- 01 Aug, 2012 40 commits
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Tim Chen authored
I noticed in a multi-process parallel files reading benchmark I ran on a 8 socket machine, throughput slowed down by a factor of 8 when I ran the benchmark within a cgroup container. I traced the problem to the following code path (see below) when we are trying to reclaim memory from file cache. The res_counter_uncharge function is called on every page that's reclaimed and created heavy lock contention. The patch below allows the reclaimed pages to be uncharged from the resource counter in batch and recovered the regression. Tim 40.67% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock | --- _raw_spin_lock | |--92.61%-- res_counter_uncharge | | | |--100.00%-- __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common | | | | | |--100.00%-- mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page | | | __remove_mapping | | | shrink_page_list | | | shrink_inactive_list | | | shrink_mem_cgroup_zone | | | shrink_zone | | | do_try_to_free_pages | | | try_to_free_pages | | | __alloc_pages_nodemask | | | alloc_pages_current Signed-off-by:Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Gavin Shan authored
sparse_index_init() uses the index_init_lock spinlock to protect root mem_section assignment. The lock is not necessary anymore because the function is called only during boot (during paging init which is executed only from a single CPU) and from the hotplug code (by add_memory() via arch_add_memory()) which uses mem_hotplug_mutex. The lock was introduced by 28ae55c9 ("sparsemem extreme: hotplug preparation") and sparse_index_init() was used only during boot at that time. Later when the hotplug code (and add_memory()) was introduced there was no synchronization so it was possible to online more sections from the same root probably (though I am not 100% sure about that). The first synchronization has been added by 6ad696d2 ("mm: allow memory hotplug and hibernation in the same kernel") which was later replaced by the mem_hotplug_mutex - 20d6c96b ("mem-hotplug: introduce {un}lock_memory_hotplug()"). Let's remove the lock as it is not needed and it makes the code more confusing. [mhocko@suse.cz: changelog] Signed-off-by:
Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Gavin Shan authored
__section_nr() was implemented to retrieve the corresponding memory section number according to its descriptor. It's possible that the specified memory section descriptor doesn't exist in the global array. So add more checking on that and report an error for a wrong case. Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Gavin Shan authored
With CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME, the two levels of memory section descriptors are allocated from slab or bootmem. When allocating from slab, let slab/bootmem allocator clear the memory chunk. We needn't clear it explicitly. Signed-off-by:
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Wanpeng Li authored
Add a mem_cgroup_from_css() helper to replace open-coded invokations of container_of(). To clarify the code and to add a little more type safety. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix extensive breakage] Signed-off-by:
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
The may_enter_fs test turns out to be too restrictive: though I saw no problem with it when testing on 3.5-rc6, it very soon OOMed when I tested on 3.5-rc6-mm1. I don't know what the difference there is, perhaps I just slightly changed the way I started off the testing: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/temp bs=1M count=1024; rm -f /mnt/temp; sync repeatedly, in 20M memory.limit_in_bytes cgroup to ext4 on USB stick. ext4 (and gfs2 and xfs) turn out to allocate new pages for writing with AOP_FLAG_NOFS: that seems a little worrying, and it's unclear to me why the transaction needs to be started even before allocating pagecache memory. But it may not be worth worrying about these days: if direct reclaim avoids FS writeback, does __GFP_FS now mean anything? Anyway, we insisted on the may_enter_fs test to avoid hangs with the loop device; but since that also masks off __GFP_IO, we can test for __GFP_IO directly, ignoring may_enter_fs and __GFP_FS. But even so, the test still OOMs sometimes: when originally testing on 3.5-rc6, it OOMed about one time in five or ten; when testing just now on 3.5-rc6-mm1, it OOMed on the first iteration. This residual problem comes from an accumulation of pages under ordinary writeback, not marked PageReclaim, so rightly not causing the memcg check to wait on their writeback: these too can prevent shrink_page_list() from freeing any pages, so many times that memcg reclaim fails and OOMs. Deal with these in the same way as direct reclaim now deals with dirty FS pages: mark them PageReclaim. It is appropriate to rotate these to tail of list when writepage completes, but more importantly, the PageReclaim flag makes memcg reclaim wait on them if encountered again. Increment NR_VMSCAN_IMMEDIATE? That's arguable: I chose not. Setting PageReclaim here may occasionally race with end_page_writeback() clearing it: lru_deactivate_fn() already faced the same race, and correctly concluded that the window is small and the issue non-critical. With these changes, the test runs indefinitely without OOMing on ext4, ext3 and ext2: I'll move on to test with other filesystems later. Trivia: invert conditions for a clearer block without an else, and goto keep_locked to do the unlock_page. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujtisu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
The current implementation of dirty pages throttling is not memcg aware which makes it easy to have memcg LRUs full of dirty pages. Without throttling, these LRUs can be scanned faster than the rate of writeback, leading to memcg OOM conditions when the hard limit is small. This patch fixes the problem by throttling the allocating process (possibly a writer) during the hard limit reclaim by waiting on PageReclaim pages. We are waiting only for PageReclaim pages because those are the pages that made one full round over LRU and that means that the writeback is much slower than scanning. The solution is far from being ideal - long term solution is memcg aware dirty throttling - but it is meant to be a band aid until we have a real fix. We are seeing this happening during nightly backups which are placed into containers to prevent from eviction of the real working set. The change affects only memcg reclaim and only when we encounter PageReclaim pages which is a signal that the reclaim doesn't catch up on with the writers so somebody should be throttled. This could be potentially unfair because it could be somebody else from the group who gets throttled on behalf of the writer but as writers need to allocate as well and they allocate in higher rate the probability that only innocent processes would be penalized is not that high. I have tested this change by a simple dd copying /dev/zero to tmpfs or ext3 running under small memcg (1G copy under 5M, 60M, 300M and 2G containers) and dd got killed by OOM killer every time. With the patch I could run the dd with the same size under 5M controller without any OOM. The issue is more visible with slower devices for output. * With the patch ================ * tmpfs size=2G --------------- $ vim cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 5M using Limit 5M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 30.4049 s, 34.5 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 60M using Limit 60M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 31.4561 s, 33.3 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 300M using Limit 300M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 20.4618 s, 51.2 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 2G using Limit 2G for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.42172 s, 738 MB/s * ext3 ------ $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 5M using Limit 5M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 27.9547 s, 37.5 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 60M using Limit 60M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 30.3221 s, 34.6 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 300M using Limit 300M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 24.5764 s, 42.7 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 2G using Limit 2G for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.35828 s, 312 MB/s * Without the patch =================== * tmpfs size=2G --------------- $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 5M using Limit 5M for group ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh: line 46: 4668 Killed dd if=/dev/zero of=$OUT/zero bs=1M count=$count $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 60M using Limit 60M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 25.4989 s, 41.1 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 300M using Limit 300M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 24.3928 s, 43.0 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 2G using Limit 2G for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.49797 s, 700 MB/s * ext3 ------ $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 5M using Limit 5M for group ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh: line 46: 4689 Killed dd if=/dev/zero of=$OUT/zero bs=1M count=$count $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 60M using Limit 60M for group ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh: line 46: 4692 Killed dd if=/dev/zero of=$OUT/zero bs=1M count=$count $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 300M using Limit 300M for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 20.248 s, 51.8 MB/s $ ./cgroup_cache_oom_test.sh 2G using Limit 2G for group 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 2.85201 s, 368 MB/s [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak changelog, reordered the test to optimize for CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=n] [hughd@google.com: fix deadlock with loop driver] Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujtisu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Xiao Guangrong authored
mmu_notifier_release() is called when the process is exiting. It will delete all the mmu notifiers. But at this time the page belonging to the process is still present in page tables and is present on the LRU list, so this race will happen: CPU 0 CPU 1 mmu_notifier_release: try_to_unmap: hlist_del_init_rcu(&mn->hlist); ptep_clear_flush_notify: mmu nofifler not found free page !!!!!! /* * At the point, the page has been * freed, but it is still mapped in * the secondary MMU. */ mn->ops->release(mn, mm); Then the box is not stable and sometimes we can get this bug: [ 738.075923] BUG: Bad page state in process migrate-perf pfn:03bec [ 738.075931] page:ffffea00000efb00 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x8076 [ 738.075936] page flags: 0x20000000000014(referenced|dirty) The same issue is present in mmu_notifier_unregister(). We can call ->release before deleting the notifier to ensure the page has been unmapped from the secondary MMU before it is freed. Signed-off-by:Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
shmem knows for sure that the page is in swap cache when attempting to charge a page, because the cache charge entry function has a check for it. Only anon pages may be removed from swap cache already when trying to charge their swapin. Adjust the comment, though: '4969c119 mm: fix swapin race condition' added a stable PageSwapCache check under the page lock in the do_swap_page() before calling the memory controller, so it's unuse_pte()'s pte_same() that may fail. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Only anon and shmem pages in the swap cache are attempted to be charged multiple times, from every swap pte fault or from shmem_unuse(). No other pages require checking PageCgroupUsed(). Charging pages in the swap cache is also serialized by the page lock, and since both the try_charge and commit_charge are called under the same page lock section, the PageCgroupUsed() check might as well happen before the counter charging, let alone reclaim. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
When shmem is charged upon swapin, it does not need to check twice whether the memory controller is enabled. Also, shmem pages do not have to be checked for everything that regular anon pages have to be checked for, so let shmem use the internal version directly and allow future patches to move around checks that are only required when swapping in anon pages. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
It does not matter to __mem_cgroup_try_charge() if the passed mm is NULL or init_mm, it will charge the root memcg in either case. Also fix up the comment in __mem_cgroup_try_charge() that claimed the init_mm would be charged when no mm was passed. It's not really incorrect, but confusing. Clarify that the root memcg is charged in this case. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
shmem page charges have not needed a separate charge type to tell them from regular file pages since 08e552c6 ("memcg: synchronized LRU"). Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Charging cache pages may require swapin in the shmem case. Save the forward declaration and just move the swapin functions above the cache charging functions. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Only anon pages that are uncharged at the time of the last page table mapping vanishing may be in swapcache. When shmem pages, file pages, swap-freed anon pages, or just migrated pages are uncharged, they are known for sure to be not in swapcache. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Not all uncharge paths need to check if the page is swapcache, some of them can know for sure. Push down the check into all callsites of uncharge_common() so that the patch that removes some of them is more obvious. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
The conditional mem_cgroup_cancel_charge_swapin() is a leftover from when the function would continue to reestablish the page even after mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin() failed. After 85d9fc89 "memcg: fix refcnt handling at swapoff", the condition is always true when this code is reached. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Compaction (and page migration in general) can currently be hindered through pages being owned by memory cgroups that are at their limits and unreclaimable. The reason is that the replacement page is being charged against the limit while the page being replaced is also still charged. But this seems unnecessary, given that only one of the two pages will still be in use after migration finishes. This patch changes the memcg migration sequence so that the replacement page is not charged. Whatever page is still in use after successful or failed migration gets to keep the charge of the page that was going to be replaced. The replacement page will still show up temporarily in the rss/cache statistics, this can be fixed in a later patch as it's less urgent. Reported-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Commit b3a27d ("swap: Add swap slot free callback to block_device_operations") dereferences p->bdev->bd_disk but this is a NULL dereference if using swap-over-NFS. This patch checks SWP_BLKDEV on the swap_info_struct before dereferencing. With reference to this callback, Christoph Hellwig stated "Please just remove the callback entirely. It has no user outside the staging tree and was added clearly against the rules for that staging tree". This would also be my preference but there was not an obvious way of keeping zram in staging/ happy. Signed-off-by:Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
GFP_NOFS is _more_ permissive than GFP_NOIO in that it will initiate IO, just not of any filesystem data. The problem is that previously NOFS was correct because that avoids recursion into the NFS code. With swap-over-NFS, it is no longer correct as swap IO can lead to this recursion. Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Implement the new swapfile a_ops for NFS and hook up ->direct_IO. This will set the NFS socket to SOCK_MEMALLOC and run socket reconnect under PF_MEMALLOC as well as reset SOCK_MEMALLOC before engaging the protocol ->connect() method. PF_MEMALLOC should allow the allocation of struct socket and related objects and the early (re)setting of SOCK_MEMALLOC should allow us to receive the packets required for the TCP connection buildup. [jlayton@redhat.com: Restore PF_MEMALLOC task flags in all cases] [dfeng@redhat.com: Fix handling of multiple swap files] [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original patch] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The VM does not like PG_private set on PG_swapcache pages. As suggested by Trond in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/25/348, this patch disables NFS data cache revalidation on swap files. as it does not make sense to have other clients change the file while it is being used as swap. This avoids setting PG_private on swap pages, since there ought to be no further races with invalidate_inode_pages2() to deal with. Since we cannot set PG_private we cannot use page->private which is already used by PG_swapcache pages to store the nfs_page. Thus augment the new nfs_page_find_request logic. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Replace all relevant occurences of page->index and page->mapping in the NFS client with the new page_file_index() and page_file_mapping() functions. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The patch "mm: add support for a filesystem to activate swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages" added support for using direct_IO to write swap pages but it is insufficient for highmem pages. To support highmem pages, this patch kmaps() the page before calling the direct_IO() handler. As direct_IO deals with virtual addresses an additional helper is necessary for get_kernel_pages() to lookup the struct page for a kmap virtual address. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The version of swap_activate introduced is sufficient for swap-over-NFS but would not provide enough information to implement a generic handler. This patch shuffles things slightly to ensure the same information is available for aops->swap_activate() as is available to the core. No functionality change. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Currently swapfiles are managed entirely by the core VM by using ->bmap to allocate space and write to the blocks directly. This effectively ensures that the underlying blocks are allocated and avoids the need for the swap subsystem to locate what physical blocks store offsets within a file. If the swap subsystem is to use the filesystem information to locate the blocks, it is critical that information such as block groups, block bitmaps and the block descriptor table that map the swap file were resident in memory. This patch adds address_space_operations that the VM can call when activating or deactivating swap backed by a file. int swap_activate(struct file *); int swap_deactivate(struct file *); The ->swap_activate() method is used to communicate to the file that the VM relies on it, and the address_space should take adequate measures such as reserving space in the underlying device, reserving memory for mempools and pinning information such as the block descriptor table in memory. The ->swap_deactivate() method is called on sys_swapoff() if ->swap_activate() returned success. After a successful swapfile ->swap_activate, the swapfile is marked SWP_FILE and swapper_space.a_ops will proxy to sis->swap_file->f_mappings->a_ops using ->direct_io to write swapcache pages and ->readpage to read. It is perfectly possible that direct_IO be used to read the swap pages but it is an unnecessary complication. Similarly, it is possible that ->writepage be used instead of direct_io to write the pages but filesystem developers have stated that calling writepage from the VM is undesirable for a variety of reasons and using direct_IO opens up the possibility of writing back batches of swap pages in the future. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original patch] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
This patch adds two new APIs get_kernel_pages() and get_kernel_page() that may be used to pin a vector of kernel addresses for IO. The initial user is expected to be NFS for allowing pages to be written to swap using aops->direct_IO(). Strictly speaking, swap-over-NFS only needs to pin one page for IO but it makes sense to express the API in terms of a vector and add a helper for pinning single pages. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
In order to teach filesystems to handle swap cache pages, three new page functions are introduced: pgoff_t page_file_index(struct page *); loff_t page_file_offset(struct page *); struct address_space *page_file_mapping(struct page *); page_file_index() - gives the offset of this page in the file in PAGE_CACHE_SIZE blocks. Like page->index is for mapped pages, this function also gives the correct index for PG_swapcache pages. page_file_offset() - uses page_file_index(), so that it will give the expected result, even for PG_swapcache pages. page_file_mapping() - gives the mapping backing the actual page; that is for swap cache pages it will give swap_file->f_mapping. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Failing to allocate a cache entry will only harm performance not correctness. Do not consume valuable reserve pages for something like that. Signed-off-by:
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
This patch series is based on top of "Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking v15" as it depends on the same reservation of PF_MEMALLOC reserves logic. When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. In diskless systems this is not an option so if swap if required then swapping over the network is considered. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap but this is not always an option. There is no guarantee that the network attached storage (NAS) device is running Linux or supports NBD. However, it is likely that it supports NFS so there are users that want support for swapping over NFS despite any performance concern. Some distributions currently carry patches that support swapping over NFS but it would be preferable to support it in the mainline kernel. Patch 1 avoids a stream-specific deadlock that potentially affects TCP. Patch 2 is a small modification to SELinux to avoid using PFMEMALLOC reserves. Patch 3 adds three helpers for filesystems to handle swap cache pages. For example, page_file_mapping() returns page->mapping for file-backed pages and the address_space of the underlying swap file for swap cache pages. Patch 4 adds two address_space_operations to allow a filesystem to pin all metadata relevant to a swapfile in memory. Upon successful activation, the swapfile is marked SWP_FILE and the address space operation ->direct_IO is used for writing and ->readpage for reading in swap pages. Patch 5 notes that patch 3 is bolting filesystem-specific-swapfile-support onto the side and that the default handlers have different information to what is available to the filesystem. This patch refactors the code so that there are generic handlers for each of the new address_space operations. Patch 6 adds an API to allow a vector of kernel addresses to be translated to struct pages and pinned for IO. Patch 7 adds support for using highmem pages for swap by kmapping the pages before calling the direct_IO handler. Patch 8 updates NFS to use the helpers from patch 3 where necessary. Patch 9 avoids setting PF_private on PG_swapcache pages within NFS. Patch 10 implements the new swapfile-related address_space operations for NFS and teaches the direct IO handler how to manage kernel addresses. Patch 11 prevents page allocator recursions in NFS by using GFP_NOIO where appropriate. Patch 12 fixes a NULL pointer dereference that occurs when using swap-over-NFS. With the patches applied, it is possible to mount a swapfile that is on an NFS filesystem. Swap performance is not great with a swap stress test taking roughly twice as long to complete than if the swap device was backed by NBD. This patch: netvm: prevent a stream-specific deadlock It could happen that all !SOCK_MEMALLOC sockets have buffered so much data that we're over the global rmem limit. This will prevent SOCK_MEMALLOC buffers from receiving data, which will prevent userspace from running, which is needed to reduce the buffered data. Fix this by exempting the SOCK_MEMALLOC sockets from the rmem limit. Once this change it applied, it is important that sockets that set SOCK_MEMALLOC do not clear the flag until the socket is being torn down. If this happens, a warning is generated and the tokens reclaimed to avoid accounting errors until the bug is fixed. [davem@davemloft.net: Warning about clearing SOCK_MEMALLOC] Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Under significant pressure when writing back to network-backed storage, direct reclaimers may get throttled. This is expected to be a short-lived event and the processes get woken up again but processes do get stalled. This patch counts how many times such stalling occurs. It's up to the administrator whether to reduce these stalls by increasing min_free_kbytes. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
mm: throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage If swap is backed by network storage such as NBD, there is a risk that a large number of reclaimers can hang the system by consuming all PF_MEMALLOC reserves. To avoid these hangs, the administrator must tune min_free_kbytes in advance which is a bit fragile. This patch throttles direct reclaimers if half the PF_MEMALLOC reserves are in use. If the system is routinely getting throttled the system administrator can increase min_free_kbytes so degradation is smoother but the system will keep running. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Set SOCK_MEMALLOC on the NBD socket to allow access to PFMEMALLOC reserves so pages backed by NBD, particularly if swap related, can be cleaned to prevent the machine being deadlocked. It is still possible that the PFMEMALLOC reserves get depleted resulting in deadlock but this can be resolved by the administrator by increasing min_free_kbytes. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Getting and putting objects in SLAB currently requires a function call but the bulk of the work is related to PFMEMALLOC reserves which are only consumed when network-backed storage is critical. Use an inline function to determine if the function call is required. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
In order to make sure pfmemalloc packets receive all memory needed to proceed, ensure processing of pfmemalloc SKBs happens under PF_MEMALLOC. This is limited to a subset of protocols that are expected to be used for writing to swap. Taps are not allowed to use PF_MEMALLOC as these are expected to communicate with userspace processes which could be paged out. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Ideas taken from various patches] [jslaby@suse.cz: Lock imbalance fix] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The skb->pfmemalloc flag gets set to true iff during the slab allocation of data in __alloc_skb that the the PFMEMALLOC reserves were used. If page splitting is used, it is possible that pages will be allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserve without propagating this information to the skb. This patch propagates page->pfmemalloc from pages allocated for fragments to the skb. It works by reintroducing and expanding the skb_alloc_page() API to take an skb. If the page was allocated from pfmemalloc reserves, it is automatically copied. If the driver allocates the page before the skb, it should call skb_propagate_pfmemalloc() after the skb is allocated to ensure the flag is copied properly. Failure to do so is not critical. The resulting driver may perform slower if it is used for swap-over-NBD or swap-over-NFS but it should not result in failure. [davem@davemloft.net: API rename and consistency] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The skb->pfmemalloc flag gets set to true iff during the slab allocation of data in __alloc_skb that the the PFMEMALLOC reserves were used. If the packet is fragmented, it is possible that pages will be allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserve without propagating this information to the skb. This patch propagates page->pfmemalloc from pages allocated for fragments to the skb. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Change the skb allocation API to indicate RX usage and use this to fall back to the PFMEMALLOC reserve when needed. SKBs allocated from the reserve are tagged in skb->pfmemalloc. If an SKB is allocated from the reserve and the socket is later found to be unrelated to page reclaim, the packet is dropped so that the memory remains available for page reclaim. Network protocols are expected to recover from this packet loss. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Ideas taken from various patches] [davem@davemloft.net: Use static branches, coding style corrections] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Avoid unnecessary cast, fix !CONFIG_NET build] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Allow specific sockets to be tagged SOCK_MEMALLOC and use __GFP_MEMALLOC for their allocations. These sockets will be able to go below watermarks and allocate from the emergency reserve. Such sockets are to be used to service the VM (iow. to swap over). They must be handled kernel side, exposing such a socket to user-space is a bug. There is a risk that the reserves be depleted so for now, the administrator is responsible for increasing min_free_kbytes as necessary to prevent deadlock for their workloads. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original patches] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Introduce sk_gfp_atomic(), this function allows to inject sock specific flags to each sock related allocation. It is only used on allocation paths that may be required for writing pages back to network storage. [davem@davemloft.net: Use sk_gfp_atomic only when necessary] Signed-off-by:
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