mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin.

Regarding mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin,
sc.may_writepage is !laptop_mode, that's a static setting, and
reclaim_idx is derived from gfp_mask which is already show in this
tracepoint.

Regarding mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin,
may_writepage is !laptop_mode too, and reclaim_idx is (MAX_NR_ZONES-1),
which are both static value.

mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin is the same with
mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin.

So we can drop them all.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553736322-32235-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14 09:47:48 -07:00
Yafang Shao
132bb8cfc9 mm/vmscan: add tracepoints for node reclaim
The page alloc fast path it may perform node reclaim, which may cause a
latency spike.  We should add tracepoint for this event, and also measure
the latency it causes.

So bellow two tracepoints are introduced,
	mm_vmscan_node_reclaim_begin
	mm_vmscan_node_reclaim_end

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551421452-5385-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: <shaoyafang@didiglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14 09:47:46 -07:00
Kirill Tkhai
886cf1901d mm: move recent_rotated pages calculation to shrink_inactive_list()
Patch series "mm: Generalize putback functions"]

putback_inactive_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru() are almost
similar, so this patchset merges them ina single function.

This patch (of 4):

The patch moves the calculation from putback_inactive_pages() to
shrink_inactive_list().  This makes putback_inactive_pages() looking more
similar to move_active_pages_to_lru().

To do that, we account activated pages in reclaim_stat::nr_activate.
Since a page may change its LRU type from anon to file cache inside
shrink_page_list() (see ClearPageSwapBacked()), we have to account pages
for the both types.  So, nr_activate becomes an array.

Previously we used nr_activate to account PGACTIVATE events, but now we
account them into pgactivate variable (since they are about number of
pages in general, not about sum of hpage_nr_pages).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155290127956.31489.3393586616054413298.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
Yafang Shao
3b775998ec include/trace/events/vmscan.h: drop zone id from kswapd tracepoints
It is not clear how the zone id is useful in kswapd tracepoints and the id
itself is not really easy to process because it depends on the
configuration (available zones).  Let's drop the id for now.  If somebody
really needs that information then the zone name should be used instead.

[mhocko@suse.com: new changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1552451813-10833-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
Sakari Ailus
d75f773c86 treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively
%pF and %pf are functionally equivalent to %pS and %ps conversion
specifiers. The former are deprecated, therefore switch the current users
to use the preferred variant.

The changes have been produced by the following command:

	git grep -l '%p[fF]' | grep -v '^\(tools\|Documentation\)/' | \
	while read i; do perl -i -pe 's/%pf/%ps/g; s/%pF/%pS/g;' $i; done

And verifying the result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325193229.23390-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> (for btrfs)
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> (for mm/memblock.c)
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> (for drivers/pci)
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2019-04-09 14:19:06 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
d51d1e6450 mm, vmscan, tracing: use pointer to reclaim_stat struct in trace event
The trace event trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive() currently has 12
parameters! Seven of them are from the reclaim_stat structure.  This
structure is currently local to mm/vmscan.c.  By moving it to the global
vmstat.h header, we can also reference it from the vmscan tracepoints.
In moving it, it brings down the overhead of passing so many arguments
to the trace event.  In the future, we may limit the number of arguments
that a trace event may pass (ideally just 6, but more realistically it
may be 8).

Before this patch, the code to call the trace event is this:

 0f 83 aa fe ff ff       jae    ffffffff811e6261 <shrink_inactive_list+0x1e1>
 48 8b 45 a0             mov    -0x60(%rbp),%rax
 45 8b 64 24 20          mov    0x20(%r12),%r12d
 44 8b 6d d4             mov    -0x2c(%rbp),%r13d
 8b 4d d0                mov    -0x30(%rbp),%ecx
 44 8b 75 cc             mov    -0x34(%rbp),%r14d
 44 8b 7d c8             mov    -0x38(%rbp),%r15d
 48 89 45 90             mov    %rax,-0x70(%rbp)
 8b 83 b8 fe ff ff       mov    -0x148(%rbx),%eax
 8b 55 c0                mov    -0x40(%rbp),%edx
 8b 7d c4                mov    -0x3c(%rbp),%edi
 8b 75 b8                mov    -0x48(%rbp),%esi
 89 45 80                mov    %eax,-0x80(%rbp)
 65 ff 05 e4 f7 e2 7e    incl   %gs:0x7ee2f7e4(%rip)        # 15bd0 <__preempt_count>
 48 8b 05 75 5b 13 01    mov    0x1135b75(%rip),%rax        # ffffffff8231bf68 <__tracepoint_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive+0x28>
 48 85 c0                test   %rax,%rax
 74 72                   je     ffffffff811e646a <shrink_inactive_list+0x3ea>
 48 89 c3                mov    %rax,%rbx
 4c 8b 10                mov    (%rax),%r10
 89 f8                   mov    %edi,%eax
 48 89 85 68 ff ff ff    mov    %rax,-0x98(%rbp)
 89 f0                   mov    %esi,%eax
 48 89 85 60 ff ff ff    mov    %rax,-0xa0(%rbp)
 89 c8                   mov    %ecx,%eax
 48 89 85 78 ff ff ff    mov    %rax,-0x88(%rbp)
 89 d0                   mov    %edx,%eax
 48 89 85 70 ff ff ff    mov    %rax,-0x90(%rbp)
 8b 45 8c                mov    -0x74(%rbp),%eax
 48 8b 7b 08             mov    0x8(%rbx),%rdi
 48 83 c3 18             add    $0x18,%rbx
 50                      push   %rax
 41 54                   push   %r12
 41 55                   push   %r13
 ff b5 78 ff ff ff       pushq  -0x88(%rbp)
 41 56                   push   %r14
 41 57                   push   %r15
 ff b5 70 ff ff ff       pushq  -0x90(%rbp)
 4c 8b 8d 68 ff ff ff    mov    -0x98(%rbp),%r9
 4c 8b 85 60 ff ff ff    mov    -0xa0(%rbp),%r8
 48 8b 4d 98             mov    -0x68(%rbp),%rcx
 48 8b 55 90             mov    -0x70(%rbp),%rdx
 8b 75 80                mov    -0x80(%rbp),%esi
 41 ff d2                callq  *%r10

