user/sven/linux.git/include/trace, branch v4.0

regmap: introduce regmap_name to fix syscon regmap trace events

2015-03-19T20:04:55Z

This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference when enabling regmap event tracing in the presence of a syscon regmap, introduced by commit bdb0066df96e ("mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform devices"). That patch introduced syscon regmaps that have their dev field set to NULL. The regmap trace events expect it to point to a valid struct device and feed it to dev_name(): $ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/regmap/enable Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000002c pgd = 80004000 [0000002c] *pgd=00000000 Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP ARM Modules linked in: coda videobuf2_vmalloc CPU: 0 PID: 304 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 4.0.0-rc2+ #9197 Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Quad/DualLite (Device Tree) Workqueue: events_freezable thermal_zone_device_check task: 9f25a200 ti: 9f1ee000 task.ti: 9f1ee000 PC is at ftrace_raw_event_regmap_block+0x3c/0xe4 LR is at _regmap_raw_read+0x1bc/0x1cc pc : [<803636e8>] lr : [<80365f2c>] psr: 600f0093 sp : 9f1efd78 ip : 9f1efdb8 fp : 9f1efdb4 r10: 00000004 r9 : 00000001 r8 : 00000001 r7 : 00000180 r6 : 00000000 r5 : 9f00e3c0 r4 : 00000003 r3 : 00000001 r2 : 00000180 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 9f00e3c0 Flags: nZCv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment kernel Control: 10c5387d Table: 2d91004a DAC: 00000015 Process kworker/0:2 (pid: 304, stack limit = 0x9f1ee210) Stack: (0x9f1efd78 to 0x9f1f0000) fd60: 9f1efda4 9f1efd88 fd80: 800708c0 805f9510 80927140 800f0013 9f1fc800 9eb2f490 00000000 00000180 fda0: 808e3840 00000001 9f1efdfc 9f1efdb8 80365f2c 803636b8 805f8958 800708e0 fdc0: a00f0013 803636ac 9f16de00 00000180 80927140 9f1fc800 9f1fc800 9f1efe6c fde0: 9f1efe6c 9f732400 00000000 00000000 9f1efe1c 9f1efe00 80365f70 80365d7c fe00: 80365f3c 9f1fc800 9f1fc800 00000180 9f1efe44 9f1efe20 803656a4 80365f48 fe20: 9f1fc800 00000180 9f1efe6c 9f1efe6c 9f732400 00000000 9f1efe64 9f1efe48 fe40: 803657bc 80365634 00000001 9e95f910 9f1fc800 9f1efeb4 9f1efe8c 9f1efe68 fe60: 80452ac0 80365778 9f1efe8c 9f1efe78 9e93d400 9e93d5e8 9f1efeb4 9f72ef40 fe80: 9f1efeac 9f1efe90 8044e11c 80452998 8045298c 9e93d608 9e93d400 808e1978 fea0: 9f1efecc 9f1efeb0 8044fd14 8044e0d0 ffffffff 9f25a200 9e93d608 9e481380 fec0: 9f1efedc 9f1efed0 8044fde8 8044fcec 9f1eff1c 9f1efee0 80038d50 8044fdd8 fee0: 9f1ee020 9f72ef40 9e481398 00000000 00000008 9f72ef54 9f1ee020 9f72ef40 ff00: 9e481398 9e481380 00000008 9f72ef40 9f1eff5c 9f1eff20 80039754 80038bfc ff20: 00000000 9e481380 80894100 808e1662 00000000 9e4f2ec0 00000000 9e481380 ff40: 800396f8 00000000 00000000 00000000 9f1effac 9f1eff60 8003e020 80039704 ff60: ffffffff 00000000 ffffffff 9e481380 00000000 00000000 9f1eff78 9f1eff78 ff80: 00000000 00000000 9f1eff88 9f1eff88 9e4f2ec0 8003df30 00000000 00000000 ffa0: 00000000 9f1effb0 8000eb60 8003df3c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff Backtrace: [<803636ac>] (ftrace_raw_event_regmap_block) from [<80365f2c>] (_regmap_raw_read+0x1bc/0x1cc) r9:00000001 r8:808e3840 r7:00000180 r6:00000000 r5:9eb2f490 r4:9f1fc800 [<80365d70>] (_regmap_raw_read) from [<80365f70>] (_regmap_bus_read+0x34/0x6c) r10:00000000 r9:00000000 r8:9f732400 r7:9f1efe6c r6:9f1efe6c r5:9f1fc800 r4:9f1fc800 [<80365f3c>] (_regmap_bus_read) from [<803656a4>] (_regmap_read+0x7c/0x144) r6:00000180 r5:9f1fc800 r4:9f1fc800 r3:80365f3c [<80365628>] (_regmap_read) from [<803657bc>] (regmap_read+0x50/0x70) r9:00000000 r8:9f732400 r7:9f1efe6c r6:9f1efe6c r5:00000180 r4:9f1fc800 [<8036576c>] (regmap_read) from [<80452ac0>] (imx_get_temp+0x134/0x1a4) r6:9f1efeb4 r5:9f1fc800 r4:9e95f910 r3:00000001 [<8045298c>] (imx_get_temp) from [<8044e11c>] (thermal_zone_get_temp+0x58/0x74) r7:9f72ef40 r6:9f1efeb4 r5:9e93d5e8 r4:9e93d400 [<8044e0c4>] (thermal_zone_get_temp) from [<8044fd14>] (thermal_zone_device_update+0x34/0xec) r6:808e1978 r5:9e93d400 r4:9e93d608 r3:8045298c [<8044fce0>] (thermal_zone_device_update) from [<8044fde8>] (thermal_zone_device_check+0x1c/0x20) r5:9e481380 r4:9e93d608 [<8044fdcc>] (thermal_zone_device_check) from [<80038d50>] (process_one_work+0x160/0x3d4) [<80038bf0>] (process_one_work) from [<80039754>] (worker_thread+0x5c/0x4f4) r10:9f72ef40 r9:00000008 r8:9e481380 r7:9e481398 r6:9f72ef40 r5:9f1ee020 r4:9f72ef54 [<800396f8>] (worker_thread) from [<8003e020>] (kthread+0xf0/0x108) r10:00000000 r9:00000000 r8:00000000 r7:800396f8 r6:9e481380 r5:00000000 r4:9e4f2ec0 [<8003df30>] (kthread) from [<8000eb60>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x34) r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:8003df30 r4:9e4f2ec0 Code: e3140040 1a00001a e3140020 1a000016 (e596002c) ---[ end trace 193c15c2494ec960 ]--- Fixes: bdb0066df96e (mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform devices) Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Merge branch 'lazytime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2015-02-18T00:12:34Z

Pull lazytime mount option support from Al Viro: "Lazytime stuff from tytso" * 'lazytime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: ext4: add optimization for the lazytime mount option vfs: add find_inode_nowait() function vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2015-02-13T17:55:09Z

Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini: "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features. Common: Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other architectures). This can improve latency up to 50% on some scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests). This also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to auto-tune this in the future. ARM/ARM64: The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page tracking s390: Several optimizations and bugfixes. Also a first: a feature exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :) MIPS: Bugfixes. x86: Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization), usual round of emulation fixes. There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually. Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you have already included his tree. Powerpc: Nothing yet. The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers, because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being offline for some part of next week" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits) KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390 KVM: s390: add cpu model support KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap ...

Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

2015-02-13T03:28:50Z

Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim: "Major changes are to: - add f2fs_io_tracer and F2FS_IOC_GETVERSION - fix wrong acl assignment from parent - fix accessing wrong data blocks - fix wrong condition check for f2fs_sync_fs - align start block address for direct_io - add and refactor the readahead flows of FS metadata - refactor atomic and volatile write policies But most of patches are for clean-ups and minor bug fixes. Some of them refactor old code too" * tag 'for-f2fs-3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (64 commits) f2fs: use spinlock for segmap_lock instead of rwlock f2fs: fix accessing wrong indexed data blocks f2fs: avoid variable length array f2fs: fix sparse warnings f2fs: allocate data blocks in advance for f2fs_direct_IO f2fs: introduce macros to convert bytes and blocks in f2fs f2fs: call set_buffer_new for get_block f2fs: check node page contents all the time f2fs: avoid data offset overflow when lseeking huge file f2fs: fix to use highmem for pages of newly created directory f2fs: introduce a batched trim f2fs: merge {invalidate,release}page for meta/node/data pages f2fs: show the number of writeback pages in stat f2fs: keep PagePrivate during releasepage f2fs: should fail mount when trying to recover data on read-only dev f2fs: split UMOUNT and FASTBOOT flags f2fs: avoid write_checkpoint if f2fs is mounted readonly f2fs: support norecovery mount option f2fs: fix not to drop mount options when retrying fill_super f2fs: merge flags in struct f2fs_sb_info ...

Merge branch 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-02-12T21:50:21Z

Pull backing device changes from Jens Axboe: "This contains a cleanup of how the backing device is handled, in preparation for a rework of the life time rules. In this part, the most important change is to split the unrelated nommu mmap flags from it, but also removing a backing_dev_info pointer from the address_space (and inode), and a cleanup of other various minor bits. Christoph did all the work here, I just fixed an oops with pages that have a swap backing. Arnd fixed a missing export, and Oleg killed the lustre backing_dev_info from staging. Last patch was from Al, unexporting parts that are now no longer needed outside" * 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: Make super_blocks and sb_lock static mtd: export new mtd_mmap_capabilities fs: make inode_to_bdi() handle NULL inode staging/lustre/llite: get rid of backing_dev_info fs: remove default_backing_dev_info fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info nfs: don't call bdi_unregister ceph: remove call to bdi_unregister fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping->backing_dev_info nilfs2: set up s_bdi like the generic mount_bdev code block_dev: get bdev inode bdi directly from the block device block_dev: only write bdev inode on close fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support fs: kill BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED fs: deduplicate noop_backing_dev_info

Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu

2015-02-12T17:16:56Z

Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: "This time with: - Generic page-table framework for ARM IOMMUs using the LPAE page-table format, ARM-SMMU and Renesas IPMMU make use of it already. - Break out the IO virtual address allocator from the Intel IOMMU so that it can be used by other DMA-API implementations too. The first user will be the ARM64 common DMA-API implementation for IOMMUs - Device tree support for Renesas IPMMU - Various fixes and cleanups all over the place" * tag 'iommu-updates-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (36 commits) iommu/amd: Convert non-returned local variable to boolean when relevant iommu: Update my email address iommu/amd: Use wait_event in put_pasid_state_wait iommu/amd: Fix amd_iommu_free_device() iommu/arm-smmu: Avoid build warning iommu/fsl: Various cleanups iommu/fsl: Use %pa to print phys_addr_t iommu/omap: Print phys_addr_t using %pa iommu: Make more drivers depend on COMPILE_TEST iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Fix IOMMU lookup when multiple IOMMUs are registered iommu: Disable on !MMU builds iommu/fsl: Remove unused fsl_of_pamu_ids[] iommu/fsl: Fix section mismatch iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Use the ARM LPAE page table allocator iommu: Fix trace_map() to report original iova and original size iommu/arm-smmu: add support for iova_to_phys through ATS1PR iopoll: Introduce memory-mapped IO polling macros iommu/arm-smmu: don't touch the secure STLBIALL register iommu/arm-smmu: make use of generic LPAE allocator iommu: io-pgtable-arm: add non-secure quirk ...

Merge tag 'trace-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2015-02-12T16:37:41Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "The updates included in this pull request for ftrace are: o Several clean ups to the code One such clean up was to convert to 64 bit time keeping, in the ring buffer benchmark code. o Adding of __print_array() helper macro for TRACE_EVENT() o Updating the sample/trace_events/ to add samples of different ways to make trace events. Lots of features have been added since the sample code was made, and these features are mostly unknown. Developers have been making their own hacks to do things that are already available. o Performance improvements. Most notably, I found a performance bug where a waiter that is waiting for a full page from the ring buffer will see that a full page is not available, and go to sleep. The sched event caused by it going to sleep would cause it to wake up again. It would see that there was still not a full page, and go back to sleep again, and that would wake it up again, until finally it would see a full page. This change has been marked for stable. Other improvements include removing global locks from fast paths" * tag 'trace-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Do not wake up a splice waiter when page is not full tracing: Fix unmapping loop in tracing_mark_write tracing: Add samples of DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT() tracing: Add TRACE_EVENT_FN example tracing: Add TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION sample tracing: Update the TRACE_EVENT fields available in the sample code tracing: Separate out initializing top level dir from instances tracing: Make tracing_init_dentry_tr() static trace: Use 64-bit timekeeping tracing: Add array printing helper tracing: Remove newline from trace_printk warning banner tracing: Use IS_ERR() check for return value of tracing_init_dentry() tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files tracing: Add ref count to tracer for when they are being read by pipe

mm: when stealing freepages, also take pages created by splitting buddy page

2015-02-12T01:06:06Z

When studying page stealing, I noticed some weird looking decisions in try_to_steal_freepages(). The first I assume is a bug (Patch 1), the following two patches were driven by evaluation. Testing was done with stress-highalloc of mmtests, using the mm_page_alloc_extfrag tracepoint and postprocessing to get counts of how often page stealing occurs for individual migratetypes, and what migratetypes are used for fallbacks. Arguably, the worst case of page stealing is when UNMOVABLE allocation steals from MOVABLE pageblock. RECLAIMABLE allocation stealing from MOVABLE allocation is also not ideal, so the goal is to minimize these two cases. The evaluation of v2 wasn't always clear win and Joonsoo questioned the results. Here I used different baseline which includes RFC compaction improvements from [1]. I found that the compaction improvements reduce variability of stress-highalloc, so there's less noise in the data. First, let's look at stress-highalloc configured to do sync compaction, and how these patches reduce page stealing events during the test. First column is after fresh reboot, other two are reiterations of test without reboot. That was all accumulater over 5 re-iterations (so the benchmark was run 5x3 times with 5 fresh restarts). Baseline: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 5-nothp-1 5-nothp-2 5-nothp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 10264225 8702233 10244125 Extfrag fragmenting 10263271 8701552 10243473 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 13595 17616 15960 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 7989 12193 8447 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 658 1840 1817 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 558 1677 1679 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 10249018 8682096 10225696 With Patch 1: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 6-nothp-1 6-nothp-2 6-nothp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 11834954 9877523 9774860 Extfrag fragmenting 11833993 9876880 9774245 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 7342 16129 11712 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 4191 10547 6270 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 373 1130 923 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 302 906 738 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 11826278 9859621 9761610 With Patch 2: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 7-nothp-1 7-nothp-2 7-nothp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 4725990 3668793 3807436 Extfrag fragmenting 4725104 3668252 3806898 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 6678 7974 7281 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 2051 3829 4017 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 429 1208 1278 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 369 976 1034 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 4717997 3659070 3798339 With Patch 3: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 8-nothp-1 8-nothp-2 8-nothp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 5016183 4700142 3850633 Extfrag fragmenting 5015325 4699613 3850072 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 1312 3154 3088 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 1115 2777 2714 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 437 1193 1097 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 330 969 879 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 5013576 4695266 3845887 In v2 we've seen apparent regression with Patch 1 for unmovable events, this is now gone, suggesting it was indeed noise. Here, each patch improves the situation for unmovable events. Reclaimable is improved by patch 1 and then either the same modulo noise, or perhaps sligtly worse - a small price for unmovable improvements, IMHO. The number of movable allocations falling back to other migratetypes is most noisy, but it's reduced to half at Patch 2 nevertheless. These are least critical as compaction can move them around. If we look at success rates, the patches don't affect them, that didn't change. Baseline: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 5-nothp-1 5-nothp-2 5-nothp-3 Success 1 Min 49.00 ( 0.00%) 42.00 ( 14.29%) 41.00 ( 16.33%) Success 1 Mean 51.00 ( 0.00%) 45.00 ( 11.76%) 42.60 ( 16.47%) Success 1 Max 55.00 ( 0.00%) 51.00 ( 7.27%) 46.00 ( 16.36%) Success 2 Min 53.00 ( 0.00%) 47.00 ( 11.32%) 44.00 ( 16.98%) Success 2 Mean 59.60 ( 0.00%) 50.80 ( 14.77%) 48.20 ( 19.13%) Success 2 Max 64.00 ( 0.00%) 56.00 ( 12.50%) 52.00 ( 18.75%) Success 3 Min 84.00 ( 0.00%) 82.00 ( 2.38%) 78.00 ( 7.14%) Success 3 Mean 85.60 ( 0.00%) 82.80 ( 3.27%) 79.40 ( 7.24%) Success 3 Max 86.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 3.49%) 80.00 ( 6.98%) Patch 1: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 6-nothp-1 6-nothp-2 6-nothp-3 Success 1 Min 49.00 ( 0.00%) 44.00 ( 10.20%) 44.00 ( 10.20%) Success 1 Mean 51.80 ( 0.00%) 46.00 ( 11.20%) 45.80 ( 11.58%) Success 1 Max 54.00 ( 0.00%) 49.00 ( 9.26%) 49.00 ( 9.26%) Success 2 Min 58.00 ( 0.00%) 49.00 ( 15.52%) 48.00 ( 17.24%) Success 2 Mean 60.40 ( 0.00%) 51.80 ( 14.24%) 50.80 ( 15.89%) Success 2 Max 63.00 ( 0.00%) 54.00 ( 14.29%) 55.00 ( 12.70%) Success 3 Min 84.00 ( 0.00%) 81.00 ( 3.57%) 79.00 ( 5.95%) Success 3 Mean 85.00 ( 0.00%) 81.60 ( 4.00%) 79.80 ( 6.12%) Success 3 Max 86.00 ( 0.00%) 82.00 ( 4.65%) 82.00 ( 4.65%) Patch 2: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 7-nothp-1 7-nothp-2 7-nothp-3 Success 1 Min 50.00 ( 0.00%) 44.00 ( 12.00%) 39.00 ( 22.00%) Success 1 Mean 52.80 ( 0.00%) 45.60 ( 13.64%) 42.40 ( 19.70%) Success 1 Max 55.00 ( 0.00%) 46.00 ( 16.36%) 47.00 ( 14.55%) Success 2 Min 52.00 ( 0.00%) 48.00 ( 7.69%) 45.00 ( 13.46%) Success 2 Mean 53.40 ( 0.00%) 49.80 ( 6.74%) 48.80 ( 8.61%) Success 2 Max 57.00 ( 0.00%) 52.00 ( 8.77%) 52.00 ( 8.77%) Success 3 Min 84.00 ( 0.00%) 81.00 ( 3.57%) 79.00 ( 5.95%) Success 3 Mean 85.00 ( 0.00%) 82.40 ( 3.06%) 79.60 ( 6.35%) Success 3 Max 86.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 3.49%) 80.00 ( 6.98%) Patch 3: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 8-nothp-1 8-nothp-2 8-nothp-3 Success 1 Min 46.00 ( 0.00%) 44.00 ( 4.35%) 42.00 ( 8.70%) Success 1 Mean 50.20 ( 0.00%) 45.60 ( 9.16%) 44.00 ( 12.35%) Success 1 Max 52.00 ( 0.00%) 47.00 ( 9.62%) 47.00 ( 9.62%) Success 2 Min 53.00 ( 0.00%) 49.00 ( 7.55%) 48.00 ( 9.43%) Success 2 Mean 55.80 ( 0.00%) 50.60 ( 9.32%) 49.00 ( 12.19%) Success 2 Max 59.00 ( 0.00%) 52.00 ( 11.86%) 51.00 ( 13.56%) Success 3 Min 84.00 ( 0.00%) 80.00 ( 4.76%) 79.00 ( 5.95%) Success 3 Mean 85.40 ( 0.00%) 81.60 ( 4.45%) 80.40 ( 5.85%) Success 3 Max 87.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 4.60%) 82.00 ( 5.75%) While there's no improvement here, I consider reduced fragmentation events to be worth on its own. Patch 2 also seems to reduce scanning for free pages, and migrations in compaction, suggesting it has somewhat less work to do: Patch 1: Compaction stalls 4153 3959 3978 Compaction success 1523 1441 1446 Compaction failures 2630 2517 2531 Page migrate success 4600827 4943120 5104348 Page migrate failure 19763 16656 17806 Compaction pages isolated 9597640 10305617 10653541 Compaction migrate scanned 77828948 86533283 87137064 Compaction free scanned 517758295 521312840 521462251 Compaction cost 5503 5932 6110 Patch 2: Compaction stalls 3800 3450 3518 Compaction success 1421 1316 1317 Compaction failures 2379 2134 2201 Page migrate success 4160421 4502708 4752148 Page migrate failure 19705 14340 14911 Compaction pages isolated 8731983 9382374 9910043 Compaction migrate scanned 98362797 96349194 98609686 Compaction free scanned 496512560 469502017 480442545 Compaction cost 5173 5526 5811 As with v2, /proc/pagetypeinfo appears unaffected with respect to numbers of unmovable and reclaimable pageblocks. Configuring the benchmark to allocate like THP page fault (i.e. no sync compaction) gives much noisier results for iterations 2 and 3 after reboot. This is not so surprising given how [1] offers lower improvements in this scenario due to less restarts after deferred compaction which would change compaction pivot. Baseline: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 5-thp-1 5-thp-2 5-thp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 8148965 6227815 6646741 Extfrag fragmenting 8147872 6227130 6646117 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 10324 12942 15975 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 5972 8495 10907 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 601 1707 2210 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 520 1570 2000 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 8136947 6212481 6627932 Patch 1: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 6-thp-1 6-thp-2 6-thp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 8345457 7574471 7020419 Extfrag fragmenting 8343546 7573777 7019718 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 10256 18535 30716 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 6893 11726 22181 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 465 1208 1023 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 353 996 843 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 8332825 7554034 6987979 Patch 2: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 7-thp-1 7-thp-2 7-thp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 3512847 3020756 2891625 Extfrag fragmenting 3511940 3020185 2891059 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 9017 6892 6191 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 1524 3053 2435 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 445 1081 1160 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 375 918 986 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 3502478 3012212 2883708 Patch 3: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 8-thp-1 8-thp-2 8-thp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 3181699 3082881 2674164 Extfrag fragmenting 3180812 3082303 2673611 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 1201 4031 4040 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 974 3611 3645 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 478 1165 1294 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 387 985 1030 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 3179133 3077107 2668277 The improvements for first iteration are clear, the rest is much noisier and can appear like regression for Patch 1. Anyway, patch 2 rectifies it. Allocation success rates are again unaffected so there's no point in making this e-mail any longer. [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=142166196321125&w=2 This patch (of 3): When __rmqueue_fallback() is called to allocate a page of order X, it will find a page of order Y >= X of a fallback migratetype, which is different from the desired migratetype. With the help of try_to_steal_freepages(), it may change the migratetype (to the desired one) also of: 1) all currently free pages in the pageblock containing the fallback page 2) the fallback pageblock itself 3) buddy pages created by splitting the fallback page (when Y > X) These decisions take the order Y into account, as well as the desired migratetype, with the goal of preventing multiple fallback allocations that could e.g. distribute UNMOVABLE allocations among multiple pageblocks. Originally, decision for 1) has implied the decision for 3). Commit 47118af076f6 ("mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added") changed that (probably unintentionally) so that the buddy pages in case 3) are always changed to the desired migratetype, except for CMA pageblocks. Commit fef903efcf0c ("mm/page_allo.c: restructure free-page stealing code and fix a bug") did some refactoring and added a comment that the case of 3) is intended. Commit 0cbef29a7821 ("mm: __rmqueue_fallback() should respect pageblock type") removed the comment and tried to restore the original behavior where 1) implies 3), but due to the previous refactoring, the result is instead that only 2) implies 3) - and the conditions for 2) are less frequently met than conditions for 1). This may increase fragmentation in situations where the code decides to steal all free pages from the pageblock (case 1)), but then gives back the buddy pages produced by splitting. This patch restores the original intended logic where 1) implies 3). During testing with stress-highalloc from mmtests, this has shown to decrease the number of events where UNMOVABLE and RECLAIMABLE allocations steal from MOVABLE pageblocks, which can lead to permanent fragmentation. In some cases it has increased the number of events when MOVABLE allocations steal from UNMOVABLE or RECLAIMABLE pageblocks, but these are fixable by sync compaction and thus less harmful. Note that evaluation has shown that the behavior introduced by 47118af076f6 for buddy pages in case 3) is actually even better than the original logic, so the following patch will introduce it properly once again. For stable backports of this patch it makes thus sense to only fix versions containing 0cbef29a7821. [iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: tracepoint fix] Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Zhang Yanfei Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: [3.13+ containing 0cbef29a7821] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/compaction: add tracepoint to observe behaviour of compaction defer

2015-02-12T01:06:04Z

Compaction deferring logic is heavy hammer that block the way to the compaction. It doesn't consider overall system state, so it could prevent user from doing compaction falsely. In other words, even if system has enough range of memory to compact, compaction would be skipped due to compaction deferring logic. This patch add new tracepoint to understand work of deferring logic. This will also help to check compaction success and fail. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/compaction: more trace to understand when/why compaction start/finish

2015-02-12T01:06:04Z

It is not well analyzed that when/why compaction start/finish or not. With these new tracepoints, we can know much more about start/finish reason of compaction. I can find following bug with these tracepoint. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg81582.html Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds