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* | memcg: change defines to an enumGlauber Costa2012-12-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is just a cleanup patch for clarity of expression. In earlier submissions, people asked it to be in a separate patch, so here it is. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memcg: reclaim when more than one page neededSuleiman Souhlal2012-12-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mem_cgroup_do_charge() was written before kmem accounting, and expects three cases: being called for 1 page, being called for a stock of 32 pages, or being called for a hugepage. If we call for 2 or 3 pages (and both the stack and several slabs used in process creation are such, at least with the debug options I had), it assumed it's being called for stock and just retried without reclaiming. Fix that by passing down a minsize argument in addition to the csize. And what to do about that (csize == PAGE_SIZE && ret) retry? If it's needed at all (and presumably is since it's there, perhaps to handle races), then it should be extended to more than PAGE_SIZE, yet how far? And should there be a retry count limit, of what? For now retry up to COSTLY_ORDER (as page_alloc.c does) and make sure not to do it if __GFP_NORETRY. v4: fixed nr pages calculation pointed out by Christoph Lameter. Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> 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>
* | memcg: make it possible to use the stock for more than one pageSuleiman Souhlal2012-12-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We currently have a percpu stock cache scheme that charges one page at a time from memcg->res, the user counter. When the kernel memory controller comes into play, we'll need to charge more than that. This is because kernel memory allocations will also draw from the user counter, and can be bigger than a single page, as it is the case with the stack (usually 2 pages) or some higher order slabs. [glommer@parallels.com: added a changelog ] Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memory-hotplug: document and enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODETang Chen2012-12-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add help info for CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE and permit its selection. This option allows the user to online all memory of a node as movable memory. So that the whole node can be hotplugged. Users who don't use the hotplug feature are also fine with this option on since they won't online memory as movable. Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak help text] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm/page_alloc.c: remove duplicate checkGavin Shan2012-12-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While allocating pages using buddy allocator, the compound page is probably split up to free pages. Under these circumstances, the compound page should be destroyed by destroy_compound_page(). However, there is a duplicate check to judge if the page is compound. Remove the duplicate check since the compound_order() returns 0 when the page doesn't have PG_head set in destroy_compound_page(). That is to say, destroy_compound_page() needn't check PageHead(). Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-12-18
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg: "This contains preparational work from Christoph Lameter and Glauber Costa for SLAB memcg and cleanups and improvements from Ezequiel Garcia and Joonsoo Kim. Please note that the SLOB cleanup commit from Arnd Bergmann already appears in your tree but I had also merged it myself which is why it shows up in the shortlog." * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code slab: Use the new create_boot_cache function to simplify bootstrap slub: Use statically allocated kmem_cache boot structure for bootstrap mm, sl[au]b: create common functions for boot slab creation slab: Simplify bootstrap slub: Use correct cpu_slab on dead cpu mm: fix slab.c kernel-doc warnings mm/slob: use min_t() to compare ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-size kmalloc allocations mm/sl[aou]b: Move common kmem_cache_size() to slab.h mm/slob: Use object_size field in kmem_cache_size() mm/slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocations slub: Commonize slab_cache field in struct page sl[au]b: Process slabinfo_show in common code mm/sl[au]b: Move print_slabinfo_header to slab_common.c mm/sl[au]b: Move slabinfo processing to slab_common.c slub: remove one code path and reduce lock contention in __slab_free()
| * \ Merge branch 'slab/next' into slab/for-linusPekka Enberg2012-12-18
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix up a trivial merge conflict with commit baaf1dd ("mm/slob: use min_t() to compare ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN") that did not go through the slab tree. Conflicts: mm/slob.c Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment codeChristoph Lameter2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extract the code to do object alignment from the allocators. Do the alignment calculations in slab_common so that the __kmem_cache_create functions of the allocators do not have to deal with alignment. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | slab: Use the new create_boot_cache function to simplify bootstrapChristoph Lameter2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify setup and reduce code in kmem_cache_init(). This allows us to get rid of initarray_cache as well as the manual setup code for the kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node arrays during bootstrap. We introduce a new bootstrap state "PARTIAL" for slab that signals the creation of a kmem_cache boot cache. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | slub: Use statically allocated kmem_cache boot structure for bootstrapChristoph Lameter2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify bootstrap by statically allocated two kmem_cache structures. These are freed after bootup is complete. Allows us to no longer worry about calculations of sizes of kmem_cache structures during bootstrap. Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | mm, sl[au]b: create common functions for boot slab creationChristoph Lameter2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use a special function to create kmalloc caches and use that function in SLAB and SLUB. Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | slab: Simplify bootstrapChristoph Lameter2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The nodelists field in kmem_cache is pointing to the first unused object in the array field when bootstrap is complete. A problem with the current approach is that the statically sized kmem_cache structure use on boot can only contain NR_CPUS entries. If the number of nodes plus the number of cpus is greater then we would overwrite memory following the kmem_cache_boot definition. Increase the size of the array field to ensure that also the node pointers fit into the array field. Once we do that we no longer need the kmem_cache_nodelists array and we can then also use that structure elsewhere. Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | slub: Use correct cpu_slab on dead cpuChristoph Lameter2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass a kmem_cache_cpu pointer into unfreeze partials so that a different kmem_cache_cpu structure than the local one can be specified. Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | mm: fix slab.c kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap2012-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix new kernel-doc warnings in mm/slab.c: Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): No description found for parameter 'cachep' Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'name' description in '__kmem_cache_create' Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'size' description in '__kmem_cache_create' Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'align' description in '__kmem_cache_create' Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'ctor' description in '__kmem_cache_create' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | mm/slob: use min_t() to compare ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGNArnd Bergmann2012-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The definition of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is architecture dependent and can be either of type size_t or int. Comparing that value with ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN can cause harmless warnings on platforms where they are different. Since both are always small positive integer numbers, using the size_t type to compare them is safe and gets rid of the warning. Without this patch, building ARM collie_defconfig results in: mm/slob.c: In function '__kmalloc_node': mm/slob.c:431:152: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default] mm/slob.c: In function 'kfree': mm/slob.c:484:153: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default] mm/slob.c: In function 'ksize': mm/slob.c:503:153: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default] Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> [ penberg@kernel.org: updates for master ] Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creationGlauber Costa2012-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some flags are used internally by the allocators for management purposes. One example of that is the CFLGS_OFF_SLAB flag that slab uses to mark that the metadata for that cache is stored outside of the slab. No cache should ever pass those as a creation flags. We can just ignore this bit if it happens to be passed (such as when duplicating a cache in the kmem memcg patches). Because such flags can vary from allocator to allocator, we allow them to make their own decisions on that, defining SLAB_AVAILABLE_FLAGS with all flags that are valid at creation time. Allocators that doesn't have any specific flag requirement should define that to mean all flags. Common code will mask out all flags not belonging to that set. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-size kmalloc allocationsEzequiel Garcia2012-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When freeing objects, the slob allocator currently free empty pages calling __free_pages(). However, page-size kmallocs are disposed using put_page() instead. It makes no sense to call put_page() for kernel pages that are provided by the object allocator, so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves. This is based on: commit d9b7f22623b5fa9cc189581dcdfb2ac605933bf4 Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> slub: use free_page instead of put_page for freeing kmalloc allocation Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | mm/sl[aou]b: Move common kmem_cache_size() to slab.hEzequiel Garcia2012-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function is identically defined in all three allocators and it's trivial to move it to slab.h Since now it's static, inline, header-defined function this patch also drops the EXPORT_SYMBOL tag. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | mm/slob: Use object_size field in kmem_cache_size()Ezequiel Garcia2012-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fields object_size and size are not the same: the latter might include slab metadata. Return object_size field in kmem_cache_size(). Also, improve trace accuracy by correctly tracing reported size. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | mm/slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocationsEzequiel Garcia2012-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes. There is no need to store the allocated size and ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page). Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | slub: Commonize slab_cache field in struct pageGlauber Costa2012-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Right now, slab and slub have fields in struct page to derive which cache a page belongs to, but they do it slightly differently. slab uses a field called slab_cache, that lives in the third double word. slub, uses a field called "slab", living outside of the doublewords area. Ideally, we could use the same field for this. Since slub heavily makes use of the doubleword region, there isn't really much room to move slub's slab_cache field around. Since slab does not have such strict placement restrictions, we can move it outside the doubleword area. The naming used by slab, "slab_cache", is less confusing, and it is preferred over slub's generic "slab". Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | Merge branch 'slab/procfs' into slab/nextPekka Enberg2012-10-24
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| | * | | slub: remove one code path and reduce lock contention in __slab_free()Joonsoo Kim2012-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we try to free object, there is some of case that we need to take a node lock. This is the necessary step for preventing a race. After taking a lock, then we try to cmpxchg_double_slab(). But, there is a possible scenario that cmpxchg_double_slab() is failed with taking a lock. Following example explains it. CPU A CPU B need lock ... need lock ... lock!! lock..but spin free success spin... unlock lock!! free fail In this case, retry with taking a lock is occured in CPU A. I think that in this case for CPU A, "release a lock first, and re-take a lock if necessary" is preferable way. There are two reasons for this. First, this makes __slab_free()'s logic somehow simple. With this patch, 'was_frozen = 1' is "always" handled without taking a lock. So we can remove one code path. Second, it may reduce lock contention. When we do retrying, status of slab is already changed, so we don't need a lock anymore in almost every case. "release a lock first, and re-take a lock if necessary" policy is helpful to this. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| * | | | Merge branch 'slab/procfs' into slab/for-linusPekka Enberg2012-12-18
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| | * | | sl[au]b: Process slabinfo_show in common codeGlauber Costa2012-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With all the infrastructure in place, we can now have slabinfo_show done from slab_common.c. A cache-specific function is called to grab information about the cache itself, since that is still heavily dependent on the implementation. But with the values produced by it, all the printing and handling is done from common code. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | | mm/sl[au]b: Move print_slabinfo_header to slab_common.cGlauber Costa2012-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The header format is highly similar between slab and slub. The main difference lays in the fact that slab may optionally have statistics added here in case of CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, while the slub will stick them somewhere else. By making sure that information conditionally lives inside a globally-visible CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB switch, we can move the header printing to a common location. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| | * | | mm/sl[au]b: Move slabinfo processing to slab_common.cGlauber Costa2012-10-24
| | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves all the common machinery to slabinfo processing to slab_common.c. We can do better by noticing that the output is heavily common, and having the allocators to just provide finished information about this. But after this first step, this can be done easier. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds2012-12-17
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton: "Incoming: - lots of misc stuff - backlight tree updates - lib/ updates - Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes - checkpatch - rtc - aoe - more checkpoint/restart support I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging later today after which that is good to go. A number of other things are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits) scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error. docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output docs: add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> output fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error ubifs: use prandom_bytes mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes ...
| * | | | mm: use kbasename()Andy Shevchenko2012-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"Andrew Morton2012-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead. Fix most of the sites. Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/memory.c: suppress warningAndrew Morton2012-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gcc-4.4.4 screws this up. mm/memory.c: In function 'do_pmd_numa_page': mm/memory.c:3594: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | mm,numa: fix update_mmu_cache_pmd callStephen Rothwell2012-12-17
|/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This build error is currently hidden by the fact that the x86 implementation of 'update_mmu_cache_pmd()' is a macro that doesn't use its last argument, but commit b32967ff101a ("mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case") introduced a call with the wrong third argument. In the akpm tree, it causes this build error: mm/migrate.c: In function 'migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page_put': mm/migrate.c:1666:2: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of 'update_mmu_cache_pmd' arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:792:20: note: expected 'struct pmd_t *' but argument is of type 'pmd_t' Fix it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Revert "bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads"Linus Torvalds2012-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 8fa72d234da9b6b473bbb1f74d533663e4996e6b. People disagree about how this should be done, so let's revert this for now so that nobody starts using the new tuning interface. Tejun is thinking about a more generic interface for thread pool affinity. Requested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-3.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2012-12-17
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull block layer core updates from Jens Axboe: "Here are the core block IO bits for 3.8. The branch contains: - The final version of the surprise device removal fixups from Bart. - Don't hide EFI partitions under advanced partition types. It's fairly wide spread these days. This is especially dangerous for systems that have both msdos and efi partition tables, where you want to keep them in sync. - Cleanup of using -1 instead of the proper NUMA_NO_NODE - Export control of bdi flusher thread CPU mask and default to using the home node (if known) from Jeff. - Export unplug tracepoint for MD. - Core improvements from Shaohua. Reinstate the recursive merge, as the original bug has been fixed. Add plugging for discard and also fix a problem handling non pow-of-2 discard limits. There's a trivial merge in block/blk-exec.c due to a fix that went into 3.7-rc at a later point than -rc4 where this is based." * 'for-3.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: export block_unplug tracepoint block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard block: discard granularity might not be power of 2 deadline: Allow 0ms deadline latency, increase the read speed partitions: enable EFI/GPT support by default bsg: Remove unused function bsg_goose_queue() block: Make blk_cleanup_queue() wait until request_fn finished block: Avoid scheduling delayed work on a dead queue block: Avoid that request_fn is invoked on a dead queue block: Let blk_drain_queue() caller obtain the queue lock block: Rename queue dead flag bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads block: use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 block: recursive merge requests block CFQ: avoid moving request to different queue
| * | | | bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threadsJeff Moyer2012-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In realtime environments, it may be desirable to keep the per-bdi flusher threads from running on certain cpus. This patch adds a cpu_list file to /sys/class/bdi/* to enable this. The default is to tie the flusher threads to the same numa node as the backing device (though I could be convinced to make it a mask of all cpus to avoid a change in behaviour). Thanks to Jeremy Eder for the original idea. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* | | | | mm: fix kernel BUG at huge_memory.c:1474!Hugh Dickins2012-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Andrea's autonuma-benchmark numa01 hits kernel BUG at huge_memory.c:1474! in change_huge_pmd called from change_protection from change_prot_numa from task_numa_work. That BUG, introduced in the huge zero page commit cad7f613c4d0 ("thp: change_huge_pmd(): make sure we don't try to make a page writable") was trying to verify that newprot never adds write permission to an anonymous huge page; but Automatic NUMA Balancing's 4b10e7d562c9 ("mm: mempolicy: Implement change_prot_numa() in terms of change_protection()") adds a new prot_numa path into change_huge_pmd(), which makes no use of the newprot provided, and may retain the write bit in the pmd. Just move the BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry)) up into the !prot_numa block. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-12-16
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman: "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and autonuma which is in aa.git. In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9. The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108 mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331 tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437 srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397 The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas' results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a large machine with imbalanced node sizes. My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally. We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of migration even when it shows that overall performance is better. There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration. These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks." * tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits) mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case. mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy ...
| * | | | | mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalableIngo Molnar2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() appears to be too careful about locking the anon vma: while it needs protection against anon vma list modifications, it does not need exclusive access to the list itself. Transforming this exclusive lock to a read-locked rwsem removes a global lock from the hot path of page-migration intense threaded workloads which can cause pathological performance like this: 96.43% process 0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_trace_sched_switch | --- perf_trace_sched_switch __schedule schedule schedule_preempt_disabled __mutex_lock_common.isra.6 __mutex_lock_slowpath mutex_lock | |--50.61%-- rmap_walk | move_to_new_page | migrate_pages | migrate_misplaced_page | __do_numa_page.isra.69 | handle_pte_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | do_page_fault | page_fault | __memset_sse2 | | | --100.00%-- worker_thread | | | --100.00%-- start_thread | --49.39%-- page_lock_anon_vma try_to_unmap_anon try_to_unmap migrate_pages migrate_misplaced_page __do_numa_page.isra.69 handle_pte_fault handle_mm_fault __do_page_fault do_page_fault page_fault __memset_sse2 | --100.00%-- worker_thread start_thread With this change applied the profile is now nicely flat and there's no anon-vma related scheduling/blocking. Rename anon_vma_[un]lock() => anon_vma_[un]lock_write(), to make it clearer that it's an exclusive write-lock in that case - suggested by Rik van Riel. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsemIngo Molnar2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem, which will help in solving a page-migration scalability problem. (Addressed in a separate patch.) The conversion is simple and straightforward: in every case where we mutex_lock()ed we'll now down_write(). Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limitingMel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If there is excessive migration due to NUMA balancing it gets rate limited. It does this by counting the number of pages it has migrated recently but counts a transhuge page as 1 page. Account for it properly. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failuresMel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Subject says it all. Allocation failures and a failure to isolate should be accounted as a migration failure. This is partially another difference between base page and transhuge page migration. A base page migration makes multiple attempts for these conditions before it would be accounted for as a failure. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case ↵Mel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | build fix Commit "Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case" breaks the build because HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT and HPAGE_PMD_MASK defined to explode without CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE: mm/migrate.c: In function 'migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page_put': mm/migrate.c:1549: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1564: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1566: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1573: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1606: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1648: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING allows compilation without enabling transparent hugepages, so define the dummy function for such a configuration and only define migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page_put() when transparent hugepages are enabled. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.Mel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Note: This is very heavily based on a patch from Peter Zijlstra with fixes from Ingo Molnar, Hugh Dickins and Johannes Weiner. That patch put a lot of migration logic into mm/huge_memory.c where it does not belong. This version puts tries to share some of the migration logic with migrate_misplaced_page. However, it should be noted that now migrate.c is doing more with the pagetable manipulation than is preferred. The end result is barely recognisable so as before, the signed-offs had to be removed but will be re-added if the original authors are ok with it. Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case. It uses the page lock to serialize. No migration pte dance is necessary because the pte is already unmapped when we decide to migrate. [dhillf@gmail.com: Fix memory leak on isolation failure] [dhillf@gmail.com: Fix transfer of last_nid information] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancingMel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for automatic NUMA placement. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrateMel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PTE scanning rate and fault rates are two of the biggest sources of system CPU overhead with automatic NUMA placement. Ideally a proper policy would detect if a workload was properly placed, schedule and adjust the PTE scanning rate accordingly. We do not track the necessary information to do that but we at least know if we migrated or not. This patch scans slower if a page was not migrated as the result of a NUMA hinting fault up to sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max which is now higher than the previous default. Once every minute it will reset the scanner in case of phase changes. This is hilariously crude and the numbers are arbitrary. Workloads will converge quite slowly in comparison to what a proper policy should be able to do. On the plus side, we will chew up less CPU for workloads that have no need for automatic balancing. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for ↵Mel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | unlikely task<->node relationships Note: This two-stage filter was taken directly from the sched/numa patch "sched, numa, mm: Add the scanning page fault machinery" but is only a partial extraction. As the end result is not necessarily recognisable, the signed-offs-by had to be removed. Will be added back if requested. While it is desirable that all threads in a process run on its home node, this is not always possible or necessary. There may be more threads than exist within the node or the node might over-subscribed with unrelated processes. This can cause a situation whereby a page gets migrated off its home node because the threads clearing pte_numa were running off-node. This patch uses page->last_nid to build a two-stage filter before pages get migrated to avoid problems with short or unlikely task<->node relationships. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated pageHillf Danton2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass last_nid from misplaced page to newly allocated migration target page. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail pageHillf Danton2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass last_nid from head page to tail page. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frameMel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces a last_nid field to the page struct. This is used to build a two-stage filter in the next patch that is aimed at mitigating a problem whereby pages migrate to the wrong node when referenced by a process that was running off its home node. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
| * | | | | mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturatedMel Gorman2012-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If there are a large number of NUMA hinting faults and all of them are resulting in migrations it may indicate that memory is just bouncing uselessly around. NUMA balancing cost is likely exceeding any benefit from locality. Rate limit the PTE updates if the node is migration rate-limited. As noted in the comments, this distorts the NUMA faulting statistics. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>