user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/swap.h, branch v6.11.3

Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable to pick up "mm: fix

2024-07-06T18:44:41Z

crashes from deferred split racing folio migration", needed by "mm: migrate: split folio_migrate_mapping()".

mm: add swappiness= arg to memory.reclaim

2024-07-05T01:05:55Z

Allow proactive reclaimers to submit an additional swappiness= argument to memory.reclaim. This overrides the global or per-memcg swappiness setting for that reclaim attempt. For example: echo "2M swappiness=0" > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory.reclaim will perform reclaim on the rootcg with a swappiness setting of 0 (no swap) regardless of the vm.swappiness sysctl setting. Userspace proactive reclaimers use the memory.reclaim interface to trigger reclaim. The memory.reclaim interface does not allow for any way to effect the balance of file vs anon during proactive reclaim. The only approach is to adjust the vm.swappiness setting. However, there are a few reasons we look to control the balance of file vs anon during proactive reclaim, separately from reactive reclaim: * Swapout should be limited to manage SSD write endurance. In near-OOM situations we are fine with lots of swap-out to avoid OOMs. As these are typically rare events, they have relatively little impact on write endurance. However, proactive reclaim runs continuously and so its impact on SSD write endurance is more significant. Therefore it is desireable to control swap-out for proactive reclaim separately from reactive reclaim * Some userspace OOM killers like systemd-oomd[1] support OOM killing on swap exhaustion. This makes sense if the swap exhaustion is triggered due to reactive reclaim but less so if it is triggered due to proactive reclaim (e.g. one could see OOMs when free memory is ample but anon is just particularly cold). Therefore, it's desireable to have proactive reclaim reduce or stop swap-out before the threshold at which OOM killing occurs. In the case of Meta's Senpai proactive reclaimer, we adjust vm.swappiness before writes to memory.reclaim[2]. This has been in production for nearly two years and has addressed our needs to control proactive vs reactive reclaim behavior but is still not ideal for a number of reasons: * vm.swappiness is a global setting, adjusting it can race/interfere with other system administration that wishes to control vm.swappiness. In our case, we need to disable Senpai before adjusting vm.swappiness. * vm.swappiness is stateful - so a crash or restart of Senpai can leave a misconfigured setting. This requires some additional management to record the "desired" setting and ensure Senpai always adjusts to it. With this patch, we avoid these downsides of adjusting vm.swappiness globally. [1]https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-oomd.service.html [2]https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd/blob/main/src/oomd/plugins/Senpai.cpp#L585-L598 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240103164841.2800183-3-schatzberg.dan@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dan Schatzberg Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Chris Li Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Yue Zhao Cc: Zefan Li Cc: Nhat Pham Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add defines for min/max swappiness

2024-07-05T01:05:55Z

Patch series "Add swappiness argument to memory.reclaim", v6. This patch proposes augmenting the memory.reclaim interface with a swappiness= argument that overrides the swappiness value for that instance of proactive reclaim. Userspace proactive reclaimers use the memory.reclaim interface to trigger reclaim. The memory.reclaim interface does not allow for any way to effect the balance of file vs anon during proactive reclaim. The only approach is to adjust the vm.swappiness setting. However, there are a few reasons we look to control the balance of file vs anon during proactive reclaim, separately from reactive reclaim: * Swapout should be limited to manage SSD write endurance. In near-OOM situations we are fine with lots of swap-out to avoid OOMs. As these are typically rare events, they have relatively little impact on write endurance. However, proactive reclaim runs continuously and so its impact on SSD write endurance is more significant. Therefore it is desireable to control swap-out for proactive reclaim separately from reactive reclaim * Some userspace OOM killers like systemd-oomd[1] support OOM killing on swap exhaustion. This makes sense if the swap exhaustion is triggered due to reactive reclaim but less so if it is triggered due to proactive reclaim (e.g. one could see OOMs when free memory is ample but anon is just particularly cold). Therefore, it's desireable to have proactive reclaim reduce or stop swap-out before the threshold at which OOM killing occurs. In the case of Meta's Senpai proactive reclaimer, we adjust vm.swappiness before writes to memory.reclaim[2]. This has been in production for nearly two years and has addressed our needs to control proactive vs reactive reclaim behavior but is still not ideal for a number of reasons: * vm.swappiness is a global setting, adjusting it can race/interfere with other system administration that wishes to control vm.swappiness. In our case, we need to disable Senpai before adjusting vm.swappiness. * vm.swappiness is stateful - so a crash or restart of Senpai can leave a misconfigured setting. This requires some additional management to record the "desired" setting and ensure Senpai always adjusts to it. With this patch, we avoid these downsides of adjusting vm.swappiness globally. Previously, this exact interface addition was proposed by Yosry[3]. In response, Roman proposed instead an interface to specify precise file/anon/slab reclaim amounts[4]. More recently Huan also proposed this as well[5] and others similarly questioned if this was the proper interface. Previous proposals sought to use this to allow proactive reclaimers to effectively perform a custom reclaim algorithm by issuing proactive reclaim with different settings to control file vs anon reclaim (e.g. to only reclaim anon from some applications). Responses argued that adjusting swappiness is a poor interface for custom reclaim. In contrast, I argue in favor of a swappiness setting not as a way to implement custom reclaim algorithms but rather to bias the balance of anon vs file due to differences of proactive vs reactive reclaim. In this context, swappiness is the existing interface for controlling this balance and this patch simply allows for it to be configured differently for proactive vs reactive reclaim. Specifying explicit amounts of anon vs file pages to reclaim feels inappropriate for this prupose. Proactive reclaimers are un-aware of the relative age of file vs anon for a cgroup which makes it difficult to manage proactive reclaim of different memory pools. A proactive reclaimer would need some amount of anon reclaim attempts separate from the amount of file reclaim attempts which seems brittle given that it's difficult to observe the impact. [1]https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-oomd.service.html [2]https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd/blob/main/src/oomd/plugins/Senpai.cpp#L585-L598 [3]https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAJD7tkbDpyoODveCsnaqBBMZEkDvshXJmNdbk51yKSNgD7aGdg@mail.gmail.com/ [4]https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YoPHtHXzpK51F%2F1Z@carbon/ [5]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231108065818.19932-1-link@vivo.com/ This patch (of 2): We use the constants 0 and 200 in a few places in the mm code when referring to the min and max swappiness. This patch adds MIN_SWAPPINESS and MAX_SWAPPINESS #defines to improve clarity. There are no functional changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240103164841.2800183-1-schatzberg.dan@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240103164841.2800183-2-schatzberg.dan@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dan Schatzberg Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Chris Li Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Yue Zhao Cc: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

cachestat: do not flush stats in recency check

2024-07-04T05:40:37Z

syzbot detects that cachestat() is flushing stats, which can sleep, in its RCU read section (see [1]). This is done in the workingset_test_recent() step (which checks if the folio's eviction is recent). Move the stat flushing step to before the RCU read section of cachestat, and skip stat flushing during the recency check. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/000000000000f71227061bdf97e0@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240627201737.3506959-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Fixes: b00684722262 ("mm: workingset: move the stats flush into workingset_test_recent()") Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham Reported-by: syzbot+b7f13b2d0cc156edf61a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/000000000000f71227061bdf97e0@google.com/ Debugged-by: Johannes Weiner Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Al Viro Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Yosry Ahmed Cc: [6.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove the implementation of swap_free() and always use swap_free_nr()

2024-07-04T02:30:01Z

To streamline maintenance efforts, we propose removing the implementation of swap_free(). Instead, we can simply invoke swap_free_nr() with nr set to 1. swap_free_nr() is designed with a bitmap consisting of only one long, resulting in overhead that can be ignored for cases where nr equals 1. A prime candidate for leveraging swap_free_nr() lies within kernel/power/swap.c. Implementing this change facilitates the adoption of batch processing for hibernation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240529082824.150954-3-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song Suggested-by: "Huang, Ying" Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Acked-by: Chris Li Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: Len Brown Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Chuanhua Han Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Gao Xiang Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Khalid Aziz Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: swap: introduce swap_free_nr() for batched swap_free()

