user/sven/linux.git/mm/vmstat.c, branch v6.6.26

mm/vmstat: remove unused page_ext.h from vmstat

2023-08-21T20:37:30Z

No page_ext function or structure is used in vmstat. Just remove page_ext header from vmstat. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717113227.1897173-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-06-28T17:28:11Z

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton: - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs - Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing - Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability - Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the prevalence of page rescanning - Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the get_user_pages() interface - Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree - Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code - David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for get_user_pages() - Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization work for the vmalloc code - Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups, - SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code - Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of device refcounting - Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code - Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses - Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache and directio access to file mappings - John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code - ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign - Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock - Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment from 128 to 8 - Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by reorganizing the LRU management - Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the buffer_head code - Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work - Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch * tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits) mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool() mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem() hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss() Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one" mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim() mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list() mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block() mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes mm: remove references to pagevec mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate mm: remove struct pagevec net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch pagevec: rename fbatch_count() mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages() drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch scatterlist: add sg_set_folio() ...

vmstat: skip periodic vmstat update for isolated CPUs

2023-06-19T23:19:11Z

Problem: The interruption caused by vmstat_update is undesirable for certain applications. With workloads that are running on isolated cpus with nohz full mode to shield off any kernel interruption. For example, a VM running a time sensitive application with a 50us maximum acceptable interruption (use case: soft PLC). oslat 1094.456862: sys_mlock(start: 7f7ed0000b60, len: 1000) oslat 1094.456971: workqueue_queue_work: ... function=vmstat_update ... oslat 1094.456974: sched_switch: prev_comm=oslat ... ==> next_comm=kworker/5:1 ... kworker 1094.456978: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/5:1 ==> next_comm=oslat ... The example above shows an additional 7us for the oslat -> kworker -> oslat switches. In the case of a virtualized CPU, and the vmstat_update interruption in the host (of a qemu-kvm vcpu), the latency penalty observed in the guest is higher than 50us, violating the acceptable latency threshold. The isolated vCPU can perform operations that modify per-CPU page counters, for example to complete I/O operations: CPU 11/KVM-9540 [001] dNh1. 2314.248584: mod_zone_page_state <-__folio_end_writeback CPU 11/KVM-9540 [001] dNh1. 2314.248585: => 0xffffffffc042b083 => mod_zone_page_state => __folio_end_writeback => folio_end_writeback => iomap_finish_ioend => blk_mq_end_request_batch => nvme_irq => __handle_irq_event_percpu => handle_irq_event => handle_edge_irq => __common_interrupt => common_interrupt => asm_common_interrupt => vmx_do_interrupt_nmi_irqoff => vmx_handle_exit_irqoff => vcpu_enter_guest => vcpu_run => kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run => kvm_vcpu_ioctl => __x64_sys_ioctl => do_syscall_64 => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe In kernel users of vmstat counters either require the precise value and they are using zone_page_state_snapshot interface or they can live with an imprecision as the regular flushing can happen at arbitrary time and cumulative error can grow (see calculate_normal_threshold). From that POV the regular flushing can be postponed for CPUs that have been isolated from the kernel interference without critical infrastructure ever noticing. Skip regular flushing from vmstat_shepherd for all isolated CPUs to avoid interference with the isolated workload. Suggested by Michal Hocko. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZIDoV/zxFKVmQl7W@tpad Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Add support for unaccepted memory

2023-06-06T14:38:22Z

UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance. Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, require memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific to the Virtual Machine platform. There are several ways the kernel can deal with unaccepted memory: 1. Accept all the memory during boot. It is easy to implement and it doesn't have runtime cost once the system is booted. The downside is very long boot time. Accept can be parallelized to multiple CPUs to keep it manageable (i.e. via DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT), but it tends to saturate memory bandwidth and does not scale beyond the point. 2. Accept a block of memory on the first use. It requires more infrastructure and changes in page allocator to make it work, but it provides good boot time. On-demand memory accept means latency spikes every time kernel steps onto a new memory block. The spikes will go away once workload data set size gets stabilized or all memory gets accepted. 3. Accept all memory in background. Introduce a thread (or multiple) that gets memory accepted proactively. It will minimize time the system experience latency spikes on memory allocation while keeping low boot time. This approach cannot function on its own. It is an extension of #2: background memory acceptance requires functional scheduler, but the page allocator may need to tap into unaccepted memory before that. The downside of the approach is that these threads also steal CPU cycles and memory bandwidth from the user's workload and may hurt user experience. Implement #1 and #2 for now. #2 is the default. Some workloads may want to use #1 with accept_memory=eager in kernel command line. #3 can be implemented later based on user's demands. Support of unaccepted memory requires a few changes in core-mm code: - memblock accepts memory on allocation. It serves early boot memory allocations and doesn't limit them to pre-accepted pool of memory. - page allocator accepts memory on the first allocation of the page. When kernel runs out of accepted memory, it accepts memory until the high watermark is reached. It helps to minimize fragmentation. EFI code will provide two helpers if the platform supports unaccepted memory: - accept_memory() makes a range of physical addresses accepted. - range_contains_unaccepted_memory() checks anything within the range of physical addresses requires acceptance. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Mike Rapoport # memblock Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606142637.5171-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com

mm: introduce per-VMA lock statistics

2023-04-06T03:03:01Z

Add a new CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK_STATS config option to dump extra statistics about handling page fault under VMA lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-29-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely

2023-04-06T02:42:46Z

MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports: user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1. This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over the kernel. Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now. [kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning] [kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: vmscan: split khugepaged stats from direct reclaim stats

2022-11-30T23:58:41Z

Direct reclaim stats are useful for identifying a potential source for application latency, as well as spotting issues with kswapd. However, khugepaged currently distorts the picture: as a kernel thread it doesn't impose allocation latencies on userspace, and it explicitly opts out of kswapd reclaim. Its activity showing up in the direct reclaim stats is misleading. Counting it as kswapd reclaim could also cause confusion when trying to understand actual kswapd behavior. Break out khugepaged from the direct reclaim counters into new pgsteal_khugepaged, pgdemote_khugepaged, pgscan_khugepaged counters. Test with a huge executable (CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS): pgsteal_kswapd 1342185 pgsteal_direct 0 pgsteal_khugepaged 3623 pgscan_kswapd 1345025 pgscan_direct 0 pgscan_khugepaged 3623 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221026180133.377671-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Eric Bergen Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yosry Ahmed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-11T00:53:04Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that). - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock contention. Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees. Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up. - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down to the single bit level. KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones. - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of memory into THPs. - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to support file/shmem-backed pages. - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and memory-failure - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages. - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced memory consumption. - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song. - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner. - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :( - migration enhancements from Peter Xu - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM drivers, etc. - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn. - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand. - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging activity. - THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng. - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox. - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov. - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia. - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups. - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song. - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1] * tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits) hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file() mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE ...

Merge tag 'sched-rt-2022-10-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2022-10-10T17:03:24Z

Pull preempt RT updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Introduce preempt_[dis|enable_nested() and use it to clean up various places which have open coded PREEMPT_RT conditionals. On PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels, spinlocks and rwlocks are neither disabling preemption nor interrupts. Though there are a few places which depend on the implicit preemption/interrupt disable of those locks, e.g. seqcount write sections, per CPU statistics updates etc. PREEMPT_RT added open coded CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT conditionals to disable/enable preemption in the related code parts all over the place. That's hard to read and does not really explain why this is necessary. Linus suggested to use helper functions (preempt_disable_nested() and preempt_enable_nested()) and use those in the affected places. On !RT enabled kernels these functions are NOPs, but contain a lockdep assert to validate that preemption is actually disabled to catch call sites which do not have preemption disabled. Clean up the affected code paths in mm, dentry and lib" * tag 'sched-rt-2022-10-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: u64_stats: Streamline the implementation flex_proportions: Disable preemption entering the write section. mm/compaction: Get rid of RT ifdeffery mm/memcontrol: Replace the PREEMPT_RT conditionals mm/debug: Provide VM_WARN_ON_IRQS_ENABLED() mm/vmstat: Use preempt_[dis|en]able_nested() dentry: Use preempt_[dis|en]able_nested() preempt: Provide preempt_[dis|en]able_nested()

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

2022-10-09T16:39:55Z

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "The first batch of KVM patches, mostly covering x86. ARM: - Account stage2 page table allocations in memory stats x86: - Account EPT/NPT arm64 page table allocations in memory stats - Tracepoint cleanups/fixes for nested VM-Enter and emulated MSR accesses - Drop eVMCS controls filtering for KVM on Hyper-V, all known versions of Hyper-V now support eVMCS fields associated with features that are enumerated to the guest - Use KVM's sanitized VMCS config as the basis for the values of nested VMX capabilities MSRs - A myriad event/exception fixes and cleanups. Most notably, pending exceptions morph into VM-Exits earlier, as soon as the exception is queued, instead of waiting until the next vmentry. This fixed a longstanding issue where the exceptions would incorrecly become double-faults instead of triggering a vmexit; the common case of page-fault vmexits had a special workaround, but now it's fixed for good - A handful of fixes for memory leaks in error paths - Cleanups for VMREAD trampoline and VMX's VM-Exit assembly flow - Never write to memory from non-sleepable kvm_vcpu_check_block() - Selftests refinements and cleanups - Misc typo cleanups Generic: - remove KVM_REQ_UNHALT" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (94 commits) KVM: remove KVM_REQ_UNHALT KVM: mips, x86: do not rely on KVM_REQ_UNHALT KVM: x86: never write to memory from kvm_vcpu_check_block() KVM: x86: Don't snapshot pending INIT/SIPI prior to checking nested events KVM: nVMX: Make event request on VMXOFF iff INIT/SIPI is pending KVM: nVMX: Make an event request if INIT or SIPI is pending on VM-Enter KVM: SVM: Make an event request if INIT or SIPI is pending when GIF is set KVM: x86: lapic does not have to process INIT if it is blocked KVM: x86: Rename kvm_apic_has_events() to make it INIT/SIPI specific KVM: x86: Rename and expose helper to detect if INIT/SIPI are allowed KVM: nVMX: Make an event request when pending an MTF nested VM-Exit KVM: x86: make vendor code check for all nested events mailmap: Update Oliver's email address KVM: x86: Allow force_emulation_prefix to be written without a reload KVM: selftests: Add an x86-only test to verify nested exception queueing KVM: selftests: Use uapi header to get VMX and SVM exit reasons/codes KVM: x86: Rename inject_pending_events() to kvm_check_and_inject_events() KVM: VMX: Update MTF and ICEBP comments to document KVM's subtle behavior KVM: x86: Treat pending TRIPLE_FAULT requests as pending exceptions KVM: x86: Morph pending exceptions to pending VM-Exits at queue time ...