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2017-07-10mm/swap_slots.c: don't disable preemption while taking the per-CPU cacheSebastian Andrzej Siewior
get_cpu_var() disables preemption and returns the per-CPU version of the variable. Disabling preemption is useful to ensure atomic access to the variable within the critical section. In this case however, after the per-CPU version of the variable is obtained the ->free_lock is acquired. For that reason it seems the raw accessor could be used. It only seems that ->slots_ret should be retested (because with disabled preemption this variable can not be set to NULL otherwise). This popped up during PREEMPT-RT testing because it tries to take spinlocks in a preempt disabled section. In RT, spinlocks can sleep. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623114755.2ebxdysacvgxzott@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap outHuang Ying
Patch series "THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out", v11. This patchset is to optimize the performance of Transparent Huge Page (THP) swap. Recently, the performance of the storage devices improved so fast that we cannot saturate the disk bandwidth with single logical CPU when do page swap out even on a high-end server machine. Because the performance of the storage device improved faster than that of single logical CPU. And it seems that the trend will not change in the near future. On the other hand, the THP becomes more and more popular because of increased memory size. So it becomes necessary to optimize THP swap performance. The advantages of the THP swap support include: - Batch the swap operations for the THP to reduce lock acquiring/releasing, including allocating/freeing the swap space, adding/deleting to/from the swap cache, and writing/reading the swap space, etc. This will help improve the performance of the THP swap. - The THP swap space read/write will be 2M sequential IO. It is particularly helpful for the swap read, which are usually 4k random IO. This will improve the performance of the THP swap too. - It will help the memory fragmentation, especially when the THP is heavily used by the applications. The 2M continuous pages will be free up after THP swapping out. - It will improve the THP utilization on the system with the swap turned on. Because the speed for khugepaged to collapse the normal pages into the THP is quite slow. After the THP is split during the swapping out, it will take quite long time for the normal pages to collapse back into the THP after being swapped in. The high THP utilization helps the efficiency of the page based memory management too. There are some concerns regarding THP swap in, mainly because possible enlarged read/write IO size (for swap in/out) may put more overhead on the storage device. To deal with that, the THP swap in should be turned on only when necessary. For example, it can be selected via "always/never/madvise" logic, to be turned on globally, turned off globally, or turned on only for VMA with MADV_HUGEPAGE, etc. This patchset is the first step for the THP swap support. The plan is to delay splitting THP step by step, finally avoid splitting THP during the THP swapping out and swap out/in the THP as a whole. As the first step, in this patchset, the splitting huge page is delayed from almost the first step of swapping out to after allocating the swap space for the THP and adding the THP into the swap cache. This will reduce lock acquiring/releasing for the locks used for the swap cache management. With the patchset, the swap out throughput improves 15.5% (from about 3.73GB/s to about 4.31GB/s) in the vm-scalability swap-w-seq test case with 8 processes. The test is done on a Xeon E5 v3 system. The swap device used is a RAM simulated PMEM (persistent memory) device. To test the sequential swapping out, the test case creates 8 processes, which sequentially allocate and write to the anonymous pages until the RAM and part of the swap device is used up. This patch (of 5): In this patch, splitting huge page is delayed from almost the first step of swapping out to after allocating the swap space for the THP (Transparent Huge Page) and adding the THP into the swap cache. This will batch the corresponding operation, thus improve THP swap out throughput. This is the first step for the THP swap optimization. The plan is to delay splitting the THP step by step and avoid splitting the THP finally. In this patch, one swap cluster is used to hold the contents of each THP swapped out. So, the size of the swap cluster is changed to that of the THP (Transparent Huge Page) on x86_64 architecture (512). For other architectures which want such THP swap optimization, ARCH_USES_THP_SWAP_CLUSTER needs to be selected in the Kconfig file for the architecture. In effect, this will enlarge swap cluster size by 2 times on x86_64. Which may make it harder to find a free cluster when the swap space becomes fragmented. So that, this may reduce the continuous swap space allocation and sequential write in theory. The performance test in 0day shows no regressions caused by this. In the future of THP swap optimization, some information of the swapped out THP (such as compound map count) will be recorded in the swap_cluster_info data structure. The mem cgroup swap accounting functions are enhanced to support charge or uncharge a swap cluster backing a THP as a whole. The swap cluster allocate/free functions are added to allocate/free a swap cluster for a THP. A fair simple algorithm is used for swap cluster allocation, that is, only the first swap device in priority list will be tried to allocate the swap cluster. The function will fail if the trying is not successful, and the caller will fallback to allocate a single swap slot instead. This works good enough for normal cases. If the difference of the number of the free swap clusters among multiple swap devices is significant, it is possible that some THPs are split earlier than necessary. For example, this could be caused by big size difference among multiple swap devices. The swap cache functions is enhanced to support add/delete THP to/from the swap cache as a set of (HPAGE_PMD_NR) sub-pages. This may be enhanced in the future with multi-order radix tree. But because we will split the THP soon during swapping out, that optimization doesn't make much sense for this first step. The THP splitting functions are enhanced to support to split THP in swap cache during swapping out. The page lock will be held during allocating the swap cluster, adding the THP into the swap cache and splitting the THP. So in the code path other than swapping out, if the THP need to be split, the PageSwapCache(THP) will be always false. The swap cluster is only available for SSD, so the THP swap optimization in this patchset has no effect for HDD. [ying.huang@intel.com: fix two issues in THP optimize patch] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87k25ed8zo.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com [hannes@cmpxchg.org: extensive cleanups and simplifications, reduce code size] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515112522.32457-2-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [for config option] Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> [for changes in huge_memory.c and huge_mm.h] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-08mm, swap: use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structuresHuang Ying
Now vzalloc() is used in swap code to allocate various data structures, such as swap cache, swap slots cache, cluster info, etc. Because the size may be too large on some system, so that normal kzalloc() may fail. But using kzalloc() has some advantages, for example, less memory fragmentation, less TLB pressure, etc. So change the data structure allocation in swap code to use kvzalloc() which will try kzalloc() firstly, and fallback to vzalloc() if kzalloc() failed. In general, although kmalloc() will reduce the number of high-order pages in short term, vmalloc() will cause more pain for memory fragmentation in the long term. And the swap data structure allocation that is changed in this patch is expected to be long term allocation. From Dave Hansen: "for example, we have a two-page data structure. vmalloc() takes two effectively random order-0 pages, probably from two different 2M pages and pins them. That "kills" two 2M pages. kmalloc(), allocating two *contiguous* pages, will not cross a 2M boundary. That means it will only "kill" the possibility of a single 2M page. More 2M pages == less fragmentation. The allocation in this patch occurs during swap on time, which is usually done during system boot, so usually we have high opportunity to allocate the contiguous pages successfully. The allocation for swap_map[] in struct swap_info_struct is not changed, because that is usually quite large and vmalloc_to_page() is used for it. That makes it a little harder to change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170407064911.25447-1-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-03mm/swap_slots.c: add warning if swap slots cache failed to initializeTim Chen
Add a warning diagnostics to user if we failed to allocate swap slots cache and use it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use WARN_ONCE return value, fix grammar in message] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170328234827.GA10107@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-03-21mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot()Huang Ying
Before commit 452b94b8c8c7 ("mm/swap: don't BUG_ON() due to uninitialized swap slot cache"), the following bug is reported, ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/swap_slots.c:270! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 5 PID: 1745 Comm: (sd-pam) Not tainted 4.11.0-rc1-00243-g24c534bb161b #1 Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/Z170-K, BIOS 1803 05/06/2016 RIP: 0010:free_swap_slot+0xba/0xd0 Call Trace: swap_free+0x36/0x40 do_swap_page+0x360/0x6d0 __handle_mm_fault+0x880/0x1080 handle_mm_fault+0xd0/0x240 __do_page_fault+0x232/0x4d0 do_page_fault+0x20/0x70 page_fault+0x22/0x30 ---[ end trace aefc9ede53e0ab21 ]--- This is raised by the BUG_ON(!swap_slot_cache_initialized) in free_swap_slot(). This is incorrect, because even if the swap slots cache fails to be initialized, the swap should operate properly without the swap slots cache. And the use_swap_slot_cache check later in the function will protect the uninitialized swap slots cache case. In commit 452b94b8c8c7, the BUG_ON() is replaced by WARN_ON_ONCE(). In the patch, the WARN_ON_ONCE() is removed too. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-03-19mm/swap: don't BUG_ON() due to uninitialized swap slot cacheLinus Torvalds
This BUG_ON() triggered for me once at shutdown, and I don't see a reason for the check. The code correctly checks whether the swap slot cache is usable or not, so an uninitialized swap slot cache is not actually problematic afaik. I've temporarily just switched the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON_ONCE(), since I'm not sure why that seemingly pointless check was there. I suspect the real fix is to just remove it entirely, but for now we'll warn about it but not bring the machine down. Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22mm/swap: skip readahead only when swap slot cache is enabledHuang Ying
Because during swap off, a swap entry may have swap_map[] == SWAP_HAS_CACHE (for example, just allocated). If we return NULL in __read_swap_cache_async(), the swap off will abort. So when swap slot cache is disabled, (for swap off), we will wait for page to be put into swap cache in such race condition. This should not be a problem for swap slot cache, because swap slot cache should be drained after clearing swap_slot_cache_enabled. [ying.huang@intel.com: fix memory leak in __read_swap_cache_async()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/874lzt6znd.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e2c5f6abe8e6eb0797408897b1bba80938e9b9d.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu: Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22mm/swap: add cache for swap slots allocationTim Chen
We add per cpu caches for swap slots that can be allocated and freed quickly without the need to touch the swap info lock. Two separate caches are maintained for swap slots allocated and swap slots returned. This is to allow the swap slots to be returned to the global pool in a batch so they will have a chance to be coaelesced with other slots in a cluster. We do not reuse the slots that are returned right away, as it may increase fragmentation of the slots. The swap allocation cache is protected by a mutex as we may sleep when searching for empty slots in cache. The swap free cache is protected by a spin lock as we cannot sleep in the free path. We refill the swap slots cache when we run out of slots, and we disable the swap slots cache and drain the slots if the global number of slots fall below a low watermark threshold. We re-enable the cache agian when the slots available are above a high watermark. [ying.huang@intel.com: use raw_cpu_ptr over this_cpu_ptr for swap slots access] [tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com: add comments on locks in swap_slots.h] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118180327.GA24225@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/35de301a4eaa8daa2977de6e987f2c154385eb66.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu: Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>