After the patch:

 0f 83 a8 fe ff ff       jae    ffffffff811e626d <shrink_inactive_list+0x1cd>
 8b 9b b8 fe ff ff       mov    -0x148(%rbx),%ebx
 45 8b 64 24 20          mov    0x20(%r12),%r12d
 4c 8b 6d a0             mov    -0x60(%rbp),%r13
 65 ff 05 f5 f7 e2 7e    incl   %gs:0x7ee2f7f5(%rip)        # 15bd0 <__preempt_count>
 4c 8b 35 86 5b 13 01    mov    0x1135b86(%rip),%r14        # ffffffff8231bf68 <__tracepoint_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive+0x28>
 4d 85 f6                test   %r14,%r14
 74 2a                   je     ffffffff811e6411 <shrink_inactive_list+0x371>
 49 8b 06                mov    (%r14),%rax
 8b 4d 8c                mov    -0x74(%rbp),%ecx
 49 8b 7e 08             mov    0x8(%r14),%rdi
 49 83 c6 18             add    $0x18,%r14
 4c 89 ea                mov    %r13,%rdx
 45 89 e1                mov    %r12d,%r9d
 4c 8d 45 b8             lea    -0x48(%rbp),%r8
 89 de                   mov    %ebx,%esi
 51                      push   %rcx
 48 8b 4d 98             mov    -0x68(%rbp),%rcx
 ff d0                   callq  *%rax

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2559d7cb-ec60-1200-2362-04fa34fd02bb@fb.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180322121003.4177af15@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-11 10:28:30 -07:00
David Rientjes
5ecd9d403a mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory
Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too
many previous attempts at background reclaim have failed.

This can be true if there is a lot of free memory available.  For high-
order allocations, kswapd is responsible for waking up kcompactd for
background compaction.  If the zone is not below its watermarks or
reclaim has recently failed (lots of free memory, nothing left to
reclaim), kcompactd does not get woken up.

When __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is not allowed, allow kcompactd to still be
woken up even if kswapd will not reclaim.  This allows high-order
allocations, such as thp, to still trigger background compaction even
when the zone has an abundance of free memory.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803111659420.209721@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
Josef Bacik
9092c71bb7 mm: use sc->priority for slab shrink targets
Previously we were using the ratio of the number of lru pages scanned to
the number of eligible lru pages to determine the number of slab objects
to scan.  The problem with this is that these two things have nothing to
do with each other, so in slab heavy work loads where there is little to
no page cache we can end up with the pages scanned being a very low
number.  This means that we reclaim next to no slab pages and waste a
lot of time reclaiming small amounts of space.

Consider the following scenario, where we have the following values and
the rest of the memory usage is in slab

  Active:            58840 kB
  Inactive:          46860 kB

Every time we do a get_scan_count() we do this

  scan = size >> sc->priority

where sc->priority starts at DEF_PRIORITY, which is 12.  The first loop
through reclaim would result in a scan target of 2 pages to 11715 total
inactive pages, and 3 pages to 14710 total active pages.  This is a
really really small target for a system that is entirely slab pages.
And this is super optimistic, this assumes we even get to scan these
pages.  We don't increment sc->nr_scanned unless we 1) isolate the page,
which assumes it's not in use, and 2) can lock the page.  Under pressure
these numbers could probably go down, I'm sure there's some random pages
from daemons that aren't actually in use, so the targets get even
smaller.

Instead use sc->priority in the same way we use it to determine scan
amounts for the lru's.  This generally equates to pages.  Consider the
following

  slab_pages = (nr_objects * object_size) / PAGE_SIZE

What we would like to do is

  scan = slab_pages >> sc->priority

but we don't know the number of slab pages each shrinker controls, only
the objects.  However say that theoretically we knew how many pages a
shrinker controlled, we'd still have to convert this to objects, which
would look like the following

  scan = shrinker_pages >> sc->priority
  scan_objects = (PAGE_SIZE / object_size) * scan

or written another way

  scan_objects = (shrinker_pages >> sc->priority) *
		 (PAGE_SIZE / object_size)

which can thus be written

  scan_objects = ((shrinker_pages * PAGE_SIZE) / object_size) >>
		 sc->priority

which is just

  scan_objects = nr_objects >> sc->priority

We don't need to know exactly how many pages each shrinker represents,
it's objects are all the information we need.  Making this change allows
us to place an appropriate amount of pressure on the shrinker pools for
their relative size.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510780549-6812-1-git-send-email-josef@toxicpanda.com
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2dcd9c71c1 Tracing updates for 4.15:
- Now allow module init functions to be traced
 
  - Clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space)
 
  - Clean up of trace histogram code
 
  - Add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events
 
  - Other various clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from

 - allow module init functions to be traced

 - clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space)

 - clean up of trace histogram code

 - add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events

 - other various clean ups

* tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits)
  tracing, thermal: Hide cpu cooling trace events when not in use
  tracing, thermal: Hide devfreq trace events when not in use
  ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU
  perf/ftrace: Small cleanup
  perf/ftrace: Fix function trace events
  perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")
  tracing, dma-buf: Remove unused trace event dma_fence_annotate_wait_on
  tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use
  tracing/xen: Hide events that are not used when X86_PAE is not defined
  tracing: mark trace_test_buffer as __maybe_unused
  printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe
  ftrace: Clear hashes of stale ips of init memory
  tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events
  tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events
  ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions
  ftrace: Add freeing algorithm to free ftrace_mod_maps
  ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing
  ftrace: Allow module init functions to be traced
  ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use
  tracing: Reimplement log2
  ...
2017-11-17 14:58:01 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
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 <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
f40a37cb49 tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use
When trace events are defined but not used they still create data
structures and functions for their use, even though nothing may be
using them.

The trace events mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin,
mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin, mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end,
and mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end are not used if CONFIG_MEMCG
is not defined. Do not create these trace events unless CONFIG_MEMCG is
defined.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012184632.2bd247cd@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-13 11:08:03 -04:00
Michal Hocko
dcec0b60a8 mm, vmscan: add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint
Currently we have tracepoints for both active and inactive LRU lists
reclaim but we do not have any which would tell us why we we decided to
age the active list.  Without that it is quite hard to diagnose
active/inactive lists balancing.  Add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low
tracepoint to tell us this information.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-8-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
Michal Hocko
5bccd16657 mm, vmscan: enhance mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive tracepoint
mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive will currently report the number of
scanned and reclaimed pages.  This doesn't give us an idea how the
reclaim went except for the overall effectiveness though.  Export and
show other counters which will tell us why we couldn't reclaim some
pages.

	- nr_dirty, nr_writeback, nr_congested and nr_immediate tells
	  us how many pages are blocked due to IO
	- nr_activate tells us how many pages were moved to the active
	  list
	- nr_ref_keep reports how many pages are kept on the LRU due
	  to references (mostly for the file pages which are about to
	  go for another round through the inactive list)
	- nr_unmap_fail - how many pages failed to unmap

All these are rather low level so they might change in future but the
tracepoint is already implementation specific so no tools should be
depending on its stability.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-7-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
Michal Hocko
32b3f2974a mm, vmscan: show LRU name in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate tracepoint
mm_vmscan_lru_isolate currently prints only whether the LRU we isolate
from is file or anonymous but we do not know which LRU this is.

It is useful to know whether the list is active or inactive, since we
are using the same function to isolate pages from both of them and it's
hard to distinguish otherwise.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
Michal Hocko
1265e3a69f mm, vmscan: show the number of skipped pages in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
mm_vmscan_lru_isolate shows the number of requested, scanned and taken
pages.  This is mostly OK but on 32b systems the number of scanned pages
is quite misleading because it includes both the scanned and skipped
pages.  Moreover the skipped part is scaled based on the number of taken
pages.  Let's report the exact numbers without any additional logic and
add the number of skipped pages.

This should make the reported data much more easier to interpret.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
Michal Hocko
9d998b4f1e mm, vmscan: add active list aging tracepoint
Our reclaim process has several tracepoints to tell us more about how
things are progressing.  We are, however, missing a tracepoint to track
active list aging.  Introduce mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_active which reports
the number of

	- nr_taken is number of isolated pages from the active list
	- nr_referenced pages which tells us that we are hitting referenced
	  pages which are deactivated. If this is a large part of the
	  reported nr_deactivated pages then we might be hitting into
	  the active list too early because they might be still part of
	  the working set. This might help to debug performance issues.
	- nr_active pages which tells us how many pages are kept on the
	  active list - mostly exec file backed pages. A high number can
	  indicate that we might be trashing on executables.

[mhocko@suse.com: update]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104135244.GJ25453@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
Michal Hocko
30b9aed8cd mm, vmscan: remove unused mm_vmscan_memcg_isolate
Patch series "vm, vmscan: enahance vmscan tracepoints", v2.

While debugging [2] I've realized that there is some room for
improvements in the tracepoints set we offer currently.  I had hard
times to make any conclusion from the existing ones.  The resulting
problem turned out to be active list aging [3] and we are missing at
least two tracepoints to debug such a problem.

