user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/swap.h, branch v4.7

mm, oom: rework oom detection

2016-05-21T00:58:30Z

__alloc_pages_slowpath has traditionally relied on the direct reclaim and did_some_progress as an indicator that it makes sense to retry allocation rather than declaring OOM. shrink_zones had to rely on zone_reclaimable if shrink_zone didn't make any progress to prevent from a premature OOM killer invocation - the LRU might be full of dirty or writeback pages and direct reclaim cannot clean those up. zone_reclaimable allows to rescan the reclaimable lists several times and restart if a page is freed. This is really subtle behavior and it might lead to a livelock when a single freed page keeps allocator looping but the current task will not be able to allocate that single page. OOM killer would be more appropriate than looping without any progress for unbounded amount of time. This patch changes OOM detection logic and pulls it out from shrink_zone which is too low to be appropriate for any high level decisions such as OOM which is per zonelist property. It is __alloc_pages_slowpath which knows how many attempts have been done and what was the progress so far therefore it is more appropriate to implement this logic. The new heuristic is implemented in should_reclaim_retry helper called from __alloc_pages_slowpath. It tries to be more deterministic and easier to follow. It builds on an assumption that retrying makes sense only if the currently reclaimable memory + free pages would allow the current allocation request to succeed (as per __zone_watermark_ok) at least for one zone in the usable zonelist. This alone wouldn't be sufficient, though, because the writeback might get stuck and reclaimable pages might be pinned for a really long time or even depend on the current allocation context. Therefore there is a backoff mechanism implemented which reduces the reclaim target after each reclaim round without any progress. This means that we should eventually converge to only NR_FREE_PAGES as the target and fail on the wmark check and proceed to OOM. The backoff is simple and linear with 1/16 of the reclaimable pages for each round without any progress. We are optimistic and reset counter for successful reclaim rounds. Costly high order pages mostly preserve their semantic and those without __GFP_REPEAT fail right away while those which have the flag set will back off after the amount of reclaimable pages reaches equivalent of the requested order. The only difference is that if there was no progress during the reclaim we rely on zone watermark check. This is more logical thing to do than previous 1< Acked-by: Hillf Danton Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: thp: calculate the mapcount correctly for THP pages during WP faults

2016-05-12T22:52:50Z

This will provide fully accuracy to the mapcount calculation in the write protect faults, so page pinning will not get broken by false positive copy-on-writes. total_mapcount() isn't the right calculation needed in reuse_swap_page(), so this introduces a page_trans_huge_mapcount() that is effectively the full accurate return value for page_mapcount() if dealing with Transparent Hugepages, however we only use the page_trans_huge_mapcount() during COW faults where it strictly needed, due to its higher runtime cost. This also provide at practical zero cost the total_mapcount information which is needed to know if we can still relocate the page anon_vma to the local vma. If page_trans_huge_mapcount() returns 1 we can reuse the page no matter if it's a pte or a pmd_trans_huge triggering the fault, but we can only relocate the page anon_vma to the local vma->anon_vma if we're sure it's only this "vma" mapping the whole THP physical range. Kirill A. Shutemov discovered the problem with moving the page anon_vma to the local vma->anon_vma in a previous version of this patch and another problem in the way page_move_anon_rmap() was called. Andrew Morton discovered that CONFIG_SWAP=n wouldn't build in a previous version, because reuse_swap_page must be a macro to call page_trans_huge_mapcount from swap.h, so this uses a macro again instead of an inline function. With this change at least it's a less dangerous usage than it was before, because "page" is used only once now, while with the previous code reuse_swap_page(page++) would have called page_mapcount on page+1 and it would have increased page twice instead of just once. Dean Luick noticed an uninitialized variable that could result in a rmap inefficiency for the non-THP case in a previous version. Mike Marciniszyn said: : Our RDMA tests are seeing an issue with memory locking that bisects to : commit 61f5d698cc97 ("mm: re-enable THP") : : The test program registers two rather large MRs (512M) and RDMA : writes data to a passive peer using the first and RDMA reads it back : into the second MR and compares that data. The sizes are chosen randomly : between 0 and 1024 bytes. : : The test will get through a few (<= 4 iterations) and then gets a : compare error. : : Tracing indicates the kernel logical addresses associated with the individual : pages at registration ARE correct , the data in the "RDMA read response only" : packets ARE correct. : : The "corruption" occurs when the packet crosse two pages that are not physically : contiguous. The second page reads back as zero in the program. : : It looks like the user VA at the point of the compare error no longer points to : the same physical address as was registered. : : This patch totally resolves the issue! Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462547040-1737-2-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reviewed-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Reviewed-by: Dean Luick Tested-by: Alex Williamson Tested-by: Mike Marciniszyn Tested-by: Josh Collier Cc: Marc Haber Cc: [4.5] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: let v2 cgroups follow changes in system swappiness

2016-05-06T00:38:53Z

Cgroup2 currently doesn't have a per-cgroup swappiness setting. We might want to add one later - that's a different discussion - but until we do, the cgroups should always follow the system setting. Otherwise it will be unchangeably set to whatever the ancestor inherited from the system setting at the time of cgroup creation. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: [4.5] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage

2016-04-04T17:41:08Z

Mostly direct substitution with occasional adjustment or removing outdated comments. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

2016-04-04T17:41:08Z

PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE. This promise never materialized. And unlikely will. We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case, especially on the border between fs and mm. Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much breakage to be doable. Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are not. The changes are pretty straight-forward: - << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ; - >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ; - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN}; - page_cache_get() -> get_page(); - page_cache_release() -> put_page(); This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using script below. For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files. I've called spatch for them manually. The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later. There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach. I'll fix them manually in a separate patch. Comments and documentation also will be addressed with the separate patch. virtual patch @@ expression E; @@ - E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) + E @@ expression E; @@ - E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) + E @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT + PAGE_SHIFT @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_SIZE + PAGE_SIZE @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_MASK + PAGE_MASK @@ expression E; @@ - PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E) + PAGE_ALIGN(E) @@ expression E; @@ - page_cache_get(E) + get_page(E) @@ expression E; @@ - page_cache_release(E) + put_page(E) Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is full

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

Swap cache pages are freed aggressively if swap is nearly full (>50% currently), because otherwise we are likely to stop scanning anonymous when we near the swap limit even if there is plenty of freeable swap cache pages. We should follow the same trend in case of memory cgroup, which has its own swap limit. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmscan: do not scan anon pages if memcg swap limit is hit

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

We don't scan anonymous memory if we ran out of swap, neither should we do it in case memcg swap limit is hit, because swap out is impossible anyway. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap.h: move memcg related stuff to the end of the file

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

The following patches will add more functions to the memcg section of include/linux/swap.h. Some of them will need values defined below the current location of the section. So let's move the section to the end of the file. No functional changes intended. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

This patchset introduces swap accounting to cgroup2. This patch (of 7): In the legacy hierarchy we charge memsw, which is dubious, because: - memsw.limit must be >= memory.limit, so it is impossible to limit swap usage less than memory usage. Taking into account the fact that the primary limiting mechanism in the unified hierarchy is memory.high while memory.limit is either left unset or set to a very large value, moving memsw.limit knob to the unified hierarchy would effectively make it impossible to limit swap usage according to the user preference. - memsw.usage != memory.usage + swap.usage, because a page occupying both swap entry and a swap cache page is charged only once to memsw counter. As a result, it is possible to effectively eat up to memory.limit of memory pages *and* memsw.limit of swap entries, which looks unexpected. That said, we should provide a different swap limiting mechanism for cgroup2. This patch adds mem_cgroup->swap counter, which charges the actual number of swap entries used by a cgroup. It is only charged in the unified hierarchy, while the legacy hierarchy memsw logic is left intact. The swap usage can be monitored using new memory.swap.current file and limited using memory.swap.max. Note, to charge swap resource properly in the unified hierarchy, we have to make swap_entry_free uncharge swap only when ->usage reaches zero, not just ->count, i.e. when all references to a swap entry, including the one taken by swap cache, are gone. This is necessary, because otherwise swap-in could result in uncharging swap even if the page is still in swap cache and hence still occupies a swap entry. At the same time, this shouldn't break memsw counter logic, where a page is never charged twice for using both memory and swap, because in case of legacy hierarchy we uncharge swap on commit (see mem_cgroup_commit_charge). Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move lazily freed pages to inactive list

2016-01-16T01:56:32Z

MADV_FREE is a hint that it's okay to discard pages if there is memory pressure and we use reclaimers(ie, kswapd and direct reclaim) to free them so there is no value keeping them in the active anonymous LRU so this patch moves them to inactive LRU list's head. This means that MADV_FREE-ed pages which were living on the inactive list are reclaimed first because they are more likely to be cold rather than recently active pages. An arguable issue for the approach would be whether we should put the page to the head or tail of the inactive list. I chose head because the kernel cannot make sure it's really cold or warm for every MADV_FREE usecase but at least we know it's not *hot*, so landing of inactive head would be a comprimise for various usecases. This fixes suboptimal behavior of MADV_FREE when pages living on the active list will sit there for a long time even under memory pressure while the inactive list is reclaimed heavily. This basically breaks the whole purpose of using MADV_FREE to help the system to free memory which is might not be used. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chen Gang Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Daniel Micay Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Jason Evans Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Mika Penttil Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Roland Dreier Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds