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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-02 13:55:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-02 13:55:34 -0700
commit6cad420cc695867b4ca710bac21fde21a4102e4b (patch)
tree890d42abc1e82c2cf5cef583584f88ca70116ce9 /Documentation
parent7be97138e7276c71cc9ad1752dcb502d28f4400d (diff)
parent77d6b9094819ba55353de0ef92957f3f54f2c36c (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: "A large amount of MM, plenty more to come. Subsystems affected by this patch series: - tools - kthread - kbuild - scripts - ocfs2 - vfs - mm: slub, kmemleak, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mremap, sparsemem, kasan, pagealloc, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, hugetlbfs, hugetlb" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (155 commits) include/linux/huge_mm.h: check PageTail in hpage_nr_pages even when !THP mm/hugetlb: fix build failure with HUGETLB_PAGE but not HUGEBTLBFS selftests/vm: fix map_hugetlb length used for testing read and write mm/hugetlb: remove unnecessary memory fetch in PageHeadHuge() mm/hugetlb.c: clean code by removing unnecessary initialization hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation docs hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation tests hugetlb: support file_region coalescing again hugetlb_cgroup: support noreserve mappings hugetlb_cgroup: add accounting for shared mappings hugetlb: disable region_add file_region coalescing hugetlb_cgroup: add reservation accounting for private mappings mm/hugetlb_cgroup: fix hugetlb_cgroup migration hugetlb_cgroup: add interface for charge/uncharge hugetlb reservations hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation counter hugetlbfs: Use i_mmap_rwsem to address page fault/truncate race hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization mm/memblock.c: remove redundant assignment to variable max_addr mm: mempolicy: require at least one nodeid for MPOL_PREFERRED mm: mempolicy: use VM_BUG_ON_VMA in queue_pages_test_walk() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst103
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst86
5 files changed, 164 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
index a3902aa253a9..338f2c7d7a1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
@@ -2,13 +2,6 @@
HugeTLB Controller
==================
-The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and
-enforces the controller limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
-support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that,
-the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages
-beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how much
-HugeTLB pages it would require for its use.
-
HugeTLB controller can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem.
# mount -t cgroup -o hugetlb none /sys/fs/cgroup
@@ -28,10 +21,14 @@ process (bash) into it.
Brief summary of control files::
- hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage
- hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded
- hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
- hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb reservations
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb reservations and no-reserve faults
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.usage_in_bytes # show current reservations and no-reserve faults for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB reservation limit
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb faults
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB usage limit
For a system supporting three hugepage sizes (64k, 32M and 1G), the control
files include::
@@ -40,11 +37,95 @@ files include::
hugetlb.1GB.max_usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.1GB.usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.1GB.failcnt
+ hugetlb.1GB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.1GB.rsvd.max_usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.1GB.rsvd.usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.1GB.rsvd.failcnt
hugetlb.64KB.limit_in_bytes
hugetlb.64KB.max_usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.64KB.usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.64KB.failcnt
+ hugetlb.64KB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.64KB.rsvd.max_usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.64KB.rsvd.usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.64KB.rsvd.failcnt
hugetlb.32MB.limit_in_bytes
hugetlb.32MB.max_usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.32MB.usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.32MB.failcnt
+ hugetlb.32MB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.32MB.rsvd.max_usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.32MB.rsvd.usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.32MB.rsvd.failcnt
+
+
+1. Page fault accounting
+
+hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.limit_in_bytes
+hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes
+hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes
+hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt
+
+The HugeTLB controller allows users to limit the HugeTLB usage (page fault) per
+control group and enforces the limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB
+doesn't support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
+that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to fault in HugeTLB
+pages beyond its limit. Therefore the application needs to know exactly how many
+HugeTLB pages it uses before hand, and the sysadmin needs to make sure that
+there are enough available on the machine for all the users to avoid processes
+getting SIGBUS.
+
+
+2. Reservation accounting
+
+hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.limit_in_bytes
+hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.max_usage_in_bytes
+hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.usage_in_bytes
+hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.failcnt
+
+The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB reservations per control
+group and enforces the controller limit at reservation time and at the fault of
+HugeTLB memory for which no reservation exists. Since reservation limits are
+enforced at reservation time (on mmap or shget), reservation limits never causes
+the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved before hand. For
+MAP_NORESERVE allocations, the reservation limit behaves the same as the fault
+limit, enforcing memory usage at fault time and causing the application to
+receive a SIGBUS if it's crossing its limit.
+
+Reservation limits are superior to page fault limits described above, since
+reservation limits are enforced at reservation time (on mmap or shget), and
+never causes the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved
+before hand. This allows for easier fallback to alternatives such as
+non-HugeTLB memory for example. In the case of page fault accounting, it's very
+hard to avoid processes getting SIGBUS since the sysadmin needs precisely know
+the HugeTLB usage of all the tasks in the system and make sure there is enough
+pages to satisfy all requests. Avoiding tasks getting SIGBUS on overcommited
+systems is practically impossible with page fault accounting.
+
+
+3. Caveats with shared memory
+
+For shared HugeTLB memory, both HugeTLB reservation and page faults are charged
+to the first task that causes the memory to be reserved or faulted, and all
+subsequent uses of this reserved or faulted memory is done without charging.
+
+Shared HugeTLB memory is only uncharged when it is unreserved or deallocated.
+This is usually when the HugeTLB file is deleted, and not when the task that
+caused the reservation or fault has exited.
+
+
+4. Caveats with HugeTLB cgroup offline.
+
+When a HugeTLB cgroup goes offline with some reservations or faults still
+charged to it, the behavior is as follows:
+
+- The fault charges are charged to the parent HugeTLB cgroup (reparented),
+- the reservation charges remain on the offline HugeTLB cgroup.
+
+This means that if a HugeTLB cgroup gets offlined while there is still HugeTLB
+reservations charged to it, that cgroup persists as a zombie until all HugeTLB
+reservations are uncharged. HugeTLB reservations behave in this manner to match
+the memory controller whose cgroups also persist as zombie until all charged
+memory is uncharged. Also, the tracking of HugeTLB reservations is a bit more
+complex compared to the tracking of HugeTLB faults, so it is significantly
+harder to reparent reservations at offline time.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index fbb111616705..bcc80269bb6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -188,6 +188,17 @@ cgroup v2 currently supports the following mount options.
modified through remount from the init namespace. The mount
option is ignored on non-init namespace mounts.
+ memory_recursiveprot
+
+ Recursively apply memory.min and memory.low protection to
+ entire subtrees, without requiring explicit downward
+ propagation into leaf cgroups. This allows protecting entire
+ subtrees from one another, while retaining free competition
+ within those subtrees. This should have been the default
+ behavior but is a mount-option to avoid regressing setups
+ relying on the original semantics (e.g. specifying bogusly
+ high 'bypass' protection values at higher tree levels).
+
Organizing Processes and Threads
--------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index 64aeee1009ca..0329a4d3fa9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ allowed to examine the unevictable lru (mlocked pages) for pages to compact.
This should be used on systems where stalls for minor page faults are an
acceptable trade for large contiguous free memory. Set to 0 to prevent
compaction from moving pages that are unevictable. Default value is 1.
+On CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT the default value is 0 in order to avoid a page fault, due
+to compaction, which would block the task from becomming active until the fault
+is resolved.
dirty_background_bytes
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
index be726986ff75..2adffb3f7914 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ File Mapping and Page Cache
.. kernel-doc:: mm/truncate.c
:export:
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pagemap.h
+ :internal:
+
Memory pools
============
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
index 1d490155ecd7..2e939ff10b86 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
@@ -52,8 +52,22 @@ Which flags are set by each wrapper
For these pin_user_pages*() functions, FOLL_PIN is OR'd in with whatever gup
flags the caller provides. The caller is required to pass in a non-null struct
-pages* array, and the function then pin pages by incrementing each by a special
-value. For now, that value is +1, just like get_user_pages*().::
+pages* array, and the function then pins pages by incrementing each by a special
+value: GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS.
+
+For huge pages (and in fact, any compound page of more than 2 pages), the
+GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS scheme is not used. Instead, an exact form of pin counting
+is achieved, by using the 3rd struct page in the compound page. A new struct
+page field, hpage_pinned_refcount, has been added in order to support this.
+
+This approach for compound pages avoids the counting upper limit problems that
+are discussed below. Those limitations would have been aggravated severely by
+huge pages, because each tail page adds a refcount to the head page. And in
+fact, testing revealed that, without a separate hpage_pinned_refcount field,
+page overflows were seen in some huge page stress tests.
+
+This also means that huge pages and compound pages (of order > 1) do not suffer
+from the false positives problem that is mentioned below.::
Function
--------
@@ -99,27 +113,6 @@ pages:
This also leads to limitations: there are only 31-10==21 bits available for a
counter that increments 10 bits at a time.
-TODO: for 1GB and larger huge pages, this is cutting it close. That's because
-when pin_user_pages() follows such pages, it increments the head page by "1"
-(where "1" used to mean "+1" for get_user_pages(), but now means "+1024" for
-pin_user_pages()) for each tail page. So if you have a 1GB huge page:
-
-* There are 256K (18 bits) worth of 4 KB tail pages.
-* There are 21 bits available to count up via GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS (that is,
- 10 bits at a time)
-* There are 21 - 18 == 3 bits available to count. Except that there aren't,
- because you need to allow for a few normal get_page() calls on the head page,
- as well. Fortunately, the approach of using addition, rather than "hard"
- bitfields, within page->_refcount, allows for sharing these bits gracefully.
- But we're still looking at about 8 references.
-
-This, however, is a missing feature more than anything else, because it's easily
-solved by addressing an obvious inefficiency in the original get_user_pages()
-approach of retrieving pages: stop treating all the pages as if they were
-PAGE_SIZE. Retrieve huge pages as huge pages. The callers need to be aware of
-this, so some work is required. Once that's in place, this limitation mostly
-disappears from view, because there will be ample refcounting range available.
-
* Callers must specifically request "dma-pinned tracking of pages". In other
words, just calling get_user_pages() will not suffice; a new set of functions,
pin_user_page() and related, must be used.
@@ -173,8 +166,8 @@ CASE 4: Pinning for struct page manipulation only
-------------------------------------------------
Here, normal GUP calls are sufficient, so neither flag needs to be set.
-page_dma_pinned(): the whole point of pinning
-=============================================
+page_maybe_dma_pinned(): the whole point of pinning
+===================================================
The whole point of marking pages as "DMA-pinned" or "gup-pinned" is to be able
to query, "is this page DMA-pinned?" That allows code such as page_mkclean()
@@ -186,7 +179,7 @@ and debates (see the References at the end of this document). It's a TODO item
here: fill in the details once that's worked out. Meanwhile, it's safe to say
that having this available: ::
- static inline bool page_dma_pinned(struct page *page)
+ static inline bool page_maybe_dma_pinned(struct page *page)
...is a prerequisite to solving the long-running gup+DMA problem.
@@ -215,12 +208,42 @@ has the following new calls to exercise the new pin*() wrapper functions:
You can monitor how many total dma-pinned pages have been acquired and released
since the system was booted, via two new /proc/vmstat entries: ::
- /proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_requested
- /proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_requested
+ /proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_acquired
+ /proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_released
+
+Under normal conditions, these two values will be equal unless there are any
+long-term [R]DMA pins in place, or during pin/unpin transitions.
+
+* nr_foll_pin_acquired: This is the number of logical pins that have been
+ acquired since the system was powered on. For huge pages, the head page is
+ pinned once for each page (head page and each tail page) within the huge page.
+ This follows the same sort of behavior that get_user_pages() uses for huge
+ pages: the head page is refcounted once for each tail or head page in the huge
+ page, when get_user_pages() is applied to a huge page.
+
+* nr_foll_pin_released: The number of logical pins that have been released since
+ the system was powered on. Note that pages are released (unpinned) on a
+ PAGE_SIZE granularity, even if the original pin was applied to a huge page.
+ Becaused of the pin count behavior described above in "nr_foll_pin_acquired",
+ the accounting balances out, so that after doing this::
+
+ pin_user_pages(huge_page);
+ for (each page in huge_page)
+ unpin_user_page(page);
+
+...the following is expected::
+
+ nr_foll_pin_released == nr_foll_pin_acquired
+
+(...unless it was already out of balance due to a long-term RDMA pin being in
+place.)
+
+Other diagnostics
+=================
-Those are both going to show zero, unless CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set. This is
-because there is a noticeable performance drop in unpin_user_page(), when they
-are activated.
+dump_page() has been enhanced slightly, to handle these new counting fields, and
+to better report on compound pages in general. Specifically, for compound pages
+with order > 1, the exact (hpage_pinned_refcount) pincount is reported.
References
==========
@@ -228,5 +251,6 @@ References
* `Some slow progress on get_user_pages() (Apr 2, 2019) <https://lwn.net/Articles/784574/>`_
* `DMA and get_user_pages() (LPC: Dec 12, 2018) <https://lwn.net/Articles/774411/>`_
* `The trouble with get_user_pages() (Apr 30, 2018) <https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/>`_
+* `LWN kernel index: get_user_pages() <https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Memory_management-get_user_pages>`_
John Hubbard, October, 2019