Some existing tracepoints could export more information to see _why_ the
reclaim progress cannot be made not only _how much_ we could reclaim.
The later could be seen quite reasonably from the vmstat counters
already.  It can be argued that we are showing too many implementation
details in those tracepoints but I consider them way too lowlevel
already to be usable by any kernel independent userspace.  I would be
_really_ surprised if anything but debugging tools have used them.

Any feedback is highly appreciated.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161228153032.10821-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161215225702.GA27944@boerne.fritz.box
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161223105157.GB23109@dhcp22.suse.cz

This patch (of 8):

The trace point is not used since 925b7673cc ("mm: make per-memcg LRU
lists exclusive") so it can be removed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
Mel Gorman
e5146b12e2 mm, vmscan: add classzone information to tracepoints
This is convenient when tracking down why the skip count is high because
it'll show what classzone kswapd woke up at and what zones are being
isolated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-29-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
Mel Gorman
599d0c954f mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node
This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such
as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking.

Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is
necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node
logic.  Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry
logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and
active sizes.  It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a
per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache
lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks.

Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note
that it introduces a number of anomalies.  For example, the scans are
per-zone but using per-node counters.  We also mark a node as congested
when a zone is congested.  This causes weird problems that are fixed
later but is easier to review.

In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to
the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions

1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem

   When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU
   list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same
   highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem
   keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages
   arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially
   could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list.

   That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that
   highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages.

2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails

   This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during
   memory pressure than skipping LRU pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
Vlastimil Babka
420adbe9fc mm, tracing: unify mm flags handling in tracepoints and printk
In tracepoints, it's possible to print gfp flags in a human-friendly
format through a macro show_gfp_flags(), which defines a translation
array and passes is to __print_flags().  Since the following patch will
introduce support for gfp flags printing in printk(), it would be nice
to reuse the array.  This is not straightforward, since __print_flags()
can't simply reference an array defined in a .c file such as mm/debug.c
- it has to be a macro to allow the macro magic to communicate the
format to userspace tools such as trace-cmd.

The solution is to create a macro __def_gfpflag_names which is used both
in show_gfp_flags(), and to define the gfpflag_names[] array in
mm/debug.c.

On the other hand, mm/debug.c also defines translation tables for page
flags and vma flags, and desire was expressed (but not implemented in
this series) to use these also from tracepoints.  Thus, this patch also
renames the events/gfpflags.h file to events/mmflags.h and moves the
table definitions there, using the same macro approach as for gfpflags.
This allows translating all three kinds of mm-specific flags both in
tracepoints and printk.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
yalin wang
ba5e957943 mm: change mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive() proto types
Move node_id zone_idx shrink flags into trace function, so thay we don't
need caculate these args if the trace is disabled, and will make this
function have less arguments.

Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
yalin wang
3aa2385111 mm/vmscan.c: change trace_mm_vmscan_writepage() proto type
Move trace_reclaim_flags() into trace function, so that we don't need
caculate these flags if the trace is disabled.

Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
9fdd8a875c tracing, mm: Record pfn instead of pointer to struct page
The struct page is opaque for userspace tools, so it'd be better to save
pfn in order to identify page frames.

The textual output of $debugfs/tracing/trace file remains unchanged and
only raw (binary) data format is changed - but thanks to libtraceevent,
userspace tools which deal with the raw data (like perf and trace-cmd)
can parse the format easily.  So impact on the userspace will also be
minimal.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Based-on-patch-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428298576-9785-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-13 11:44:52 -03:00
Dave Hansen
df9024a8c5 mm: shrinker: add nid to tracepoint output
Now that we are doing NUMA-aware shrinking, and can have shrinkers
running in parallel, or working on individual nodes, it seems like we
should also be sticking the node in the output.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:54:04 -07:00
Dave Hansen
7fe7047597 mm: shrinker trace points: fix negatives
I was looking at a trace of the slab shrinkers (attachment in this comment):

	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72742#c67

and noticed that "total_scan" can go negative in some cases.  We
used to dump out the "total_scan" variable directly, but some of
the shrinker modifications along the way changed that.

This patch just dumps it out directly, again.  It doesn't make
any sense to derive it from new_nr and nr any more since there
are now other shrinkers that can be running in parallel and
mucking with those values.

Here's an example of the negative numbers in the output:

>          kswapd0-840   [000]   160.869398: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 10 new scan count 39 total_scan 29 last shrinker return val 256
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   160.869618: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 39 new scan count 102 total_scan 63 last shrinker return val 256
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   160.870031: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 102 new scan count 47 total_scan -55 last shrinker return val 768
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   160.870464: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 47 new scan count 45 total_scan -2 last shrinker return val 768
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384144: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 45 new scan count 56 total_scan 11 last shrinker return val 0
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384297: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 56 new scan count 15 total_scan -41 last shrinker return val 256
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384414: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 15 new scan count 117 total_scan 102 last shrinker return val 0
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384657: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 117 new scan count 36 total_scan -81 last shrinker return val 512
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384880: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 36 new scan count 111 total_scan 75 last shrinker return val 256
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.385256: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 111 new scan count 34 total_scan -77 last shrinker return val 768
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.385598: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 34 new scan count 122 total_scan 88 last shrinker return val 512

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:54:04 -07:00
Dave Chinner
a0b02131c5 shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.
There are no more users of this API, so kill it dead, dead, dead and
quietly bury the corpse in a shallow, unmarked grave in a dark forest deep
in the hills...

[glommer@openvz.org: added flowers to the grave]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10 18:56:32 -04:00
David Howells
a1ce39288e UAPI: (Scripted) Convert #include "..." to #include <path/...> in kernel system headers
Convert #include "..." to #include <path/...> in kernel system headers.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-02 18:01:25 +01:00
Mel Gorman
23b9da55c5 mm: vmscan: remove reclaim_mode_t
There is little motiviation for reclaim_mode_t once RECLAIM_MODE_[A]SYNC
and lumpy reclaim have been removed.  This patch gets rid of
reclaim_mode_t as well and improves the documentation about what
reclaim/compaction is and when it is triggered.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
Mel Gorman
41ac1999c3 mm: vmscan: do not stall on writeback during memory compaction
This patch stops reclaim/compaction entering sync reclaim as this was
only intended for lumpy reclaim and an oversight.  Page migration has
its own logic for stalling on writeback pages if necessary and memory
compaction is already using it.

Waiting on page writeback is bad for a number of reasons but the primary
one is that waiting on writeback to a slow device like USB can take a
considerable length of time.  Page reclaim instead uses
wait_iff_congested() to throttle if too many dirty pages are being
scanned.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
Mel Gorman
c53919adc0 mm: vmscan: remove lumpy reclaim
This series removes lumpy reclaim and some stalling logic that was
unintentionally being used by memory compaction.  The end result is that
stalling on dirty pages during page reclaim now depends on
wait_iff_congested().

Four kernels were compared

  3.3.0     vanilla
  3.4.0-rc2 vanilla
  3.4.0-rc2 lumpyremove-v2 is patch one from this series
  3.4.0-rc2 nosync-v2r3 is the full series

Removing lumpy reclaim saves almost 900 bytes of text whereas the full
series removes 1200 bytes.

     text     data      bss       dec     hex  filename
  6740375  1927944  2260992  10929311  a6c49f  vmlinux-3.4.0-rc2-vanilla
  6739479  1927944  2260992  10928415  a6c11f  vmlinux-3.4.0-rc2-lumpyremove-v2
  6739159  1927944  2260992  10928095  a6bfdf  vmlinux-3.4.0-rc2-nosync-v2

There are behaviour changes in the series and so tests were run with
monitoring of ftrace events.  This disrupts results so the performance
results are distorted but the new behaviour should be clearer.

fs-mark running in a threaded configuration showed little of interest as
it did not push reclaim aggressively

  FS-Mark Multi Threaded
                          3.3.0-vanilla       rc2-vanilla       lumpyremove-v2r3       nosync-v2r3
  Files/s  min           3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)
  Files/s  mean          3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)
  Files/s  stddev        0.00 ( 0.00%)        0.00 ( 0.00%)        0.00 ( 0.00%)        0.00 ( 0.00%)
  Files/s  max           3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)
  Overhead min      508667.00 ( 0.00%)   521350.00 (-2.49%)   544292.00 (-7.00%)   547168.00 (-7.57%)
  Overhead mean     551185.00 ( 0.00%)   652690.73 (-18.42%)   991208.40 (-79.83%)   570130.53 (-3.44%)
  Overhead stddev    18200.69 ( 0.00%)   331958.29 (-1723.88%)  1579579.43 (-8578.68%)     9576.81 (47.38%)
  Overhead max      576775.00 ( 0.00%)  1846634.00 (-220.17%)  6901055.00 (-1096.49%)   585675.00 (-1.54%)
  MMTests Statistics: duration
  Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             309.90    300.95    307.33    298.95
  User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        319.32    309.67    315.69    307.51
  Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               1187.85   1193.09   1191.98   1193.73

  MMTests Statistics: vmstat
  Page Ins                                       80532       82212       81420       79480
  Page Outs                                  111434984   111456240   111437376   111582628
  Swap Ins                                           0           0           0           0
  Swap Outs                                          0           0           0           0
  Direct pages scanned                           44881       27889       27453       34843
  Kswapd pages scanned                        25841428    25860774    25861233    25843212
  Kswapd pages reclaimed                      25841393    25860741    25861199    25843179
  Direct pages reclaimed                         44881       27889       27453       34843
  Kswapd efficiency                                99%         99%         99%         99%
  Kswapd velocity                            21754.791   21675.460   21696.029   21649.127
  Direct efficiency                               100%        100%        100%        100%
  Direct velocity                               37.783      23.375      23.031      29.188
  Percentage direct scans                           0%          0%          0%          0%

ftrace showed that there was no stalling on writeback or pages submitted
for IO from reclaim context.

postmark was similar and while it was more interesting, it also did not
push reclaim heavily.

  POSTMARK
                                       3.3.0-vanilla       rc2-vanilla  lumpyremove-v2r3       nosync-v2r3
  Transactions per second:               16.00 ( 0.00%)    20.00 (25.00%)    18.00 (12.50%)    17.00 ( 6.25%)
  Data megabytes read per second:        18.80 ( 0.00%)    24.27 (29.10%)    22.26 (18.40%)    20.54 ( 9.26%)
  Data megabytes written per second:     35.83 ( 0.00%)    46.25 (29.08%)    42.42 (18.39%)    39.14 ( 9.24%)
  Files created alone per second:        28.00 ( 0.00%)    38.00 (35.71%)    34.00 (21.43%)    30.00 ( 7.14%)
  Files create/transact per second:       8.00 ( 0.00%)    10.00 (25.00%)     9.00 (12.50%)     8.00 ( 0.00%)
  Files deleted alone per second:       556.00 ( 0.00%)  1224.00 (120.14%)  3062.00 (450.72%)  6124.00 (1001.44%)
  Files delete/transact per second:       8.00 ( 0.00%)    10.00 (25.00%)     9.00 (12.50%)     8.00 ( 0.00%)

  MMTests Statistics: duration
  Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             113.34    107.99    109.73    108.72
  User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        145.51    139.81    143.32    143.55
  Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               1159.16    899.23    980.17   1062.27

  MMTests Statistics: vmstat
  Page Ins                                    13710192    13729032    13727944    13760136
  Page Outs                                   43071140    42987228    42733684    42931624
  Swap Ins                                           0           0           0           0
  Swap Outs                                          0           0           0           0
  Direct pages scanned                               0           0           0           0
  Kswapd pages scanned                         9941613     9937443     9939085     9929154
  Kswapd pages reclaimed                       9940926     9936751     9938397     9928465
  Direct pages reclaimed                             0           0           0           0
  Kswapd efficiency                                99%         99%         99%         99%
  Kswapd velocity                             8576.567   11051.058   10140.164    9347.109
  Direct efficiency                               100%        100%        100%        100%
  Direct velocity                                0.000       0.000       0.000       0.000

It looks like here that the full series regresses performance but as
ftrace showed no usage of wait_iff_congested() or sync reclaim I am
assuming it's a disruption due to monitoring.  Other data such as memory
usage, page IO, swap IO all looked similar.

Running a benchmark with a plain DD showed nothing very interesting.
The full series stalled in wait_iff_congested() slightly less but stall
times on vanilla kernels were marginal.

Running a benchmark that hammered on file-backed mappings showed stalls
due to congestion but not in sync writebacks

  MICRO
                                       3.3.0-vanilla       rc2-vanilla  lumpyremove-v2r3       nosync-v2r3
  MMTests Statistics: duration
  Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             308.13    294.50    298.75    299.53
  User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        330.45    316.28    318.93    320.79
  Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               1814.90   1833.88   1821.14   1832.91

  MMTests Statistics: vmstat
  Page Ins                                      108712      120708       97224      110344
  Page Outs                                  155514576   156017404   155813676   156193256
  Swap Ins                                           0           0           0           0
  Swap Outs                                          0           0           0           0
  Direct pages scanned                         2599253     1550480     2512822     2414760
  Kswapd pages scanned                        69742364    71150694    68839041    69692533
  Kswapd pages reclaimed                      34824488    34773341    34796602    34799396
  Direct pages reclaimed                         53693       94750       61792       75205
  Kswapd efficiency                                49%         48%         50%         49%
  Kswapd velocity                            38427.662   38797.901   37799.972   38022.889
  Direct efficiency                                 2%          6%          2%          3%
  Direct velocity                             1432.174     845.464    1379.807    1317.446
  Percentage direct scans                           3%          2%          3%          3%
  Page writes by reclaim                             0           0           0           0
  Page writes file                                   0           0           0           0
  Page writes anon                                   0           0           0           0
  Page reclaim immediate                             0           0           0        1218
  Page rescued immediate                             0           0           0           0
  Slabs scanned                                  15360       16384       13312       16384
  Direct inode steals                                0           0           0           0
  Kswapd inode steals                             4340        4327        1630        4323

  FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
  Direct number congest     waited                 0          0          0          0
  Direct time   congest     waited               0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  Direct full   congest     waited                 0          0          0          0
  Direct number conditional waited               900        870        754        789
  Direct time   conditional waited               0ms        0ms        0ms       20ms
  Direct full   conditional waited                 0          0          0          0
  KSwapd number congest     waited              2106       2308       2116       1915
  KSwapd time   congest     waited          139924ms   157832ms   125652ms   132516ms
  KSwapd full   congest     waited              1346       1530       1202       1278
  KSwapd number conditional waited             12922      16320      10943      14670
  KSwapd time   conditional waited               0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  KSwapd full   conditional waited                 0          0          0          0

Reclaim statistics are not radically changed.  The stall times in kswapd
are massive but it is clear that it is due to calls to congestion_wait()
and that is almost certainly the call in balance_pgdat().  Otherwise
stalls due to dirty pages are non-existant.

I ran a benchmark that stressed high-order allocation.  This is very
artifical load but was used in the past to evaluate lumpy reclaim and
compaction.  Generally I look at allocation success rates and latency
figures.

  STRESS-HIGHALLOC
                   3.3.0-vanilla       rc2-vanilla  lumpyremove-v2r3       nosync-v2r3
  Pass 1          81.00 ( 0.00%)    28.00 (-53.00%)    24.00 (-57.00%)    28.00 (-53.00%)
  Pass 2          82.00 ( 0.00%)    39.00 (-43.00%)    38.00 (-44.00%)    43.00 (-39.00%)
  while Rested    88.00 ( 0.00%)    87.00 (-1.00%)    88.00 ( 0.00%)    88.00 ( 0.00%)

  MMTests Statistics: duration
  Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             740.93    681.42    685.14    684.87
  User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)       2922.65   3269.52   3281.35   3279.44
  Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               1161.73   1152.49   1159.55   1161.44

  MMTests Statistics: vmstat
  Page Ins                                     4486020     2807256     2855944     2876244
  Page Outs                                    7261600     7973688     7975320     7986120
  Swap Ins                                       31694           0           0           0
  Swap Outs                                      98179           0           0           0
  Direct pages scanned                           53494       57731       34406      113015
  Kswapd pages scanned                         6271173     1287481     1278174     1219095
  Kswapd pages reclaimed                       2029240     1281025     1260708     1201583
  Direct pages reclaimed                          1468       14564       16649       92456
  Kswapd efficiency                                32%         99%         98%         98%
  Kswapd velocity                             5398.133    1117.130    1102.302    1049.641
  Direct efficiency                                 2%         25%         48%         81%
  Direct velocity                               46.047      50.092      29.672      97.306
  Percentage direct scans                           0%          4%          2%          8%
  Page writes by reclaim                       1616049           0           0           0
  Page writes file                             1517870           0           0           0
  Page writes anon                               98179           0           0           0
  Page reclaim immediate                        103778       27339        9796       17831
  Page rescued immediate                             0           0           0           0
  Slabs scanned                                1096704      986112      980992      998400
  Direct inode steals                              223      215040      216736      247881
  Kswapd inode steals                           175331       61548       68444       63066
  Kswapd skipped wait                            21991           0           1           0
  THP fault alloc                                    1         135         125         134
  THP collapse alloc                               393         311         228         236
  THP splits                                        25          13           7           8
  THP fault fallback                                 0           0           0           0
  THP collapse fail                                  3           5           7           7
  Compaction stalls                                865        1270        1422        1518
  Compaction success                               370         401         353         383
  Compaction failures                              495         869        1069        1135
  Compaction pages moved                        870155     3828868     4036106     4423626
  Compaction move failure                        26429       23865       29742       27514

Success rates are completely hosed for 3.4-rc2 which is almost certainly
due to commit fe2c2a1066 ("vmscan: reclaim at order 0 when compaction
is enabled").  I expected this would happen for kswapd and impair
allocation success rates (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/25/166) but I did
not anticipate this much a difference: 80% less scanning, 37% less
reclaim by kswapd

In comparison, reclaim/compaction is not aggressive and gives up easily
which is the intended behaviour.  hugetlbfs uses __GFP_REPEAT and would
be much more aggressive about reclaim/compaction than THP allocations
are.  The stress test above is allocating like neither THP or hugetlbfs
but is much closer to THP.

Mainline is now impaired in terms of high order allocation under heavy
load although I do not know to what degree as I did not test with
__GFP_REPEAT.  Keep this in mind for bugs related to hugepage pool
resizing, THP allocation and high order atomic allocation failures from
network devices.

In terms of congestion throttling, I see the following for this test

  FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
  Direct number congest     waited                 3          0          0          0
  Direct time   congest     waited               0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  Direct full   congest     waited                 0          0          0          0
  Direct number conditional waited               957        512       1081       1075
  Direct time   conditional waited               0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  Direct full   conditional waited                 0          0          0          0
  KSwapd number congest     waited                36          4          3          5
  KSwapd time   congest     waited            3148ms      400ms      300ms      500ms
  KSwapd full   congest     waited                30          4          3          5
  KSwapd number conditional waited             88514        197        332        542
  KSwapd time   conditional waited            4980ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  KSwapd full   conditional waited                49          0          0          0

The "conditional waited" times are the most interesting as this is
directly impacted by the number of dirty pages encountered during scan.
As lumpy reclaim is no longer scanning contiguous ranges, it is finding
fewer dirty pages.  This brings wait times from about 5 seconds to 0.
kswapd itself is still calling congestion_wait() so it'll still stall but
it's a lot less.

In terms of the type of IO we were doing, I see this

  FTrace Reclaim Statistics: mm_vmscan_writepage
  Direct writes anon  sync                         0          0          0          0
  Direct writes anon  async                        0          0          0          0
  Direct writes file  sync                         0          0          0          0
  Direct writes file  async                        0          0          0          0
  Direct writes mixed sync                         0          0          0          0
  Direct writes mixed async                        0          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes anon  sync                         0          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes anon  async                    91682          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes file  sync                         0          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes file  async                   822629          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes mixed sync                         0          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes mixed async                        0          0          0          0

In 3.2, kswapd was doing a bunch of async writes of pages but
reclaim/compaction was never reaching a point where it was doing sync
IO.  This does not guarantee that reclaim/compaction was not calling
wait_on_page_writeback() but I would consider it unlikely.  It indicates
that merging patches 2 and 3 to stop reclaim/compaction calling
wait_on_page_writeback() should be safe.

