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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst index 343e25b252f4..af05ae617018 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst @@ -117,6 +117,33 @@ milliseconds. 1 second by default. +quota_mem_pressure_us +--------------------- + +Desired level of memory pressure-stall time in microseconds. + +While keeping the caps that set by other quotas, DAMON_RECLAIM automatically +increases and decreases the effective level of the quota aiming this level of +memory pressure is incurred. System-wide ``some`` memory PSI in microseconds +per quota reset interval (``quota_reset_interval_ms``) is collected and +compared to this value to see if the aim is satisfied. Value zero means +disabling this auto-tuning feature. + +Disabled by default. + +quota_autotune_feedback +----------------------- + +User-specifiable feedback for auto-tuning of the effective quota. + +While keeping the caps that set by other quotas, DAMON_RECLAIM automatically +increases and decreases the effective level of the quota aiming receiving this +feedback of value ``10,000`` from the user. DAMON_RECLAIM assumes the feedback +value and the quota are positively proportional. Value zero means disabling +this auto-tuning feature. + +Disabled by default. + wmarks_interval --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst index 7aa0071ff1c3..ede14b679d02 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Getting Started This document briefly describes how you can use DAMON by demonstrating its default user space tool. Please note that this document describes only a part of its features for brevity. Please refer to the usage `doc -<https://github.com/awslabs/damo/blob/next/USAGE.md>`_ of the tool for more +<https://github.com/damonitor/damo/blob/next/USAGE.md>`_ of the tool for more details. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ User Space Tool For the demonstration, we will use the default user space tool for DAMON, called DAMON Operator (DAMO). It is available at -https://github.com/awslabs/damo. The examples below assume that ``damo`` is on +https://github.com/damonitor/damo. The examples below assume that ``damo`` is on your ``$PATH``. It's not mandatory, though. Because DAMO is using the sysfs interface (refer to :doc:`usage` for the @@ -34,18 +34,69 @@ detail) of DAMON, you should ensure :doc:`sysfs </filesystems/sysfs>` is mounted. +Snapshot Data Access Patterns +============================= + +The commands below show the memory access pattern of a program at the moment of +the execution. :: + + $ git clone https://github.com/sjp38/masim; cd masim; make + $ sudo damo start "./masim ./configs/stairs.cfg --quiet" + $ sudo damo report access + heatmap: 641111111000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000[...]33333333333333335557984444[...]7 + # min/max temperatures: -1,840,000,000, 370,010,000, column size: 3.925 MiB + 0 addr 86.182 TiB size 8.000 KiB access 0 % age 14.900 s + 1 addr 86.182 TiB size 8.000 KiB access 60 % age 0 ns + 2 addr 86.182 TiB size 3.422 MiB access 0 % age 4.100 s + 3 addr 86.182 TiB size 2.004 MiB access 95 % age 2.200 s + 4 addr 86.182 TiB size 29.688 MiB access 0 % age 14.100 s + 5 addr 86.182 TiB size 29.516 MiB access 0 % age 16.700 s + 6 addr 86.182 TiB size 29.633 MiB access 0 % age 17.900 s + 7 addr 86.182 TiB size 117.652 MiB access 0 % age 18.400 s + 8 addr 126.990 TiB size 62.332 MiB access 0 % age 9.500 s + 9 addr 126.990 TiB size 13.980 MiB access 0 % age 5.200 s + 10 addr 126.990 TiB size 9.539 MiB access 100 % age 3.700 s + 11 addr 126.990 TiB size 16.098 MiB access 0 % age 6.400 s + 12 addr 127.987 TiB size 132.000 KiB access 0 % age 2.900 s + total size: 314.008 MiB + $ sudo damo stop + +The first command of the above example downloads and builds an artificial +memory access generator program called ``masim``. The second command asks DAMO +to start the program via the given command and make DAMON monitors the newly +started process. The third command retrieves the current snapshot of the +monitored access pattern of the process from DAMON and shows the pattern in a +human readable format. + +The first line of the output shows the relative access temperature (hotness) of +the regions in a single row hetmap format. Each column on the heatmap +represents regions of same size on the monitored virtual address space. The +position of the colun on the row and the number on the column represents the +relative location and access temperature of the region. ``[...]`` means +unmapped huge regions on the virtual address spaces. The second line shows +additional information for better understanding the heatmap. + +Each line of the output from the third line shows which virtual address range +(``addr XX size XX``) of the process is how frequently (``access XX %``) +accessed for how long time (``age XX``). For example, the evelenth region of +~9.5 MiB size is being most frequently accessed for last 3.7 seconds. Finally, +the fourth command stops DAMON. + +Note that DAMON can monitor not only virtual address spaces but multiple types +of address spaces including the physical address space. + + Recording Data Access Patterns ============================== The commands below record the memory access patterns of a program and save the monitoring results to a file. :: - $ git clone https://github.com/sjp38/masim - $ cd masim; make; ./masim ./configs/zigzag.cfg & + $ ./masim ./configs/zigzag.cfg & $ sudo damo record -o damon.data $(pidof masim) -The first two lines of the commands download an artificial memory access -generator program and run it in the background. The generator will repeatedly +The line of the commands run the artificial memory access +generator program again. The generator will repeatedly access two 100 MiB sized memory regions one by one. You can substitute this with your real workload. The last line asks ``damo`` to record the access pattern in the ``damon.data`` file. @@ -57,7 +108,7 @@ Visualizing Recorded Patterns You can visualize the pattern in a heatmap, showing which memory region (x-axis) got accessed when (y-axis) and how frequently (number).:: - $ sudo damo report heats --heatmap stdout + $ sudo damo report heatmap 22222222222222222222222222222222222222211111111111111111111111111111111111111100 44444444444444444444444444444444444444434444444444444444444444444444444444443200 44444444444444444444444444444444444444433444444444444444444444444444444444444200 @@ -122,6 +173,6 @@ Data Access Pattern Aware Memory Management Below command makes every memory region of size >=4K that has not accessed for >=60 seconds in your workload to be swapped out. :: - $ sudo damo schemes --damos_access_rate 0 0 --damos_sz_region 4K max \ - --damos_age 60s max --damos_action pageout \ - <pid of your workload> + $ sudo damo start --damos_access_rate 0 0 --damos_sz_region 4K max \ + --damos_age 60s max --damos_action pageout \ + <pid of your workload> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index 9d23144bf985..47a44bd348ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -7,31 +7,25 @@ Detailed Usages DAMON provides below interfaces for different users. - *DAMON user space tool.* - `This <https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is for privileged people such as + `This <https://github.com/damonitor/damo>`_ is for privileged people such as system administrators who want a just-working human-friendly interface. Using this, users can use the DAMON’s major features in a human-friendly way. It may not be highly tuned for special cases, though. For more detail, please refer to its `usage document - <https://github.com/awslabs/damo/blob/next/USAGE.md>`_. + <https://github.com/damonitor/damo/blob/next/USAGE.md>`_. - *sysfs interface.* :ref:`This <sysfs_interface>` is for privileged user space programmers who want more optimized use of DAMON. Using this, users can use DAMON’s major features by reading from and writing to special sysfs files. Therefore, you can write and use your personalized DAMON sysfs wrapper programs that reads/writes the sysfs files instead of you. The `DAMON user space tool - <https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is one example of such programs. + <https://github.com/damonitor/damo>`_ is one example of such programs. - *Kernel Space Programming Interface.* :doc:`This </mm/damon/api>` is for kernel space programmers. Using this, users can utilize every feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by writing kernel space DAMON application programs for you. You can even extend DAMON for various address spaces. For detail, please refer to the interface :doc:`document </mm/damon/api>`. -- *debugfs interface. (DEPRECATED!)* - :ref:`This <debugfs_interface>` is almost identical to :ref:`sysfs interface - <sysfs_interface>`. This is deprecated, so users should move to the - :ref:`sysfs interface <sysfs_interface>`. If you depend on this and cannot - move, please report your usecase to damon@lists.linux.dev and - linux-mm@kvack.org. .. _sysfs_interface: @@ -78,21 +72,21 @@ comma (","). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ... │ │ │ │ │ │ ... │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`schemes <sysfs_schemes>`/nr_schemes - │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_scheme>`/action,apply_interval_us + │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`0 <sysfs_scheme>`/action,target_nid,apply_interval_us │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`access_pattern <sysfs_access_pattern>`/ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ sz/min,max │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ nr_accesses/min,max │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ age/min,max - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`quotas <sysfs_quotas>`/ms,bytes,reset_interval_ms + │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`quotas <sysfs_quotas>`/ms,bytes,reset_interval_ms,effective_bytes │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ weights/sz_permil,nr_accesses_permil,age_permil │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`goals <sysfs_schemes_quota_goals>`/nr_goals - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/target_value,current_value + │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/target_metric,target_value,current_value │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`watermarks <sysfs_watermarks>`/metric,interval_us,high,mid,low │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`filters <sysfs_filters>`/nr_filters - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,memcg_id - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`stats <sysfs_schemes_stats>`/nr_tried,sz_tried,nr_applied,sz_applied,qt_exceeds + │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/type,matching,allow,memcg_path,addr_start,addr_end,target_idx + │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`stats <sysfs_schemes_stats>`/nr_tried,sz_tried,nr_applied,sz_applied,sz_ops_filter_passed,qt_exceeds │ │ │ │ │ │ │ :ref:`tried_regions <sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`/total_bytes - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/start,end,nr_accesses,age + │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ 0/start,end,nr_accesses,age,sz_filter_passed │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ... │ │ │ │ │ │ ... │ │ │ │ ... @@ -153,6 +147,9 @@ Users can write below commands for the kdamond to the ``state`` file. - ``clear_schemes_tried_regions``: Clear the DAMON-based operating scheme action tried regions directory for each DAMON-based operation scheme of the kdamond. +- ``update_schemes_effective_quotas``: Update the contents of + ``effective_bytes`` files for each DAMON-based operation scheme of the + kdamond. For more details, refer to :ref:`quotas directory <sysfs_quotas>`. If the state is ``on``, reading ``pid`` shows the pid of the kdamond thread. @@ -180,19 +177,14 @@ In each context directory, two files (``avail_operations`` and ``operations``) and three directories (``monitoring_attrs``, ``targets``, and ``schemes``) exist. -DAMON supports multiple types of monitoring operations, including those for -virtual address space and the physical address space. You can get the list of -available monitoring operations set on the currently running kernel by reading +DAMON supports multiple types of :ref:`monitoring operations +<damon_design_configurable_operations_set>`, including those for virtual address +space and the physical address space. You can get the list of available +monitoring operations set on the currently running kernel by reading ``avail_operations`` file. Based on the kernel configuration, the file will -list some or all of below keywords. - - - vaddr: Monitor virtual address spaces of specific processes - - fvaddr: Monitor fixed virtual address ranges - - paddr: Monitor the physical address space of the system - -Please refer to :ref:`regions sysfs directory <sysfs_regions>` for detailed -differences between the operations sets in terms of the monitoring target -regions. +list different available operation sets. Please refer to the :ref:`design +<damon_operations_set>` for the list of all available operation sets and their +brief explanations. You can set and get what type of monitoring operations DAMON will use for the context by writing one of the keywords listed in ``avail_operations`` file and @@ -247,17 +239,11 @@ process to the ``pid_target`` file. targets/<N>/regions ------------------- -When ``vaddr`` monitoring operations set is being used (``vaddr`` is written to -the ``contexts/<N>/operations`` file), DAMON automatically sets and updates the -monitoring target regions so that entire memory mappings of target processes -can be covered. However, users could want to set the initial monitoring region -to specific address ranges. - -In contrast, DAMON do not automatically sets and updates the monitoring target -regions when ``fvaddr`` or ``paddr`` monitoring operations sets are being used -(``fvaddr`` or ``paddr`` have written to the ``contexts/<N>/operations``). -Therefore, users should set the monitoring target regions by themselves in the -cases. +In case of ``fvaddr`` or ``paddr`` monitoring operations sets, users are +required to set the monitoring target address ranges. In case of ``vaddr`` +operations set, it is not mandatory, but users can optionally set the initial +monitoring region to specific address ranges. Please refer to the :ref:`design +<damon_design_vaddr_target_regions_construction>` for more details. For such cases, users can explicitly set the initial monitoring target regions as they want, by writing proper values to the files under this directory. @@ -297,32 +283,17 @@ schemes/<N>/ ------------ In each scheme directory, five directories (``access_pattern``, ``quotas``, -``watermarks``, ``filters``, ``stats``, and ``tried_regions``) and two files -(``action`` and ``apply_interval``) exist. +``watermarks``, ``filters``, ``stats``, and ``tried_regions``) and three files +(``action``, ``target_nid`` and ``apply_interval``) exist. The ``action`` file is for setting and getting the scheme's :ref:`action <damon_design_damos_action>`. The keywords that can be written to and read -from the file and their meaning are as below. - -Note that support of each action depends on the running DAMON operations set -:ref:`implementation <sysfs_context>`. - - - ``willneed``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED``. - Supported by ``vaddr`` and ``fvaddr`` operations set. - - ``cold``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD``. - Supported by ``vaddr`` and ``fvaddr`` operations set. - - ``pageout``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_PAGEOUT``. - Supported by ``vaddr``, ``fvaddr`` and ``paddr`` operations set. - - ``hugepage``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_HUGEPAGE``. - Supported by ``vaddr`` and ``fvaddr`` operations set. - - ``nohugepage``: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE``. - Supported by ``vaddr`` and ``fvaddr`` operations set. - - ``lru_prio``: Prioritize the region on its LRU lists. - Supported by ``paddr`` operations set. - - ``lru_deprio``: Deprioritize the region on its LRU lists. - Supported by ``paddr`` operations set. - - ``stat``: Do nothing but count the statistics. - Supported by all operations sets. +from the file and their meaning are same to those of the list on +:ref:`design doc <damon_design_damos_action>`. + +The ``target_nid`` file is for setting the migration target node, which is +only meaningful when the ``action`` is either ``migrate_hot`` or +``migrate_cold``. The ``apply_interval_us`` file is for setting and getting the scheme's :ref:`apply_interval <damon_design_damos>` in microseconds. @@ -350,8 +321,9 @@ schemes/<N>/quotas/ The directory for the :ref:`quotas <damon_design_damos_quotas>` of the given DAMON-based operation scheme. -Under ``quotas`` directory, three files (``ms``, ``bytes``, -``reset_interval_ms``) and two directores (``weights`` and ``goals``) exist. +Under ``quotas`` directory, four files (``ms``, ``bytes``, +``reset_interval_ms``, ``effective_bytes``) and two directores (``weights`` and +``goals``) exist. You can set the ``time quota`` in milliseconds, ``size quota`` in bytes, and ``reset interval`` in milliseconds by writing the values to the three files, @@ -359,7 +331,17 @@ respectively. Then, DAMON tries to use only up to ``time quota`` milliseconds for applying the ``action`` to memory regions of the ``access_pattern``, and to apply the action to only up to ``bytes`` bytes of memory regions within the ``reset_interval_ms``. Setting both ``ms`` and ``bytes`` zero disables the -quota limits. +quota limits unless at least one :ref:`goal <sysfs_schemes_quota_goals>` is +set. + +The time quota is internally transformed to a size quota. Between the +transformed size quota and user-specified size quota, smaller one is applied. +Based on the user-specified :ref:`goal <sysfs_schemes_quota_goals>`, the +effective size quota is further adjusted. Reading ``effective_bytes`` returns +the current effective size quota. The file is not updated in real time, so +users should ask DAMON sysfs interface to update the content of the file for +the stats by writing a special keyword, ``update_schemes_effective_quotas`` to +the relevant ``kdamonds/<N>/state`` file. Under ``weights`` directory, three files (``sz_permil``, ``nr_accesses_permil``, and ``age_permil``) exist. @@ -382,11 +364,11 @@ number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named ``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each goal and current achievement. Among the multiple feedback, the best one is used. -Each goal directory contains two files, namely ``target_value`` and -``current_value``. Users can set and get any number to those files to set the -feedback. User space main workload's latency or throughput, system metrics -like free memory ratio or memory pressure stall time (PSI) could be example -metrics for the values. Note that users should write +Each goal directory contains three files, namely ``target_metric``, +``target_value`` and ``current_value``. Users can set and get the three +parameters for the quota auto-tuning goals that specified on the :ref:`design +doc <damon_design_damos_quotas_auto_tuning>` by writing to and reading from each +of the files. Note that users should further write ``commit_schemes_quota_goals`` to the ``state`` file of the :ref:`kdamond directory <sysfs_kdamond>` to pass the feedback to DAMON. @@ -424,59 +406,62 @@ number (``N``) to the file creates the number of child directories named ``0`` to ``N-1``. Each directory represents each filter. The filters are evaluated in the numeric order. -Each filter directory contains six files, namely ``type``, ``matcing``, -``memcg_path``, ``addr_start``, ``addr_end``, and ``target_idx``. To ``type`` -file, you can write one of four special keywords: ``anon`` for anonymous pages, -``memcg`` for specific memory cgroup, ``addr`` for specific address range (an -open-ended interval), or ``target`` for specific DAMON monitoring target -filtering. In case of the memory cgroup filtering, you can specify the memory -cgroup of the interest by writing the path of the memory cgroup from the -cgroups mount point to ``memcg_path`` file. In case of the address range -filtering, you can specify the start and end address of the range to -``addr_start`` and ``addr_end`` files, respectively. For the DAMON monitoring -target filtering, you can specify the index of the target between the list of -the DAMON context's monitoring targets list to ``target_idx`` file. You can -write ``Y`` or ``N`` to ``matching`` file to filter out pages that does or does -not match to the type, respectively. Then, the scheme's action will not be -applied to the pages that specified to be filtered out. +Each filter directory contains seven files, namely ``type``, ``matching``, +``allow``, ``memcg_path``, ``addr_start``, ``addr_end``, and ``target_idx``. +To ``type`` file, you can write one of five special keywords: ``anon`` for +anonymous pages, ``memcg`` for specific memory cgroup, ``young`` for young +pages, ``addr`` for specific address range (an open-ended interval), or +``target`` for specific DAMON monitoring target filtering. Meaning of the +types are same to the description on the :ref:`design doc +<damon_design_damos_filters>`. + +In case of the memory cgroup filtering, you can specify the memory cgroup of +the interest by writing the path of the memory cgroup from the cgroups mount +point to ``memcg_path`` file. In case of the address range filtering, you can +specify the start and end address of the range to ``addr_start`` and +``addr_end`` files, respectively. For the DAMON monitoring target filtering, +you can specify the index of the target between the list of the DAMON context's +monitoring targets list to ``target_idx`` file. + +You can write ``Y`` or ``N`` to ``matching`` file to specify whether the filter +is for memory that matches the ``type``. You can write ``Y`` or ``N`` to +``allow`` file to specify if applying the action to the memory that satisfies +the ``type`` and ``matching`` should be allowed or not. For example, below restricts a DAMOS action to be applied to only non-anonymous pages of all memory cgroups except ``/having_care_already``.:: # echo 2 > nr_filters - # # filter out anonymous pages + # # disallow anonymous pages echo anon > 0/type echo Y > 0/matching + echo N > 0/allow # # further filter out all cgroups except one at '/having_care_already' echo memcg > 1/type echo /having_care_already > 1/memcg_path - echo N > 1/matching - -Note that ``anon`` and ``memcg`` filters are currently supported only when -``paddr`` :ref:`implementation <sysfs_context>` is being used. + echo Y > 1/matching + echo N > 1/allow -Also, memory regions that are filtered out by ``addr`` or ``target`` filters -are not counted as the scheme has tried to those, while regions that filtered -out by other type filters are counted as the scheme has tried to. The -difference is applied to :ref:`stats <damos_stats>` and -:ref:`tried regions <sysfs_schemes_tried_regions>`. +Refer to the :ref:`DAMOS filters design documentation +<damon_design_damos_filters>` for more details including how multiple filters +of different ``allow`` works, when each of the filters are supported, and +differences on stats. .. _sysfs_schemes_stats: schemes/<N>/stats/ ------------------ -DAMON counts the total number and bytes of regions that each scheme is tried to -be applied, the two numbers for the regions that each scheme is successfully -applied, and the total number of the quota limit exceeds. This statistics can -be used for online analysis or tuning of the schemes. +DAMON counts statistics for each scheme. This statistics can be used for +online analysis or tuning of the schemes. Refer to :ref:`design doc +<damon_design_damos_stat>` for more details about the stats. The statistics can be retrieved by reading the files under ``stats`` directory -(``nr_tried``, ``sz_tried``, ``nr_applied``, ``sz_applied``, and -``qt_exceeds``), respectively. The files are not updated in real time, so you -should ask DAMON sysfs interface to update the content of the files for the -stats by writing a special keyword, ``update_schemes_stats`` to the relevant -``kdamonds/<N>/state`` file. +(``nr_tried``, ``sz_tried``, ``nr_applied``, ``sz_applied``, +``sz_ops_filter_passed``, and ``qt_exceeds``), respectively. The files are not +updated in real time, so you should ask DAMON sysfs interface to update the +content of the files for the stats by writing a special keyword, +``update_schemes_stats`` to the relevant ``kdamonds/<N>/state`` file. .. _sysfs_schemes_tried_regions: @@ -513,10 +498,10 @@ set the ``access pattern`` as their interested pattern that they want to query. tried_regions/<N>/ ------------------ -In each region directory, you will find four files (``start``, ``end``, -``nr_accesses``, and ``age``). Reading the files will show the start and end -addresses, ``nr_accesses``, and ``age`` of the region that corresponding -DAMON-based operation scheme ``action`` has tried to be applied. +In each region directory, you will find five files (``start``, ``end``, +``nr_accesses``, ``age``, and ``sz_filter_passed``). Reading the files will +show the properties of the region that corresponding DAMON-based operation +scheme ``action`` has tried to be applied. Example ~~~~~~~ @@ -555,7 +540,7 @@ memory rate becomes larger than 60%, or lower than 30%". :: # echo 300 > watermarks/low Please note that it's highly recommended to use user space tools like `damo -<https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ rather than manually reading and writing +<https://github.com/damonitor/damo>`_ rather than manually reading and writing the files as above. Above is only for an example. .. _tracepoint: @@ -579,11 +564,11 @@ monitoring results recording. While the monitoring is turned on, you could record the tracepoint events and show results using tracepoint supporting tools like ``perf``. For example:: - # echo on > monitor_on + # echo on > kdamonds/0/state # perf record -e damon:damon_aggregated & # sleep 5 # kill 9 $(pidof perf) - # echo off > monitor_on + # echo off > kdamonds/0/state # perf script kdamond.0 46568 [027] 79357.842179: damon:damon_aggregated: target_id=0 nr_regions=11 122509119488-135708762112: 0 864 [...] @@ -612,300 +597,3 @@ fields are as usual. It shows the index of the DAMON context (``ctx_idx=X``) of the scheme in the list of the contexts of the context's kdamond, the index of the scheme (``scheme_idx=X``) in the list of the schemes of the context, in addition to the output of ``damon_aggregated`` tracepoint. - - -.. _debugfs_interface: - -debugfs Interface (DEPRECATED!) -=============================== - -.. note:: - - THIS IS DEPRECATED! - - DAMON debugfs interface is deprecated, so users should move to the - :ref:`sysfs interface <sysfs_interface>`. If you depend on this and cannot - move, please report your usecase to damon@lists.linux.dev and - linux-mm@kvack.org. - -DAMON exports eight files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, ``init_regions``, -``schemes``, ``monitor_on``, ``kdamond_pid``, ``mk_contexts`` and -``rm_contexts`` under its debugfs directory, ``<debugfs>/damon/``. - - -Attributes ----------- - -Users can get and set the ``sampling interval``, ``aggregation interval``, -``update interval``, and min/max number of monitoring target regions by -reading from and writing to the ``attrs`` file. To know about the monitoring -attributes in detail, please refer to the :doc:`/mm/damon/design`. For -example, below commands set those values to 5 ms, 100 ms, 1,000 ms, 10 and -1000, and then check it again:: - - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # echo 5000 100000 1000000 10 1000 > attrs - # cat attrs - 5000 100000 1000000 10 1000 - - -Target IDs ----------- - -Some types of address spaces supports multiple monitoring target. For example, -the virtual memory address spaces monitoring can have multiple processes as the -monitoring targets. Users can set the targets by writing relevant id values of -the targets to, and get the ids of the current targets by reading from the -``target_ids`` file. In case of the virtual address spaces monitoring, the -values should be pids of the monitoring target processes. For example, below -commands set processes having pids 42 and 4242 as the monitoring targets and -check it again:: - - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # echo 42 4242 > target_ids - # cat target_ids - 42 4242 - -Users can also monitor the physical memory address space of the system by -writing a special keyword, "``paddr\n``" to the file. Because physical address -space monitoring doesn't support multiple targets, reading the file will show a -fake value, ``42``, as below:: - - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # echo paddr > target_ids - # cat target_ids - 42 - -Note that setting the target ids doesn't start the monitoring. - - -Initial Monitoring Target Regions ---------------------------------- - -In case of the virtual address space monitoring, DAMON automatically sets and -updates the monitoring target regions so that entire memory mappings of target -processes can be covered. However, users can want to limit the monitoring -region to specific address ranges, such as the heap, the stack, or specific -file-mapped area. Or, some users can know the initial access pattern of their -workloads and therefore want to set optimal initial regions for the 'adaptive -regions adjustment'. - -In contrast, DAMON do not automatically sets and updates the monitoring target -regions in case of physical memory monitoring. Therefore, users should set the -monitoring target regions by themselves. - -In such cases, users can explicitly set the initial monitoring target regions -as they want, by writing proper values to the ``init_regions`` file. The input -should be a sequence of three integers separated by white spaces that represent -one region in below form.:: - - <target idx> <start address> <end address> - -The ``target idx`` should be the index of the target in ``target_ids`` file, -starting from ``0``, and the regions should be passed in address order. For -example, below commands will set a couple of address ranges, ``1-100`` and -``100-200`` as the initial monitoring target region of pid 42, which is the -first one (index ``0``) in ``target_ids``, and another couple of address -ranges, ``20-40`` and ``50-100`` as that of pid 4242, which is the second one -(index ``1``) in ``target_ids``.:: - - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # cat target_ids - 42 4242 - # echo "0 1 100 \ - 0 100 200 \ - 1 20 40 \ - 1 50 100" > init_regions - -Note that this sets the initial monitoring target regions only. In case of -virtual memory monitoring, DAMON will automatically updates the boundary of the -regions after one ``update interval``. Therefore, users should set the -``update interval`` large enough in this case, if they don't want the -update. - - -Schemes -------- - -Users can get and set the DAMON-based operation :ref:`schemes -<damon_design_damos>` by reading from and writing to ``schemes`` debugfs file. -Reading the file also shows the statistics of each scheme. To the file, each -of the schemes should be represented in each line in below form:: - - <target access pattern> <action> <quota> <watermarks> - -You can disable schemes by simply writing an empty string to the file. - -Target Access Pattern -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -The target access :ref:`pattern <damon_design_damos_access_pattern>` of the -scheme. The ``<target access pattern>`` is constructed with three ranges in -below form:: - - min-size max-size min-acc max-acc min-age max-age - -Specifically, bytes for the size of regions (``min-size`` and ``max-size``), -number of monitored accesses per aggregate interval for access frequency -(``min-acc`` and ``max-acc``), number of aggregate intervals for the age of -regions (``min-age`` and ``max-age``) are specified. Note that the ranges are -closed interval. - -Action -~~~~~~ - -The ``<action>`` is a predefined integer for memory management :ref:`actions -<damon_design_damos_action>`. The supported numbers and their meanings are as -below. - - - 0: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED``. Ignored if - ``target`` is ``paddr``. - - 1: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD``. Ignored if - ``target`` is ``paddr``. - - 2: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_PAGEOUT``. - - 3: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_HUGEPAGE``. Ignored if - ``target`` is ``paddr``. - - 4: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE``. Ignored if - ``target`` is ``paddr``. - - 5: Do nothing but count the statistics - -Quota -~~~~~ - -Users can set the :ref:`quotas <damon_design_damos_quotas>` of the given scheme -via the ``<quota>`` in below form:: - - <ms> <sz> <reset interval> <priority weights> - -This makes DAMON to try to use only up to ``<ms>`` milliseconds for applying -the action to memory regions of the ``target access pattern`` within the -``<reset interval>`` milliseconds, and to apply the action to only up to -``<sz>`` bytes of memory regions within the ``<reset interval>``. Setting both -``<ms>`` and ``<sz>`` zero disables the quota limits. - -For the :ref:`prioritization <damon_design_damos_quotas_prioritization>`, users -can set the weights for the three properties in ``<priority weights>`` in below -form:: - - <size weight> <access frequency weight> <age weight> - -Watermarks -~~~~~~~~~~ - -Users can specify :ref:`watermarks <damon_design_damos_watermarks>` of the -given scheme via ``<watermarks>`` in below form:: - - <metric> <check interval> <high mark> <middle mark> <low mark> - -``<metric>`` is a predefined integer for the metric to be checked. The -supported numbers and their meanings are as below. - - - 0: Ignore the watermarks - - 1: System's free memory rate (per thousand) - -The value of the metric is checked every ``<check interval>`` microseconds. - -If the value is higher than ``<high mark>`` or lower than ``<low mark>``, the -scheme is deactivated. If the value is lower than ``<mid mark>``, the scheme -is activated. - -.. _damos_stats: - -Statistics -~~~~~~~~~~ - -It also counts the total number and bytes of regions that each scheme is tried -to be applied, the two numbers for the regions that each scheme is successfully -applied, and the total number of the quota limit exceeds. This statistics can -be used for online analysis or tuning of the schemes. - -The statistics can be shown by reading the ``schemes`` file. Reading the file -will show each scheme you entered in each line, and the five numbers for the -statistics will be added at the end of each line. - -Example -~~~~~~~ - -Below commands applies a scheme saying "If a memory region of size in [4KiB, -8KiB] is showing accesses per aggregate interval in [0, 5] for aggregate -interval in [10, 20], page out the region. For the paging out, use only up to -10ms per second, and also don't page out more than 1GiB per second. Under the -limitation, page out memory regions having longer age first. Also, check the -free memory rate of the system every 5 seconds, start the monitoring and paging -out when the free memory rate becomes lower than 50%, but stop it if the free -memory rate becomes larger than 60%, or lower than 30%".:: - - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # scheme="4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2" # target access pattern and action - # scheme+=" 10 $((1024*1024*1024)) 1000" # quotas - # scheme+=" 0 0 100" # prioritization weights - # scheme+=" 1 5000000 600 500 300" # watermarks - # echo "$scheme" > schemes - - -Turning On/Off --------------- - -Setting the files as described above doesn't incur effect unless you explicitly -start the monitoring. You can start, stop, and check the current status of the -monitoring by writing to and reading from the ``monitor_on`` file. Writing -``on`` to the file starts the monitoring of the targets with the attributes. -Writing ``off`` to the file stops those. DAMON also stops if every target -process is terminated. Below example commands turn on, off, and check the -status of DAMON:: - - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # echo on > monitor_on - # echo off > monitor_on - # cat monitor_on - off - -Please note that you cannot write to the above-mentioned debugfs files while -the monitoring is turned on. If you write to the files while DAMON is running, -an error code such as ``-EBUSY`` will be returned. - - -Monitoring Thread PID ---------------------- - -DAMON does requested monitoring with a kernel thread called ``kdamond``. You -can get the pid of the thread by reading the ``kdamond_pid`` file. When the -monitoring is turned off, reading the file returns ``none``. :: - - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # cat monitor_on - off - # cat kdamond_pid - none - # echo on > monitor_on - # cat kdamond_pid - 18594 - - -Using Multiple Monitoring Threads ---------------------------------- - -One ``kdamond`` thread is created for each monitoring context. You can create -and remove monitoring contexts for multiple ``kdamond`` required use case using -the ``mk_contexts`` and ``rm_contexts`` files. - -Writing the name of the new context to the ``mk_contexts`` file creates a -directory of the name on the DAMON debugfs directory. The directory will have -DAMON debugfs files for the context. :: - - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # ls foo - # ls: cannot access 'foo': No such file or directory - # echo foo > mk_contexts - # ls foo - # attrs init_regions kdamond_pid schemes target_ids - -If the context is not needed anymore, you can remove it and the corresponding -directory by putting the name of the context to the ``rm_contexts`` file. :: - - # echo foo > rm_contexts - # ls foo - # ls: cannot access 'foo': No such file or directory - -Note that ``mk_contexts``, ``rm_contexts``, and ``monitor_on`` files are in the -root directory only. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index e4d4b4a8dc97..f34a0d798d5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst @@ -376,6 +376,13 @@ Note that the number of overcommit and reserve pages remain global quantities, as we don't know until fault time, when the faulting task's mempolicy is applied, from which node the huge page allocation will be attempted. +The hugetlb may be migrated between the per-node hugepages pool in the following +scenarios: memory offline, memory failure, longterm pinning, syscalls(mbind, +migrate_pages and move_pages), alloc_contig_range() and alloc_contig_pages(). +Now only memory offline, memory failure and syscalls allow fallbacking to allocate +a new hugetlb on a different node if the current node is unable to allocate during +hugetlb migration, that means these 3 cases can break the per-node hugepages pool. + .. _using_huge_pages: Using Huge Pages diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index 1f883abf3f00..8b35795b664b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ processes address space and many other cool things. Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc`` -filesystem and can be quired and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs +filesystem and can be queried and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs are described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst and in `man 5 proc`_. .. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index a639cac12477..ad8e7a41f3b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ limited by the ``advisor_max_cpu`` parameter. In addition there is also the ``advisor_target_scan_time`` parameter. This parameter sets the target time to scan all the KSM candidate pages. The parameter ``advisor_target_scan_time`` decides how aggressive the scan time advisor scans candidate pages. Lower -values make the scan time advisor to scan more aggresively. This is the most +values make the scan time advisor to scan more aggressively. This is the most important parameter for the configuration of the scan time advisor. The initial value and the maximum value can be changed with diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 098f14d83e99..33c886f3d198 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ The following files are currently defined: blocks; configure auto-onlining. The default value depends on the - CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel configuration - option. + CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE kernel configuration + options. See the ``state`` property of memory blocks for details. ``block_size_bytes`` read-only: the size in bytes of a memory block. @@ -294,8 +294,9 @@ The following files are currently defined: ``crash_hotplug`` read-only: when changes to the system memory map occur due to hot un/plug of memory, this file contains '1' if the kernel updates the kdump capture kernel memory - map itself (via elfcorehdr), or '0' if userspace must update - the kdump capture kernel memory map. + map itself (via elfcorehdr and other relevant kexec + segments), or '0' if userspace must update the kdump + capture kernel memory map. Availability depends on the CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG kernel configuration option. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst index eca38fa81e0f..a70f20ce1ffb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst @@ -250,6 +250,15 @@ MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY can fall back to all existing numa nodes. This is effectively MPOL_PREFERRED allowed for a mask rather than a single node. +MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE + This mode operates the same as MPOL_INTERLEAVE, except that + interleaving behavior is executed based on weights set in + /sys/kernel/mm/mempolicy/weighted_interleave/ + + Weighted interleave allocates pages on nodes according to a + weight. For example if nodes [0,1] are weighted [5,2], 5 pages + will be allocated on node0 for every 2 pages allocated on node1. + NUMA memory policy supports the following optional mode flags: MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst index f5f065c67615..caba0f52dd36 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags 21 - KSM Identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes. 22 - THP - Contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages. + Contiguous pages which construct THP of any size and mapped by any granularity. 23 - OFFLINE The page is logically offline. 24 - ZERO_PAGE @@ -173,27 +173,6 @@ LRU related page flags The page-types tool in the tools/mm directory can be used to query the above flags. -Using pagemap to do something useful -==================================== - -The general procedure for using pagemap to find out about a process' memory -usage goes like this: - - 1. Read ``/proc/pid/maps`` to determine which parts of the memory space are - mapped to what. - 2. Select the maps you are interested in -- all of them, or a particular - library, or the stack or the heap, etc. - 3. Open ``/proc/pid/pagemap`` and seek to the pages you would like to examine. - 4. Read a u64 for each page from pagemap. - 5. Open ``/proc/kpagecount`` and/or ``/proc/kpageflags``. For each PFN you - just read, seek to that entry in the file, and read the data you want. - -For example, to find the "unique set size" (USS), which is the amount of -memory that a process is using that is not shared with any other process, -you can go through every map in the process, find the PFNs, look those up -in kpagecount, and tally up the number of pages that are only referenced -once. - Exceptions for Shared Memory ============================ @@ -252,7 +231,7 @@ Following flags about pages are currently supported: - ``PAGE_IS_PRESENT`` - Page is present in the memory - ``PAGE_IS_SWAPPED`` - Page is in swapped - ``PAGE_IS_PFNZERO`` - Page has zero PFN -- ``PAGE_IS_HUGE`` - Page is THP or Hugetlb backed +- ``PAGE_IS_HUGE`` - Page is PMD-mapped THP or Hugetlb backed - ``PAGE_IS_SOFT_DIRTY`` - Page is soft-dirty The ``struct pm_scan_arg`` is used as the argument of the IOCTL. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 04eb45a2f940..dff8d5985f0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -202,12 +202,21 @@ PMD-mappable transparent hugepage:: cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size -khugepaged will be automatically started when one or more hugepage -sizes are enabled (either by directly setting "always" or "madvise", -or by setting "inherit" while the top-level enabled is set to "always" -or "madvise"), and it'll be automatically shutdown when the last -hugepage size is disabled (either by directly setting "never", or by -setting "inherit" while the top-level enabled is set to "never"). +All THPs at fault and collapse time will be added to _deferred_list, +and will therefore be split under memory presure if they are considered +"underused". A THP is underused if the number of zero-filled pages in +the THP is above max_ptes_none (see below). It is possible to disable +this behaviour by writing 0 to shrink_underused, and enable it by writing +1 to it:: + + echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shrink_underused + echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shrink_underused + +khugepaged will be automatically started when PMD-sized THP is enabled +(either of the per-size anon control or the top-level control are set +to "always" or "madvise"), and it'll be automatically shutdown when +PMD-sized THP is disabled (when both the per-size anon control and the +top-level control are "never") Khugepaged controls ------------------- @@ -278,25 +287,92 @@ collapsed, resulting fewer pages being collapsed into THPs, and lower memory access performance. ``max_ptes_shared`` specifies how many pages can be shared across multiple -processes. Exceeding the number would block the collapse:: +processes. khugepaged might treat pages of THPs as shared if any page of +that THP is shared. Exceeding the number would block the collapse:: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_shared A higher value may increase memory footprint for some workloads. -Boot parameter -============== - -You can change the sysfs boot time defaults of Transparent Hugepage -Support by passing the parameter ``transparent_hugepage=always`` or -``transparent_hugepage=madvise`` or ``transparent_hugepage=never`` -to the kernel command line. +Boot parameters +=============== + +You can change the sysfs boot time default for the top-level "enabled" +control by passing the parameter ``transparent_hugepage=always`` or +``transparent_hugepage=madvise`` or ``transparent_hugepage=never`` to the +kernel command line. + +Alternatively, each supported anonymous THP size can be controlled by +passing ``thp_anon=<size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<state>``, +where ``<size>`` is the THP size (must be a power of 2 of PAGE_SIZE and +supported anonymous THP) and ``<state>`` is one of ``always``, ``madvise``, +``never`` or ``inherit``. + +For example, the following will set 16K, 32K, 64K THP to ``always``, +set 128K, 512K to ``inherit``, set 256K to ``madvise`` and 1M, 2M +to ``never``:: + + thp_anon=16K-64K:always;128K,512K:inherit;256K:madvise;1M-2M:never + +``thp_anon=`` may be specified multiple times to configure all THP sizes as +required. If ``thp_anon=`` is specified at least once, any anon THP sizes +not explicitly configured on the command line are implicitly set to +``never``. + +``transparent_hugepage`` setting only affects the global toggle. If +``thp_anon`` is not specified, PMD_ORDER THP will default to ``inherit``. +However, if a valid ``thp_anon`` setting is provided by the user, the +PMD_ORDER THP policy will be overridden. If the policy for PMD_ORDER +is not defined within a valid ``thp_anon``, its policy will default to +``never``. + +Similarly to ``transparent_hugepage``, you can control the hugepage +allocation policy for the internal shmem mount by using the kernel parameter +``transparent_hugepage_shmem=<policy>``, where ``<policy>`` is one of the +seven valid policies for shmem (``always``, ``within_size``, ``advise``, +``never``, ``deny``, and ``force``). + +Similarly to ``transparent_hugepage_shmem``, you can control the default +hugepage allocation policy for the tmpfs mount by using the kernel parameter +``transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=<policy>``, where ``<policy>`` is one of the +four valid policies for tmpfs (``always``, ``within_size``, ``advise``, +``never``). The tmpfs mount default policy is ``never``. + +In the same manner as ``thp_anon`` controls each supported anonymous THP +size, ``thp_shmem`` controls each supported shmem THP size. ``thp_shmem`` +has the same format as ``thp_anon``, but also supports the policy +``within_size``. + +``thp_shmem=`` may be specified multiple times to configure all THP sizes +as required. If ``thp_shmem=`` is specified at least once, any shmem THP +sizes not explicitly configured on the command line are implicitly set to +``never``. + +``transparent_hugepage_shmem`` setting only affects the global toggle. If +``thp_shmem`` is not specified, PMD_ORDER hugepage will default to +``inherit``. However, if a valid ``thp_shmem`` setting is provided by the +user, the PMD_ORDER hugepage policy will be overridden. If the policy for +PMD_ORDER is not defined within a valid ``thp_shmem``, its policy will +default to ``never``. Hugepages in tmpfs/shmem ======================== -You can control hugepage allocation policy in tmpfs with mount option -``huge=``. It can have following values: +Traditionally, tmpfs only supported a single huge page size ("PMD"). Today, +it also supports smaller sizes just like anonymous memory, often referred +to as "multi-size THP" (mTHP). Huge pages of any size are commonly +represented in the kernel as "large folios". + +While there is fine control over the huge page sizes to use for the internal +shmem mount (see below), ordinary tmpfs mounts will make use of all available +huge page sizes without any control over the exact sizes, behaving more like +other file systems. + +tmpfs mounts +------------ + +The THP allocation policy for tmpfs mounts can be adjusted using the mount +option: ``huge=``. It can have following values: always Attempt to allocate huge pages every time we need a new page; @@ -306,24 +382,24 @@ never within_size Only allocate huge page if it will be fully within i_size. - Also respect fadvise()/madvise() hints; + Also respect madvise() hints; advise - Only allocate huge pages if requested with fadvise()/madvise(); + Only allocate huge pages if requested with madvise(); -The default policy is ``never``. +Remember, that the kernel may use huge pages of all available sizes, and +that no fine control as for the internal tmpfs mount is available. + +The default policy in the past was ``never``, but it can now be adjusted +using the kernel parameter ``transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=<policy>``. ``mount -o remount,huge= /mountpoint`` works fine after mount: remounting ``huge=never`` will not attempt to break up huge pages at all, just stop more from being allocated. -There's also sysfs knob to control hugepage allocation policy for internal -shmem mount: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled. The mount -is used for SysV SHM, memfds, shared anonymous mmaps (of /dev/zero or -MAP_ANONYMOUS), GPU drivers' DRM objects, Ashmem. - -In addition to policies listed above, shmem_enabled allows two further -values: +In addition to policies listed above, the sysfs knob +/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled will affect the +allocation policy of tmpfs mounts, when set to the following values: deny For use in emergencies, to force the huge option off from @@ -331,6 +407,42 @@ deny force Force the huge option on for all - very useful for testing; +shmem / internal tmpfs +---------------------- +The mount internal tmpfs mount is used for SysV SHM, memfds, shared anonymous +mmaps (of /dev/zero or MAP_ANONYMOUS), GPU drivers' DRM objects, Ashmem. + +To control the THP allocation policy for this internal tmpfs mount, the +sysfs knob /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled and the knobs +per THP size in +'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-<size>kB/shmem_enabled' +can be used. + +The global knob has the same semantics as the ``huge=`` mount options +for tmpfs mounts, except that the different huge page sizes can be controlled +individually, and will only use the setting of the global knob when the +per-size knob is set to 'inherit'. + +The options 'force' and 'deny' are dropped for the individual sizes, which +are rather testing artifacts from the old ages. + +always + Attempt to allocate <size> huge pages every time we need a new page; + +inherit + Inherit the top-level "shmem_enabled" value. By default, PMD-sized hugepages + have enabled="inherit" and all other hugepage sizes have enabled="never"; + +never + Do not allocate <size> huge pages; + +within_size + Only allocate <size> huge page if it will be fully within i_size. + Also respect madvise() hints; + +advise + Only allocate <size> huge pages if requested with madvise(); + Need of application restart =========================== @@ -343,10 +455,6 @@ also applies to the regions registered in khugepaged. Monitoring usage ================ -.. note:: - Currently the below counters only record events relating to - PMD-sized THP. Events relating to other THP sizes are not included. - The number of PMD-sized anonymous transparent huge pages currently used by the system is available by reading the AnonHugePages field in ``/proc/meminfo``. To identify what applications are using PMD-sized anonymous transparent huge @@ -358,7 +466,7 @@ AnonHugePmdMapped). The number of file transparent huge pages mapped to userspace is available by reading ShmemPmdMapped and ShmemHugePages fields in ``/proc/meminfo``. To identify what applications are mapping file transparent huge pages, it -is necessary to read ``/proc/PID/smaps`` and count the FileHugeMapped fields +is necessary to read ``/proc/PID/smaps`` and count the FilePmdMapped fields for each mapping. Note that reading the smaps file is expensive and reading it @@ -369,7 +477,7 @@ monitor how successfully the system is providing huge pages for use. thp_fault_alloc is incremented every time a huge page is successfully - allocated to handle a page fault. + allocated and charged to handle a page fault. thp_collapse_alloc is incremented by khugepaged when it has found @@ -377,7 +485,7 @@ thp_collapse_alloc successfully allocated a new huge page to store the data. thp_fault_fallback - is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate + is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate or charge a huge page and instead falls back to using small pages. thp_fault_fallback_charge @@ -391,20 +499,23 @@ thp_collapse_alloc_failed the allocation. thp_file_alloc - is incremented every time a file huge page is successfully - allocated. + is incremented every time a shmem huge page is successfully + allocated (Note that despite being named after "file", the counter + measures only shmem). thp_file_fallback - is incremented if a file huge page is attempted to be allocated - but fails and instead falls back to using small pages. + is incremented if a shmem huge page is attempted to be allocated + but fails and instead falls back to using small pages. (Note that + despite being named after "file", the counter measures only shmem). thp_file_fallback_charge - is incremented if a file huge page cannot be charged and instead + is incremented if a shmem huge page cannot be charged and instead falls back to using small pages even though the allocation was - successful. + successful. (Note that despite being named after "file", the + counter measures only shmem). thp_file_mapped - is incremented every time a file huge page is mapped into + is incremented every time a file or shmem huge page is mapped into user address space. thp_split_page @@ -423,6 +534,12 @@ thp_deferred_split_page splitting it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are going to be split under memory pressure. +thp_underused_split_page + is incremented when a huge page on the split queue was split + because it was underused. A THP is underused if the number of + zero pages in the THP is above a certain threshold + (/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none). + thp_split_pmd is incremented every time a PMD split into table of PTEs. This can happen, for instance, when application calls mprotect() or @@ -447,6 +564,92 @@ thp_swpout_fallback Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space for the huge page. +In /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-<size>kB/stats, There are +also individual counters for each huge page size, which can be utilized to +monitor the system's effectiveness in providing huge pages for usage. Each +counter has its own corresponding file. + +anon_fault_alloc + is incremented every time a huge page is successfully + allocated and charged to handle a page fault. + +anon_fault_fallback + is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate or charge + a huge page and instead falls back to using huge pages with + lower orders or small pages. + +anon_fault_fallback_charge + is incremented if a page fault fails to charge a huge page and + instead falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or + small pages even though the allocation was successful. + +zswpout + is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to zswap in one + piece without splitting. + +swpin + is incremented every time a huge page is swapped in from a non-zswap + swap device in one piece. + +swpin_fallback + is incremented if swapin fails to allocate or charge a huge page + and instead falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or + small pages. + +swpin_fallback_charge + is incremented if swapin fails to charge a huge page and instead + falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or small pages + even though the allocation was successful. + +swpout + is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to a non-zswap + swap device in one piece without splitting. + +swpout_fallback + is incremented if a huge page has to be split before swapout. + Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space + for the huge page. + +shmem_alloc + is incremented every time a shmem huge page is successfully + allocated. + +shmem_fallback + is incremented if a shmem huge page is attempted to be allocated + but fails and instead falls back to using small pages. + +shmem_fallback_charge + is incremented if a shmem huge page cannot be charged and instead + falls back to using small pages even though the allocation was + successful. + +split + is incremented every time a huge page is successfully split into + smaller orders. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a + common reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed. + +split_failed + is incremented if kernel fails to split huge + page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody. + +split_deferred + is incremented when a huge page is put onto split queue. + This happens when a huge page is partially unmapped and splitting + it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are going to + be split under memory pressure, if splitting is possible. + +nr_anon + the number of anonymous THP we have in the whole system. These THPs + might be currently entirely mapped or have partially unmapped/unused + subpages. + +nr_anon_partially_mapped + the number of anonymous THP which are likely partially mapped, possibly + wasting memory, and have been queued for deferred memory reclamation. + Note that in corner some cases (e.g., failed migration), we might detect + an anonymous THP as "partially mapped" and count it here, even though it + is not actually partially mapped anymore. + As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst index b42132969e31..3598dcd7dbe7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst @@ -111,35 +111,6 @@ checked if it is a same-value filled page before compressing it. If true, the compressed length of the page is set to zero and the pattern or same-filled value is stored. -Same-value filled pages identification feature is enabled by default and can be -disabled at boot time by setting the ``same_filled_pages_enabled`` attribute -to 0, e.g. ``zswap.same_filled_pages_enabled=0``. It can also be enabled and -disabled at runtime using the sysfs ``same_filled_pages_enabled`` -attribute, e.g.:: - - echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/same_filled_pages_enabled - -When zswap same-filled page identification is disabled at runtime, it will stop -checking for the same-value filled pages during store operation. -In other words, every page will be then considered non-same-value filled. -However, the existing pages which are marked as same-value filled pages remain -stored unchanged in zswap until they are either loaded or invalidated. - -In some circumstances it might be advantageous to make use of just the zswap -ability to efficiently store same-filled pages without enabling the whole -compressed page storage. -In this case the handling of non-same-value pages by zswap (enabled by default) -can be disabled by setting the ``non_same_filled_pages_enabled`` attribute -to 0, e.g. ``zswap.non_same_filled_pages_enabled=0``. -It can also be enabled and disabled at runtime using the sysfs -``non_same_filled_pages_enabled`` attribute, e.g.:: - - echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/non_same_filled_pages_enabled - -Disabling both ``zswap.same_filled_pages_enabled`` and -``zswap.non_same_filled_pages_enabled`` effectively disables accepting any new -pages by zswap. - To prevent zswap from shrinking pool when zswap is full and there's a high pressure on swap (this will result in flipping pages in and out zswap pool without any real benefit but with a performance drop for the system), a @@ -155,7 +126,7 @@ Setting this parameter to 100 will disable the hysteresis. Some users cannot tolerate the swapping that comes with zswap store failures and zswap writebacks. Swapping can be disabled entirely (without disabling -zswap itself) on a cgroup-basis as follows: +zswap itself) on a cgroup-basis as follows:: echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/<cgroup-name>/memory.zswap.writeback @@ -166,7 +137,7 @@ writeback (because the same pages might be rejected again and again). When there is a sizable amount of cold memory residing in the zswap pool, it can be advantageous to proactively write these cold pages to swap and reclaim the memory for other use cases. By default, the zswap shrinker is disabled. -User can enable it as follows: +User can enable it as follows:: echo Y > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/shrinker_enabled |