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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-05-26 12:32:41 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-05-26 12:32:41 -0700 |
commit | 98931dd95fd489fcbfa97da563505a6f071d7c77 (patch) | |
tree | 44683fc4a92efa614acdca2742a7ff19d26da1e3 /Documentation/vm | |
parent | df202b452fe6c6d6f1351bad485e2367ef1e644e (diff) | |
parent | f403f22f8ccb12860b2b62fec3173c6ccd45938b (diff) |
Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off,
reviewed, etc.
- Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of
readonly file-backed transparent hugepages.
- Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
managed on a per-cgroup basis.
- Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for
runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization
feature.
- Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
pagetable invalidation.
- Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
virtualization.
- Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.
- David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.
- Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults
against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.
- More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of
the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address
ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are
available.
- Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during
mprotect().
- Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS
support.
- David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
get_user_pages().
- Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.
- Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by
device-dax's compound devmaps.
- Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman
Khandual.
- Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
transparent hugepages.
- Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.
... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the
customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin"
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits)
mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper
selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable
selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES
selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests
selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore
selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment
ksm: fix typo in comment
selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests
Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim"
mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message
include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace"
include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion"
mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()
MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB
zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning
mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang
cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M()
mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE
tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/highmem.rst | 100 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst | 45 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/vmemmap_dedup.rst | 223 |
4 files changed, 323 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/highmem.rst b/Documentation/vm/highmem.rst index 0f69a9fec34d..c9887f241c6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/highmem.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/highmem.rst @@ -50,61 +50,74 @@ space when they use mm context tags. Temporary Virtual Mappings ========================== -The kernel contains several ways of creating temporary mappings: +The kernel contains several ways of creating temporary mappings. The following +list shows them in order of preference of use. -* vmap(). This can be used to make a long duration mapping of multiple - physical pages into a contiguous virtual space. It needs global - synchronization to unmap. - -* kmap(). This permits a short duration mapping of a single page. It needs - global synchronization, but is amortized somewhat. It is also prone to - deadlocks when using in a nested fashion, and so it is not recommended for - new code. - -* kmap_atomic(). This permits a very short duration mapping of a single - page. Since the mapping is restricted to the CPU that issued it, it - performs well, but the issuing task is therefore required to stay on that - CPU until it has finished, lest some other task displace its mappings. +* kmap_local_page(). This function is used to require short term mappings. + It can be invoked from any context (including interrupts) but the mappings + can only be used in the context which acquired them. - kmap_atomic() may also be used by interrupt contexts, since it is does not - sleep and the caller may not sleep until after kunmap_atomic() is called. + This function should be preferred, where feasible, over all the others. - It may be assumed that k[un]map_atomic() won't fail. + These mappings are thread-local and CPU-local, meaning that the mapping + can only be accessed from within this thread and the thread is bound the + CPU while the mapping is active. Even if the thread is preempted (since + preemption is never disabled by the function) the CPU can not be + unplugged from the system via CPU-hotplug until the mapping is disposed. + It's valid to take pagefaults in a local kmap region, unless the context + in which the local mapping is acquired does not allow it for other reasons. -Using kmap_atomic -================= + kmap_local_page() always returns a valid virtual address and it is assumed + that kunmap_local() will never fail. -When and where to use kmap_atomic() is straightforward. It is used when code -wants to access the contents of a page that might be allocated from high memory -(see __GFP_HIGHMEM), for example a page in the pagecache. The API has two -functions, and they can be used in a manner similar to the following:: + Nesting kmap_local_page() and kmap_atomic() mappings is allowed to a certain + extent (up to KMAP_TYPE_NR) but their invocations have to be strictly ordered + because the map implementation is stack based. See kmap_local_page() kdocs + (included in the "Functions" section) for details on how to manage nested + mappings. - /* Find the page of interest. */ - struct page *page = find_get_page(mapping, offset); +* kmap_atomic(). This permits a very short duration mapping of a single + page. Since the mapping is restricted to the CPU that issued it, it + performs well, but the issuing task is therefore required to stay on that + CPU until it has finished, lest some other task displace its mappings. - /* Gain access to the contents of that page. */ - void *vaddr = kmap_atomic(page); + kmap_atomic() may also be used by interrupt contexts, since it does not + sleep and the callers too may not sleep until after kunmap_atomic() is + called. - /* Do something to the contents of that page. */ - memset(vaddr, 0, PAGE_SIZE); + Each call of kmap_atomic() in the kernel creates a non-preemptible section + and disable pagefaults. This could be a source of unwanted latency. Therefore + users should prefer kmap_local_page() instead of kmap_atomic(). - /* Unmap that page. */ - kunmap_atomic(vaddr); + It is assumed that k[un]map_atomic() won't fail. -Note that the kunmap_atomic() call takes the result of the kmap_atomic() call -not the argument. +* kmap(). This should be used to make short duration mapping of a single + page with no restrictions on preemption or migration. It comes with an + overhead as mapping space is restricted and protected by a global lock + for synchronization. When mapping is no longer needed, the address that + the page was mapped to must be released with kunmap(). -If you need to map two pages because you want to copy from one page to -another you need to keep the kmap_atomic calls strictly nested, like:: + Mapping changes must be propagated across all the CPUs. kmap() also + requires global TLB invalidation when the kmap's pool wraps and it might + block when the mapping space is fully utilized until a slot becomes + available. Therefore, kmap() is only callable from preemptible context. - vaddr1 = kmap_atomic(page1); - vaddr2 = kmap_atomic(page2); + All the above work is necessary if a mapping must last for a relatively + long time but the bulk of high-memory mappings in the kernel are + short-lived and only used in one place. This means that the cost of + kmap() is mostly wasted in such cases. kmap() was not intended for long + term mappings but it has morphed in that direction and its use is + strongly discouraged in newer code and the set of the preceding functions + should be preferred. - memcpy(vaddr1, vaddr2, PAGE_SIZE); + On 64-bit systems, calls to kmap_local_page(), kmap_atomic() and kmap() have + no real work to do because a 64-bit address space is more than sufficient to + address all the physical memory whose pages are permanently mapped. - kunmap_atomic(vaddr2); - kunmap_atomic(vaddr1); +* vmap(). This can be used to make a long duration mapping of multiple + physical pages into a contiguous virtual space. It needs global + synchronization to unmap. Cost of Temporary Mappings @@ -145,3 +158,10 @@ The general recommendation is that you don't use more than 8GiB on a 32-bit machine - although more might work for you and your workload, you're pretty much on your own - don't expect kernel developers to really care much if things come apart. + + +Functions +========= + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/highmem.h +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/highmem-internal.h diff --git a/Documentation/vm/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/index.rst index e72736d53604..575ccd40e30c 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst @@ -63,5 +63,6 @@ above structured documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose. transhuge unevictable-lru vmalloced-kernel-stacks + vmemmap_dedup z3fold zsmalloc diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst index 7e0c3f574e78..f5c954afe97c 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst @@ -121,6 +121,14 @@ Usage -r Sort by memory release time. -s Sort by stack trace. -t Sort by times (default). + --sort <order> Specify sorting order. Sorting syntax is [+|-]key[,[+|-]key[,...]]. + Choose a key from the **STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS** section. The "+" is + optional since default direction is increasing numerical or lexicographic + order. Mixed use of abbreviated and complete-form of keys is allowed. + + Examples: + ./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --sort=n,+pid,-tgid + ./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --sort=at additional function:: @@ -129,7 +137,6 @@ Usage Specify culling rules.Culling syntax is key[,key[,...]].Choose a multi-letter key from the **STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS** section. - <rules> is a single argument in the form of a comma-separated list, which offers a way to specify individual culling rules. The recognized keywords are described in the **STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS** section below. @@ -137,7 +144,6 @@ Usage the STANDARD SORT KEYS section below. Mixed use of abbreviated and complete-form of keys is allowed. - Examples: ./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --cull=stacktrace ./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --cull=st,pid,name @@ -147,17 +153,44 @@ Usage -f Filter out the information of blocks whose memory has been released. Select: - --pid <PID> Select by pid. - --tgid <TGID> Select by tgid. - --name <command> Select by task command name. + --pid <pidlist> Select by pid. This selects the blocks whose process ID + numbers appear in <pidlist>. + --tgid <tgidlist> Select by tgid. This selects the blocks whose thread + group ID numbers appear in <tgidlist>. + --name <cmdlist> Select by task command name. This selects the blocks whose + task command name appear in <cmdlist>. + + <pidlist>, <tgidlist>, <cmdlist> are single arguments in the form of a comma-separated list, + which offers a way to specify individual selecting rules. + + + Examples: + ./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --pid=1 + ./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --tgid=1,2,3 + ./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --name name1,name2 STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS ========================== :: + For --sort option: + + KEY LONG DESCRIPTION + p pid process ID + tg tgid thread group ID + n name task command name + st stacktrace stack trace of the page allocation + T txt full text of block + ft free_ts timestamp of the page when it was released + at alloc_ts timestamp of the page when it was allocated + ator allocator memory allocator for pages + + For --curl option: + KEY LONG DESCRIPTION p pid process ID tg tgid thread group ID n name task command name f free whether the page has been released or not - st stacktrace stace trace of the page allocation + st stacktrace stack trace of the page allocation + ator allocator memory allocator for pages diff --git a/Documentation/vm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/vm/vmemmap_dedup.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c9c495f62d12 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/vmemmap_dedup.rst @@ -0,0 +1,223 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========================================= +A vmemmap diet for HugeTLB and Device DAX +========================================= + +HugeTLB +======= + +The struct page structures (page structs) are used to describe a physical +page frame. By default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to +it's corresponding page struct. + +HugeTLB pages consist of multiple base page size pages and is supported by many +architectures. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for more +details. On the x86-64 architecture, HugeTLB pages of size 2MB and 1GB are +currently supported. Since the base page size on x86 is 4KB, a 2MB HugeTLB page +consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 4096 base pages. +For each base page, there is a corresponding page struct. + +Within the HugeTLB subsystem, only the first 4 page structs are used to +contain unique information about a HugeTLB page. __NR_USED_SUBPAGE provides +this upper limit. The only 'useful' information in the remaining page structs +is the compound_head field, and this field is the same for all tail pages. + +By removing redundant page structs for HugeTLB pages, memory can be returned +to the buddy allocator for other uses. + +Different architectures support different HugeTLB pages. For example, the +following table is the HugeTLB page size supported by x86 and arm64 +architectures. Because arm64 supports 4k, 16k, and 64k base pages and +supports contiguous entries, so it supports many kinds of sizes of HugeTLB +page. + ++--------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------+ +| Architecture | Page Size | HugeTLB Page Size | ++--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ +| x86-64 | 4KB | 2MB | 1GB | | | ++--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ +| | 4KB | 64KB | 2MB | 32MB | 1GB | +| +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ +| arm64 | 16KB | 2MB | 32MB | 1GB | | +| +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ +| | 64KB | 2MB | 512MB | 16GB | | ++--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ + +When the system boot up, every HugeTLB page has more than one struct page +structs which size is (unit: pages):: + + struct_size = HugeTLB_Size / PAGE_SIZE * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + +Where HugeTLB_Size is the size of the HugeTLB page. We know that the size +of the HugeTLB page is always n times PAGE_SIZE. So we can get the following +relationship:: + + HugeTLB_Size = n * PAGE_SIZE + +Then:: + + struct_size = n * PAGE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + = n * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + +We can use huge mapping at the pud/pmd level for the HugeTLB page. + +For the HugeTLB page of the pmd level mapping, then:: + + struct_size = n * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pte_t) * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + = sizeof(struct page) / sizeof(pte_t) + = 64 / 8 + = 8 (pages) + +Where n is how many pte entries which one page can contains. So the value of +n is (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pte_t)). + +This optimization only supports 64-bit system, so the value of sizeof(pte_t) +is 8. And this optimization also applicable only when the size of struct page +is a power of two. In most cases, the size of struct page is 64 bytes (e.g. +x86-64 and arm64). So if we use pmd level mapping for a HugeTLB page, the +size of struct page structs of it is 8 page frames which size depends on the +size of the base page. + +For the HugeTLB page of the pud level mapping, then:: + + struct_size = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pmd_t) * struct_size(pmd) + = PAGE_SIZE / 8 * 8 (pages) + = PAGE_SIZE (pages) + +Where the struct_size(pmd) is the size of the struct page structs of a +HugeTLB page of the pmd level mapping. + +E.g.: A 2MB HugeTLB page on x86_64 consists in 8 page frames while 1GB +HugeTLB page consists in 4096. + +Next, we take the pmd level mapping of the HugeTLB page as an example to +show the internal implementation of this optimization. There are 8 pages +struct page structs associated with a HugeTLB page which is pmd mapped. + +Here is how things look before optimization:: + + HugeTLB struct pages(8 pages) page frame(8 pages) + +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ + | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 2 | -------------> | 2 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 3 | -------------> | 3 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 4 | -------------> | 4 | + | PMD | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | level | | 5 | -------------> | 5 | + | mapping | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 6 | -------------> | 6 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 7 | -------------> | 7 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | + | | + | | + +-----------+ + +The value of page->compound_head is the same for all tail pages. The first +page of page structs (page 0) associated with the HugeTLB page contains the 4 +page structs necessary to describe the HugeTLB. The only use of the remaining +pages of page structs (page 1 to page 7) is to point to page->compound_head. +Therefore, we can remap pages 1 to 7 to page 0. Only 1 page of page structs +will be used for each HugeTLB page. This will allow us to free the remaining +7 pages to the buddy allocator. + +Here is how things look after remapping:: + + HugeTLB struct pages(8 pages) page frame(8 pages) + +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ + | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 1 | ---------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ + | | +-----------+ | | | | | | + | | | 2 | -----------------+ | | | | | + | | +-----------+ | | | | | + | | | 3 | -------------------+ | | | | + | | +-----------+ | | | | + | | | 4 | ---------------------+ | | | + | PMD | +-----------+ | | | + | level | | 5 | -----------------------+ | | + | mapping | +-----------+ | | + | | | 6 | -------------------------+ | + | | +-----------+ | + | | | 7 | ---------------------------+ + | | +-----------+ + | | + | | + | | + +-----------+ + +When a HugeTLB is freed to the buddy system, we should allocate 7 pages for +vmemmap pages and restore the previous mapping relationship. + +For the HugeTLB page of the pud level mapping. It is similar to the former. +We also can use this approach to free (PAGE_SIZE - 1) vmemmap pages. + +Apart from the HugeTLB page of the pmd/pud level mapping, some architectures +(e.g. aarch64) provides a contiguous bit in the translation table entries +that hints to the MMU to indicate that it is one of a contiguous set of +entries that can be cached in a single TLB entry. + +The contiguous bit is used to increase the mapping size at the pmd and pte +(last) level. So this type of HugeTLB page can be optimized only when its +size of the struct page structs is greater than 1 page. + +Notice: The head vmemmap page is not freed to the buddy allocator and all +tail vmemmap pages are mapped to the head vmemmap page frame. So we can see +more than one struct page struct with PG_head (e.g. 8 per 2 MB HugeTLB page) +associated with each HugeTLB page. The compound_head() can handle this +correctly (more details refer to the comment above compound_head()). + +Device DAX +========== + +The device-dax interface uses the same tail deduplication technique explained +in the previous chapter, except when used with the vmemmap in +the device (altmap). + +The following page sizes are supported in DAX: PAGE_SIZE (4K on x86_64), +PMD_SIZE (2M on x86_64) and PUD_SIZE (1G on x86_64). + +The differences with HugeTLB are relatively minor. + +It only use 3 page structs for storing all information as opposed +to 4 on HugeTLB pages. + +There's no remapping of vmemmap given that device-dax memory is not part of +System RAM ranges initialized at boot. Thus the tail page deduplication +happens at a later stage when we populate the sections. HugeTLB reuses the +the head vmemmap page representing, whereas device-dax reuses the tail +vmemmap page. This results in only half of the savings compared to HugeTLB. + +Deduplicated tail pages are not mapped read-only. + +Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated:: + + +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ + | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ + | | +-----------+ | | | | | + | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | | + | | +-----------+ | | | | + | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | | + | PMD | +-----------+ | | | + | level | | 5 | ----------------------+ | | + | mapping | +-----------+ | | + | | | 6 | ------------------------+ | + | | +-----------+ | + | | | 7 | --------------------------+ + | | +-----------+ + | | + | | + | | + +-----------+ |