lwn.git/mm/compaction.c, branch v5.15-rc3

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-09-08T19:55:35+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap, ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan), alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig, selftests, ipc, and scripts" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (94 commits) scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc() selftests/memfd: remove unused variable Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init(). kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot() fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group trap: cleanup trap_init() init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() ...

mm: remove pfn_valid_within() and CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE

2021-09-08T18:50:22+00:00

Patch series "mm: remove pfn_valid_within() and CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE". After recent updates to freeing unused parts of the memory map, no architecture can have holes in the memory map within a pageblock. This makes pfn_valid_within() check and CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE configuration option redundant. The first patch removes them both in a mechanical way and the second patch simplifies memory_hotplug::test_pages_in_a_zone() that had pfn_valid_within() surrounded by more logic than simple if. This patch (of 2): After recent changes in freeing of the unused parts of the memory map and rework of pfn_valid() in arm and arm64 there are no architectures that can have holes in the memory map within a pageblock and so nothing can enable CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE which guards non trivial implementation of pfn_valid_within(). With that, pfn_valid_within() is always hardwired to 1 and can be completely removed. Remove calls to pfn_valid_within() and CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713080035.7464-1-rppt@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713080035.7464-2-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive compaction by user

2021-09-03T16:58:17+00:00

The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually order-9) pages based on the value set to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness. Triggering the compaction for every 500msec in search of COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER pages is not needed for all applications, especially on the embedded system usecases which may have few MB's of RAM. Enabling the proactive compaction in its state will endup in running almost always on such systems. Other side, proactive compaction can still be very much useful for getting a set of higher order pages in some controllable manner(controlled by using the sysctl.compaction_proactiveness). So, on systems where enabling the proactive compaction always may proove not required, can trigger the same from user space on write to its sysctl interface. As an example, say app launcher decide to launch the memory heavy application which can be launched fast if it gets more higher order pages thus launcher can prepare the system in advance by triggering the proactive compaction from userspace. This triggering of proactive compaction is done on a write to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness by user. [1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=facdaa917c4d5a376d09d25865f5a863f906234a [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak vm.rst, per Mike] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627653207-12317-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Rafael Aquini Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Khalid Aziz Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vinayak Menon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: compaction: optimize proactive compaction deferrals

2021-09-03T16:58:17+00:00

Vlastimil Babka figured out that when fragmentation score didn't go down across the proactive compaction i.e. when no progress is made, next wake up for proactive compaction is deferred for 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT, i.e. 64 times, with each wakeup interval of HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC(=500). In each of this wakeup, it just decrement 'proactive_defer' counter and goes sleep i.e. it is getting woken to just decrement a counter. The same deferral time can also achieved by simply doing the HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT thus unnecessary wakeup of kcompact thread is avoided thus also removes the need of 'proactive_defer' thread counter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/88abfdb6-2c13-b5a6-5b46-742d12d1c910@suse.cz/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1626869599-25412-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Vinayak Menon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/migrate: enable returning precise migrate_pages() success count

2021-09-03T16:58:16+00:00

Under normal circumstances, migrate_pages() returns the number of pages migrated. In error conditions, it returns an error code. When returning an error code, there is no way to know how many pages were migrated or not migrated. Make migrate_pages() return how many pages are demoted successfully for all cases, including when encountering errors. Page reclaim behavior will depend on this in subsequent patches. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-3-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-4-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" Suggested-by: Oscar Salvador [optional parameter] Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Keith Busch Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "190 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock, migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap, zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs, signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (190 commits) ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level' selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt() x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390 init: print out unknown kernel parameters checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL checkpatch: improve the indented label test checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3 ...

mm/compaction: fix 'limit' in fast_isolate_freepages

2021-07-01T03:47:29+00:00

Because of 'min(1, ...)', fast_isolate_freepages set 'limit' to 0 or 1. This takes away the opportunities of find candinate pages. So, by making enough scans available, increases the probability of finding the appropriate freepage. Tested it on the thpscale and the results are as follows. 5.12.0 5.12.0 valnilla patched Amean fault-both-1 598.15 ( 0.00%) 592.56 ( 0.93%) Amean fault-both-3 1494.47 ( 0.00%) 1514.35 ( -1.33%) Amean fault-both-5 2519.48 ( 0.00%) 2471.76 ( 1.89%) Amean fault-both-7 3173.85 ( 0.00%) 3079.19 ( 2.98%) Amean fault-both-12 8063.83 ( 0.00%) 7858.29 ( 2.55%) Amean fault-both-18 8781.20 ( 0.00%) 7827.70 * 10.86%* Amean fault-both-24 12576.44 ( 0.00%) 12250.20 ( 2.59%) Amean fault-both-30 18503.27 ( 0.00%) 17528.11 * 5.27%* Amean fault-both-32 16133.69 ( 0.00%) 13874.24 * 14.00%* 5.12.0 5.12.0 vanilla patched Ops Compaction migrate scanned 6547133.00 5963901.00 Ops Compaction free scanned 32452453.00 26609101.00 5.12 5.12 vanilla patched Duration User 27.99 28.84 Duration System 244.08 236.76 Duration Elapsed 78.27 78.38 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210626082443.22547-1-vvghjk1234@gmail.com Fixes: 5a811889de10f ("mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration target") Signed-off-by: Wonhyuk Yang Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: compaction: remove duplicate !list_empty(&sublist) check

2021-07-01T03:47:29+00:00

The list_splice_tail(&sublist, freelist) also do !list_empty(&sublist) check, so remove the duplicate call. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210609095409.19920-1-liu.xiang@zlingsmart.com Signed-off-by: Liu Xiang Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/compaction: use DEVICE_ATTR_WO macro

2021-07-01T03:47:29+00:00

Use DEVICE_ATTR_WO helper instead of plain DEVICE_ATTR, which makes the code a bit shorter and easier to read. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210523064521.32912-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com Signed-off-by: YueHaibing Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-06-30T00:29:11+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "191 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts, ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab, slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization, pagealloc, and memory-failure)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (191 commits) mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page() mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed ...