Commit e5251fd430 ("mm/hugetlb: introduce set_huge_swap_pte_at()
helper") add set_huge_swap_pte_at() to handle swap entries on
architectures that support hugepages consisting of contiguous ptes. And
currently the set_huge_swap_pte_at() is only overridden by arm64.
set_huge_swap_pte_at() provide a sz parameter to help determine the number
of entries to be updated. But in fact, all hugetlb swap entries contain
pfn information, so we can find the corresponding folio through the pfn
recorded in the swap entry, then the folio_size() is the number of entries
that need to be updated.
And considering that users will easily cause bugs by ignoring the
difference between set_huge_swap_pte_at() and set_huge_pte_at(). Let's
handle swap entries in set_huge_pte_at() and remove the
set_huge_swap_pte_at(), then we can call set_huge_pte_at() anywhere, which
simplifies our coding.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220626145717.53572-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Passing index to pte_offset_map_lock() directly so the below calculation
can be avoided. Rename orig_pte to ptep as it's not changed. Also use
helper is_swap_pte() to improve the readability. No functional change
intended.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce scope of `ptep']
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220618090527.37843-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For now, the feature of hugetlb_free_vmemmap is not compatible with the
feature of memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory, and hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. However, someone wants
to make memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory takes precedence over
hugetlb_free_vmemmap since memmap_on_memory makes it more likely to
succeed memory hotplug in close-to-OOM situations. So the decision of
making hugetlb_free_vmemmap take precedence is not wise and elegant.
The proper approach is to have hugetlb_vmemmap.c do the check whether the
section which the HugeTLB pages belong to can be optimized. If the
section's vmemmap pages are allocated from the added memory block itself,
hugetlb_free_vmemmap should refuse to optimize the vmemmap, otherwise, do
the optimization. Then both kernel parameters are compatible. So this
patch introduces VmemmapSelfHosted to mask any non-optimizable vmemmap
pages. The hugetlb_vmemmap can use this flag to detect if a vmemmap page
can be optimized.
[songmuchun@bytedance.com: walk vmemmap page tables to avoid false-positive]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220620110616.12056-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220617135650.74901-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Co-developed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pages linked through the LRU list cannot be tail pages as ->compound_head
is in a union with one of the words of the list_head, and they cannot
be ZONE_DEVICE pages as ->pgmap is in a union with the same word.
Saves 60 bytes of text by removing a call to page_is_fake_head().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220617175020.717127-15-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Start converting the LRU from pagevecs to folio_batches.
Combine the functionality of pagevec_add_and_need_flush() with
pagevec_lru_move_fn() in the new folio_batch_add_and_move().
Convert the lru_rotate pagevec to a folio_batch.
Adds 223 bytes total to kernel text, because we're duplicating
infrastructure. This will be more than made up for in future patches.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220617175020.717127-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Similar to our MM_CP_DIRTY_ACCT handling for shared, writable mappings, we
can try mapping anonymous pages in a private writable mapping writable if
they are exclusive, the PTE is already dirty, and no special handling
applies. Mapping the anonymous page writable is essentially the same
thing the write fault handler would do in this case.
Special handling is required for uffd-wp and softdirty tracking, so take
care of that properly. Also, leave PROT_NONE handling alone for now; in
the future, we could similarly extend the logic in do_numa_page() or use
pte_mk_savedwrite() here.
While this improves mprotect(PROT_READ)+mprotect(PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE)
performance, it should also be a valuable optimization for uffd-wp, when
un-protecting.
This has been previously suggested by Peter Collingbourne in [1], relevant
in the context of the Scudo memory allocator, before we had
PageAnonExclusive.
This commit doesn't add the same handling for PMDs (i.e., anonymous THP,
anonymous hugetlb); benchmark results from Andrea indicate that there are
minor performance gains, so it's might still be valuable to streamline
that logic for all anonymous pages in the future.
As we now also set MM_CP_DIRTY_ACCT for private mappings, let's rename it
to MM_CP_TRY_CHANGE_WRITABLE, to make it clearer what's actually
happening.
Micro-benchmark courtesy of Andrea:
===
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define SIZE (1024*1024*1024)
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char *p;
if (posix_memalign((void **)&p, sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)*512, SIZE))
perror("posix_memalign"), exit(1);
if (madvise(p, SIZE, argc > 1 ? MADV_HUGEPAGE : MADV_NOHUGEPAGE))
perror("madvise");
explicit_bzero(p, SIZE);
for (int loops = 0; loops < 40; loops++) {
if (mprotect(p, SIZE, PROT_READ))
perror("mprotect"), exit(1);
if (mprotect(p, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE))
perror("mprotect"), exit(1);
explicit_bzero(p, SIZE);
}
}
===
Results on my Ryzen 9 3900X:
Stock 10 runs (lower is better): AVG 6.398s, STDEV 0.043
Patched 10 runs (lower is better): AVG 3.780s, STDEV 0.026
===
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210429214801.2583336-1-pcc@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220614093629.76309-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Users can do data access-aware LRU-lists sorting using 'LRU_PRIO' and
'LRU_DEPRIO' DAMOS actions. However, finding best parameters including
the hotness/coldness thresholds, CPU quota, and watermarks could be
challenging for some users. To make the scheme easy to be used without
complex tuning for common situations, this commit implements a static
kernel module called 'DAMON_LRU_SORT' using the 'LRU_PRIO' and
'LRU_DEPRIO' DAMOS actions.
It proactively sorts LRU-lists using DAMON with conservatively chosen
default values of the parameters. That is, the module under its default
parameters will make no harm for common situations but provide some level
of efficiency improvements for systems having clear hot/cold access
pattern under a level of memory pressure while consuming only a limited
small portion of CPU time.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-9-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit adds a new DAMON-based operation scheme action called
'LRU_DEPRIO' for physical address space. The action deprioritizes pages
in the memory area of the target access pattern on their LRU lists. This
is hence supposed to be used for rarely accessed (cold) memory regions so
that cold pages could be more likely reclaimed first under memory
pressure. Internally, it simply calls 'lru_deactivate()'.
Using this with 'LRU_PRIO' action for hot pages, users can proactively
sort LRU lists based on the access pattern. That is, it can make the LRU
lists somewhat more trustworthy source of access temperature. As a
result, efficiency of LRU-lists based mechanisms including the reclamation
target selection could be improved.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-7-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit adds a new DAMOS action called 'LRU_PRIO' for the physical
address space. The action prioritizes pages in the memory regions of the
user-specified target access pattern on their LRU lists. This is hence
supposed to be used for frequently accessed (hot) memory regions so that
hot pages could be more likely protected under memory pressure.
Internally, it simply calls 'mark_page_accessed()'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Extend DAMOS for Proactive LRU-lists Sorting".
Introduction
============
In short, this patchset 1) extends DAMON-based Operation Schemes (DAMOS)
for low overhead data access pattern based LRU-lists sorting, and 2)
implements a static kernel module for easy use of conservatively-tuned
version of that using the extended DAMOS capability.
Background
----------
As page-granularity access checking overhead could be significant on huge
systems, LRU lists are normally not proactively sorted but partially and
reactively sorted for special events including specific user requests,
system calls and memory pressure. As a result, LRU lists are sometimes
not so perfectly prepared to be used as a trustworthy access pattern
source for some situations including reclamation target pages selection
under sudden memory pressure.
DAMON-based Proactive LRU-lists Sorting
---------------------------------------
Because DAMON can identify access patterns of best-effort accuracy while
inducing only user-specified range of overhead, using DAMON for Proactive
LRU-lists Sorting (PLRUS) could be helpful for this situation. The idea
is quite simple. Find hot pages and cold pages using DAMON, and
prioritize hot pages while deprioritizing cold pages on their LRU-lists.
This patchset extends DAMON to support such schemes by introducing a
couple of new DAMOS actions for prioritizing and deprioritizing memory
regions of specific access patterns on their LRU-lists. In detail, this
patchset simply uses 'mark_page_accessed()' and 'deactivate_page()'
functions for prioritization and deprioritization of pages on their LRU
lists, respectively.
To make the scheme easy to use without complex tuning for common
situations, this patchset further implements a static kernel module called
'DAMON_LRU_SORT' using the extended DAMOS functionality. It proactively
sorts LRU-lists using DAMON with conservatively chosen default
hotness/coldness thresholds and small CPU usage quota limit. That is, the
module under its default parameters will make no harm for common situation
but provide some level of benefit for systems having clear hot/cold access
pattern under only memory pressure while consuming only limited small
portion of CPU time.
Related Works
-------------
Proactive reclamation is well known to be helpful for reducing non-optimal
reclamation target selection caused performance drops. However, proactive
reclamation is not a best option for some cases, because it could incur
additional I/O. For an example, it could be prohitive for systems using
storage devices that total number of writes is limited, or cloud block
storages that charges every I/O.
Some proactive reclamation approaches[1,2] induce a level of memory
pressure using memcg files or swappiness while monitoring PSI. As
reclamation target selection is still relying on the original LRU-lists
mechanism, using DAMON-based proactive reclamation before inducing the
proactive reclamation could allow more memory saving with same level of
performance overhead, or less performance overhead with same level of
memory saving.
[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/anticipating-your-memory-needs
[2] https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/ftp/NVM/tmo_asplos22.pdf
Evaluation
==========
In short, PLRUS achieves 10% memory PSI (some) reduction, 14% major page
faults reduction, and 3.74% speedup under memory pressure.
Setup
-----
To show the effect of PLRUS, I run PARSEC3 and SPLASH-2X benchmarks under
below variant systems and measure a few metrics including the runtime of
each workload, number of system-wide major page faults, and system-wide
memory PSI (some).
- orig: v5.18-rc4 based mm-unstable kernel + this patchset, but no DAMON scheme
applied.
- mprs: Same to 'orig' but artificial memory pressure is induced.
- plrus: Same to 'mprs' but a radically tuned PLRUS scheme is applied to the
entire physical address space of the system.
For the artificial memory pressure, I set 'memory.limit_in_bytes' to 75%
of the running workload's peak RSS, wait 1 second, remove the pressure by
setting it to 200% of the peak RSS, wait 10 seconds, and repeat the
procedure until the workload finishes[1]. I use zram based swap device.
The tests are automated[2].
[1] https://github.com/awslabs/damon-tests/blob/next/perf/runners/back/0009_memcg_pressure.sh
[2] https://github.com/awslabs/damon-tests/blob/next/perf/full_once_config.sh
Radically Tuned PLRUS
---------------------
To show effect of PLRUS on the PARSEC3/SPLASH-2X workloads which runs for
no long time, we use radically tuned version of PLRUS. The version asks
DAMON to do the proactive LRU-lists sorting as below.
1. Find any memory regions shown some accesses (approximately >=20 accesses per
100 sampling) and prioritize pages of the regions on their LRU lists using
up to 2% CPU time. Under the CPU time limit, prioritize regions having
higher access frequency and kept the access frequency longer first.
2. Find any memory regions shown no access for at least >=5 seconds and
deprioritize pages of the rgions on their LRU lists using up to 2% CPU time.
Under the CPU time limit, deprioritize regions that not accessed for longer
time first.
Results
-------
I repeat the tests 25 times and calculate average of the measured numbers.
The results are as below:
metric orig mprs plrus plrus/mprs
runtime_seconds 190.06 292.83 281.87 0.96
pgmajfaults 852.55 8769420.00 7525040.00 0.86
memory_psi_some_us 106911.00 6943420.00 6220920.00 0.90
The first row is for legend. The first cell shows the metric that the
following cells of the row shows. Second, third, and fourth cells show
the metrics under the configs shown at the first row of the cell, and the
fifth cell shows the metric under 'plrus' divided by the metric under
'mprs'. Second row shows the averaged runtime of the workloads in
seconds. Third row shows the number of system-wide major page faults
while the test was ongoing. Fourth row shows the system-wide memory
pressure stall for some processes in microseconds while the test was
ongoing.
In short, PLRUS achieves 10% memory PSI (some) reduction, 14% major page
faults reduction, and 3.74% speedup under memory pressure. We also
confirmed the CPU usage of kdamond was 2.61% of single CPU, which is below
4% as expected.
Sequence of Patches
===================
The first and second patch cleans up DAMON debugfs interface and
DAMOS_PAGEOUT handling code of physical address space monitoring
operations implementation for easier extension of the code.
The thrid and fourth patches implement a new DAMOS action called
'lru_prio', which prioritizes pages under memory regions which have a
user-specified access pattern, and document it, respectively. The fifth
and sixth patches implement yet another new DAMOS action called
'lru_deprio', which deprioritizes pages under memory regions which have a
user-specified access pattern, and document it, respectively.
The seventh patch implements a static kernel module called
'damon_lru_sort', which utilizes the DAMON-based proactive LRU-lists
sorting under conservatively chosen default parameter. Finally, the
eighth patch documents 'damon_lru_sort'.
This patch (of 8):
DAMON debugfs interface assumes users will write 'damos_action' value
directly to the 'schemes' file. This makes adding new 'damos_action' in
the middle of its definition breaks the backward compatibility of DAMON
debugfs interface, as values of some 'damos_action' could be changed. To
mitigate the situation, this commit adds mappings between the user inputs
and 'damos_action' value and makes DAMON debugfs code uses those.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613192301.8817-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