2024-07-04T02:30:01Z

Patch series "large folios swap-in: handle refault cases first", v5. This patchset is extracted from the large folio swapin series[1], primarily addressing the handling of scenarios involving large folios in the swap cache. Currently, it is particularly focused on addressing the refaulting of mTHP, which is still undergoing reclamation. This approach aims to streamline code review and expedite the integration of this segment into the MM tree. It relies on Ryan's swap-out series[2], leveraging the helper function swap_pte_batch() introduced by that series. Presently, do_swap_page only encounters a large folio in the swap cache before the large folio is released by vmscan. However, the code should remain equally useful once we support large folio swap-in via swapin_readahead(). This approach can effectively reduce page faults and eliminate most redundant checks and early exits for MTE restoration in recent MTE patchset[3]. The large folio swap-in for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO and swapin_readahead() will be split into separate patch sets and sent at a later time. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240304081348.197341-1-21cnbao@gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240408183946.2991168-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240322114136.61386-1-21cnbao@gmail.com/ This patch (of 6): While swapping in a large folio, we need to free swaps related to the whole folio. To avoid frequently acquiring and releasing swap locks, it is better to introduce an API for batched free. Furthermore, this new function, swap_free_nr(), is designed to efficiently handle various scenarios for releasing a specified number, nr, of swap entries. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240529082824.150954-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240529082824.150954-2-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Chuanhua Han Co-developed-by: Barry Song Signed-off-by: Barry Song Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Acked-by: Chris Li Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gao Xiang Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Khalid Aziz Cc: Len Brown Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'pull-set_blocksize' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2024-05-21T15:34:51Z

Pull vfs blocksize updates from Al Viro: "This gets rid of bogus set_blocksize() uses, switches it over to be based on a 'struct file *' and verifies that the caller has the device opened exclusively" * tag 'pull-set_blocksize' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: make set_blocksize() fail unless block device is opened exclusive set_blocksize(): switch to passing struct file * btrfs_get_bdev_and_sb(): call set_blocksize() only for exclusive opens swsusp: don't bother with setting block size zram: don't bother with reopening - just use O_EXCL for open swapon(2): open swap with O_EXCL swapon(2)/swapoff(2): don't bother with block size pktcdvd: sort set_blocksize() calls out bcache_register(): don't bother with set_blocksize()

swapon(2): open swap with O_EXCL

2024-05-02T21:23:30Z

... eliminating the need to reopen block devices so they could be exclusively held. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

swapon(2)/swapoff(2): don't bother with block size

2024-05-02T21:23:30Z

once upon a time that used to matter; these days we do swap IO for swap devices at the level that doesn't give a damn about block size, buffer_head or anything of that sort - just attach the page to bio, set the location and size (the latter to PAGE_SIZE) and feed into queue. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: swap: allow storage of all mTHP orders

2024-04-26T03:56:37Z

Multi-size THP enables performance improvements by allocating large, pte-mapped folios for anonymous memory. However I've observed that on an arm64 system running a parallel workload (e.g. kernel compilation) across many cores, under high memory pressure, the speed regresses. This is due to bottlenecking on the increased number of TLBIs added due to all the extra folio splitting when the large folios are swapped out. Therefore, solve this regression by adding support for swapping out mTHP without needing to split the folio, just like is already done for PMD-sized THP. This change only applies when CONFIG_THP_SWAP is enabled, and when the swap backing store is a non-rotating block device. These are the same constraints as for the existing PMD-sized THP swap-out support. Note that no attempt is made to swap-in (m)THP here - this is still done page-by-page, like for PMD-sized THP. But swapping-out mTHP is a prerequisite for swapping-in mTHP. The main change here is to improve the swap entry allocator so that it can allocate any power-of-2 number of contiguous entries between [1, (1 << PMD_ORDER)]. This is done by allocating a cluster for each distinct order and allocating sequentially from it until the cluster is full. This ensures that we don't need to search the map and we get no fragmentation due to alignment padding for different orders in the cluster. If there is no current cluster for a given order, we attempt to allocate a free cluster from the list. If there are no free clusters, we fail the allocation and the caller can fall back to splitting the folio and allocates individual entries (as per existing PMD-sized THP fallback). The per-order current clusters are maintained per-cpu using the existing infrastructure. This is done to avoid interleving pages from different tasks, which would prevent IO being batched. This is already done for the order-0 allocations so we follow the same pattern. As is done for order-0 per-cpu clusters, the scanner now can steal order-0 entries from any per-cpu-per-order reserved cluster. This ensures that when the swap file is getting full, space doesn't get tied up in the per-cpu reserves. This change only modifies swap to be able to accept any order mTHP. It doesn't change the callers to elide doing the actual split. That will be done in separate changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240408183946.2991168-6-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Barry Song Cc: Chris Li Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gao Xiang Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton