user/sven/linux.git/mm/memory_hotplug.c, branch v3.8

mm/memory_hotplug.c: improve comments

2012-12-18T23:02:15Z

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 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 ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-12-13T21:11:15Z

Merge misc VM changes from Andrew Morton: "The rest of most-of-MM. The other MM bits await a slab merge. This patch includes the addition of a huge zero_page. Not a performance boost but it an save large amounts of physical memory in some situations. Also a bunch of Fujitsu engineers are working on memory hotplug. Which, as it turns out, was badly broken. About half of their patches are included here; the remainder are 3.8 material." However, this merge disables CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE, which was totally broken. We don't add new features with "default y", nor do we add Kconfig questions that are incomprehensible to most people without any help text. Does the feature even make sense without compaction or memory hotplug? * akpm: (54 commits) mm/bootmem.c: remove unused wrapper function reserve_bootmem_generic() mm/memory.c: remove unused code from do_wp_page() asm-generic, mm: pgtable: consolidate zero page helpers mm/hugetlb.c: fix warning on freeing hwpoisoned hugepage hwpoison, hugetlbfs: fix RSS-counter warning hwpoison, hugetlbfs: fix "bad pmd" warning in unmapping hwpoisoned hugepage mm: protect against concurrent vma expansion memcg: do not check for mm in __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event tmpfs: support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE (reprise) mm: provide more accurate estimation of pages occupied by memmap fs/buffer.c: remove redundant initialization in alloc_page_buffers() fs/buffer.c: do not inline exported function writeback: fix a typo in comment mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone mm, oom: remove statically defined arch functions of same name mm, oom: remove redundant sleep in pagefault oom handler mm, oom: cleanup pagefault oom handler memory_hotplug: allow online/offline memory to result movable node numa: add CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE for movable-dedicated node mm, memcg: avoid unnecessary function call when memcg is disabled ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2012-12-13T20:00:02Z

Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead code elimination." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) HOWTO: fix double words typo x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init propagate name change to comments in kernel source doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs treewide: Fix typos in various drivers treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments. Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous". various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments. doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments ...

mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone

2012-12-13T01:38:34Z

Currently a zone's present_pages is calcuated as below, which is inaccurate and may cause trouble to memory hotplug. spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve. During fixing bugs caused by inaccurate zone->present_pages, we found zone->present_pages has been abused. The field zone->present_pages may have different meanings in different contexts: 1) pages existing in a zone. 2) pages managed by the buddy system. For more discussions about the issue, please refer to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/5/866 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1346751/ This patchset tries to introduce a new field named "managed_pages" to struct zone, which counts "pages managed by the buddy system". And revert zone->present_pages to count "physical pages existing in a zone", which also keep in consistence with pgdat->node_present_pages. We will set an initial value for zone->managed_pages in function free_area_init_core() and will adjust it later if the initial value is inaccurate. For DMA/normal zones, the initial value is set to: (spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve) Later zone->managed_pages will be adjusted to the accurate value when the bootmem allocator frees all free pages to the buddy system in function free_all_bootmem_node() and free_all_bootmem(). The bootmem allocator doesn't touch highmem pages, so highmem zones' managed_pages is set to the accurate value "spanned_pages - absent_pages" in function free_area_init_core() and won't be updated anymore. This patch also adds a new field "managed_pages" to /proc/zoneinfo and sysrq showmem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: small comment tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Maciej Rutecki Tested-by: Chris Clayton Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory_hotplug: allow online/offline memory to result movable node

2012-12-13T01:38:34Z

Now, memory management can handle movable node or nodes which don't have any normal memory, so we can dynamic configure and add movable node by: online a ZONE_MOVABLE memory from a previous offline node offline the last normal memory which result a non-normal-memory-node movable-node is very important for power-saving, hardware partitioning and high-available-system(hardware fault management). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Tested-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hotplug: update nodemasks management

2012-12-13T01:38:33Z

Update nodemasks management for N_MEMORY. [lliubbo@gmail.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Lin Feng Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Bob Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory_hotplug: ensure every online node has NORMAL memory

2012-12-12T01:22:28Z

Old memory hotplug code and new online/movable may cause a online node don't have any normal memory, but memory-management acts bad when we have nodes which is online but don't have any normal memory. Example: it may cause a bound task fail on all kernel allocation and cause the task can't create task or create other kernel object. So we disable non-normal-memory-node here, we will enable it when we prepared. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory_hotplug: handle empty zone when online_movable/online_kernel

2012-12-12T01:22:28Z

Make online_movable/online_kernel can empty a zone or can move memory to a empty zone. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, memory-hotplug: dynamic configure movable memory and portion memory

2012-12-12T01:22:28Z

Add online_movable and online_kernel for logic memory hotplug. This is the dynamic version of "movablecore" & "kernelcore". We have the same reason to introduce it as to introduce "movablecore" & "kernelcore". It has the same motive as "movablecore" & "kernelcore", but it is dynamic/running-time: o We can configure memory as kernelcore or movablecore after boot. Userspace workload is increased, we need more hugepage, we can't use "online_movable" to add memory and allow the system use more THP(transparent-huge-page), vice-verse when kernel workload is increase. Also help for virtualization to dynamic configure host/guest's memory, to save/(reduce waste) memory. Memory capacity on Demand o When a new node is physically online after boot, we need to use "online_movable" or "online_kernel" to configure/portion it as we expected when we logic-online it. This configuration also helps for physically-memory-migrate. o all benefit as the same as existed "movablecore" & "kernelcore". o Preparing for movable-node, which is very important for power-saving, hardware partitioning and high-available-system(hardware fault management). (Note, we don't introduce movable-node here.) Action behavior: When a memoryblock/memorysection is onlined by "online_movable", the kernel will not have directly reference to the page of the memoryblock, thus we can remove that memory any time when needed. When it is online by "online_kernel", the kernel can use it. When it is online by "online", the zone type doesn't changed. Current constraints: Only the memoryblock which is adjacent to the ZONE_MOVABLE can be online from ZONE_NORMAL to ZONE_MOVABLE. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use min_t, cleanups] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds