user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/memcontrol.h, branch v4.11.8

mm: vmscan: fix IO/refault regression in cache workingset transition

2017-05-20T12:49:46Z

commit 2a2e48854d704214dac7546e87ae0e4daa0e61a0 upstream. Since commit 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list") we noticed bigger IO spikes during changes in cache access patterns. The patch in question shrunk the inactive list size to leave more room for the current workingset in the presence of streaming IO. However, workingset transitions that previously happened on the inactive list are now pushed out of memory and incur more refaults to complete. This patch disables active list protection when refaults are being observed. This accelerates workingset transitions, and allows more of the new set to establish itself from memory, without eating into the ability to protect the established workingset during stable periods. The workloads that were measurably affected for us were hit pretty bad by it, with refault/majfault rates doubling and tripling during cache transitions, and the machines sustaining half-hour periods of 100% IO utilization, where they'd previously have sub-minute peaks at 60-90%. Stateful services that handle user data tend to be more conservative with kernel upgrades. As a result we hit most page cache issues with some delay, as was the case here. The severity seemed to warrant a stable tag. Fixes: 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220052.27593-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: rmap: fix huge file mmap accounting in the memcg stats

2017-04-01T00:13:30Z

Huge pages are accounted as single units in the memcg's "file_mapped" counter. Account the correct number of base pages, like we do in the corresponding node counter. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322005111.3156-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab: use memcg_kmem_cache_wq for slab destruction operations

2017-02-23T00:41:27Z

If there's contention on slab_mutex, queueing the per-cache destruction work item on the system_wq can unnecessarily create and tie up a lot of kworkers. Rename memcg_kmem_cache_create_wq to memcg_kmem_cache_wq and make it global and use that workqueue for the destruction work items too. While at it, convert the workqueue from an unbound workqueue to a per-cpu one with concurrency limited to 1. It's generally preferable to use per-cpu workqueues and concurrency limit of 1 is safe enough. This is suggested by Joonsoo Kim. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-11-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Jay Vana Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab: link memcg kmem_caches on their associated memory cgroup

2017-02-23T00:41:27Z

With kmem cgroup support enabled, kmem_caches can be created and destroyed frequently and a great number of near empty kmem_caches can accumulate if there are a lot of transient cgroups and the system is not under memory pressure. When memory reclaim starts under such conditions, it can lead to consecutive deactivation and destruction of many kmem_caches, easily hundreds of thousands on moderately large systems, exposing scalability issues in the current slab management code. This is one of the patches to address the issue. While a memcg kmem_cache is listed on its root cache's ->children list, there is no direct way to iterate all kmem_caches which are assocaited with a memory cgroup. The only way to iterate them is walking all caches while filtering out caches which don't match, which would be most of them. This makes memcg destruction operations O(N^2) where N is the total number of slab caches which can be huge. This combined with the synchronous RCU operations can tie up a CPU and affect the whole machine for many hours when memory reclaim triggers offlining and destruction of the stale memcgs. This patch adds mem_cgroup->kmem_caches list which goes through memcg_cache_params->kmem_caches_node of all kmem_caches which are associated with the memcg. All memcg specific iterations, including stat file access, are updated to use the new list instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-6-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Jay Vana Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, memcg: fix the active list aging for lowmem requests when memcg is enabled

2017-01-11T02:31:55Z

Nils Holland and Klaus Ethgen have reported unexpected OOM killer invocations with 32b kernel starting with 4.8 kernels kworker/u4:5 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2400840(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL), nodemask=0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0 kworker/u4:5 cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 CPU: 1 PID: 2603 Comm: kworker/u4:5 Not tainted 4.9.0-gentoo #2 [...] Mem-Info: active_anon:58685 inactive_anon:90 isolated_anon:0 active_file:274324 inactive_file:281962 isolated_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:649 writeback:0 unstable:0 slab_reclaimable:40662 slab_unreclaimable:17754 mapped:7382 shmem:202 pagetables:351 bounce:0 free:206736 free_pcp:332 free_cma:0 Node 0 active_anon:234740kB inactive_anon:360kB active_file:1097296kB inactive_file:1127848kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:29528kB dirty:2596kB writeback:0kB shmem:0kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 184320kB anon_thp: 808kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no DMA free:3952kB min:788kB low:984kB high:1180kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:7316kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:96kB present:15992kB managed:15916kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:3200kB slab_unreclaimable:1408kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 813 3474 3474 Normal free:41332kB min:41368kB low:51708kB high:62048kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:532748kB inactive_file:44kB unevictable:0kB writepending:24kB present:897016kB managed:836248kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:159448kB slab_unreclaimable:69608kB kernel_stack:1112kB pagetables:1404kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:528kB local_pcp:340kB free_cma:0kB lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 21292 21292 HighMem free:781660kB min:512kB low:34356kB high:68200kB active_anon:234740kB inactive_anon:360kB active_file:557232kB inactive_file:1127804kB unevictable:0kB writepending:2592kB present:2725384kB managed:2725384kB mlocked:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:800kB local_pcp:608kB free_cma:0kB the oom killer is clearly pre-mature because there there is still a lot of page cache in the zone Normal which should satisfy this lowmem request. Further debugging has shown that the reclaim cannot make any forward progress because the page cache is hidden in the active list which doesn't get rotated because inactive_list_is_low is not memcg aware. The code simply subtracts per-zone highmem counters from the respective memcg's lru sizes which doesn't make any sense. We can simply end up always seeing the resulting active and inactive counts 0 and return false. This issue is not limited to 32b kernels but in practice the effect on systems without CONFIG_HIGHMEM would be much harder to notice because we do not invoke the OOM killer for allocations requests targeting < ZONE_NORMAL. Fix the issue by tracking per zone lru page counts in mem_cgroup_per_node and subtract per-memcg highmem counts when memcg is enabled. Introduce helper lruvec_zone_lru_size which redirects to either zone counters or mem_cgroup_get_zone_lru_size when appropriate. We are losing empty LRU but non-zero lru size detection introduced by ca707239e8a7 ("mm: update_lru_size warn and reset bad lru_size") because of the inherent zone vs. node discrepancy. Fixes: f8d1a31163fc ("mm: consider whether to decivate based on eligible zones inactive ratio") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104100825.3729-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reported-by: Nils Holland Tested-by: Nils Holland Reported-by: Klaus Ethgen Acked-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: consolidate cgroup socket tracking

2016-10-08T01:46:29Z

The cgroup core and the memory controller need to track socket ownership for different purposes, but the tracking sites being entirely different is kind of ugly. Be a better citizen and rename the memory controller callbacks to match the cgroup core callbacks, then move them to the same place. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160914194846.11153-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: oom: deduplicate victim selection code for memcg and global oom

2016-10-08T01:46:26Z

When selecting an oom victim, we use the same heuristic for both memory cgroup and global oom. The only difference is the scope of tasks to select the victim from. So we could just export an iterator over all memcg tasks and keep all oom related logic in oom_kill.c, but instead we duplicate pieces of it in memcontrol.c reusing some initially private functions of oom_kill.c in order to not duplicate all of it. That looks ugly and error prone, because any modification of select_bad_process should also be propagated to mem_cgroup_out_of_memory. Let's rework this as follows: keep all oom heuristic related code private to oom_kill.c and make oom_kill.c use exported memcg functions when it's really necessary (like in case of iterating over memcg tasks). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470056933-7505-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix memcg stack accounting for sub-page stacks

2016-07-28T23:07:41Z

We should account for stacks regardless of stack size, and we need to account in sub-page units if THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE. Change the units to kilobytes and Move it into account_kernel_stack(). Fixes: 12580e4b54ba8 ("mm: memcontrol: report kernel stack usage in cgroup2 memory.stat") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b5314e3ee5eda61b0317ec1563768602c1ef438.1468523549.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, vmscan: Update all zone LRU sizes before updating memcg

2016-07-28T23:07:41Z

Minchan Kim reported setting the following warning on a 32-bit system although it can affect 64-bit systems. WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 1322 at mm/memcontrol.c:998 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size+0x103/0x110 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(f44b4000, 1, -7): zid 1 lru_size 1 but empty Modules linked in: CPU: 4 PID: 1322 Comm: cp Not tainted 4.7.0-rc4-mm1+ #143 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x76/0xaf __warn+0xea/0x110 ? mem_cgroup_update_lru_size+0x103/0x110 warn_slowpath_fmt+0x3b/0x40 mem_cgroup_update_lru_size+0x103/0x110 isolate_lru_pages.isra.61+0x2e2/0x360 shrink_active_list+0xac/0x2a0 ? __delay+0xe/0x10 shrink_node_memcg+0x53c/0x7a0 shrink_node+0xab/0x2a0 do_try_to_free_pages+0xc6/0x390 try_to_free_pages+0x245/0x590 LRU list contents and counts are updated separately. Counts are updated before pages are added to the LRU and updated after pages are removed. The warning above is from a check in mem_cgroup_update_lru_size that ensures that list sizes of zero are empty. The problem is that node-lru needs to account for highmem pages if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is set. One impact of the implementation is that the sizes are updated in multiple passes when pages from multiple zones were isolated. This happens whether HIGHMEM is set or not. When multiple zones are isolated, it's possible for a debugging check in memcg to be tripped. This patch forces all the zone counts to be updated before the memcg function is called. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468588165-12461-6-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Tested-by: Minchan Kim Reported-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, memcg: move memcg limit enforcement from zones to nodes

2016-07-28T23:07:41Z

Memcg needs adjustment after moving LRUs to the node. Limits are tracked per memcg but the soft-limit excess is tracked per zone. As global page reclaim is based on the node, it is easy to imagine a situation where a zone soft limit is exceeded even though the memcg limit is fine. This patch moves the soft limit tree the node. Technically, all the variable names should also change but people are already familiar by the meaning of "mz" even if "mn" would be a more appropriate name now. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-15-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds