One DAMON context can have multiple monitoring targets, and DAMOS schemes
are applied to all targets. In some cases, users need to apply different
scheme to different targets. Retrieving monitoring results via DAMON
sysfs interface' 'tried_regions' directory could be one good example.
Also, there could be cases that cgroup DAMOS filter is not enough. All
such use cases can be worked around by having multiple DAMON contexts
having only single target, but it is inefficient in terms of resource
usage, thogh the overhead is not estimated to be huge.
Implement DAMON monitoring target based DAMOS filter for the case. Like
address range target DAMOS filter, handle these filters in the DAMON core
layer, since it is more efficient than doing in operations set layer.
This also means that regions that filtered out by monitoring target type
DAMOS filters are counted as not tried by the scheme. Hence, target
granularity monitoring results retrieval via DAMON sysfs interface becomes
available.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802214312.110532-9-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Extend DAMOS filters for address ranges and DAMON monitoring
targets"
There are use cases that need to apply DAMOS schemes to specific address
ranges or DAMON monitoring targets. NUMA nodes in the physical address
space, special memory objects in the virtual address space, and monitoring
target specific efficient monitoring results snapshot retrieval could be
examples of such use cases. This patchset extends DAMOS filters feature
for such cases, by implementing two more filter types, namely address
ranges and DAMON monitoring types.
Patches sequence
----------------
The first seven patches are for the address ranges based DAMOS filter.
The first patch implements the filter feature and expose it via DAMON
kernel API. The second patch further expose the feature to users via
DAMON sysfs interface. The third and fourth patches implement unit tests
and selftests for the feature. Three patches (fifth to seventh) updating
the documents follow.
The following six patches are for the DAMON monitoring target based DAMOS
filter. The eighth patch implements the feature in the core layer and
expose it via DAMON's kernel API. The ninth patch further expose it to
users via DAMON sysfs interface. Tenth patch add a selftest, and two
patches (eleventh and twelfth) update documents.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20230728203444.70703-1-sj@kernel.org/
This patch (of 13):
Users can know special characteristic of specific address ranges. NUMA
nodes or special objects or buffers in virtual address space could be such
examples. For such cases, DAMOS schemes could required to be applied to
only specific address ranges. Implement yet another type of DAMOS filter
for the purpose.
Note that the existing filter types, namely anon pages and memcg DAMOS
filters needed page level type check. Because such check can be done
efficiently in the opertions set layer, those filters are handled in
operations set layer. Specifically, only paddr operations set
implementation supports these filters. Also, because statistics counting
is done in the DAMON core layer, the regions that filtered out by these
filters are counted as tried but failed to the statistics.
Unlike those, address range based filters can efficiently handled in the
core layer. Hence, do the handling in the layer, and count the regions
that filtered out by those as the scheme has not tried for the region.
This difference should clearly documented.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802214312.110532-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802214312.110532-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Using tried_regions/total_bytes file, users can efficiently retrieve the
total size of memory regions having specific access pattern. However,
DAMON sysfs interface in kernel still populates all the infomration on the
tried_regions subdirectories. That means the kernel part overhead for the
construction of tried regions directories still exists. To remove the
overhead, implement yet another command input for 'state' DAMON sysfs
file. Writing the input to the file makes DAMON sysfs interface to update
only the total_bytes file.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802213222.109841-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement DAMOS tried total bytes
file".
The tried_regions directory of DAMON sysfs interface is useful for
retrieving monitoring results snapshot or DAMOS debugging. However, for
common use case that need to monitor only the total size of the scheme
tried regions (e.g., monitoring working set size), the kernel overhead for
directory construction and user overhead for reading the content could be
high if the number of monitoring region is not small. This patchset
implements DAMON sysfs files for efficient support of the use case.
The first patch implements the sysfs file to reduce the user space
overhead, and the second patch implements a command for reducing the
kernel space overhead.
The third patch adds a selftest for the new file, and following two
patches update documents.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20230728201817.70602-1-sj@kernel.org/
This patch (of 5):
The tried_regions directory can be used for retrieving the monitoring
results snapshot for regions of specific access pattern, by setting the
scheme's action as 'stat' and the access pattern as required. While the
interface provides every detail of the monitoring results, some use cases
including working set size monitoring requires only the total size of the
regions. For such cases, users should read all the information and
calculate the total size of the regions. However, it could incur high
overhead if the number of regions is high. Add a file for retrieving only
the information, namely 'total_bytes' file. It allows users to get the
total size by reading only the file.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802213222.109841-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802213222.109841-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
MGLRU has a LRU list for each zone for each type (anon/file) in each
generation:
long nr_pages[MAX_NR_GENS][ANON_AND_FILE][MAX_NR_ZONES];
The min_seq (oldest generation) can progress independently for each
type but the max_seq (youngest generation) is shared for both anon and
file. This is to maintain a common frame of reference.
In order for eviction to advance the min_seq of a type, all the per-zone
lists in the oldest generation of that type must be empty.
The eviction logic only considers pages from eligible zones for
eviction or promotion.
scan_folios() {
...
for (zone = sc->reclaim_idx; zone >= 0; zone--) {
...
sort_folio(); // Promote
...
isolate_folio(); // Evict
}
...
}
Consider the system has the movable zone configured and default 4
generations. The current state of the system is as shown below
(only illustrating one type for simplicity):
Type: ANON
Zone DMA32 Normal Movable Device
Gen 0 0 0 4GB 0
Gen 1 0 1GB 1MB 0
Gen 2 1MB 4GB 1MB 0
Gen 3 1MB 1MB 1MB 0
Now consider there is a GFP_KERNEL allocation request (eligible zone
index <= Normal), evict_folios() will return without doing any work
since there are no pages to scan in the eligible zones of the oldest
generation. Reclaim won't make progress until triggered from a ZONE_MOVABLE
allocation request; which may not happen soon if there is a lot of free
memory in the movable zone. This can lead to OOM kills, although there
is 1GB pages in the Normal zone of Gen 1 that we have not yet tried to
reclaim.
This issue is not seen in the conventional active/inactive LRU since
there are no per-zone lists.
If there are no (not enough) folios to scan in the eligible zones, move
folios from ineligible zone (zone_index > reclaim_index) to the next
generation. This allows for the progression of min_seq and reclaiming
from the next generation (Gen 1).
Qualcomm, Mediatek and raspberrypi [1] discovered this issue independently.
[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5395
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802025606.346758-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Fixes: ac35a49023 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation")
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Reported-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>
Tested-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com> [mediatek]
Tested-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Before commit f53af4285d ("mm: vmscan: fix extreme overreclaim and swap
floods"), proactive reclaim will extreme overreclaim sometimes. But
proactive reclaim still inaccurate and some extent overreclaim.
Problematic case is easy to construct. Allocate lots of anonymous memory
(e.g., 20G) in a memcg, then swapping by writing memory.recalim and there
is a certain probability of overreclaim. For example, request 1G by
writing memory.reclaim will eventually reclaim 1.7G or other values more
than 1G.
The reason is that reclaimer may have already reclaimed part of requested
memory in one loop, but before adjust sc->nr_to_reclaim in outer loop,
call shrink_lruvec() again will still follow the current sc->nr_to_reclaim
to work. It will eventually lead to overreclaim. In theory, the amount
of reclaimed would be in [request, 2 * request).
Reclaimer usually tends to reclaim more than request. But either direct
or kswapd reclaim have much smaller nr_to_reclaim targets, so it is less
noticeable and not have much impact.
Proactive reclaim can usually come in with a larger value, so the error is
difficult to ignore. Considering proactive reclaim is usually low
frequency, handle the batching into smaller chunks is a better approach.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230721014116.3388-1-yangyifei03@kuaishou.com
Signed-off-by: Efly Young <yangyifei03@kuaishou.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add KSM_MERGE_TIME and KSM_MERGE_TIME_HUGE_PAGES tests with
size of 100.
./run_vmtests.sh -t ksm
-----------------------------
running ./ksm_tests -H -s 100
-----------------------------
Number of normal pages: 0
Number of huge pages: 50
Total size: 100 MiB
Total time: 0.399844662 s
Average speed: 250.097 MiB/s
[PASS]
-----------------------------
running ./ksm_tests -P -s 100
-----------------------------
Total size: 100 MiB
Total time: 0.451931496 s
Average speed: 221.272 MiB/s
[PASS]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230728164102.4655-1-ayush.jain3@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ayush Jain <ayush.jain3@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
