user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/migrate.h, branch v3.12.29

aio/migratepages: make aio migrate pages sane

2014-01-09T20:25:16Z

commit 8e321fefb0e60bae4e2a28d20fc4fa30758d27c6 upstream. The arbitrary restriction on page counts offered by the core migrate_page_move_mapping() code results in rather suspicious looking fiddling with page reference counts in the aio_migratepage() operation. To fix this, make migrate_page_move_mapping() take an extra_count parameter that allows aio to tell the code about its own reference count on the page being migrated. While cleaning up aio_migratepage(), make it validate that the old page being passed in is actually what aio_migratepage() expects to prevent misbehaviour in the case of races. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: numa: avoid unnecessary disruption of NUMA hinting during migration

2014-01-09T20:25:14Z

commit de466bd628e8d663fdf3f791bc8db318ee85c714 upstream. do_huge_pmd_numa_page() handles the case where there is parallel THP migration. However, by the time it is checked the NUMA hinting information has already been disrupted. This patch adds an earlier check with some helpers. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Alex Thorlton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next

2013-09-13T17:55:58Z

Pull aio changes from Ben LaHaise: "First off, sorry for this pull request being late in the merge window. Al had raised a couple of concerns about 2 items in the series below. I addressed the first issue (the race introduced by Gu's use of mm_populate()), but he has not provided any further details on how he wants to rework the anon_inode.c changes (which were sent out months ago but have yet to be commented on). The bulk of the changes have been sitting in the -next tree for a few months, with all the issues raised being addressed" * git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next: (22 commits) aio: rcu_read_lock protection for new rcu_dereference calls aio: fix race in ring buffer page lookup introduced by page migration support aio: fix rcu sparse warnings introduced by ioctx table lookup patch aio: remove unnecessary debugging from aio_free_ring() aio: table lookup: verify ctx pointer staging/lustre: kiocb->ki_left is removed aio: fix error handling and rcu usage in "convert the ioctx list to table lookup v3" aio: be defensive to ensure request batching is non-zero instead of BUG_ON() aio: convert the ioctx list to table lookup v3 aio: double aio_max_nr in calculations aio: Kill ki_dtor aio: Kill ki_users aio: Kill unneeded kiocb members aio: Kill aio_rw_vect_retry() aio: Don't use ctx->tail unnecessarily aio: io_cancel() no longer returns the io_event aio: percpu ioctx refcount aio: percpu reqs_available aio: reqs_active -> reqs_available aio: fix build when migration is disabled ...

mm: soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of migrate_huge_page()

2013-09-11T22:57:47Z

Currently migrate_huge_page() takes a pointer to a hugepage to be migrated as an argument, instead of taking a pointer to the list of hugepages to be migrated. This behavior was introduced in commit 189ebff28 ("hugetlb: simplify migrate_huge_page()"), and was OK because until now hugepage migration is enabled only for soft-offlining which migrates only one hugepage in a single call. But the situation will change in the later patches in this series which enable other users of page migration to support hugepage migration. They can kick migration for both of normal pages and hugepages in a single call, so we need to go back to original implementation which uses linked lists to collect the hugepages to be migrated. With this patch, soft_offline_huge_page() switches to use migrate_pages(), and migrate_huge_page() is not used any more. So let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Acked-by: Andi Kleen Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Acked-by: Hillf Danton Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/aio: Add support to aio ring pages migration

2013-07-16T13:32:18Z

As the aio job will pin the ring pages, that will lead to mem migrated failed. In order to fix this problem we use an anon inode to manage the aio ring pages, and setup the migratepage callback in the anon inode's address space, so that when mem migrating the aio ring pages will be moved to other mem node safely. Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise

mm: remove offlining arg to migrate_pages

2013-02-24T01:50:19Z

No functional change, but the only purpose of the offlining argument to migrate_pages() etc, was to ensure that __unmap_and_move() could migrate a KSM page for memory hotremove (which took ksm_thread_mutex) but not for other callers. Now all cases are safe, remove the arg. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Petr Holasek Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma

2012-12-16T23:18:08Z

Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman: "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and autonuma which is in aa.git. In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9. The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108 mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331 tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437 srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397 The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas' results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a large machine with imbalanced node sizes. My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally. We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of migration even when it shows that overall performance is better. There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration. These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks." * tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits) mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case. mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy ...

mm: introduce putback_movable_pages()

2012-12-12T01:22:27Z

The PATCH "mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages" hacks around putback_lru_pages() in order to allow ballooned pages to be re-inserted on balloon page list as if a ballooned page was like a LRU page. As ballooned pages are not legitimate LRU pages, this patch introduces putback_movable_pages() to properly cope with cases where the isolated pageset contains ballooned pages and LRU pages, thus fixing the mentioned inelegant hack around putback_lru_pages(). Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility

2012-12-12T01:22:26Z

mm: adjust address_space_operations.migratepage() return code

2012-12-12T01:22:26Z

Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload. This patch-set follows the main idea discussed at 2012 LSFMMS session: "Ballooning for transparent huge pages" -- http://lwn.net/Articles/490114/ to introduce the required changes to the virtio_balloon driver, as well as the changes to the core compaction & migration bits, in order to make those subsystems aware of ballooned pages and allow memory balloon pages become movable within a guest, thus avoiding the aforementioned fragmentation issue Following are numbers that prove this patch benefits on allowing compaction to be more effective at memory ballooned guests. Results for STRESS-HIGHALLOC benchmark, from Mel Gorman's mmtests suite, running on a 4gB RAM KVM guest which was ballooning 512mB RAM in 64mB chunks, at every minute (inflating/deflating), while test was running: ===BEGIN stress-highalloc STRESS-HIGHALLOC highalloc-3.7 highalloc-3.7 rc4-clean rc4-patch Pass 1 55.00 ( 0.00%) 62.00 ( 7.00%) Pass 2 54.00 ( 0.00%) 62.00 ( 8.00%) while Rested 75.00 ( 0.00%) 80.00 ( 5.00%) MMTests Statistics: duration 3.7 3.7 rc4-clean rc4-patch User 1207.59 1207.46 System 1300.55 1299.61 Elapsed 2273.72 2157.06 MMTests Statistics: vmstat 3.7 3.7 rc4-clean rc4-patch Page Ins 3581516 2374368 Page Outs 11148692 10410332 Swap Ins 80 47 Swap Outs 3641 476 Direct pages scanned 37978 33826 Kswapd pages scanned 1828245 1342869 Kswapd pages reclaimed 1710236 1304099 Direct pages reclaimed 32207 31005 Kswapd efficiency 93% 97% Kswapd velocity 804.077 622.546 Direct efficiency 84% 91% Direct velocity 16.703 15.682 Percentage direct scans 2% 2% Page writes by reclaim 79252 9704 Page writes file 75611 9228 Page writes anon 3641 476 Page reclaim immediate 16764 11014 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 2171904 2152448 Direct inode steals 385 2261 Kswapd inode steals 659137 609670 Kswapd skipped wait 1 69 THP fault alloc 546 631 THP collapse alloc 361 339 THP splits 259 263 THP fault fallback 98 50 THP collapse fail 20 17 Compaction stalls 747 499 Compaction success 244 145 Compaction failures 503 354 Compaction pages moved 370888 474837 Compaction move failure 77378 65259 ===END stress-highalloc This patch: Introduce MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS as the default return code for address_space_operations.migratepage() method and documents the expected return code for the same method in failure cases. Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds