user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/memcontrol.h, branch v6.8.6

mm/mglru: add CONFIG_LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU

2024-01-05T18:17:44Z

Add CONFIG_LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU such that if disabled, the code that walks page tables to promote pages into the youngest generation will not be built. Also improves code readability by adding two helper functions get_mm_state() and get_next_mm(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231227141205.2200125-3-kinseyho@google.com Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho Co-developed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Tested-by: Donet Tom Acked-by: Yu Zhao Cc: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

zswap: memcontrol: implement zswap writeback disabling

2023-12-30T04:22:11Z

During our experiment with zswap, we sometimes observe swap IOs due to occasional zswap store failures and writebacks-to-swap. These swapping IOs prevent many users who cannot tolerate swapping from adopting zswap to save memory and improve performance where possible. This patch adds the option to disable this behavior entirely: do not writeback to backing swapping device when a zswap store attempt fail, and do not write pages in the zswap pool back to the backing swap device (both when the pool is full, and when the new zswap shrinker is called). This new behavior can be opted-in/out on a per-cgroup basis via a new cgroup file. By default, writebacks to swap device is enabled, which is the previous behavior. Initially, writeback is enabled for the root cgroup, and a newly created cgroup will inherit the current setting of its parent. Note that this is subtly different from setting memory.swap.max to 0, as it still allows for pages to be stored in the zswap pool (which itself consumes swap space in its current form). This patch should be applied on top of the zswap shrinker series: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231130194023.4102148-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/ as it also disables the zswap shrinker, a major source of zswap writebacks. For the most part, this feature is motivated by internal parties who have already established their opinions regarding swapping - the workloads that are highly sensitive to IO, and especially those who are using servers with really slow disk performance (for instance, massive but slow HDDs). For these folks, it's impossible to convince them to even entertain zswap if swapping also comes as a packaged deal. Writeback disabling is quite a useful feature in these situations - on a mixed workloads deployment, they can disable writeback for the more IO-sensitive workloads, and enable writeback for other background workloads. For instance, on a server with HDD, I allocate memories and populate them with random values (so that zswap store will always fail), and specify memory.high low enough to trigger reclaim. The time it takes to allocate the memories and just read through it a couple of times (doing silly things like computing the values' average etc.): zswap.writeback disabled: real 0m30.537s user 0m23.687s sys 0m6.637s 0 pages swapped in 0 pages swapped out zswap.writeback enabled: real 0m45.061s user 0m24.310s sys 0m8.892s 712686 pages swapped in 461093 pages swapped out (the last two lines are from vmstat -s). [nphamcs@gmail.com: add a comment about recurring zswap store failures leading to reclaim inefficiency] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231221005725.3446672-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207192406.3809579-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Chris Li Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: David Heidelberg Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: memcg: restore subtree stats flushing

2023-12-20T22:48:11Z

Stats flushing for memcg currently follows the following rules: - Always flush the entire memcg hierarchy (i.e. flush the root). - Only one flusher is allowed at a time. If someone else tries to flush concurrently, they skip and return immediately. - A periodic flusher flushes all the stats every 2 seconds. The reason this approach is followed is because all flushes are serialized by a global rstat spinlock. On the memcg side, flushing is invoked from userspace reads as well as in-kernel flushers (e.g. reclaim, refault, etc). This approach aims to avoid serializing all flushers on the global lock, which can cause a significant performance hit under high concurrency. This approach has the following problems: - Occasionally a userspace read of the stats of a non-root cgroup will be too expensive as it has to flush the entire hierarchy [1]. - Sometimes the stats accuracy are compromised if there is an ongoing flush, and we skip and return before the subtree of interest is actually flushed, yielding stale stats (by up to 2s due to periodic flushing). This is more visible when reading stats from userspace, but can also affect in-kernel flushers. The latter problem is particulary a concern when userspace reads stats after an event occurs, but gets stats from before the event. Examples: - When memory usage / pressure spikes, a userspace OOM handler may look at the stats of different memcgs to select a victim based on various heuristics (e.g. how much private memory will be freed by killing this). Reading stale stats from before the usage spike in this case may cause a wrongful OOM kill. - A proactive reclaimer may read the stats after writing to memory.reclaim to measure the success of the reclaim operation. Stale stats from before reclaim may give a false negative. - Reading the stats of a parent and a child memcg may be inconsistent (child larger than parent), if the flush doesn't happen when the parent is read, but happens when the child is read. As for in-kernel flushers, they will occasionally get stale stats. No regressions are currently known from this, but if there are regressions, they would be very difficult to debug and link to the source of the problem. This patch aims to fix these problems by restoring subtree flushing, and removing the unified/coalesced flushing logic that skips flushing if there is an ongoing flush. This change would introduce a significant regression with global stats flushing thresholds. With per-memcg stats flushing thresholds, this seems to perform really well. The thresholds protect the underlying lock from unnecessary contention. This patch was tested in two ways to ensure the latency of flushing is up to par, on a machine with 384 cpus: - A synthetic test with 5000 concurrent workers in 500 cgroups doing allocations and reclaim, as well as 1000 readers for memory.stat (variation of [2]). No regressions were noticed in the total runtime. Note that significant regressions in this test are observed with global stats thresholds, but not with per-memcg thresholds. - A synthetic stress test for concurrently reading memcg stats while memory allocation/freeing workers are running in the background, provided by Wei Xu [3]. With 250k threads reading the stats every 100ms in 50k cgroups, 99.9% of reads take <= 50us. Less than 0.01% of reads take more than 1ms, and no reads take more than 100ms. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABWYdi0c6__rh-K7dcM_pkf9BJdTRtAU08M43KO9ME4-dsgfoQ@mail.gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tka13M-zVZTyQJYL1iUAYvuQ1fcHbCjcOBZcz6POYTV-4g@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAAPL-u9D2b=iF5Lf_cRnKxUfkiEe0AMDTu6yhrUAzX0b6a6rDg@mail.gmail.com/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/zswap.c] [yosryahmed@google.com: remove stats flushing mutex] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJD7tkZgP3m-VVPn+fF_YuvXeQYK=tZZjJHj=dzD=CcSSpp2qg@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231129032154.3710765-6-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed Tested-by: Domenico Cerasuolo Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Chris Li Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Ivan Babrou Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Koutny Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Wei Xu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware

2023-12-12T18:57:01Z

Currently, we only have a single global LRU for zswap. This makes it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u This patch fully resolves the issue by replacing the global zswap LRU with memcg- and NUMA-specific LRUs, and modify the reclaim logic: a) When a store attempt hits an memcg limit, it now triggers a synchronous reclaim attempt that, if successful, allows the new hotter page to be accepted by zswap. b) If the store attempt instead hits the global zswap limit, it will trigger an asynchronous reclaim attempt, in which an memcg is selected for reclaim in a round-robin-like fashion. [nphamcs@gmail.com: use correct function for the onlineness check, use mem_cgroup_iter_break()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205195419.2563217-1-nphamcs@gmail.com [nphamcs@gmail.com: drop the pool's reference at the end of the writeback step] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231206030627.4155634-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-4-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo Co-developed-by: Nhat Pham Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Chris Li Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Yosry Ahmed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

memcontrol: implement mem_cgroup_tryget_online()

2023-12-12T18:57:01Z

This patch implements a helper function that try to get a reference to an memcg's css, as well as checking if it is online. This new function is almost exactly the same as the existing mem_cgroup_tryget(), except for the onlineness check. In the !CONFIG_MEMCG case, it always returns true, analogous to mem_cgroup_tryget(). This is useful for e.g to the new zswap writeback scheme, where we need to select the next online memcg as a candidate for the global limit reclaim. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-3-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Chris Li Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Vitaly Wool Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/khugepaged: convert alloc_charge_hpage() to use folios

2023-10-25T23:47:14Z

Also remove count_memcg_page_event now that its last caller no longer uses it and reword hpage_collapse_alloc_page() to hpage_collapse_alloc_folio(). This removes 1 call to compound_head() and helps convert khugepaged to use folios throughout. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231020183331.10770-5-vishal.moola@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kmem: reimplement get_obj_cgroup_from_current()

2023-10-25T23:47:11Z

Reimplement get_obj_cgroup_from_current() using current_obj_cgroup(). get_obj_cgroup_from_current() and current_obj_cgroup() share 80% of the code, so the new implementation is almost trivial. get_obj_cgroup_from_current() is a convenient function used by the bpf subsystem, so there is no reason to get rid of it completely. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019225346.1822282-7-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Naresh Kamboju Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kmem: scoped objcg protection

2023-10-25T23:47:11Z

Switch to a scope-based protection of the objcg pointer on slab/kmem allocation paths. Instead of using the get_() semantics in the pre-allocation hook and put the reference afterwards, let's rely on the fact that objcg is pinned by the scope. It's possible because: 1) if the objcg is received from the current task struct, the task is keeping a reference to the objcg. 2) if the objcg is received from an active memcg (remote charging), the memcg is pinned by the scope and has a reference to the corresponding objcg. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019225346.1822282-5-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kmem: make memcg keep a reference to the original objcg

2023-10-25T23:47:11Z

Keep a reference to the original objcg object for the entire life of a memcg structure. This allows to simplify the synchronization on the kernel memory allocation paths: pinning a (live) memcg will also pin the corresponding objcg. The memory overhead of this change is minimal because object cgroups usually outlive their corresponding memory cgroups even without this change, so it's only an additional pointer per memcg. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019225346.1822282-4-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

hugetlb: memcg: account hugetlb-backed memory in memory controller

2023-10-18T21:34:17Z

Currently, hugetlb memory usage is not acounted for in the memory controller, which could lead to memory overprotection for cgroups with hugetlb-backed memory. This has been observed in our production system. For instance, here is one of our usecases: suppose there are two 32G containers. The machine is booted with hugetlb_cma=6G, and each container may or may not use up to 3 gigantic page, depending on the workload within it. The rest is anon, cache, slab, etc. We can set the hugetlb cgroup limit of each cgroup to 3G to enforce hugetlb fairness. But it is very difficult to configure memory.max to keep overall consumption, including anon, cache, slab etc. fair. What we have had to resort to is to constantly poll hugetlb usage and readjust memory.max. Similar procedure is done to other memory limits (memory.low for e.g). However, this is rather cumbersome and buggy. Furthermore, when there is a delay in memory limits correction, (for e.g when hugetlb usage changes within consecutive runs of the userspace agent), the system could be in an over/underprotected state. This patch rectifies this issue by charging the memcg when the hugetlb folio is utilized, and uncharging when the folio is freed (analogous to the hugetlb controller). Note that we do not charge when the folio is allocated to the hugetlb pool, because at this point it is not owned by any memcg. Some caveats to consider: * This feature is only available on cgroup v2. * There is no hugetlb pool management involved in the memory controller. As stated above, hugetlb folios are only charged towards the memory controller when it is used. Host overcommit management has to consider it when configuring hard limits. * Failure to charge towards the memcg results in SIGBUS. This could happen even if the hugetlb pool still has pages (but the cgroup limit is hit and reclaim attempt fails). * When this feature is enabled, hugetlb pages contribute to memory reclaim protection. low, min limits tuning must take into account hugetlb memory. * Hugetlb pages utilized while this option is not selected will not be tracked by the memory controller (even if cgroup v2 is remounted later on). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006184629.155543-4-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Frank van der Linden Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Tejun heo Cc: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton