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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -0700 |
commit | 6614a3c3164a5df2b54abb0b3559f51041cf705b (patch) | |
tree | 1c25c23d9efed988705287fc2ccb78e0e76e311d /Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst | |
parent | 74cae210a335d159f2eb822e261adee905b6951a (diff) | |
parent | 360614c01f81f48a89d8b13f8fa69c3ae0a1f5c7 (diff) |
Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Most of the MM queue. A few things are still pending.
Liam's maple tree rework didn't make it. This has resulted in a few
other minor patch series being held over for next time.
Multi-gen LRU still isn't merged as we were waiting for mapletree to
stabilize. The current plan is to merge MGLRU into -mm soon and to
later reintroduce mapletree, with a view to hopefully getting both
into 6.1-rc1.
Summary:
- The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe
Lin, Yang Shi, Anshuman Khandual and Mike Rapoport
- Some kmemleak fixes from Patrick Wang and Waiman Long
- DAMON updates from SeongJae Park
- memcg debug/visibility work from Roman Gushchin
- vmalloc speedup from Uladzislau Rezki
- more folio conversion work from Matthew Wilcox
- enhancements for coherent device memory mapping from Alex Sierra
- addition of shared pages tracking and CoW support for fsdax, from
Shiyang Ruan
- hugetlb optimizations from Mike Kravetz
- Mel Gorman has contributed some pagealloc changes to improve
latency and realtime behaviour.
- mprotect soft-dirty checking has been improved by Peter Xu
- Many other singleton patches all over the place"
[ XFS merge from hell as per Darrick Wong in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/YshKnxb4VwXycPO8@magnolia/ ]
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (282 commits)
tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c: fix build
mm: Kconfig: fix typo
mm: memory-failure: convert to pr_fmt()
mm: use is_zone_movable_page() helper
hugetlbfs: fix inaccurate comment in hugetlbfs_statfs()
hugetlbfs: cleanup some comments in inode.c
hugetlbfs: remove unneeded header file
hugetlbfs: remove unneeded hugetlbfs_ops forward declaration
hugetlbfs: use helper macro SZ_1{K,M}
mm: cleanup is_highmem()
mm/hmm: add a test for cross device private faults
selftests: add soft-dirty into run_vmtests.sh
selftests: soft-dirty: add test for mprotect
mm/mprotect: fix soft-dirty check in can_change_pte_writable()
mm: memcontrol: fix potential oom_lock recursion deadlock
mm/gup.c: fix formatting in check_and_migrate_movable_page()
xfs: fail dax mount if reflink is enabled on a partition
mm/memcontrol.c: remove the redundant updating of stats_flush_threshold
userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features
hugetlb_cgroup: fix wrong hugetlb cgroup numa stat
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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..11493bad7112 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +.. _page_migration: + +============== +Page migration +============== + +Page migration allows moving the physical location of pages between +nodes in a NUMA system while the process is running. This means that the +virtual addresses that the process sees do not change. However, the +system rearranges the physical location of those pages. + +Also see :ref:`Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) <hmm>` +for migrating pages to or from device private memory. + +The main intent of page migration is to reduce the latency of memory accesses +by moving pages near to the processor where the process accessing that memory +is running. + +Page migration allows a process to manually relocate the node on which its +pages are located through the MF_MOVE and MF_MOVE_ALL options while setting +a new memory policy via mbind(). The pages of a process can also be relocated +from another process using the sys_migrate_pages() function call. The +migrate_pages() function call takes two sets of nodes and moves pages of a +process that are located on the from nodes to the destination nodes. +Page migration functions are provided by the numactl package by Andi Kleen +(a version later than 0.9.3 is required. Get it from +https://github.com/numactl/numactl.git). numactl provides libnuma +which provides an interface similar to other NUMA functionality for page +migration. cat ``/proc/<pid>/numa_maps`` allows an easy review of where the +pages of a process are located. See also the numa_maps documentation in the +proc(5) man page. + +Manual migration is useful if for example the scheduler has relocated +a process to a processor on a distant node. A batch scheduler or an +administrator may detect the situation and move the pages of the process +nearer to the new processor. The kernel itself only provides +manual page migration support. Automatic page migration may be implemented +through user space processes that move pages. A special function call +"move_pages" allows the moving of individual pages within a process. +For example, A NUMA profiler may obtain a log showing frequent off-node +accesses and may use the result to move pages to more advantageous +locations. + +Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into +sections of nodes. Paul Jackson has equipped cpusets with the ability to +move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See +:ref:`CPUSETS <cpusets>`). +Cpusets allow the automation of process locality. If a task is moved to +a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the +performance of the process does not sink dramatically. Also the pages +of processes in a cpuset are moved if the allowed memory nodes of a +cpuset are changed. + +Page migration allows the preservation of the relative location of pages +within a group of nodes for all migration techniques which will preserve a +particular memory allocation pattern generated even after migrating a +process. This is necessary in order to preserve the memory latencies. +Processes will run with similar performance after migration. + +Page migration occurs in several steps. First a high level +description for those trying to use migrate_pages() from the kernel +(for userspace usage see the Andi Kleen's numactl package mentioned above) +and then a low level description of how the low level details work. + +In kernel use of migrate_pages() +================================ + +1. Remove pages from the LRU. + + Lists of pages to be migrated are generated by scanning over + pages and moving them into lists. This is done by + calling isolate_lru_page(). + Calling isolate_lru_page() increases the references to the page + so that it cannot vanish while the page migration occurs. + It also prevents the swapper or other scans from encountering + the page. + +2. We need to have a function of type new_page_t that can be + passed to migrate_pages(). This function should figure out + how to allocate the correct new page given the old page. + +3. The migrate_pages() function is called which attempts + to do the migration. It will call the function to allocate + the new page for each page that is considered for + moving. + +How migrate_pages() works +========================= + +migrate_pages() does several passes over its list of pages. A page is moved +if all references to a page are removable at the time. The page has +already been removed from the LRU via isolate_lru_page() and the refcount +is increased so that the page cannot be freed while page migration occurs. + +Steps: + +1. Lock the page to be migrated. + +2. Ensure that writeback is complete. + +3. Lock the new page that we want to move to. It is locked so that accesses to + this (not yet up-to-date) page immediately block while the move is in progress. + +4. All the page table references to the page are converted to migration + entries. This decreases the mapcount of a page. If the resulting + mapcount is not zero then we do not migrate the page. All user space + processes that attempt to access the page will now wait on the page lock + or wait for the migration page table entry to be removed. + +5. The i_pages lock is taken. This will cause all processes trying + to access the page via the mapping to block on the spinlock. + +6. The refcount of the page is examined and we back out if references remain. + Otherwise, we know that we are the only one referencing this page. + +7. The radix tree is checked and if it does not contain the pointer to this + page then we back out because someone else modified the radix tree. + +8. The new page is prepped with some settings from the old page so that + accesses to the new page will discover a page with the correct settings. + +9. The radix tree is changed to point to the new page. + +10. The reference count of the old page is dropped because the address space + reference is gone. A reference to the new page is established because + the new page is referenced by the address space. + +11. The i_pages lock is dropped. With that lookups in the mapping + become possible again. Processes will move from spinning on the lock + to sleeping on the locked new page. + +12. The page contents are copied to the new page. + +13. The remaining page flags are copied to the new page. + +14. The old page flags are cleared to indicate that the page does + not provide any information anymore. + +15. Queued up writeback on the new page is triggered. + +16. If migration entries were inserted into the page table, then replace them + with real ptes. Doing so will enable access for user space processes not + already waiting for the page lock. + +17. The page locks are dropped from the old and new page. + Processes waiting on the page lock will redo their page faults + and will reach the new page. + +18. The new page is moved to the LRU and can be scanned by the swapper, + etc. again. + +Non-LRU page migration +====================== + +Although migration originally aimed for reducing the latency of memory +accesses for NUMA, compaction also uses migration to create high-order +pages. For compaction purposes, it is also useful to be able to move +non-LRU pages, such as zsmalloc and virtio-balloon pages. + +If a driver wants to make its pages movable, it should define a struct +movable_operations. It then needs to call __SetPageMovable() on each +page that it may be able to move. This uses the ``page->mapping`` field, +so this field is not available for the driver to use for other purposes. + +Monitoring Migration +===================== + +The following events (counters) can be used to monitor page migration. + +1. PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS: Normal page migration success. Each count means that a + page was migrated. If the page was a non-THP and non-hugetlb page, then + this counter is increased by one. If the page was a THP or hugetlb, then + this counter is increased by the number of THP or hugetlb subpages. + For example, migration of a single 2MB THP that has 4KB-size base pages + (subpages) will cause this counter to increase by 512. + +2. PGMIGRATE_FAIL: Normal page migration failure. Same counting rules as for + PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS, above: this will be increased by the number of subpages, + if it was a THP or hugetlb. + +3. THP_MIGRATION_SUCCESS: A THP was migrated without being split. + +4. THP_MIGRATION_FAIL: A THP could not be migrated nor it could be split. + +5. THP_MIGRATION_SPLIT: A THP was migrated, but not as such: first, the THP had + to be split. After splitting, a migration retry was used for it's sub-pages. + +THP_MIGRATION_* events also update the appropriate PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS or +PGMIGRATE_FAIL events. For example, a THP migration failure will cause both +THP_MIGRATION_FAIL and PGMIGRATE_FAIL to increase. + +Christoph Lameter, May 8, 2006. +Minchan Kim, Mar 28, 2016. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/migrate.h |