linux/fs
Yu Zhao bd74fdaea1 mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks
To further exploit spatial locality, the aging prefers to walk page tables
to search for young PTEs and promote hot pages.  A kill switch will be
added in the next patch to disable this behavior.  When disabled, the
aging relies on the rmap only.

NB: this behavior has nothing similar with the page table scanning in the
2.4 kernel [1], which searches page tables for old PTEs, adds cold pages
to swapcache and unmaps them.

To avoid confusion, the term "iteration" specifically means the traversal
of an entire mm_struct list; the term "walk" will be applied to page
tables and the rmap, as usual.

An mm_struct list is maintained for each memcg, and an mm_struct follows
its owner task to the new memcg when this task is migrated.  Given an
lruvec, the aging iterates lruvec_memcg()->mm_list and calls
walk_page_range() with each mm_struct on this list to promote hot pages
before it increments max_seq.

When multiple page table walkers iterate the same list, each of them gets
a unique mm_struct; therefore they can run concurrently.  Page table
walkers ignore any misplaced pages, e.g., if an mm_struct was migrated,
pages it left in the previous memcg will not be promoted when its current
memcg is under reclaim.  Similarly, page table walkers will not promote
pages from nodes other than the one under reclaim.

This patch uses the following optimizations when walking page tables:
1. It tracks the usage of mm_struct's between context switches so that
   page table walkers can skip processes that have been sleeping since
   the last iteration.
2. It uses generational Bloom filters to record populated branches so
   that page table walkers can reduce their search space based on the
   query results, e.g., to skip page tables containing mostly holes or
   misplaced pages.
3. It takes advantage of the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when
   CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y.
4. It does not zigzag between a PGD table and the same PMD table
   spanning multiple VMAs. IOW, it finishes all the VMAs within the
   range of the same PMD table before it returns to a PGD table. This
   improves the cache performance for workloads that have large
   numbers of tiny VMAs [2], especially when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=5.

Server benchmark results:
  Single workload:
    fio (buffered I/O): no change

  Single workload:
    memcached (anon): +[8, 10]%
                Ops/sec      KB/sec
      patch1-7: 1147696.57   44640.29
      patch1-8: 1245274.91   48435.66

  Configurations:
    no change

Client benchmark results:
  kswapd profiles:
    patch1-7
      48.16%  lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
       8.20%  page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
       7.06%  _raw_spin_unlock_irq
       2.92%  ptep_clear_flush
       2.53%  __zram_bvec_write
       2.11%  do_raw_spin_lock
       2.02%  memmove
       1.93%  lru_gen_look_around
       1.56%  free_unref_page_list
       1.40%  memset

    patch1-8
      49.44%  lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
       6.19%  page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
       5.97%  _raw_spin_unlock_irq
       3.13%  get_pfn_folio
       2.85%  ptep_clear_flush
       2.42%  __zram_bvec_write
       2.08%  do_raw_spin_lock
       1.92%  memmove
       1.44%  alloc_zspage
       1.36%  memset

  Configurations:
    no change

Thanks to the following developers for their efforts [3].
  kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/23732/
[2] https://llvm.org/docs/ScudoHardenedAllocator.html
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202204160827.ekEARWQo-lkp@intel.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-9-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
..
9p 9p: Fix some kernel-doc comments 2022-07-02 18:52:21 +09:00
adfs fs: Convert block_read_full_page() to block_read_full_folio() 2022-05-09 16:21:44 -04:00
affs affs: use memcpy_to_page and remove replace kmap_atomic() 2022-08-01 19:53:31 +02:00
afs afs: Enable multipage folio support 2022-08-13 17:20:51 -07:00
autofs autofs: remove unused ino field inode 2022-07-17 17:31:42 -07:00
befs befs: Convert befs_symlink_read_folio() to use a folio 2022-08-02 12:34:03 -04:00
bfs fs: Convert block_read_full_page() to block_read_full_folio() 2022-05-09 16:21:44 -04:00
btrfs btrfs: convert process_page_range() to use filemap_get_folios_contig() 2022-09-11 20:26:03 -07:00
cachefiles cachefiles: narrow the scope of flushed requests when releasing fd 2022-07-05 16:12:21 +01:00
ceph We have a good pile of various fixes and cleanups from Xiubo, Jeff, 2022-08-11 12:41:07 -07:00
cifs cifs: Add helper function to check smb1+ server 2022-08-24 22:30:09 -05:00
coda coda: Convert coda_symlink_filler() to use a folio 2022-08-02 12:34:03 -04:00
configfs configfs: fix a race in configfs_{,un}register_subsystem() 2022-02-22 18:30:28 +01:00
cramfs cramfs: read_mapping_page() is synchronous 2022-08-02 12:34:02 -04:00
crypto We have a good pile of various fixes and cleanups from Xiubo, Jeff, 2022-08-11 12:41:07 -07:00
debugfs debugfs: Document that debugfs_create functions need not be error checked 2022-02-25 11:56:13 +01:00
devpts fsnotify: fix fsnotify hooks in pseudo filesystems 2022-01-24 14:17:02 +01:00
dlm fs: dlm: move kref_put assert for lkb structs 2022-08-01 09:31:46 -05:00
ecryptfs ecryptfs: Convert ecryptfs to read_folio 2022-05-09 16:21:45 -04:00
efivarfs efi: vars: Move efivar caching layer into efivarfs 2022-06-24 20:40:19 +02:00
efs efs: Convert efs symlinks to read_folio 2022-05-09 16:21:45 -04:00
erofs - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
exfat exfat: Drop superfluous new line for error messages 2022-08-01 10:14:07 +09:00
exportfs exportfs: support idmapped mounts 2022-04-28 16:31:10 +02:00
ext2 ext2: replace bh_submit_read() helper with bh_read() 2022-09-11 20:26:08 -07:00
ext4 - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
f2fs f2fs-for-6.0 2022-08-08 11:18:31 -07:00
fat Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
freevxfs freevxfs: Convert vxfs_immed_read_folio() to use a folio 2022-08-02 12:34:03 -04:00
fscache fscache: add tracepoint when failing cookie 2022-08-09 14:13:59 +01:00
fuse mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
gfs2 gfs2: replace ll_rw_block() 2022-09-11 20:26:06 -07:00
hfs hfs: Remove check for PageError 2022-06-29 08:51:06 -04:00
hfsplus Folio changes for 6.0 2022-08-03 10:35:43 -07:00
hostfs hostfs: Handle page write errors correctly 2022-08-02 12:34:02 -04:00
hpfs hpfs: Convert symlinks to read_folio 2022-05-09 16:21:45 -04:00
hugetlbfs iov_iter stuff, part 2, rebased 2022-08-08 20:04:35 -07:00
iomap New code for 6.0: 2022-08-11 13:11:49 -07:00
isofs isofs: replace ll_rw_block() 2022-09-11 20:26:06 -07:00
jbd2 jbd2: replace ll_rw_block() 2022-09-11 20:26:06 -07:00
jffs2 This pull request contains fixes for JFFS2, UBI and UBIFS 2022-06-03 14:42:24 -07:00
jfs Folio changes for 6.0 2022-08-03 10:35:43 -07:00
kernfs kernfs: Fix typo 'the the' in comment 2022-07-28 10:57:25 +02:00
ksmbd ksmbd: don't remove dos attribute xattr on O_TRUNC open 2022-08-15 21:07:01 -05:00
lockd lockd: detect and reject lock arguments that overflow 2022-08-04 10:28:48 -04:00
minix fs: Convert block_read_full_page() to block_read_full_folio() 2022-05-09 16:21:44 -04:00
netfs netfs: do not unlock and put the folio twice 2022-07-14 10:10:12 +02:00
nfs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 6.0 2022-08-22 11:40:01 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd NFSD 6.0 Release Notes 2022-08-09 14:56:49 -07:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: convert nilfs_find_uncommited_extent() to use filemap_get_folios_contig() 2022-09-11 20:26:03 -07:00
nls
notify fsnotify: Fix comment typo 2022-07-26 13:38:47 +02:00
ntfs ntfs: fix BUG_ON in ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() 2022-09-11 16:22:29 -07:00
ntfs3 ntfs3: replace ll_rw_block() 2022-09-11 20:26:07 -07:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: replace ll_rw_block() 2022-09-11 20:26:07 -07:00
omfs fs: Convert block_read_full_page() to block_read_full_folio() 2022-05-09 16:21:44 -04:00
openpromfs fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
orangefs orangefs: Remove test for folio error 2022-06-29 08:51:07 -04:00
overlayfs acl: handle idmapped mounts for idmapped filesystems 2022-08-17 11:23:31 +02:00
proc mm/swap: add swp_offset_pfn() to fetch PFN from swap entry 2022-09-26 19:46:05 -07:00
pstore EFI updates for v5.20 2022-08-03 14:38:02 -07:00
qnx4 fs: Convert block_read_full_page() to block_read_full_folio() 2022-05-09 16:21:44 -04:00
qnx6 fs: Convert mpage_readpage to mpage_read_folio 2022-05-09 16:21:44 -04:00
quota - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
ramfs ramfs: convert ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area() to use filemap_get_folios_contig() 2022-09-11 20:26:03 -07:00
reiserfs reiserfs: replace ll_rw_block() 2022-09-11 20:26:07 -07:00
romfs romfs: Convert romfs to read_folio 2022-05-09 16:21:46 -04:00
smbfs_common Add various fsctl structs 2022-05-23 20:24:12 -05:00
squashfs squashfs: don't call kmalloc in decompressors 2022-08-28 14:02:45 -07:00
sysfs kobject: kobj_type: remove default_attrs 2022-04-05 15:39:19 +02:00
sysv Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
tracefs tracefs: Fix syntax errors in comments 2022-06-17 19:01:28 -04:00
ubifs - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
udf udf: replace ll_rw_block() 2022-09-11 20:26:07 -07:00
ufs ufs: replace ll_rw_block() 2022-09-11 20:26:07 -07:00
unicode kbuild: unify cmd_copy and cmd_shipped 2022-02-14 10:37:32 +09:00
vboxsf vboxsf: Convert vboxsf to read_folio 2022-05-09 16:21:46 -04:00
verity fs-verity: mention btrfs support 2022-07-15 23:42:30 -07:00
xfs xfs: fix SB_BORN check in xfs_dax_notify_failure() 2022-09-11 16:22:29 -07:00
zonefs New code for 6.0: 2022-08-11 13:11:49 -07:00
aio.c iov_iter work, part 1 - isolated cleanups and optimizations. 2022-08-03 13:50:22 -07:00
anon_inodes.c
attr.c vfs: Check the truncate maximum size in inode_newsize_ok() 2022-08-08 10:39:29 -07:00
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c coredump: Snapshot the vmas in do_coredump 2022-03-08 12:55:29 -06:00
binfmt_elf_test.c binfmt_elf: Introduce KUnit test 2022-03-03 20:38:56 -08:00
binfmt_elf.c revert "fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE" 2022-04-15 14:49:56 -07:00
binfmt_flat.c binfmt_flat: Remove shared library support 2022-04-22 10:57:18 -07:00
binfmt_misc.c Fix regression due to "fs: move binfmt_misc sysctl to its own file" 2022-02-09 09:50:02 -08:00
binfmt_script.c
buffer.c fs/buffer: remove bh_submit_read() helper 2022-09-11 20:26:08 -07:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c binfmt_elf: Introduce KUnit test 2022-03-03 20:38:56 -08:00
coredump.c fs: do not compare against ->llseek 2022-07-16 09:19:15 -04:00
d_path.c
dax.c - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
dcache.c dcache: move the DCACHE_OP_COMPARE case out of the __d_lookup_rcu loop 2022-08-17 14:33:03 -07:00
direct-io.c iov_iter: advancing variants of iov_iter_get_pages{,_alloc}() 2022-08-08 22:37:22 -04:00
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c epoll: autoremove wakers even more aggressively 2022-07-17 17:31:40 -07:00
exec.c mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
fcntl.c keep iocb_flags() result cached in struct file 2022-06-10 16:10:23 -04:00
fhandle.c
file_table.c iov_iter work, part 1 - isolated cleanups and optimizations. 2022-08-03 13:50:22 -07:00
file.c fix the breakage in close_fd_get_file() calling conventions change 2022-06-05 15:03:03 -04:00
filesystems.c
fs_context.c vfs: fs_context: fix up param length parsing in legacy_parse_param 2022-01-18 09:23:19 +02:00
fs_parser.c
fs_pin.c
fs_struct.c
fs_types.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: avoid use-after-free after removing device 2022-08-28 14:02:43 -07:00
fsopen.c uninline may_mount() and don't opencode it in fspick(2)/fsopen(2) 2022-05-19 23:25:10 -04:00
init.c
inode.c fs: __file_remove_privs(): restore call to inode_has_no_xattr() 2022-08-18 09:39:33 +02:00
internal.h Cleanups (and one fix) around struct mount handling. 2022-06-04 19:00:05 -07:00
ioctl.c Fixes for 5.18-rc1: 2022-04-01 19:35:56 -07:00
Kconfig hugetlb: make hugetlb depends on SYSFS or SYSCTL 2022-09-11 20:26:10 -07:00
Kconfig.binfmt m68knommu: changes for linux 5.19 2022-05-30 10:56:18 -07:00
kernel_read_file.c fs/kernel_read_file: allow to read files up-to ssize_t 2022-06-16 19:58:21 -07:00
libfs.c fs: Convert simple_readpage to simple_read_folio 2022-05-09 16:21:44 -04:00
locks.c locks: Fix dropped call to ->fl_release_private() 2022-08-17 15:08:58 -04:00
Makefile io_uring: move to separate directory 2022-07-24 18:39:10 -06:00
mbcache.c - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
mount.h switch try_to_unlazy_next() to __legitimize_mnt() 2022-07-05 16:18:21 -04:00
mpage.c Folio changes for 6.0 2022-08-03 10:35:43 -07:00
namei.c fs.setgid.v6.0 2022-08-09 09:52:28 -07:00
namespace.c fs: require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in target namespace for idmapped mounts 2022-08-17 11:27:11 +02:00
no-block.c
nsfs.c
open.c iov_iter work, part 1 - isolated cleanups and optimizations. 2022-08-03 13:50:22 -07:00
pipe.c Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
pnode.c
pnode.h
posix_acl.c acl: handle idmapped mounts for idmapped filesystems 2022-08-17 11:23:31 +02:00
proc_namespace.c vfs: escape hash as well 2022-06-28 13:58:05 -04:00
read_write.c switch new_sync_{read,write}() to ITER_UBUF 2022-08-08 22:37:15 -04:00
readdir.c
remap_range.c - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
select.c select: Fix indefinitely sleeping task in poll_schedule_timeout() 2022-01-11 09:03:05 -08:00
seq_file.c rxrpc: Fix locking issue 2022-05-22 21:03:01 +01:00
signalfd.c Merge branch 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2022-01-17 05:49:30 +02:00
splice.c iter_to_pipe(): switch to advancing variant of iov_iter_get_pages() 2022-08-08 22:37:23 -04:00
stack.c
stat.c RISC-V Patches for the 5.19 Merge Window, Part 1 2022-05-31 14:10:54 -07:00
statfs.c
super.c fuse update for 6.0 2022-08-08 11:10:02 -07:00
sync.c riscv: compat: syscall: Add compat_sys_call_table implementation 2022-04-26 13:36:25 -07:00
sysctls.c fs: move namespace sysctls and declare fs base directory 2022-01-22 08:33:36 +02:00
timerfd.c
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: add /dev/userfaultfd for fine grained access control 2022-09-11 20:25:48 -07:00
utimes.c
xattr.c acl: move idmapped mount fixup into vfs_{g,s}etxattr() 2022-07-15 22:08:59 +02:00