This patch:

Lumpy reclaim had a purpose but in the mind of some, it was to kick the
system so hard it trashed.  For others the purpose was to complicate
vmscan.c.  Over time it was giving softer shoes and a nicer attitude but
memory compaction needs to step up and replace it so this patch sends
lumpy reclaim to the farm.

The tracepoint format changes for isolating LRU pages with this patch
applied.  Furthermore reclaim/compaction can no longer queue dirty pages
in pageout() if the underlying BDI is congested.  Lumpy reclaim used
this logic and reclaim/compaction was using it in error.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
Rik van Riel
e709ffd616 mm: remove swap token code
The swap token code no longer fits in with the current VM model.  It
does not play well with cgroups or the better NUMA placement code in
development, since we have only one swap token globally.

It also has the potential to mess with scalability of the system, by
increasing the number of non-reclaimable pages on the active and
inactive anon LRU lists.

Last but not least, the swap token code has been broken for a year
without complaints, as reported by Konstantin Khlebnikov.  This suggests
we no longer have much use for it.

The days of sub-1G memory systems with heavy use of swap are over.  If
we ever need thrashing reducing code in the future, we will have to
implement something that does scale.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bpicco@meloft.net>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
Tao Ma
ea4d349ffa vmscan/trace: Add 'file' info to trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate()
In trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(), we don't output 'file' information to
the trace event and it is a bit inconvenient for the user to get the
real information(like pasted below).  mm_vmscan_lru_isolate:
isolate_mode=2 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=32 nr_taken=32
contig_taken=0 contig_dirty=0 contig_failed=0

'active' can be obtained by analyzing mode(Thanks go to Minchan and
Mel), So this patch adds 'file' to the trace event and it now looks
like: mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: isolate_mode=2 order=0 nr_requested=32
nr_scanned=32 nr_taken=32 contig_taken=0 contig_dirty=0 contig_failed=0
file=0

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:08 -08:00
Minchan Kim
4356f21d09 mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type
Change ISOLATE_XXX macro with bitwise isolate_mode_t type.  Normally,
macro isn't recommended as it's type-unsafe and making debugging harder as
symbol cannot be passed throught to the debugger.

Quote from Johannes
" Hmm, it would probably be cleaner to fully convert the isolation mode
into independent flags.  INACTIVE, ACTIVE, BOTH is currently a
tri-state among flags, which is a bit ugly."

This patch moves isolate mode from swap.h to mmzone.h by memcontrol.h

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
Dave Chinner
095760730c vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints
It is impossible to understand what the shrinkers are actually doing
without instrumenting the code, so add a some tracepoints to allow
insight to be gained.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:27 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
d7911ef30c vmscan: implement swap token priority aging
While testing for memcg aware swap token, I observed a swap token was
often grabbed an intermittent running process (eg init, auditd) and they
never release a token.

Why?

Some processes (eg init, auditd, audispd) wake up when a process exiting.
And swap token can be get first page-in process when a process exiting
makes no swap token owner.  Thus such above intermittent running process
often get a token.

And currently, swap token priority is only decreased at page fault path.
Then, if the process sleep immediately after to grab swap token, the swap
token priority never be decreased.  That's obviously undesirable.

This patch implement very poor (and lightweight) priority aging.  It only
be affect to the above corner case and doesn't change swap tendency
workload performance (eg multi process qsbench load)

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:03:59 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
83cd81a343 vmscan: implement swap token trace
This is useful for observing swap token activity.

example output:

             zsh-1845  [000]   598.962716: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7700 old_prio=1 new_prio=0
          memtoy-1830  [001]   602.033900: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff880037a45880 old_prio=947 new_prio=949
          memtoy-1830  [000]   602.041509: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff880037a45880 old_prio=949 new_prio=951
          memtoy-1830  [000]   602.051959: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff880037a45880 old_prio=951 new_prio=953
          memtoy-1830  [000]   602.052188: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff880037a45880 old_prio=953 new_prio=955
          memtoy-1830  [001]   602.427184: put_swap_token:
token_mm=ffff880037a45880
             zsh-1789  [000]   602.427281: replace_swap_token:
old_token_mm=          (null) old_prio=0 new_token_mm=ffff88015eaf7018
new_prio=2
             zsh-1789  [001]   602.433456: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=2 new_prio=4
             zsh-1789  [000]   602.437613: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=4 new_prio=6
             zsh-1789  [000]   602.443924: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=6 new_prio=8
             zsh-1789  [000]   602.451873: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=8 new_prio=10
             zsh-1789  [001]   602.462639: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=10 new_prio=12

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:03:59 -07:00
Mel Gorman
f3a310bc4e mm: vmscan: rename lumpy_mode to reclaim_mode
With compaction being used instead of lumpy reclaim, the name lumpy_mode
and associated variables is a bit misleading.  Rename lumpy_mode to
reclaim_mode which is a better fit.  There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00