2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
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/*
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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* Memory merging support.
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*
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* This code enables dynamic sharing of identical pages found in different
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* memory areas, even if they are not shared by fork()
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*
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2009-09-22 00:02:06 +00:00
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* Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Red Hat, Inc.
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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* Authors:
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* Izik Eidus
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* Andrea Arcangeli
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* Chris Wright
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2009-09-22 00:02:06 +00:00
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* Hugh Dickins
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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*
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* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
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2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
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*/
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#include <linux/errno.h>
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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#include <linux/mm.h>
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#include <linux/fs.h>
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2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
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#include <linux/mman.h>
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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#include <linux/sched.h>
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2017-02-08 17:51:29 +00:00
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#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
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2017-02-08 17:51:30 +00:00
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#include <linux/sched/coredump.h>
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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#include <linux/rwsem.h>
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#include <linux/pagemap.h>
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#include <linux/rmap.h>
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#include <linux/spinlock.h>
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#include <linux/jhash.h>
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#include <linux/delay.h>
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#include <linux/kthread.h>
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#include <linux/wait.h>
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#include <linux/slab.h>
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#include <linux/rbtree.h>
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ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
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#include <linux/memory.h>
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
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2009-09-23 22:56:04 +00:00
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#include <linux/swap.h>
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2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
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#include <linux/ksm.h>
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2013-02-23 00:32:28 +00:00
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#include <linux/hashtable.h>
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2011-01-13 23:47:10 +00:00
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#include <linux/freezer.h>
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2011-05-25 00:11:40 +00:00
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#include <linux/oom.h>
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2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
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#include <linux/numa.h>
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2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
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2009-12-15 01:59:22 +00:00
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#include "internal.h"
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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2013-02-23 00:35:03 +00:00
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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
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#define NUMA(x) (x)
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#define DO_NUMA(x) do { (x); } while (0)
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#else
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#define NUMA(x) (0)
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#define DO_NUMA(x) do { } while (0)
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#endif
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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/*
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* A few notes about the KSM scanning process,
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* to make it easier to understand the data structures below:
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*
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* In order to reduce excessive scanning, KSM sorts the memory pages by their
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* contents into a data structure that holds pointers to the pages' locations.
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*
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* Since the contents of the pages may change at any moment, KSM cannot just
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* insert the pages into a normal sorted tree and expect it to find anything.
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* Therefore KSM uses two data structures - the stable and the unstable tree.
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*
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* The stable tree holds pointers to all the merged pages (ksm pages), sorted
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* by their contents. Because each such page is write-protected, searching on
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* this tree is fully assured to be working (except when pages are unmapped),
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* and therefore this tree is called the stable tree.
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*
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* In addition to the stable tree, KSM uses a second data structure called the
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* unstable tree: this tree holds pointers to pages which have been found to
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* be "unchanged for a period of time". The unstable tree sorts these pages
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* by their contents, but since they are not write-protected, KSM cannot rely
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* upon the unstable tree to work correctly - the unstable tree is liable to
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* be corrupted as its contents are modified, and so it is called unstable.
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*
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* KSM solves this problem by several techniques:
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*
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* 1) The unstable tree is flushed every time KSM completes scanning all
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* memory areas, and then the tree is rebuilt again from the beginning.
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* 2) KSM will only insert into the unstable tree, pages whose hash value
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* has not changed since the previous scan of all memory areas.
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* 3) The unstable tree is a RedBlack Tree - so its balancing is based on the
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* colors of the nodes and not on their contents, assuring that even when
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* the tree gets "corrupted" it won't get out of balance, so scanning time
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* remains the same (also, searching and inserting nodes in an rbtree uses
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* the same algorithm, so we have no overhead when we flush and rebuild).
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* 4) KSM never flushes the stable tree, which means that even if it were to
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* take 10 attempts to find a page in the unstable tree, once it is found,
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* it is secured in the stable tree. (When we scan a new page, we first
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* compare it against the stable tree, and then against the unstable tree.)
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2013-02-23 00:36:03 +00:00
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*
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* If the merge_across_nodes tunable is unset, then KSM maintains multiple
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* stable trees and multiple unstable trees: one of each for each NUMA node.
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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*/
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/**
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* struct mm_slot - ksm information per mm that is being scanned
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* @link: link to the mm_slots hash list
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* @mm_list: link into the mm_slots list, rooted in ksm_mm_head
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2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
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* @rmap_list: head for this mm_slot's singly-linked list of rmap_items
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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* @mm: the mm that this information is valid for
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*/
|
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struct mm_slot {
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struct hlist_node link;
|
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struct list_head mm_list;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *rmap_list;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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struct mm_struct *mm;
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};
|
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/**
|
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* struct ksm_scan - cursor for scanning
|
|
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* @mm_slot: the current mm_slot we are scanning
|
|
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* @address: the next address inside that to be scanned
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
* @rmap_list: link to the next rmap to be scanned in the rmap_list
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* @seqnr: count of completed full scans (needed when removing unstable node)
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* There is only the one ksm_scan instance of this cursor structure.
|
|
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*/
|
|
|
|
struct ksm_scan {
|
|
|
|
struct mm_slot *mm_slot;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long address;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rmap_item **rmap_list;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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unsigned long seqnr;
|
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};
|
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2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
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/**
|
|
|
|
* struct stable_node - node of the stable rbtree
|
|
|
|
* @node: rb node of this ksm page in the stable tree
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
* @head: (overlaying parent) &migrate_nodes indicates temporarily on that list
|
|
|
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* @list: linked into migrate_nodes, pending placement in the proper node tree
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
* @hlist: hlist head of rmap_items using this ksm page
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
* @kpfn: page frame number of this ksm page (perhaps temporarily on wrong nid)
|
|
|
|
* @nid: NUMA node id of stable tree in which linked (may not match kpfn)
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
struct stable_node {
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
union {
|
|
|
|
struct rb_node node; /* when node of stable tree */
|
|
|
|
struct { /* when listed for migration */
|
|
|
|
struct list_head *head;
|
|
|
|
struct list_head list;
|
|
|
|
};
|
|
|
|
};
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
struct hlist_head hlist;
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
unsigned long kpfn;
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
|
|
|
|
int nid;
|
|
|
|
#endif
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
};
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/**
|
|
|
|
* struct rmap_item - reverse mapping item for virtual addresses
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
* @rmap_list: next rmap_item in mm_slot's singly-linked rmap_list
|
2009-12-15 01:59:25 +00:00
|
|
|
* @anon_vma: pointer to anon_vma for this mm,address, when in stable tree
|
2013-02-23 00:36:06 +00:00
|
|
|
* @nid: NUMA node id of unstable tree in which linked (may not match page)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* @mm: the memory structure this rmap_item is pointing into
|
|
|
|
* @address: the virtual address this rmap_item tracks (+ flags in low bits)
|
|
|
|
* @oldchecksum: previous checksum of the page at that virtual address
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
* @node: rb node of this rmap_item in the unstable tree
|
|
|
|
* @head: pointer to stable_node heading this list in the stable tree
|
|
|
|
* @hlist: link into hlist of rmap_items hanging off that stable_node
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *rmap_list;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:06 +00:00
|
|
|
union {
|
|
|
|
struct anon_vma *anon_vma; /* when stable */
|
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
|
|
|
|
int nid; /* when node of unstable tree */
|
|
|
|
#endif
|
|
|
|
};
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
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struct mm_struct *mm;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long address; /* + low bits used for flags below */
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
unsigned int oldchecksum; /* when unstable */
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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union {
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2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
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struct rb_node node; /* when node of unstable tree */
|
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struct { /* when listed from stable tree */
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|
struct stable_node *head;
|
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struct hlist_node hlist;
|
|
|
|
};
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
};
|
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|
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};
|
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|
|
#define SEQNR_MASK 0x0ff /* low bits of unstable tree seqnr */
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
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|
#define UNSTABLE_FLAG 0x100 /* is a node of the unstable tree */
|
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|
|
#define STABLE_FLAG 0x200 /* is listed from the stable tree */
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/* The stable and unstable tree heads */
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct rb_root one_stable_tree[1] = { RB_ROOT };
|
|
|
|
static struct rb_root one_unstable_tree[1] = { RB_ROOT };
|
|
|
|
static struct rb_root *root_stable_tree = one_stable_tree;
|
|
|
|
static struct rb_root *root_unstable_tree = one_unstable_tree;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Recently migrated nodes of stable tree, pending proper placement */
|
|
|
|
static LIST_HEAD(migrate_nodes);
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:32:28 +00:00
|
|
|
#define MM_SLOTS_HASH_BITS 10
|
|
|
|
static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(mm_slots_hash, MM_SLOTS_HASH_BITS);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static struct mm_slot ksm_mm_head = {
|
|
|
|
.mm_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(ksm_mm_head.mm_list),
|
|
|
|
};
|
|
|
|
static struct ksm_scan ksm_scan = {
|
|
|
|
.mm_slot = &ksm_mm_head,
|
|
|
|
};
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static struct kmem_cache *rmap_item_cache;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct kmem_cache *stable_node_cache;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct kmem_cache *mm_slot_cache;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/* The number of nodes in the stable tree */
|
2009-09-22 00:02:09 +00:00
|
|
|
static unsigned long ksm_pages_shared;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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|
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2009-09-22 00:02:10 +00:00
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/* The number of page slots additionally sharing those nodes */
|
2009-09-22 00:02:09 +00:00
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static unsigned long ksm_pages_sharing;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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|
|
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2009-09-22 00:02:11 +00:00
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/* The number of nodes in the unstable tree */
|
|
|
|
static unsigned long ksm_pages_unshared;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/* The number of rmap_items in use: to calculate pages_volatile */
|
|
|
|
static unsigned long ksm_rmap_items;
|
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|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Number of pages ksmd should scan in one batch */
|
2009-09-23 22:56:04 +00:00
|
|
|
static unsigned int ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = 100;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/* Milliseconds ksmd should sleep between batches */
|
2009-09-22 00:02:23 +00:00
|
|
|
static unsigned int ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs = 20;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Checksum of an empty (zeroed) page */
|
|
|
|
static unsigned int zero_checksum __read_mostly;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/* Whether to merge empty (zeroed) pages with actual zero pages */
|
|
|
|
static bool ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly;
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:35:03 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Zeroed when merging across nodes is not allowed */
|
|
|
|
static unsigned int ksm_merge_across_nodes = 1;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
static int ksm_nr_node_ids = 1;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:03 +00:00
|
|
|
#else
|
|
|
|
#define ksm_merge_across_nodes 1U
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
#define ksm_nr_node_ids 1
|
2013-02-23 00:35:03 +00:00
|
|
|
#endif
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
#define KSM_RUN_STOP 0
|
|
|
|
#define KSM_RUN_MERGE 1
|
|
|
|
#define KSM_RUN_UNMERGE 2
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
#define KSM_RUN_OFFLINE 4
|
|
|
|
static unsigned long ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP;
|
|
|
|
static void wait_while_offlining(void);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(ksm_thread_wait);
|
|
|
|
static DEFINE_MUTEX(ksm_thread_mutex);
|
|
|
|
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#define KSM_KMEM_CACHE(__struct, __flags) kmem_cache_create("ksm_"#__struct,\
|
|
|
|
sizeof(struct __struct), __alignof__(struct __struct),\
|
|
|
|
(__flags), NULL)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static int __init ksm_slab_init(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
rmap_item_cache = KSM_KMEM_CACHE(rmap_item, 0);
|
|
|
|
if (!rmap_item_cache)
|
|
|
|
goto out;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node_cache = KSM_KMEM_CACHE(stable_node, 0);
|
|
|
|
if (!stable_node_cache)
|
|
|
|
goto out_free1;
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
mm_slot_cache = KSM_KMEM_CACHE(mm_slot, 0);
|
|
|
|
if (!mm_slot_cache)
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out_free2;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
return 0;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
out_free2:
|
|
|
|
kmem_cache_destroy(stable_node_cache);
|
|
|
|
out_free1:
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
kmem_cache_destroy(rmap_item_cache);
|
|
|
|
out:
|
|
|
|
return -ENOMEM;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static void __init ksm_slab_free(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
kmem_cache_destroy(mm_slot_cache);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
kmem_cache_destroy(stable_node_cache);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
kmem_cache_destroy(rmap_item_cache);
|
|
|
|
mm_slot_cache = NULL;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static inline struct rmap_item *alloc_rmap_item(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2009-09-22 00:02:11 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *rmap_item;
|
|
|
|
|
2016-09-28 22:22:30 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item = kmem_cache_zalloc(rmap_item_cache, GFP_KERNEL |
|
|
|
|
__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (rmap_item)
|
|
|
|
ksm_rmap_items++;
|
|
|
|
return rmap_item;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static inline void free_rmap_item(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2009-09-22 00:02:11 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_rmap_items--;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->mm = NULL; /* debug safety */
|
|
|
|
kmem_cache_free(rmap_item_cache, rmap_item);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
static inline struct stable_node *alloc_stable_node(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2016-10-08 00:01:19 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* The allocation can take too long with GFP_KERNEL when memory is under
|
|
|
|
* pressure, which may lead to hung task warnings. Adding __GFP_HIGH
|
|
|
|
* grants access to memory reserves, helping to avoid this problem.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
return kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static inline void free_stable_node(struct stable_node *stable_node)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
kmem_cache_free(stable_node_cache, stable_node);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
static inline struct mm_slot *alloc_mm_slot(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
if (!mm_slot_cache) /* initialization failed */
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
return kmem_cache_zalloc(mm_slot_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static inline void free_mm_slot(struct mm_slot *mm_slot)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
kmem_cache_free(mm_slot_cache, mm_slot);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static struct mm_slot *get_mm_slot(struct mm_struct *mm)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2013-02-23 00:32:28 +00:00
|
|
|
struct mm_slot *slot;
|
|
|
|
|
hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28 01:06:00 +00:00
|
|
|
hash_for_each_possible(mm_slots_hash, slot, link, (unsigned long)mm)
|
2013-02-23 00:32:28 +00:00
|
|
|
if (slot->mm == mm)
|
|
|
|
return slot;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static void insert_to_mm_slots_hash(struct mm_struct *mm,
|
|
|
|
struct mm_slot *mm_slot)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
mm_slot->mm = mm;
|
2013-02-23 00:32:28 +00:00
|
|
|
hash_add(mm_slots_hash, &mm_slot->link, (unsigned long)mm);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:26 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* ksmd, and unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items(), must not touch an mm's
|
|
|
|
* page tables after it has passed through ksm_exit() - which, if necessary,
|
|
|
|
* takes mmap_sem briefly to serialize against them. ksm_exit() does not set
|
|
|
|
* a special flag: they can just back out as soon as mm_users goes to zero.
|
|
|
|
* ksm_test_exit() is used throughout to make this test for exit: in some
|
|
|
|
* places for correctness, in some places just to avoid unnecessary work.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* We use break_ksm to break COW on a ksm page: it's a stripped down
|
|
|
|
*
|
2016-02-12 21:01:56 +00:00
|
|
|
* if (get_user_pages(addr, 1, 1, 1, &page, NULL) == 1)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* put_page(page);
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* but taking great care only to touch a ksm page, in a VM_MERGEABLE vma,
|
|
|
|
* in case the application has unmapped and remapped mm,addr meanwhile.
|
|
|
|
* Could a ksm page appear anywhere else? Actually yes, in a VM_PFNMAP
|
|
|
|
* mmap of /dev/mem or /dev/kmem, where we would not want to touch it.
|
2016-02-12 21:02:21 +00:00
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* FAULT_FLAG/FOLL_REMOTE are because we do this outside the context
|
|
|
|
* of the process that owns 'vma'. We also do not want to enforce
|
|
|
|
* protection keys here anyway.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
static int break_ksm(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct page *page;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
int ret = 0;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
do {
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
2016-02-12 21:02:21 +00:00
|
|
|
page = follow_page(vma, addr,
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|
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|
FOLL_GET | FOLL_MIGRATION | FOLL_REMOTE);
|
2010-04-23 17:18:10 +00:00
|
|
|
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page))
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
break;
|
|
|
|
if (PageKsm(page))
|
2016-07-26 22:25:18 +00:00
|
|
|
ret = handle_mm_fault(vma, addr,
|
|
|
|
FAULT_FLAG_WRITE | FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
else
|
|
|
|
ret = VM_FAULT_WRITE;
|
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support
The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.
That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works. However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.
In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV. And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.
However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space. And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.
To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it. They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.
This is the mindless minimal patch to do this. A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.
Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.
Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-29 18:51:32 +00:00
|
|
|
} while (!(ret & (VM_FAULT_WRITE | VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV | VM_FAULT_OOM)));
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* We must loop because handle_mm_fault() may back out if there's
|
|
|
|
* any difficulty e.g. if pte accessed bit gets updated concurrently.
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* VM_FAULT_WRITE is what we have been hoping for: it indicates that
|
|
|
|
* COW has been broken, even if the vma does not permit VM_WRITE;
|
|
|
|
* but note that a concurrent fault might break PageKsm for us.
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* VM_FAULT_SIGBUS could occur if we race with truncation of the
|
|
|
|
* backing file, which also invalidates anonymous pages: that's
|
|
|
|
* okay, that truncation will have unmapped the PageKsm for us.
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* VM_FAULT_OOM: at the time of writing (late July 2009), setting
|
|
|
|
* aside mem_cgroup limits, VM_FAULT_OOM would only be set if the
|
|
|
|
* current task has TIF_MEMDIE set, and will be OOM killed on return
|
|
|
|
* to user; and ksmd, having no mm, would never be chosen for that.
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* But if the mm is in a limited mem_cgroup, then the fault may fail
|
|
|
|
* with VM_FAULT_OOM even if the current task is not TIF_MEMDIE; and
|
|
|
|
* even ksmd can fail in this way - though it's usually breaking ksm
|
|
|
|
* just to undo a merge it made a moment before, so unlikely to oom.
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* That's a pity: we might therefore have more kernel pages allocated
|
|
|
|
* than we're counting as nodes in the stable tree; but ksm_do_scan
|
|
|
|
* will retry to break_cow on each pass, so should recover the page
|
|
|
|
* in due course. The important thing is to not let VM_MERGEABLE
|
|
|
|
* be cleared while any such pages might remain in the area.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
return (ret & VM_FAULT_OOM) ? -ENOMEM : 0;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2012-03-21 23:34:11 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct vm_area_struct *find_mergeable_vma(struct mm_struct *mm,
|
|
|
|
unsigned long addr)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
|
|
|
|
if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
|
|
|
|
if (!vma || vma->vm_start > addr)
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE) || !vma->anon_vma)
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
return vma;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
static void break_cow(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long addr = rmap_item->address;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* It is not an accident that whenever we want to break COW
|
|
|
|
* to undo, we also need to drop a reference to the anon_vma.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2011-03-22 23:32:46 +00:00
|
|
|
put_anon_vma(rmap_item->anon_vma);
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
|
|
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
2012-03-21 23:34:11 +00:00
|
|
|
vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, addr);
|
|
|
|
if (vma)
|
|
|
|
break_ksm(vma, addr);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static struct page *get_mergeable_page(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long addr = rmap_item->address;
|
|
|
|
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
|
|
|
|
struct page *page;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
2012-03-21 23:34:11 +00:00
|
|
|
vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, addr);
|
|
|
|
if (!vma)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
page = follow_page(vma, addr, FOLL_GET);
|
2010-04-23 17:18:10 +00:00
|
|
|
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page))
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out;
|
2016-01-16 00:53:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (PageAnon(page)) {
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
flush_anon_page(vma, page, addr);
|
|
|
|
flush_dcache_page(page);
|
|
|
|
} else {
|
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
2015-11-06 02:49:19 +00:00
|
|
|
out:
|
|
|
|
page = NULL;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
|
|
|
return page;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* This helper is used for getting right index into array of tree roots.
|
|
|
|
* When merge_across_nodes knob is set to 1, there are only two rb-trees for
|
|
|
|
* stable and unstable pages from all nodes with roots in index 0. Otherwise,
|
|
|
|
* every node has its own stable and unstable tree.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
static inline int get_kpfn_nid(unsigned long kpfn)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2013-03-08 20:43:34 +00:00
|
|
|
return ksm_merge_across_nodes ? 0 : NUMA(pfn_to_nid(kpfn));
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
static void remove_node_from_stable_tree(struct stable_node *stable_node)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *rmap_item;
|
|
|
|
|
hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28 01:06:00 +00:00
|
|
|
hlist_for_each_entry(rmap_item, &stable_node->hlist, hlist) {
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
if (rmap_item->hlist.next)
|
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ksm_pages_sharing--;
|
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else
|
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ksm_pages_shared--;
|
2011-03-22 23:32:46 +00:00
|
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|
put_anon_vma(rmap_item->anon_vma);
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK;
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (stable_node->head == &migrate_nodes)
|
|
|
|
list_del(&stable_node->list);
|
|
|
|
else
|
|
|
|
rb_erase(&stable_node->node,
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
root_stable_tree + NUMA(stable_node->nid));
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
free_stable_node(stable_node);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* get_ksm_page: checks if the page indicated by the stable node
|
|
|
|
* is still its ksm page, despite having held no reference to it.
|
|
|
|
* In which case we can trust the content of the page, and it
|
|
|
|
* returns the gotten page; but if the page has now been zapped,
|
|
|
|
* remove the stale node from the stable tree and return NULL.
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
* But beware, the stable node's page might be being migrated.
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* You would expect the stable_node to hold a reference to the ksm page.
|
|
|
|
* But if it increments the page's count, swapping out has to wait for
|
|
|
|
* ksmd to come around again before it can free the page, which may take
|
|
|
|
* seconds or even minutes: much too unresponsive. So instead we use a
|
|
|
|
* "keyhole reference": access to the ksm page from the stable node peeps
|
|
|
|
* out through its keyhole to see if that page still holds the right key,
|
|
|
|
* pointing back to this stable node. This relies on freeing a PageAnon
|
|
|
|
* page to reset its page->mapping to NULL, and relies on no other use of
|
|
|
|
* a page to put something that might look like our key in page->mapping.
|
|
|
|
* is on its way to being freed; but it is an anomaly to bear in mind.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2013-02-23 00:36:03 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct page *get_ksm_page(struct stable_node *stable_node, bool lock_it)
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct page *page;
|
|
|
|
void *expected_mapping;
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
unsigned long kpfn;
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
|
mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration
We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough
to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS,
android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we
have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation.
For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. enhance
compaction algorithm, SLUB fallback to 0-order page, reserved memory,
vmalloc and so on) but if there are lots of non-movable pages in system,
their solutions are void in the long run.
So, this patch is to support facility to change non-movable pages with
movable. For the feature, this patch introduces functions related to
migration to address_space_operations as well as some page flags.
If a driver want to make own pages movable, it should define three
functions which are function pointers of struct
address_space_operations.
1. bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode);
What VM expects on isolate_page function of driver is to return *true*
if driver isolates page successfully. On returing true, VM marks the
page as PG_isolated so concurrent isolation in several CPUs skip the
page for isolation. If a driver cannot isolate the page, it should
return *false*.
Once page is successfully isolated, VM uses page.lru fields so driver
shouldn't expect to preserve values in that fields.
2. int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *mapping,
struct page *newpage, struct page *oldpage, enum migrate_mode);
After isolation, VM calls migratepage of driver with isolated page. The
function of migratepage is to move content of the old page to new page
and set up fields of struct page newpage. Keep in mind that you should
indicate to the VM the oldpage is no longer movable via
__ClearPageMovable() under page_lock if you migrated the oldpage
successfully and returns 0. If driver cannot migrate the page at the
moment, driver can return -EAGAIN. On -EAGAIN, VM will retry page
migration in a short time because VM interprets -EAGAIN as "temporal
migration failure". On returning any error except -EAGAIN, VM will give
up the page migration without retrying in this time.
Driver shouldn't touch page.lru field VM using in the functions.
3. void (*putback_page)(struct page *);
If migration fails on isolated page, VM should return the isolated page
to the driver so VM calls driver's putback_page with migration failed
page. In this function, driver should put the isolated page back to the
own data structure.
4. non-lru movable page flags
There are two page flags for supporting non-lru movable page.
* PG_movable
Driver should use the below function to make page movable under
page_lock.
void __SetPageMovable(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
It needs argument of address_space for registering migration family
functions which will be called by VM. Exactly speaking, PG_movable is
not a real flag of struct page. Rather than, VM reuses page->mapping's
lower bits to represent it.
#define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2
page->mapping = page->mapping | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE;
so driver shouldn't access page->mapping directly. Instead, driver
should use page_mapping which mask off the low two bits of page->mapping
so it can get right struct address_space.
For testing of non-lru movable page, VM supports __PageMovable function.
However, it doesn't guarantee to identify non-lru movable page because
page->mapping field is unified with other variables in struct page. As
well, if driver releases the page after isolation by VM, page->mapping
doesn't have stable value although it has PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE (Look at
__ClearPageMovable). But __PageMovable is cheap to catch whether page
is LRU or non-lru movable once the page has been isolated. Because LRU
pages never can have PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE in page->mapping. It is also
good for just peeking to test non-lru movable pages before more
expensive checking with lock_page in pfn scanning to select victim.
For guaranteeing non-lru movable page, VM provides PageMovable function.
Unlike __PageMovable, PageMovable functions validates page->mapping and
mapping->a_ops->isolate_page under lock_page. The lock_page prevents
sudden destroying of page->mapping.
Driver using __SetPageMovable should clear the flag via
__ClearMovablePage under page_lock before the releasing the page.
* PG_isolated
To prevent concurrent isolation among several CPUs, VM marks isolated
page as PG_isolated under lock_page. So if a CPU encounters PG_isolated
non-lru movable page, it can skip it. Driver doesn't need to manipulate
the flag because VM will set/clear it automatically. Keep in mind that
if driver sees PG_isolated page, it means the page have been isolated by
VM so it shouldn't touch page.lru field. PG_isolated is alias with
PG_reclaim flag so driver shouldn't use the flag for own purpose.
[opensource.ganesh@gmail.com: mm/compaction: remove local variable is_lru]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160618014841.GA7422@leo-test
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464736881-24886-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: John Einar Reitan <john.reitan@foss.arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-26 22:23:05 +00:00
|
|
|
expected_mapping = (void *)((unsigned long)stable_node |
|
|
|
|
PAGE_MAPPING_KSM);
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
again:
|
2015-04-15 23:14:08 +00:00
|
|
|
kpfn = READ_ONCE(stable_node->kpfn);
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
page = pfn_to_page(kpfn);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* page is computed from kpfn, so on most architectures reading
|
|
|
|
* page->mapping is naturally ordered after reading node->kpfn,
|
|
|
|
* but on Alpha we need to be more careful.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
smp_read_barrier_depends();
|
2015-04-15 23:14:08 +00:00
|
|
|
if (READ_ONCE(page->mapping) != expected_mapping)
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
goto stale;
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* We cannot do anything with the page while its refcount is 0.
|
|
|
|
* Usually 0 means free, or tail of a higher-order page: in which
|
|
|
|
* case this node is no longer referenced, and should be freed;
|
|
|
|
* however, it might mean that the page is under page_freeze_refs().
|
|
|
|
* The __remove_mapping() case is easy, again the node is now stale;
|
|
|
|
* but if page is swapcache in migrate_page_move_mapping(), it might
|
|
|
|
* still be our page, in which case it's essential to keep the node.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
while (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Another check for page->mapping != expected_mapping would
|
|
|
|
* work here too. We have chosen the !PageSwapCache test to
|
|
|
|
* optimize the common case, when the page is or is about to
|
|
|
|
* be freed: PageSwapCache is cleared (under spin_lock_irq)
|
|
|
|
* in the freeze_refs section of __remove_mapping(); but Anon
|
|
|
|
* page->mapping reset to NULL later, in free_pages_prepare().
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (!PageSwapCache(page))
|
|
|
|
goto stale;
|
|
|
|
cpu_relax();
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2015-04-15 23:14:08 +00:00
|
|
|
if (READ_ONCE(page->mapping) != expected_mapping) {
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
|
|
|
goto stale;
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:36:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (lock_it) {
|
2013-02-23 00:35:06 +00:00
|
|
|
lock_page(page);
|
2015-04-15 23:14:08 +00:00
|
|
|
if (READ_ONCE(page->mapping) != expected_mapping) {
|
2013-02-23 00:35:06 +00:00
|
|
|
unlock_page(page);
|
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
|
|
|
goto stale;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
return page;
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
stale:
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* We come here from above when page->mapping or !PageSwapCache
|
|
|
|
* suggests that the node is stale; but it might be under migration.
|
|
|
|
* We need smp_rmb(), matching the smp_wmb() in ksm_migrate_page(),
|
|
|
|
* before checking whether node->kpfn has been changed.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
smp_rmb();
|
2015-04-15 23:14:08 +00:00
|
|
|
if (READ_ONCE(stable_node->kpfn) != kpfn)
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
goto again;
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node);
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Removing rmap_item from stable or unstable tree.
|
|
|
|
* This function will clean the information from the stable/unstable tree.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
static void remove_rmap_item_from_tree(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (rmap_item->address & STABLE_FLAG) {
|
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node;
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *page;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node = rmap_item->head;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:06 +00:00
|
|
|
page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, true);
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!page)
|
|
|
|
goto out;
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
hlist_del(&rmap_item->hlist);
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
unlock_page(page);
|
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:21 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2015-11-06 02:49:13 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!hlist_empty(&stable_node->hlist))
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_pages_sharing--;
|
|
|
|
else
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_pages_shared--;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2011-03-22 23:32:46 +00:00
|
|
|
put_anon_vma(rmap_item->anon_vma);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:16 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
} else if (rmap_item->address & UNSTABLE_FLAG) {
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
unsigned char age;
|
|
|
|
/*
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
* Usually ksmd can and must skip the rb_erase, because
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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* root_unstable_tree was already reset to RB_ROOT.
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
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* But be careful when an mm is exiting: do the rb_erase
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* if this rmap_item was inserted by this scan, rather
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* than left over from before.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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*/
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age = (unsigned char)(ksm_scan.seqnr - rmap_item->address);
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2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
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BUG_ON(age > 1);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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if (!age)
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2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
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rb_erase(&rmap_item->node,
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2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
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root_unstable_tree + NUMA(rmap_item->nid));
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2009-09-22 00:02:11 +00:00
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ksm_pages_unshared--;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:16 +00:00
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rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
out:
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
cond_resched(); /* we're called from many long loops */
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static void remove_trailing_rmap_items(struct mm_slot *mm_slot,
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rmap_item **rmap_list)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
while (*rmap_list) {
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *rmap_item = *rmap_list;
|
|
|
|
*rmap_list = rmap_item->rmap_list;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
|
|
|
|
free_rmap_item(rmap_item);
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}
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}
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/*
|
2013-02-23 00:35:03 +00:00
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|
* Though it's very tempting to unmerge rmap_items from stable tree rather
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* than check every pte of a given vma, the locking doesn't quite work for
|
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|
|
* that - an rmap_item is assigned to the stable tree after inserting ksm
|
|
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|
* page and upping mmap_sem. Nor does it fit with the way we skip dup'ing
|
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|
* rmap_items from parent to child at fork time (so as not to waste time
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|
* if exit comes before the next scan reaches it).
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
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*
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* Similarly, although we'd like to remove rmap_items (so updating counts
|
|
|
|
* and freeing memory) when unmerging an area, it's easier to leave that
|
|
|
|
* to the next pass of ksmd - consider, for example, how ksmd might be
|
|
|
|
* in cmp_and_merge_page on one of the rmap_items we would be removing.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
static int unmerge_ksm_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
|
|
|
|
unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
unsigned long addr;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
int err = 0;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
for (addr = start; addr < end && !err; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksm_test_exit(vma->vm_mm))
|
|
|
|
break;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
if (signal_pending(current))
|
|
|
|
err = -ERESTARTSYS;
|
|
|
|
else
|
|
|
|
err = break_ksm(vma, addr);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
return err;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:23 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Only called through the sysfs control interface:
|
|
|
|
*/
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
static int remove_stable_node(struct stable_node *stable_node)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct page *page;
|
|
|
|
int err;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, true);
|
|
|
|
if (!page) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* get_ksm_page did remove_node_from_stable_tree itself.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
return 0;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:36:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_mapped(page))) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* This should not happen: but if it does, just refuse to let
|
|
|
|
* merge_across_nodes be switched - there is no need to panic.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
err = -EBUSY;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:03 +00:00
|
|
|
} else {
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
2013-02-23 00:36:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* The stable node did not yet appear stale to get_ksm_page(),
|
|
|
|
* since that allows for an unmapped ksm page to be recognized
|
|
|
|
* right up until it is freed; but the node is safe to remove.
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
* This page might be in a pagevec waiting to be freed,
|
|
|
|
* or it might be PageSwapCache (perhaps under writeback),
|
|
|
|
* or it might have been removed from swapcache a moment ago.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
set_page_stable_node(page, NULL);
|
|
|
|
remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node);
|
|
|
|
err = 0;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
unlock_page(page);
|
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
|
|
|
return err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static int remove_all_stable_nodes(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2016-01-14 23:20:54 +00:00
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node, *next;
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
int nid;
|
|
|
|
int err = 0;
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
for (nid = 0; nid < ksm_nr_node_ids; nid++) {
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
while (root_stable_tree[nid].rb_node) {
|
|
|
|
stable_node = rb_entry(root_stable_tree[nid].rb_node,
|
|
|
|
struct stable_node, node);
|
|
|
|
if (remove_stable_node(stable_node)) {
|
|
|
|
err = -EBUSY;
|
|
|
|
break; /* proceed to next nid */
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
2016-01-14 23:20:54 +00:00
|
|
|
list_for_each_entry_safe(stable_node, next, &migrate_nodes, list) {
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (remove_stable_node(stable_node))
|
|
|
|
err = -EBUSY;
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
return err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
static int unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items(void)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct mm_slot *mm_slot;
|
|
|
|
struct mm_struct *mm;
|
|
|
|
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
int err = 0;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.mm_slot = list_entry(ksm_mm_head.mm_list.next,
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
struct mm_slot, mm_list);
|
|
|
|
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
for (mm_slot = ksm_scan.mm_slot;
|
|
|
|
mm_slot != &ksm_mm_head; mm_slot = ksm_scan.mm_slot) {
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
mm = mm_slot->mm;
|
|
|
|
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
|
|
|
for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
|
|
|
|
break;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE) || !vma->anon_vma)
|
|
|
|
continue;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
err = unmerge_ksm_pages(vma,
|
|
|
|
vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (err)
|
|
|
|
goto error;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
remove_trailing_rmap_items(mm_slot, &mm_slot->rmap_list);
|
2016-05-12 22:42:21 +00:00
|
|
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.mm_slot = list_entry(mm_slot->mm_list.next,
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
struct mm_slot, mm_list);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
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if (ksm_test_exit(mm)) {
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2013-02-23 00:32:28 +00:00
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hash_del(&mm_slot->link);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
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list_del(&mm_slot->mm_list);
|
|
|
|
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
free_mm_slot(mm_slot);
|
|
|
|
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
|
|
|
|
mmdrop(mm);
|
2016-05-12 22:42:21 +00:00
|
|
|
} else
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Clean up stable nodes, but don't worry if some are still busy */
|
|
|
|
remove_all_stable_nodes();
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.seqnr = 0;
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
return 0;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
error:
|
|
|
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.mm_slot = &ksm_mm_head;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
return err;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
2009-09-22 00:02:23 +00:00
|
|
|
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static u32 calc_checksum(struct page *page)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
u32 checksum;
|
2011-11-25 15:14:39 +00:00
|
|
|
void *addr = kmap_atomic(page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
checksum = jhash2(addr, PAGE_SIZE / 4, 17);
|
2011-11-25 15:14:39 +00:00
|
|
|
kunmap_atomic(addr);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return checksum;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static int memcmp_pages(struct page *page1, struct page *page2)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
char *addr1, *addr2;
|
|
|
|
int ret;
|
|
|
|
|
2011-11-25 15:14:39 +00:00
|
|
|
addr1 = kmap_atomic(page1);
|
|
|
|
addr2 = kmap_atomic(page2);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
ret = memcmp(addr1, addr2, PAGE_SIZE);
|
2011-11-25 15:14:39 +00:00
|
|
|
kunmap_atomic(addr2);
|
|
|
|
kunmap_atomic(addr1);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return ret;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static inline int pages_identical(struct page *page1, struct page *page2)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return !memcmp_pages(page1, page2);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static int write_protect_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
|
|
|
|
pte_t *orig_pte)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page_vma_mapped_walk pvmw = {
|
|
|
|
.page = page,
|
|
|
|
.vma = vma,
|
|
|
|
};
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
int swapped;
|
|
|
|
int err = -EFAULT;
|
2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
|
|
|
unsigned long mmun_start; /* For mmu_notifiers */
|
|
|
|
unsigned long mmun_end; /* For mmu_notifiers */
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
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pvmw.address = page_address_in_vma(page, vma);
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if (pvmw.address == -EFAULT)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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goto out;
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2011-01-13 23:47:19 +00:00
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BUG_ON(PageTransCompound(page));
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2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
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|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
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|
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mmun_start = pvmw.address;
|
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mmun_end = pvmw.address + PAGE_SIZE;
|
2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
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mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
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|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw))
|
2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
|
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goto out_mn;
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2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
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if (WARN_ONCE(!pvmw.pte, "Unexpected PMD mapping?"))
|
|
|
|
goto out_unlock;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2017-02-24 22:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
if (pte_write(*pvmw.pte) || pte_dirty(*pvmw.pte) ||
|
|
|
|
(pte_protnone(*pvmw.pte) && pte_savedwrite(*pvmw.pte))) {
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
pte_t entry;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
swapped = PageSwapCache(page);
|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
|
|
|
flush_cache_page(vma, pvmw.address, page_to_pfn(page));
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
2011-03-31 01:57:33 +00:00
|
|
|
* Ok this is tricky, when get_user_pages_fast() run it doesn't
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* take any lock, therefore the check that we are going to make
|
|
|
|
* with the pagecount against the mapcount is racey and
|
|
|
|
* O_DIRECT can happen right after the check.
|
|
|
|
* So we clear the pte and flush the tlb before the check
|
|
|
|
* this assure us that no O_DIRECT can happen after the check
|
|
|
|
* or in the middle of the check.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
|
|
|
entry = ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Check that no O_DIRECT or similar I/O is in progress on the
|
|
|
|
* page
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:17 +00:00
|
|
|
if (page_mapcount(page) + 1 + swapped != page_count(page)) {
|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
|
|
|
set_pte_at(mm, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte, entry);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out_unlock;
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: fix bad user data when swapping
Building under memory pressure, with KSM on 2.6.36-rc5, collapsed with
an internal compiler error: typically indicating an error in swapping.
Perhaps there's a timing issue which makes it now more likely, perhaps
it's just a long time since I tried for so long: this bug goes back to
KSM swapping in 2.6.33.
Notice how reuse_swap_page() allows an exclusive page to be reused, but
only does SetPageDirty if it can delete it from swap cache right then -
if it's currently under Writeback, it has to be left in cache and we
don't SetPageDirty, but the page can be reused. Fine, the dirty bit
will get set in the pte; but notice how zap_pte_range() does not bother
to transfer pte_dirty to page_dirty when unmapping a PageAnon.
If KSM chooses to share such a page, it will look like a clean copy of
swapcache, and not be written out to swap when its memory is needed;
then stale data read back from swap when it's needed again.
We could fix this in reuse_swap_page() (or even refuse to reuse a
page under writeback), but it's more honest to fix my oversight in
KSM's write_protect_page(). Several days of testing on three machines
confirms that this fixes the issue they showed.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-03 00:49:08 +00:00
|
|
|
if (pte_dirty(entry))
|
|
|
|
set_page_dirty(page);
|
2017-02-24 22:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
if (pte_protnone(entry))
|
|
|
|
entry = pte_mkclean(pte_clear_savedwrite(entry));
|
|
|
|
else
|
|
|
|
entry = pte_mkclean(pte_wrprotect(entry));
|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
|
|
|
set_pte_at_notify(mm, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte, entry);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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}
|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
|
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*orig_pte = *pvmw.pte;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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err = 0;
|
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out_unlock:
|
2017-02-24 22:58:04 +00:00
|
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page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
|
2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
|
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|
out_mn:
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mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
out:
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return err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/**
|
|
|
|
* replace_page - replace page in vma by new ksm page
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
* @vma: vma that holds the pte pointing to page
|
|
|
|
* @page: the page we are replacing by kpage
|
|
|
|
* @kpage: the ksm page we replace page by
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* @orig_pte: the original value of the pte
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* Returns 0 on success, -EFAULT on failure.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
|
|
|
|
struct page *kpage, pte_t orig_pte)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
|
|
|
|
pmd_t *pmd;
|
|
|
|
pte_t *ptep;
|
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
|
|
|
pte_t newpte;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
spinlock_t *ptl;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long addr;
|
|
|
|
int err = -EFAULT;
|
2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
|
|
|
unsigned long mmun_start; /* For mmu_notifiers */
|
|
|
|
unsigned long mmun_end; /* For mmu_notifiers */
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
addr = page_address_in_vma(page, vma);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (addr == -EFAULT)
|
|
|
|
goto out;
|
|
|
|
|
2012-12-12 00:00:37 +00:00
|
|
|
pmd = mm_find_pmd(mm, addr);
|
|
|
|
if (!pmd)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out;
|
|
|
|
|
2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
|
|
|
mmun_start = addr;
|
|
|
|
mmun_end = addr + PAGE_SIZE;
|
|
|
|
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
|
|
|
|
if (!pte_same(*ptep, orig_pte)) {
|
|
|
|
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
|
2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out_mn;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* No need to check ksm_use_zero_pages here: we can only have a
|
|
|
|
* zero_page here if ksm_use_zero_pages was enabled alreaady.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (!is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(kpage))) {
|
|
|
|
get_page(kpage);
|
|
|
|
page_add_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr, false);
|
|
|
|
newpte = mk_pte(kpage, vma->vm_page_prot);
|
|
|
|
} else {
|
|
|
|
newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(kpage),
|
|
|
|
vma->vm_page_prot));
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(*ptep));
|
2014-11-13 02:46:09 +00:00
|
|
|
ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, addr, ptep);
|
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
|
|
|
set_pte_at_notify(mm, addr, ptep, newpte);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2016-01-16 00:52:16 +00:00
|
|
|
page_remove_rmap(page, false);
|
2011-01-13 23:46:28 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!page_mapped(page))
|
|
|
|
try_to_free_swap(page);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
|
|
|
|
err = 0;
|
2012-10-08 23:33:35 +00:00
|
|
|
out_mn:
|
|
|
|
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
out:
|
|
|
|
return err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* try_to_merge_one_page - take two pages and merge them into one
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
* @vma: the vma that holds the pte pointing to page
|
|
|
|
* @page: the PageAnon page that we want to replace with kpage
|
2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
|
|
|
* @kpage: the PageKsm page that we want to map instead of page,
|
|
|
|
* or NULL the first time when we want to use page as kpage.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* This function returns 0 if the pages were merged, -EFAULT otherwise.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *page, struct page *kpage)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
pte_t orig_pte = __pte(0);
|
|
|
|
int err = -EFAULT;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:25 +00:00
|
|
|
if (page == kpage) /* ksm page forked */
|
|
|
|
return 0;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!PageAnon(page))
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* We need the page lock to read a stable PageSwapCache in
|
|
|
|
* write_protect_page(). We use trylock_page() instead of
|
|
|
|
* lock_page() because we don't want to wait here - we
|
|
|
|
* prefer to continue scanning and merging different pages,
|
|
|
|
* then come back to this page when it is unlocked.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!trylock_page(page))
|
2009-12-15 01:59:17 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out;
|
2016-01-16 00:53:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
if (PageTransCompound(page)) {
|
2017-06-02 21:46:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (split_huge_page(page))
|
2016-01-16 00:53:03 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out_unlock;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* If this anonymous page is mapped only here, its pte may need
|
|
|
|
* to be write-protected. If it's mapped elsewhere, all of its
|
|
|
|
* ptes are necessarily already write-protected. But in either
|
|
|
|
* case, we need to lock and check page_count is not raised.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
|
|
|
if (write_protect_page(vma, page, &orig_pte) == 0) {
|
|
|
|
if (!kpage) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* While we hold page lock, upgrade page from
|
|
|
|
* PageAnon+anon_vma to PageKsm+NULL stable_node:
|
|
|
|
* stable_tree_insert() will update stable_node.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
set_page_stable_node(page, NULL);
|
|
|
|
mark_page_accessed(page);
|
2016-01-16 00:55:15 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Page reclaim just frees a clean page with no dirty
|
|
|
|
* ptes: make sure that the ksm page would be swapped.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (!PageDirty(page))
|
|
|
|
SetPageDirty(page);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
|
|
|
err = 0;
|
|
|
|
} else if (pages_identical(page, kpage))
|
|
|
|
err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte);
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
|
|
|
if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) && kpage && !err) {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:22 +00:00
|
|
|
munlock_vma_page(page);
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!PageMlocked(kpage)) {
|
|
|
|
unlock_page(page);
|
|
|
|
lock_page(kpage);
|
|
|
|
mlock_vma_page(kpage);
|
|
|
|
page = kpage; /* for final unlock */
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
2009-12-15 01:59:22 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2016-01-16 00:53:03 +00:00
|
|
|
out_unlock:
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
unlock_page(page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
out:
|
|
|
|
return err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* try_to_merge_with_ksm_page - like try_to_merge_two_pages,
|
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* but no new kernel page is allocated: kpage must already be a ksm page.
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
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*
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|
|
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* This function returns 0 if the pages were merged, -EFAULT otherwise.
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
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*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
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static int try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
|
|
|
|
struct page *page, struct page *kpage)
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
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struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
|
|
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
|
|
|
|
int err = -EFAULT;
|
|
|
|
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2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
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down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
2015-11-06 02:49:16 +00:00
|
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vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
|
|
|
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if (!vma)
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2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
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goto out;
|
|
|
|
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2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
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err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page, kpage);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:25 +00:00
|
|
|
if (err)
|
|
|
|
goto out;
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:36:06 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Unstable nid is in union with stable anon_vma: remove first */
|
|
|
|
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:25 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Must get reference to anon_vma while still holding mmap_sem */
|
2011-03-22 23:32:46 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->anon_vma = vma->anon_vma;
|
|
|
|
get_anon_vma(vma->anon_vma);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
|
|
out:
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
|
|
return err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* try_to_merge_two_pages - take two identical pages and prepare them
|
|
|
|
* to be merged into one page.
|
|
|
|
*
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
* This function returns the kpage if we successfully merged two identical
|
|
|
|
* pages into one ksm page, NULL otherwise.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*
|
2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
|
|
|
* Note that this function upgrades page to ksm page: if one of the pages
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* is already a ksm page, try_to_merge_with_ksm_page should be used.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct page *try_to_merge_two_pages(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
|
|
|
|
struct page *page,
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item,
|
|
|
|
struct page *tree_page)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
|
|
|
int err;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
|
|
|
err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(rmap_item, page, NULL);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!err) {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(tree_rmap_item,
|
2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
|
|
|
tree_page, page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
|
|
* If that fails, we have a ksm page with only one pte
|
|
|
|
* pointing to it: so break it.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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*/
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ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
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if (err)
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2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
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break_cow(rmap_item);
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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}
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2009-12-15 01:59:29 +00:00
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return err ? NULL : page;
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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}
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/*
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2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
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* stable_tree_search - search for page inside the stable tree
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* This function checks if there is a page inside the stable tree
|
|
|
|
* with identical content to the page that we are scanning right now.
|
|
|
|
*
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
* This function returns the stable tree node of identical content if found,
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* NULL otherwise.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct page *stable_tree_search(struct page *page)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
int nid;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rb_root *root;
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rb_node **new;
|
|
|
|
struct rb_node *parent;
|
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node;
|
|
|
|
struct stable_node *page_node;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
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|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
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page_node = page_stable_node(page);
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if (page_node && page_node->head != &migrate_nodes) {
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/* ksm page forked */
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2009-12-15 01:59:21 +00:00
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get_page(page);
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ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
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return page;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:21 +00:00
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}
|
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2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
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nid = get_kpfn_nid(page_to_pfn(page));
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
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|
root = root_stable_tree + nid;
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
again:
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
new = &root->rb_node;
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
parent = NULL;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
while (*new) {
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *tree_page;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
int ret;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:21 +00:00
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node = rb_entry(*new, struct stable_node, node);
|
2013-02-23 00:35:06 +00:00
|
|
|
tree_page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, false);
|
2015-11-06 02:49:10 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!tree_page) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* If we walked over a stale stable_node,
|
|
|
|
* get_ksm_page() will call rb_erase() and it
|
|
|
|
* may rebalance the tree from under us. So
|
|
|
|
* restart the search from scratch. Returning
|
|
|
|
* NULL would be safe too, but we'd generate
|
|
|
|
* false negative insertions just because some
|
|
|
|
* stable_node was stale.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
goto again;
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
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ret = memcmp_pages(page, tree_page);
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
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put_page(tree_page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
parent = *new;
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ret < 0)
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
new = &parent->rb_left;
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
else if (ret > 0)
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
new = &parent->rb_right;
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
else {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Lock and unlock the stable_node's page (which
|
|
|
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* might already have been migrated) so that page
|
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|
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* migration is sure to notice its raised count.
|
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* It would be more elegant to return stable_node
|
|
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* than kpage, but that involves more changes.
|
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*/
|
|
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tree_page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, true);
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (tree_page) {
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
unlock_page(tree_page);
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (get_kpfn_nid(stable_node->kpfn) !=
|
|
|
|
NUMA(stable_node->nid)) {
|
|
|
|
put_page(tree_page);
|
|
|
|
goto replace;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
return tree_page;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* There is now a place for page_node, but the tree may
|
|
|
|
* have been rebalanced, so re-evaluate parent and new.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (page_node)
|
|
|
|
goto again;
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!page_node)
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
list_del(&page_node->list);
|
|
|
|
DO_NUMA(page_node->nid = nid);
|
|
|
|
rb_link_node(&page_node->node, parent, new);
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
rb_insert_color(&page_node->node, root);
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
get_page(page);
|
|
|
|
return page;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
replace:
|
|
|
|
if (page_node) {
|
|
|
|
list_del(&page_node->list);
|
|
|
|
DO_NUMA(page_node->nid = nid);
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
rb_replace_node(&stable_node->node, &page_node->node, root);
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
get_page(page);
|
|
|
|
} else {
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
rb_erase(&stable_node->node, root);
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
page = NULL;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
stable_node->head = &migrate_nodes;
|
|
|
|
list_add(&stable_node->list, stable_node->head);
|
|
|
|
return page;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
2013-02-23 00:35:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* stable_tree_insert - insert stable tree node pointing to new ksm page
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* into the stable tree.
|
|
|
|
*
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
* This function returns the stable tree node just allocated on success,
|
|
|
|
* NULL otherwise.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct stable_node *stable_tree_insert(struct page *kpage)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
int nid;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long kpfn;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rb_root *root;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rb_node **new;
|
2015-11-06 02:49:10 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rb_node *parent;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
kpfn = page_to_pfn(kpage);
|
|
|
|
nid = get_kpfn_nid(kpfn);
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
root = root_stable_tree + nid;
|
2015-11-06 02:49:10 +00:00
|
|
|
again:
|
|
|
|
parent = NULL;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
new = &root->rb_node;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
while (*new) {
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *tree_page;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
int ret;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:21 +00:00
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node = rb_entry(*new, struct stable_node, node);
|
2013-02-23 00:35:06 +00:00
|
|
|
tree_page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, false);
|
2015-11-06 02:49:10 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!tree_page) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* If we walked over a stale stable_node,
|
|
|
|
* get_ksm_page() will call rb_erase() and it
|
|
|
|
* may rebalance the tree from under us. So
|
|
|
|
* restart the search from scratch. Returning
|
|
|
|
* NULL would be safe too, but we'd generate
|
|
|
|
* false negative insertions just because some
|
|
|
|
* stable_node was stale.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
goto again;
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
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|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
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ret = memcmp_pages(kpage, tree_page);
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put_page(tree_page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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parent = *new;
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if (ret < 0)
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new = &parent->rb_left;
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else if (ret > 0)
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new = &parent->rb_right;
|
|
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else {
|
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|
/*
|
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* It is not a bug that stable_tree_search() didn't
|
|
|
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* find this node: because at that time our page was
|
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|
|
* not yet write-protected, so may have changed since.
|
|
|
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*/
|
|
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|
return NULL;
|
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}
|
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}
|
|
|
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|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
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|
stable_node = alloc_stable_node();
|
|
|
|
if (!stable_node)
|
|
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|
return NULL;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&stable_node->hlist);
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node->kpfn = kpfn;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:21 +00:00
|
|
|
set_page_stable_node(kpage, stable_node);
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
DO_NUMA(stable_node->nid = nid);
|
2013-02-23 00:35:03 +00:00
|
|
|
rb_link_node(&stable_node->node, parent, new);
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
rb_insert_color(&stable_node->node, root);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:21 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
return stable_node;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
* unstable_tree_search_insert - search for identical page,
|
|
|
|
* else insert rmap_item into the unstable tree.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* This function searches for a page in the unstable tree identical to the
|
|
|
|
* page currently being scanned; and if no identical page is found in the
|
|
|
|
* tree, we insert rmap_item as a new object into the unstable tree.
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* This function returns pointer to rmap_item found to be identical
|
|
|
|
* to the currently scanned page, NULL otherwise.
|
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* This function does both searching and inserting, because they share
|
|
|
|
* the same walking algorithm in an rbtree.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
static
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *unstable_tree_search_insert(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
|
|
|
|
struct page *page,
|
|
|
|
struct page **tree_pagep)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rb_node **new;
|
|
|
|
struct rb_root *root;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rb_node *parent = NULL;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
int nid;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
nid = get_kpfn_nid(page_to_pfn(page));
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
root = root_unstable_tree + nid;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
new = &root->rb_node;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
while (*new) {
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *tree_page;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
int ret;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-11-09 15:58:23 +00:00
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
tree_rmap_item = rb_entry(*new, struct rmap_item, node);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
tree_page = get_mergeable_page(tree_rmap_item);
|
2015-11-06 02:49:19 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!tree_page)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
* Don't substitute a ksm page for a forked page.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
if (page == tree_page) {
|
|
|
|
put_page(tree_page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
ret = memcmp_pages(page, tree_page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
parent = *new;
|
|
|
|
if (ret < 0) {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
put_page(tree_page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
new = &parent->rb_left;
|
|
|
|
} else if (ret > 0) {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
put_page(tree_page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
new = &parent->rb_right;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:05 +00:00
|
|
|
} else if (!ksm_merge_across_nodes &&
|
|
|
|
page_to_nid(tree_page) != nid) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* If tree_page has been migrated to another NUMA node,
|
|
|
|
* it will be flushed out and put in the right unstable
|
|
|
|
* tree next time: only merge with it when across_nodes.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
put_page(tree_page);
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
} else {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
*tree_pagep = tree_page;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return tree_rmap_item;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->address |= UNSTABLE_FLAG;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->address |= (ksm_scan.seqnr & SEQNR_MASK);
|
2013-02-23 00:35:03 +00:00
|
|
|
DO_NUMA(rmap_item->nid = nid);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
rb_link_node(&rmap_item->node, parent, new);
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
rb_insert_color(&rmap_item->node, root);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:11 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_pages_unshared++;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* stable_tree_append - add another rmap_item to the linked list of
|
|
|
|
* rmap_items hanging off a given node of the stable tree, all sharing
|
|
|
|
* the same ksm page.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
static void stable_tree_append(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->head = stable_node;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->address |= STABLE_FLAG;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
hlist_add_head(&rmap_item->hlist, &stable_node->hlist);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:10 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (rmap_item->hlist.next)
|
|
|
|
ksm_pages_sharing++;
|
|
|
|
else
|
|
|
|
ksm_pages_shared++;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
2009-09-22 00:02:15 +00:00
|
|
|
* cmp_and_merge_page - first see if page can be merged into the stable tree;
|
|
|
|
* if not, compare checksum to previous and if it's the same, see if page can
|
|
|
|
* be inserted into the unstable tree, or merged with a page already there and
|
|
|
|
* both transferred to the stable tree.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*
|
|
|
|
* @page: the page that we are searching identical page to.
|
|
|
|
* @rmap_item: the reverse mapping into the virtual address of this page
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *tree_page = NULL;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *kpage;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
unsigned int checksum;
|
|
|
|
int err;
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node = page_stable_node(page);
|
|
|
|
if (stable_node) {
|
|
|
|
if (stable_node->head != &migrate_nodes &&
|
|
|
|
get_kpfn_nid(stable_node->kpfn) != NUMA(stable_node->nid)) {
|
|
|
|
rb_erase(&stable_node->node,
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
root_stable_tree + NUMA(stable_node->nid));
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node->head = &migrate_nodes;
|
|
|
|
list_add(&stable_node->list, stable_node->head);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
if (stable_node->head != &migrate_nodes &&
|
|
|
|
rmap_item->head == stable_node)
|
|
|
|
return;
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/* We first start with searching the page inside the stable tree */
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
kpage = stable_tree_search(page);
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (kpage == page && rmap_item->head == stable_node) {
|
|
|
|
put_page(kpage);
|
|
|
|
return;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
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if (kpage) {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:21 +00:00
|
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err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(rmap_item, page, kpage);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!err) {
|
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/*
|
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|
* The page was successfully merged:
|
|
|
|
* add its rmap_item to the stable tree.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
|
|
|
lock_page(kpage);
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_tree_append(rmap_item, page_stable_node(kpage));
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
|
|
|
unlock_page(kpage);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
put_page(kpage);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
ksm: take keyhole reference to page
There's a lamentable flaw in KSM swapping: the stable_node holds a
reference to the ksm page, so the page to be freed cannot actually be
freed until ksmd works its way around to removing the last rmap_item from
its stable_node. Which in some configurations may take minutes: not quite
responsive enough for memory reclaim. And we don't want to twist KSM and
its locking more tightly into the rest of mm. What a pity.
But although the stable_node needs to hold a pointer to the ksm page, does
it actually need to raise the reference count of that page?
No. It would need to do so if struct pages were ordinary kmalloc'ed
objects; but they are more stable than that, and reused in particular ways
according to particular rules.
Access to stable_node from its pointer in struct page is no problem, so
long as we never free a stable_node before the ksm page itself has been
freed. Access to struct page from its pointer in stable_node: reintroduce
get_ksm_page(), and let that peep out through its keyhole (the stable_node
pointer to ksm page), to see if that struct page still holds the right key
to open it (the ksm page mapping pointer back to this stable_node).
This relies upon the established way in which free_hot_cold_page() sets an
anon (including ksm) page->mapping to NULL; and relies upon no other user
of a struct page to put something which looks like the original
stable_node pointer (with two low bits also set) into page->mapping. It
also needs get_page_unless_zero() technique pioneered by speculative
pagecache; and uses rcu_read_lock() to keep the guarantees that gives.
There are several drivers which put pointers of their own into page->
mapping; but none of those could coincide with our stable_node pointers,
since KSM won't free a stable_node until it sees that the page has gone.
The only problem case found is the pagetable spinlock USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
places in struct page (my own abuse): to accommodate GENERIC_LOCKBREAK's
break_lock on 32-bit, that spans both page->private and page->mapping.
Since break_lock is only 0 or 1, again no confusion for get_ksm_page().
But what of DEBUG_SPINLOCK on 64-bit bigendian? When owner_cpu is 3
(matching PageKsm low bits), it might see 0xdead4ead00000003 in page->
mapping, which might coincide? We could get around that by... but a
better answer is to suppress USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, to stop bloating sizeof(struct page) in their case -
already proposed in an earlier mm/Kconfig patch.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:27 +00:00
|
|
|
* If the hash value of the page has changed from the last time
|
|
|
|
* we calculated it, this page is changing frequently: therefore we
|
|
|
|
* don't want to insert it in the unstable tree, and we don't want
|
|
|
|
* to waste our time searching for something identical to it there.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
checksum = calc_checksum(page);
|
|
|
|
if (rmap_item->oldchecksum != checksum) {
|
|
|
|
rmap_item->oldchecksum = checksum;
|
|
|
|
return;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Same checksum as an empty page. We attempt to merge it with the
|
|
|
|
* appropriate zero page if the user enabled this via sysfs.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (ksm_use_zero_pages && (checksum == zero_checksum)) {
|
|
|
|
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
vma = find_mergeable_vma(rmap_item->mm, rmap_item->address);
|
|
|
|
err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
|
|
|
|
ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we
|
|
|
|
* need to continue. Otherwise we're done.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (!err)
|
|
|
|
return;
|
|
|
|
}
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
tree_rmap_item =
|
|
|
|
unstable_tree_search_insert(rmap_item, page, &tree_page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (tree_rmap_item) {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
kpage = try_to_merge_two_pages(rmap_item, page,
|
|
|
|
tree_rmap_item, tree_page);
|
|
|
|
put_page(tree_page);
|
|
|
|
if (kpage) {
|
2013-02-23 00:36:06 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* The pages were successfully merged: insert new
|
|
|
|
* node in the stable tree and add both rmap_items.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
|
|
|
lock_page(kpage);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node = stable_tree_insert(kpage);
|
|
|
|
if (stable_node) {
|
|
|
|
stable_tree_append(tree_rmap_item, stable_node);
|
|
|
|
stable_tree_append(rmap_item, stable_node);
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
|
|
|
unlock_page(kpage);
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* If we fail to insert the page into the stable tree,
|
|
|
|
* we will have 2 virtual addresses that are pointing
|
|
|
|
* to a ksm page left outside the stable tree,
|
|
|
|
* in which case we need to break_cow on both.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!stable_node) {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:18 +00:00
|
|
|
break_cow(tree_rmap_item);
|
|
|
|
break_cow(rmap_item);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static struct rmap_item *get_next_rmap_item(struct mm_slot *mm_slot,
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rmap_item **rmap_list,
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
unsigned long addr)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *rmap_item;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
while (*rmap_list) {
|
|
|
|
rmap_item = *rmap_list;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:16 +00:00
|
|
|
if ((rmap_item->address & PAGE_MASK) == addr)
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return rmap_item;
|
|
|
|
if (rmap_item->address > addr)
|
|
|
|
break;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
*rmap_list = rmap_item->rmap_list;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(rmap_item);
|
|
|
|
free_rmap_item(rmap_item);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
rmap_item = alloc_rmap_item();
|
|
|
|
if (rmap_item) {
|
|
|
|
/* It has already been zeroed */
|
|
|
|
rmap_item->mm = mm_slot->mm;
|
|
|
|
rmap_item->address = addr;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->rmap_list = *rmap_list;
|
|
|
|
*rmap_list = rmap_item;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
return rmap_item;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static struct rmap_item *scan_get_next_rmap_item(struct page **page)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct mm_struct *mm;
|
|
|
|
struct mm_slot *slot;
|
|
|
|
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *rmap_item;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
int nid;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
if (list_empty(&ksm_mm_head.mm_list))
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
slot = ksm_scan.mm_slot;
|
|
|
|
if (slot == &ksm_mm_head) {
|
2011-01-13 23:47:29 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* A number of pages can hang around indefinitely on per-cpu
|
|
|
|
* pagevecs, raised page count preventing write_protect_page
|
|
|
|
* from merging them. Though it doesn't really matter much,
|
|
|
|
* it is puzzling to see some stuck in pages_volatile until
|
|
|
|
* other activity jostles them out, and they also prevented
|
|
|
|
* LTP's KSM test from succeeding deterministically; so drain
|
|
|
|
* them here (here rather than on entry to ksm_do_scan(),
|
|
|
|
* so we don't IPI too often when pages_to_scan is set low).
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
lru_add_drain_all();
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Whereas stale stable_nodes on the stable_tree itself
|
|
|
|
* get pruned in the regular course of stable_tree_search(),
|
|
|
|
* those moved out to the migrate_nodes list can accumulate:
|
|
|
|
* so prune them once before each full scan.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (!ksm_merge_across_nodes) {
|
2016-01-14 23:20:54 +00:00
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node, *next;
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *page;
|
|
|
|
|
2016-01-14 23:20:54 +00:00
|
|
|
list_for_each_entry_safe(stable_node, next,
|
|
|
|
&migrate_nodes, list) {
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, false);
|
|
|
|
if (page)
|
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
for (nid = 0; nid < ksm_nr_node_ids; nid++)
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
root_unstable_tree[nid] = RB_ROOT;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
|
|
|
slot = list_entry(slot->mm_list.next, struct mm_slot, mm_list);
|
|
|
|
ksm_scan.mm_slot = slot;
|
|
|
|
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
2011-06-15 22:08:58 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Although we tested list_empty() above, a racing __ksm_exit
|
|
|
|
* of the last mm on the list may have removed it since then.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (slot == &ksm_mm_head)
|
|
|
|
return NULL;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
next_mm:
|
|
|
|
ksm_scan.address = 0;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.rmap_list = &slot->rmap_list;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
mm = slot->mm;
|
|
|
|
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
|
|
|
|
vma = NULL;
|
|
|
|
else
|
|
|
|
vma = find_vma(mm, ksm_scan.address);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
for (; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE))
|
|
|
|
continue;
|
|
|
|
if (ksm_scan.address < vma->vm_start)
|
|
|
|
ksm_scan.address = vma->vm_start;
|
|
|
|
if (!vma->anon_vma)
|
|
|
|
ksm_scan.address = vma->vm_end;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
while (ksm_scan.address < vma->vm_end) {
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
|
|
|
|
break;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*page = follow_page(vma, ksm_scan.address, FOLL_GET);
|
2011-01-13 23:47:00 +00:00
|
|
|
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(*page)) {
|
|
|
|
ksm_scan.address += PAGE_SIZE;
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
|
|
|
continue;
|
|
|
|
}
|
2016-01-16 00:53:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (PageAnon(*page)) {
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
flush_anon_page(vma, *page, ksm_scan.address);
|
|
|
|
flush_dcache_page(*page);
|
|
|
|
rmap_item = get_next_rmap_item(slot,
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.rmap_list, ksm_scan.address);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (rmap_item) {
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.rmap_list =
|
|
|
|
&rmap_item->rmap_list;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.address += PAGE_SIZE;
|
|
|
|
} else
|
|
|
|
put_page(*page);
|
|
|
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
|
|
|
return rmap_item;
|
|
|
|
}
|
2011-01-13 23:47:00 +00:00
|
|
|
put_page(*page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.address += PAGE_SIZE;
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksm_test_exit(mm)) {
|
|
|
|
ksm_scan.address = 0;
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.rmap_list = &slot->rmap_list;
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Nuke all the rmap_items that are above this current rmap:
|
|
|
|
* because there were no VM_MERGEABLE vmas with such addresses.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
|
|
|
remove_trailing_rmap_items(slot, ksm_scan.rmap_list);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_scan.mm_slot = list_entry(slot->mm_list.next,
|
|
|
|
struct mm_slot, mm_list);
|
|
|
|
if (ksm_scan.address == 0) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* We've completed a full scan of all vmas, holding mmap_sem
|
|
|
|
* throughout, and found no VM_MERGEABLE: so do the same as
|
|
|
|
* __ksm_exit does to remove this mm from all our lists now.
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
* This applies either when cleaning up after __ksm_exit
|
|
|
|
* (but beware: we can reach here even before __ksm_exit),
|
|
|
|
* or when all VM_MERGEABLE areas have been unmapped (and
|
|
|
|
* mmap_sem then protects against race with MADV_MERGEABLE).
|
2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
2013-02-23 00:32:28 +00:00
|
|
|
hash_del(&slot->link);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
list_del(&slot->mm_list);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
free_mm_slot(slot);
|
|
|
|
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
|
|
|
mmdrop(mm);
|
|
|
|
} else {
|
|
|
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
2016-05-12 22:42:21 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) first because after
|
|
|
|
* spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock) run, the "mm" may
|
|
|
|
* already have been freed under us by __ksm_exit()
|
|
|
|
* because the "mm_slot" is still hashed and
|
|
|
|
* ksm_scan.mm_slot doesn't point to it anymore.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/* Repeat until we've completed scanning the whole list */
|
2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
slot = ksm_scan.mm_slot;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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if (slot != &ksm_mm_head)
|
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goto next_mm;
|
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ksm_scan.seqnr++;
|
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return NULL;
|
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}
|
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|
/**
|
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|
* ksm_do_scan - the ksm scanner main worker function.
|
|
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|
* @scan_npages - number of pages we want to scan before we return.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
static void ksm_do_scan(unsigned int scan_npages)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct rmap_item *rmap_item;
|
2010-04-23 17:18:10 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *uninitialized_var(page);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2011-01-13 23:47:10 +00:00
|
|
|
while (scan_npages-- && likely(!freezing(current))) {
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
|
|
|
rmap_item = scan_get_next_rmap_item(&page);
|
|
|
|
if (!rmap_item)
|
|
|
|
return;
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
cmp_and_merge_page(page, rmap_item);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
put_page(page);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
static int ksmd_should_run(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return (ksm_run & KSM_RUN_MERGE) && !list_empty(&ksm_mm_head.mm_list);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2011-01-13 23:47:10 +00:00
|
|
|
set_freezable();
|
2009-09-22 00:02:07 +00:00
|
|
|
set_user_nice(current, 5);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
|
2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
wait_while_offlining();
|
2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksmd_should_run())
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_do_scan(ksm_thread_pages_to_scan);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
|
|
|
|
2011-01-13 23:47:10 +00:00
|
|
|
try_to_freeze();
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksmd_should_run()) {
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
schedule_timeout_interruptible(
|
|
|
|
msecs_to_jiffies(ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs));
|
|
|
|
} else {
|
2011-01-13 23:47:10 +00:00
|
|
|
wait_event_freezable(ksm_thread_wait,
|
2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
ksmd_should_run() || kthread_should_stop());
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
return 0;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
|
|
|
int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
|
|
|
|
unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
int err;
|
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
switch (advice) {
|
|
|
|
case MADV_MERGEABLE:
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Be somewhat over-protective for now!
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (*vm_flags & (VM_MERGEABLE | VM_SHARED | VM_MAYSHARE |
|
|
|
|
VM_PFNMAP | VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND |
|
2015-02-10 22:10:04 +00:00
|
|
|
VM_HUGETLB | VM_MIXEDMAP))
|
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
|
|
|
return 0; /* just ignore the advice */
|
|
|
|
|
2012-10-08 23:28:37 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef VM_SAO
|
|
|
|
if (*vm_flags & VM_SAO)
|
|
|
|
return 0;
|
|
|
|
#endif
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags)) {
|
|
|
|
err = __ksm_enter(mm);
|
|
|
|
if (err)
|
|
|
|
return err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
*vm_flags |= VM_MERGEABLE;
|
|
|
|
break;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
case MADV_UNMERGEABLE:
|
|
|
|
if (!(*vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE))
|
|
|
|
return 0; /* just ignore the advice */
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
if (vma->anon_vma) {
|
|
|
|
err = unmerge_ksm_pages(vma, start, end);
|
|
|
|
if (err)
|
|
|
|
return err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
*vm_flags &= ~VM_MERGEABLE;
|
|
|
|
break;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
return 0;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
int __ksm_enter(struct mm_struct *mm)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
struct mm_slot *mm_slot;
|
|
|
|
int needs_wakeup;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
mm_slot = alloc_mm_slot();
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!mm_slot)
|
|
|
|
return -ENOMEM;
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Check ksm_run too? Would need tighter locking */
|
|
|
|
needs_wakeup = list_empty(&ksm_mm_head.mm_list);
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
|
|
|
insert_to_mm_slots_hash(mm, mm_slot);
|
|
|
|
/*
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
* When KSM_RUN_MERGE (or KSM_RUN_STOP),
|
|
|
|
* insert just behind the scanning cursor, to let the area settle
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
* down a little; when fork is followed by immediate exec, we don't
|
|
|
|
* want ksmd to waste time setting up and tearing down an rmap_list.
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
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*
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* But when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE, it's important to insert ahead of its
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* scanning cursor, otherwise KSM pages in newly forked mms will be
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* missed: then we might as well insert at the end of the list.
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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*/
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ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
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if (ksm_run & KSM_RUN_UNMERGE)
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list_add_tail(&mm_slot->mm_list, &ksm_mm_head.mm_list);
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else
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list_add_tail(&mm_slot->mm_list, &ksm_scan.mm_slot->mm_list);
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
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2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
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set_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
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2017-02-27 22:30:07 +00:00
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mmgrab(mm);
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2009-09-22 00:02:14 +00:00
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if (needs_wakeup)
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wake_up_interruptible(&ksm_thread_wait);
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2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
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return 0;
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}
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ksm: fix deadlock with munlock in exit_mmap
Rawhide users have reported hang at startup when cryptsetup is run: the
same problem can be simply reproduced by running a program int main() {
mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); return 0; }
The problem is that exit_mmap() applies munlock_vma_pages_all() to
clean up VM_LOCKED areas, and its current implementation (stupidly)
tries to fault in absent pages, for example where PROT_NONE prevented
them being faulted in when mlocking. Whereas the "ksm: fix oom
deadlock" patch, knowing there's a race by which KSM might try to fault
in pages after exit_mmap() had finally zapped the range, backs out of
such faults doing nothing when its ksm_test_exit() notices mm_users 0.
So revert that part of "ksm: fix oom deadlock" which moved the
ksm_exit() call from before exit_mmap() to the middle of exit_mmap();
and remove those ksm_test_exit() checks from the page fault paths, so
allowing the munlocking to proceed without interference.
ksm_exit, if there are rmap_items still chained on this mm slot, takes
mmap_sem write side: so preventing KSM from working on an mm while
exit_mmap runs. And KSM will bail out as soon as it notices that
mm_users is already zero, thanks to its internal ksm_test_exit checks.
So that when a task is killed by OOM killer or the user, KSM will not
indefinitely prevent it from running exit_mmap to release its memory.
This does break a part of what "ksm: fix oom deadlock" was trying to
achieve. When unmerging KSM (echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm), and even
when ksmd itself has to cancel a KSM page, it is possible that the
first OOM-kill victim would be the KSM process being faulted: then its
memory won't be freed until a second victim has been selected (freeing
memory for the unmerging fault to complete).
But the OOM killer is already liable to kill a second victim once the
intended victim's p->mm goes to NULL: so there's not much point in
rejecting this KSM patch before fixing that OOM behaviour. It is very
much more important to allow KSM users to boot up, than to haggle over
an unlikely and poorly supported OOM case.
We also intend to fix munlocking to not fault pages: at which point
this patch _could_ be reverted; though that would be controversial, so
we hope to find a better solution.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
Acked-for-now-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:22 +00:00
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void __ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
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2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
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{
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2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
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struct mm_slot *mm_slot;
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
int easy_to_free = 0;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
/*
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
* This process is exiting: if it's straightforward (as is the
|
|
|
|
* case when ksmd was never running), free mm_slot immediately.
|
|
|
|
* But if it's at the cursor or has rmap_items linked to it, use
|
|
|
|
* mmap_sem to synchronize with any break_cows before pagetables
|
|
|
|
* are freed, and leave the mm_slot on the list for ksmd to free.
|
|
|
|
* Beware: ksm may already have noticed it exiting and freed the slot.
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
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|
|
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2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
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spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
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|
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mm_slot = get_mm_slot(mm);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
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if (mm_slot && ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) {
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2009-12-15 01:59:19 +00:00
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if (!mm_slot->rmap_list) {
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2013-02-23 00:32:28 +00:00
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hash_del(&mm_slot->link);
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
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list_del(&mm_slot->mm_list);
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easy_to_free = 1;
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} else {
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list_move(&mm_slot->mm_list,
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&ksm_scan.mm_slot->mm_list);
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}
|
2009-09-22 00:02:17 +00:00
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}
|
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spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:20 +00:00
|
|
|
if (easy_to_free) {
|
|
|
|
free_mm_slot(mm_slot);
|
|
|
|
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
|
|
|
|
mmdrop(mm);
|
|
|
|
} else if (mm_slot) {
|
|
|
|
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
|
|
|
up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
struct page *ksm_might_need_to_copy(struct page *page,
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
|
|
|
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
|
|
|
|
{
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
struct anon_vma *anon_vma = page_anon_vma(page);
|
ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
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struct page *new_page;
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ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
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if (PageKsm(page)) {
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if (page_stable_node(page) &&
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!(ksm_run & KSM_RUN_UNMERGE))
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return page; /* no need to copy it */
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} else if (!anon_vma) {
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return page; /* no need to copy it */
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} else if (anon_vma->root == vma->anon_vma->root &&
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page->index == linear_page_index(vma, address)) {
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return page; /* still no need to copy it */
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}
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if (!PageUptodate(page))
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return page; /* let do_swap_page report the error */
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ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
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new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, address);
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if (new_page) {
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copy_user_highpage(new_page, page, address, vma);
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SetPageDirty(new_page);
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__SetPageUptodate(new_page);
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2016-01-16 00:51:24 +00:00
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__SetPageLocked(new_page);
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ksm: let shared pages be swappable
Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add
page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when
faced with a PageKsm page.
Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the
stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in
this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or
try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch.
Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been
implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but
let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap.
Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that
page's node of the stable tree.
The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and
page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a
ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one
location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma.
(And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.)
ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate
page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to
rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page.
Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate
unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability.
Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the
particular case it was handling, so just use it instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:24 +00:00
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}
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return new_page;
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}
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2017-05-03 21:54:23 +00:00
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void rmap_walk_ksm(struct page *page, struct rmap_walk_control *rwc)
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ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
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{
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struct stable_node *stable_node;
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struct rmap_item *rmap_item;
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int search_new_forks = 0;
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2014-01-23 23:52:54 +00:00
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VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageKsm(page), page);
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2014-01-21 23:49:53 +00:00
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/*
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* Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications
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* to that page's node of the stable tree.
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*/
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2014-01-23 23:52:54 +00:00
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VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
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|
stable_node = page_stable_node(page);
|
|
|
|
if (!stable_node)
|
2017-05-03 21:54:23 +00:00
|
|
|
return;
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
again:
|
hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28 01:06:00 +00:00
|
|
|
hlist_for_each_entry(rmap_item, &stable_node->hlist, hlist) {
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
struct anon_vma *anon_vma = rmap_item->anon_vma;
|
mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue
The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking
workloads. Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent
process and all its child processes.
In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous
pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million
anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one
of the 1000 processes. However, the current rmap code needs to walk them
all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page.
This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of
1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on
the anon_vma lock. This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark
like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of
thousands. Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive
than AIM7, but they are catching up.
This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us
to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA. At fork time, each child
process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be
instantiated. The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because
non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children.
This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000
child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system.
This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from
O(N) to 2.
The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a
VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations. This means vma_adjust
can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures. This in
turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions.
A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple
anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under
"the" anon_vma lock. To prevent the rmap code from walking up an
incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag. This bit
flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h
to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic
values for the same bitflag.
Some test results:
Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test
box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running
>99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the
pageout code.
With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users.
This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in
system time. The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-05 21:42:07 +00:00
|
|
|
struct anon_vma_chain *vmac;
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
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|
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struct vm_area_struct *vma;
|
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|
|
|
2015-11-06 02:49:07 +00:00
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|
|
cond_resched();
|
2012-12-20 01:44:29 +00:00
|
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|
anon_vma_lock_read(anon_vma);
|
mm anon rmap: replace same_anon_vma linked list with an interval tree.
When a large VMA (anon or private file mapping) is first touched, which
will populate its anon_vma field, and then split into many regions through
the use of mprotect(), the original anon_vma ends up linking all of the
vmas on a linked list. This can cause rmap to become inefficient, as we
have to walk potentially thousands of irrelevent vmas before finding the
one a given anon page might fall into.
By replacing the same_anon_vma linked list with an interval tree (where
each avc's interval is determined by its vma's start and last pgoffs), we
can make rmap efficient for this use case again.
While the change is large, all of its pieces are fairly simple.
Most places that were walking the same_anon_vma list were looking for a
known pgoff, so they can just use the anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach()
interval tree iterator instead. The exception here is ksm, where the
page's index is not known. It would probably be possible to rework ksm so
that the index would be known, but for now I have decided to keep things
simple and just walk the entirety of the interval tree there.
When updating vma's that already have an anon_vma assigned, we must take
care to re-index the corresponding avc's on their interval tree. This is
done through the use of anon_vma_interval_tree_pre_update_vma() and
anon_vma_interval_tree_post_update_vma(), which remove the avc's from
their interval tree before the update and re-insert them after the update.
The anon_vma stays locked during the update, so there is no chance that
rmap would miss the vmas that are being updated.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-08 23:31:39 +00:00
|
|
|
anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach(vmac, &anon_vma->rb_root,
|
|
|
|
0, ULONG_MAX) {
|
2015-11-06 02:49:07 +00:00
|
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|
cond_resched();
|
mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue
The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking
workloads. Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent
process and all its child processes.
In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous
pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million
anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one
of the 1000 processes. However, the current rmap code needs to walk them
all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page.
This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of
1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on
the anon_vma lock. This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark
like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of
thousands. Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive
than AIM7, but they are catching up.
This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us
to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA. At fork time, each child
process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be
instantiated. The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because
non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children.
This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000
child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system.
This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from
O(N) to 2.
The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a
VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations. This means vma_adjust
can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures. This in
turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions.
A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple
anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under
"the" anon_vma lock. To prevent the rmap code from walking up an
incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag. This bit
flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h
to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic
values for the same bitflag.
Some test results:
Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test
box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running
>99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the
pageout code.
With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users.
This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in
system time. The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-05 21:42:07 +00:00
|
|
|
vma = vmac->vma;
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
if (rmap_item->address < vma->vm_start ||
|
|
|
|
rmap_item->address >= vma->vm_end)
|
|
|
|
continue;
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Initially we examine only the vma which covers this
|
|
|
|
* rmap_item; but later, if there is still work to do,
|
|
|
|
* we examine covering vmas in other mms: in case they
|
|
|
|
* were forked from the original since ksmd passed.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if ((rmap_item->mm == vma->vm_mm) == search_new_forks)
|
|
|
|
continue;
|
|
|
|
|
2014-01-21 23:49:49 +00:00
|
|
|
if (rwc->invalid_vma && rwc->invalid_vma(vma, rwc->arg))
|
|
|
|
continue;
|
|
|
|
|
2017-05-03 21:54:27 +00:00
|
|
|
if (!rwc->rmap_one(page, vma,
|
2017-05-03 21:54:23 +00:00
|
|
|
rmap_item->address, rwc->arg)) {
|
2012-12-20 01:44:29 +00:00
|
|
|
anon_vma_unlock_read(anon_vma);
|
2017-05-03 21:54:23 +00:00
|
|
|
return;
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
2014-01-21 23:49:49 +00:00
|
|
|
if (rwc->done && rwc->done(page)) {
|
|
|
|
anon_vma_unlock_read(anon_vma);
|
2017-05-03 21:54:23 +00:00
|
|
|
return;
|
2014-01-21 23:49:49 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
2012-12-20 01:44:29 +00:00
|
|
|
anon_vma_unlock_read(anon_vma);
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
if (!search_new_forks++)
|
|
|
|
goto again;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2014-01-21 23:49:50 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
void ksm_migrate_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *oldpage)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node;
|
|
|
|
|
2014-01-23 23:52:54 +00:00
|
|
|
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(oldpage), oldpage);
|
|
|
|
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(newpage), newpage);
|
|
|
|
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(newpage->mapping != oldpage->mapping, newpage);
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
stable_node = page_stable_node(newpage);
|
|
|
|
if (stable_node) {
|
2014-01-23 23:52:54 +00:00
|
|
|
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(stable_node->kpfn != page_to_pfn(oldpage), oldpage);
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node->kpfn = page_to_pfn(newpage);
|
ksm: make KSM page migration possible
KSM page migration is already supported in the case of memory hotremove,
which takes the ksm_thread_mutex across all its migrations to keep life
simple.
But the new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when
it's set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA
node, how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if
that collides with an existing stable node?
So far there's no provision for that, and this patch does not attempt to
deal with it either. But how will I test a solution, when I don't know
how to hotremove memory? The best answer is to enable KSM page migration
in all cases now, and test more common cases. With THP and compaction
added since KSM came in, page migration is now mainstream, and it's a
shame that a KSM page can frustrate freeing a page block.
Without worrying about merge_across_nodes 0 for now, this patch gets KSM
page migration working reliably for default merge_across_nodes 1 (but
leave the patch enabling it until near the end of the series).
It's much simpler than I'd originally imagined, and does not require an
additional tier of locking: page migration relies on the page lock, KSM
page reclaim relies on the page lock, the page lock is enough for KSM page
migration too.
Almost all the care has to be in get_ksm_page(): that's the function which
worries about when a stable node is stale and should be freed, now it also
has to worry about the KSM page being migrated.
The only new overhead is an additional put/get/lock/unlock_page when
stable_tree_search() arrives at a matching node: to make sure migration
respects the raised page count, and so does not migrate the page while
we're busy with it here. That's probably avoidable, either by changing
internal interfaces from using kpage to stable_node, or by moving the
ksm_migrate_page() callsite into a page_freeze_refs() section (even if not
swapcache); but this works well, I've no urge to pull it apart now.
(Descents of the stable tree may pass through nodes whose KSM pages are
under migration: being unlocked, the raised page count does not prevent
that, nor need it: it's safe to memcmp against either old or new page.)
You might worry about mremap, and whether page migration's rmap_walk to
remove migration entries will find all the KSM locations where it inserted
earlier: that should already be handled, by the satisfyingly heavy hammer
of move_vma()'s call to ksm_madvise(,,,MADV_UNMERGEABLE,).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:10 +00:00
|
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/*
|
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* newpage->mapping was set in advance; now we need smp_wmb()
|
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* to make sure that the new stable_node->kpfn is visible
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* to get_ksm_page() before it can see that oldpage->mapping
|
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* has gone stale (or that PageSwapCache has been cleared).
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*/
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smp_wmb();
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set_page_stable_node(oldpage, NULL);
|
ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes
A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.
Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).
rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.
For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:31 +00:00
|
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}
|
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}
|
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#endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */
|
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|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
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#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
static void wait_while_offlining(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
while (ksm_run & KSM_RUN_OFFLINE) {
|
|
|
|
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
|
|
|
wait_on_bit(&ksm_run, ilog2(KSM_RUN_OFFLINE),
|
sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions
The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action'
function to be provided which does the actual waiting.
There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical.
Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one
which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule().
So:
Rename wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock to
wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action
to make it explicit that they need an action function.
Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io
which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use
a standard one.
The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made
based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action
function.
All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which
can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their
action functions have been discarded.
wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the
event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and
interpolate their own error code as appropriate.
The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was
ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used
fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function.
David Howells confirms this should be uniformly
"uninterruptible"
The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS
which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call.
A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action'
functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan'
field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan).
As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they
will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack. So
the distinction will still be visible, only with different
function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the
gfs2/glock.c case).
Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action
functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS. CIFS also now
uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware
schedule call as NFS.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (fscache, keys)
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> (gfs2)
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-07 05:16:04 +00:00
|
|
|
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:35:05 +00:00
|
|
|
static void ksm_check_stable_tree(unsigned long start_pfn,
|
|
|
|
unsigned long end_pfn)
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
{
|
2016-01-14 23:20:54 +00:00
|
|
|
struct stable_node *stable_node, *next;
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
struct rb_node *node;
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
int nid;
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
for (nid = 0; nid < ksm_nr_node_ids; nid++) {
|
|
|
|
node = rb_first(root_stable_tree + nid);
|
2013-02-23 00:35:05 +00:00
|
|
|
while (node) {
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node = rb_entry(node, struct stable_node, node);
|
|
|
|
if (stable_node->kpfn >= start_pfn &&
|
2013-02-23 00:35:05 +00:00
|
|
|
stable_node->kpfn < end_pfn) {
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Don't get_ksm_page, page has already gone:
|
|
|
|
* which is why we keep kpfn instead of page*
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node);
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
node = rb_first(root_stable_tree + nid);
|
2013-02-23 00:35:05 +00:00
|
|
|
} else
|
|
|
|
node = rb_next(node);
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
2013-02-23 00:35:05 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
2016-01-14 23:20:54 +00:00
|
|
|
list_for_each_entry_safe(stable_node, next, &migrate_nodes, list) {
|
ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe
The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's
set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node,
how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that
collides with an existing stable node?
ksm_migrate_page() can do no more than it's already doing, updating
stable_node->kpfn: the stable tree itself cannot be manipulated without
holding ksm_thread_mutex. So accept that a stable tree may temporarily
indicate a page belonging to the wrong NUMA node, leave updating until the
next pass of ksmd, just be careful not to merge other pages on to a
misplaced page. Note nid of holding tree in stable_node, and recognize
that it will not always match nid of kpfn.
A misplaced KSM page is discovered, either when ksm_do_scan() next comes
around to one of its rmap_items (we now have to go to cmp_and_merge_page
even on pages in a stable tree), or when stable_tree_search() arrives at a
matching node for another page, and this node page is found misplaced.
In each case, move the misplaced stable_node to a list of migrate_nodes
(and use the address of migrate_nodes as magic by which to identify them):
we don't need them in a tree. If stable_tree_search() finds no match for
a page, but it's currently exiled to this list, then slot its stable_node
right there into the tree, bringing all of its mappings with it; otherwise
they get migrated one by one to the original page of the colliding node.
stable_tree_search() is now modelled more like stable_tree_insert(), in
order to handle these insertions of migrated nodes.
remove_node_from_stable_tree(), remove_all_stable_nodes() and
ksm_check_stable_tree() have to handle the migrate_nodes list as well as
the stable tree itself. Less obviously, we do need to prune the list of
stale entries from time to time (scan_get_next_rmap_item() does it once
each full scan): whereas stale nodes in the stable tree get naturally
pruned as searches try to brush past them, these migrate_nodes may get
forgotten and accumulate.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:11 +00:00
|
|
|
if (stable_node->kpfn >= start_pfn &&
|
|
|
|
stable_node->kpfn < end_pfn)
|
|
|
|
remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node);
|
|
|
|
cond_resched();
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static int ksm_memory_callback(struct notifier_block *self,
|
|
|
|
unsigned long action, void *arg)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct memory_notify *mn = arg;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
switch (action) {
|
|
|
|
case MEM_GOING_OFFLINE:
|
|
|
|
/*
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
* Prevent ksm_do_scan(), unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items()
|
|
|
|
* and remove_all_stable_nodes() while memory is going offline:
|
|
|
|
* it is unsafe for them to touch the stable tree at this time.
|
|
|
|
* But unmerge_ksm_pages(), rmap lookups and other entry points
|
|
|
|
* which do not need the ksm_thread_mutex are all safe.
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
|
|
|
ksm_run |= KSM_RUN_OFFLINE;
|
|
|
|
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
break;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
case MEM_OFFLINE:
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* Most of the work is done by page migration; but there might
|
|
|
|
* be a few stable_nodes left over, still pointing to struct
|
2013-02-23 00:35:05 +00:00
|
|
|
* pages which have been offlined: prune those from the tree,
|
|
|
|
* otherwise get_ksm_page() might later try to access a
|
|
|
|
* non-existent struct page.
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
2013-02-23 00:35:05 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_check_stable_tree(mn->start_pfn,
|
|
|
|
mn->start_pfn + mn->nr_pages);
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
/* fallthrough */
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
case MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE:
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
|
|
|
ksm_run &= ~KSM_RUN_OFFLINE;
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
smp_mb(); /* wake_up_bit advises this */
|
|
|
|
wake_up_bit(&ksm_run, ilog2(KSM_RUN_OFFLINE));
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
break;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
return NOTIFY_OK;
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
#else
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static void wait_while_offlining(void)
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{
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}
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
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#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
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2009-09-22 00:02:23 +00:00
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#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
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/*
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* This all compiles without CONFIG_SYSFS, but is a waste of space.
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*/
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|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
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#define KSM_ATTR_RO(_name) \
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static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RO(_name)
|
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#define KSM_ATTR(_name) \
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static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = \
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__ATTR(_name, 0644, _name##_show, _name##_store)
|
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static ssize_t sleep_millisecs_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
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|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
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return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs);
|
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|
}
|
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|
static ssize_t sleep_millisecs_store(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
|
|
|
|
const char *buf, size_t count)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
unsigned long msecs;
|
|
|
|
int err;
|
|
|
|
|
2013-09-11 21:20:25 +00:00
|
|
|
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &msecs);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (err || msecs > UINT_MAX)
|
|
|
|
return -EINVAL;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs = msecs;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
return count;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR(sleep_millisecs);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t pages_to_scan_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", ksm_thread_pages_to_scan);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t pages_to_scan_store(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
|
|
|
|
const char *buf, size_t count)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
int err;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long nr_pages;
|
|
|
|
|
2013-09-11 21:20:25 +00:00
|
|
|
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &nr_pages);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (err || nr_pages > UINT_MAX)
|
|
|
|
return -EINVAL;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = nr_pages;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
return count;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR(pages_to_scan);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t run_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
|
|
|
|
char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_run);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t run_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
|
|
|
|
const char *buf, size_t count)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
int err;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long flags;
|
|
|
|
|
2013-09-11 21:20:25 +00:00
|
|
|
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &flags);
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (err || flags > UINT_MAX)
|
|
|
|
return -EINVAL;
|
|
|
|
if (flags > KSM_RUN_UNMERGE)
|
|
|
|
return -EINVAL;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* KSM_RUN_MERGE sets ksmd running, and 0 stops it running.
|
|
|
|
* KSM_RUN_UNMERGE stops it running and unmerges all rmap_items,
|
2009-12-15 01:59:34 +00:00
|
|
|
* breaking COW to free the pages_shared (but leaves mm_slots
|
|
|
|
* on the list for when ksmd may be set running again).
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
wait_while_offlining();
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksm_run != flags) {
|
|
|
|
ksm_run = flags;
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
if (flags & KSM_RUN_UNMERGE) {
|
2012-12-12 00:02:56 +00:00
|
|
|
set_current_oom_origin();
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
err = unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items();
|
2012-12-12 00:02:56 +00:00
|
|
|
clear_current_oom_origin();
|
2009-09-22 00:02:16 +00:00
|
|
|
if (err) {
|
|
|
|
ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP;
|
|
|
|
count = err;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
if (flags & KSM_RUN_MERGE)
|
|
|
|
wake_up_interruptible(&ksm_thread_wait);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
return count;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR(run);
|
|
|
|
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t merge_across_nodes_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", ksm_merge_across_nodes);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t merge_across_nodes_store(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
|
|
|
|
const char *buf, size_t count)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
int err;
|
|
|
|
unsigned long knob;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &knob);
|
|
|
|
if (err)
|
|
|
|
return err;
|
|
|
|
if (knob > 1)
|
|
|
|
return -EINVAL;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
wait_while_offlining();
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksm_merge_across_nodes != knob) {
|
ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly
Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale
nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something
that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot
when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best.
How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when
pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which
ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1.
Three causes:
1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse
merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node
lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no
longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as
expected, particularly when swapcache.
Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying
get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and
removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the
page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but
better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG.
2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm
just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize
(or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running,
but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing
those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed
by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE.
3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache
into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past
it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is
private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between
ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in
the one call into ksm.c.
A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix:
ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O
error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix
this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:08 +00:00
|
|
|
if (ksm_pages_shared || remove_all_stable_nodes())
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
err = -EBUSY;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
else if (root_stable_tree == one_stable_tree) {
|
|
|
|
struct rb_root *buf;
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* This is the first time that we switch away from the
|
|
|
|
* default of merging across nodes: must now allocate
|
|
|
|
* a buffer to hold as many roots as may be needed.
|
|
|
|
* Allocate stable and unstable together:
|
|
|
|
* MAXSMP NODES_SHIFT 10 will use 16kB.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
2013-11-12 23:07:10 +00:00
|
|
|
buf = kcalloc(nr_node_ids + nr_node_ids, sizeof(*buf),
|
|
|
|
GFP_KERNEL);
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
/* Let us assume that RB_ROOT is NULL is zero */
|
|
|
|
if (!buf)
|
|
|
|
err = -ENOMEM;
|
|
|
|
else {
|
|
|
|
root_stable_tree = buf;
|
|
|
|
root_unstable_tree = buf + nr_node_ids;
|
|
|
|
/* Stable tree is empty but not the unstable */
|
|
|
|
root_unstable_tree[0] = one_unstable_tree[0];
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
if (!err) {
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_merge_across_nodes = knob;
|
2013-02-23 00:36:12 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_nr_node_ids = knob ? 1 : nr_node_ids;
|
|
|
|
}
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
return err ? err : count;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR(merge_across_nodes);
|
|
|
|
#endif
|
|
|
|
|
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
|
|
|
static ssize_t use_zero_pages_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", ksm_use_zero_pages);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t use_zero_pages_store(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr,
|
|
|
|
const char *buf, size_t count)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
int err;
|
|
|
|
bool value;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
err = kstrtobool(buf, &value);
|
|
|
|
if (err)
|
|
|
|
return -EINVAL;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ksm_use_zero_pages = value;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
return count;
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR(use_zero_pages);
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:09 +00:00
|
|
|
static ssize_t pages_shared_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_shared);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_shared);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t pages_sharing_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
2009-09-22 00:02:10 +00:00
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_sharing);
|
2009-09-22 00:02:09 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_sharing);
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:11 +00:00
|
|
|
static ssize_t pages_unshared_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_pages_unshared);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_unshared);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t pages_volatile_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
long ksm_pages_volatile;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ksm_pages_volatile = ksm_rmap_items - ksm_pages_shared
|
|
|
|
- ksm_pages_sharing - ksm_pages_unshared;
|
|
|
|
/*
|
|
|
|
* It was not worth any locking to calculate that statistic,
|
|
|
|
* but it might therefore sometimes be negative: conceal that.
|
|
|
|
*/
|
|
|
|
if (ksm_pages_volatile < 0)
|
|
|
|
ksm_pages_volatile = 0;
|
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%ld\n", ksm_pages_volatile);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR_RO(pages_volatile);
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static ssize_t full_scans_show(struct kobject *kobj,
|
|
|
|
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", ksm_scan.seqnr);
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
KSM_ATTR_RO(full_scans);
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
static struct attribute *ksm_attrs[] = {
|
|
|
|
&sleep_millisecs_attr.attr,
|
|
|
|
&pages_to_scan_attr.attr,
|
|
|
|
&run_attr.attr,
|
2009-09-22 00:02:09 +00:00
|
|
|
&pages_shared_attr.attr,
|
|
|
|
&pages_sharing_attr.attr,
|
2009-09-22 00:02:11 +00:00
|
|
|
&pages_unshared_attr.attr,
|
|
|
|
&pages_volatile_attr.attr,
|
|
|
|
&full_scans_attr.attr,
|
2013-02-23 00:35:00 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
|
|
|
|
&merge_across_nodes_attr.attr,
|
|
|
|
#endif
|
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
|
|
|
&use_zero_pages_attr.attr,
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
NULL,
|
|
|
|
};
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static struct attribute_group ksm_attr_group = {
|
|
|
|
.attrs = ksm_attrs,
|
|
|
|
.name = "ksm",
|
|
|
|
};
|
2009-09-22 00:02:23 +00:00
|
|
|
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
static int __init ksm_init(void)
|
|
|
|
{
|
|
|
|
struct task_struct *ksm_thread;
|
|
|
|
int err;
|
|
|
|
|
mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring
Some architectures have a set of zero pages (coloured zero pages)
instead of only one zero page, in order to improve the cache
performance. In those cases, the kernel samepage merger (KSM) would
merge all the allocated pages that happen to be filled with zeroes to
the same deduplicated page, thus losing all the advantages of coloured
zero pages.
This behaviour is noticeable when a process accesses large arrays of
allocated pages containing zeroes. A test I conducted on s390 shows
that there is a speed penalty when KSM merges such pages, compared to
not merging them or using actual zero pages from the start without
breaking the COW.
This patch fixes this behaviour. When coloured zero pages are present,
the checksum of a zero page is calculated during initialisation, and
compared with the checksum of the current canditate during merging. In
case of a match, the normal merging routine is used to merge the page
with the correct coloured zero page, which ensures the candidate page is
checked to be equal to the target zero page.
A sysfs entry is also added to toggle this behaviour, since it can
potentially introduce performance regressions, especially on
architectures without coloured zero pages. The default value is
disabled, for backwards compatibility.
With this patch, the performance with KSM is the same as with non
COW-broken actual zero pages, which is also the same as without KSM.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make zero_checksum and ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly, per Andrea]
[imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com: documentation for coloured zero pages deduplication]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484927522-1964-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484850953-23941-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 22:55:39 +00:00
|
|
|
/* The correct value depends on page size and endianness */
|
|
|
|
zero_checksum = calc_checksum(ZERO_PAGE(0));
|
|
|
|
/* Default to false for backwards compatibility */
|
|
|
|
ksm_use_zero_pages = false;
|
|
|
|
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
err = ksm_slab_init();
|
|
|
|
if (err)
|
|
|
|
goto out;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ksm_thread = kthread_run(ksm_scan_thread, NULL, "ksmd");
|
|
|
|
if (IS_ERR(ksm_thread)) {
|
2014-10-09 22:29:09 +00:00
|
|
|
pr_err("ksm: creating kthread failed\n");
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
err = PTR_ERR(ksm_thread);
|
2010-08-10 00:20:02 +00:00
|
|
|
goto out_free;
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
|
2009-09-22 00:02:23 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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err = sysfs_create_group(mm_kobj, &ksm_attr_group);
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if (err) {
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2014-10-09 22:29:09 +00:00
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pr_err("ksm: register sysfs failed\n");
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2009-09-22 00:02:23 +00:00
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kthread_stop(ksm_thread);
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2010-08-10 00:20:02 +00:00
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goto out_free;
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
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}
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2009-10-07 23:32:22 +00:00
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#else
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ksm_run = KSM_RUN_MERGE; /* no way for user to start it */
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2009-09-22 00:02:23 +00:00
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#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
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ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
|
ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning
Complaints are rare, but lockdep still does not understand the way
ksm_memory_callback(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) takes ksm_thread_mutex, and holds
it until the ksm_memory_callback(MEM_OFFLINE): that appears to be a
problem because notifier callbacks are made under down_read of
blocking_notifier_head->rwsem (so first the mutex is taken while holding
the rwsem, then later the rwsem is taken while still holding the mutex);
but is not in fact a problem because mem_hotplug_mutex is held
throughout the dance.
There was an attempt to fix this with mutex_lock_nested(); but if that
happened to fool lockdep two years ago, apparently it does so no longer.
I had hoped to eradicate this issue in extending KSM page migration not
to need the ksm_thread_mutex. But then realized that although the page
migration itself is safe, we do still need to lock out ksmd and other
users of get_ksm_page() while offlining memory - at some point between
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and MEM_OFFLINE, the struct pages themselves may
vanish, and get_ksm_page()'s accesses to them become a violation.
So, give up on holding ksm_thread_mutex itself from MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to
MEM_OFFLINE, and add a KSM_RUN_OFFLINE flag, and wait_while_offlining()
checks, to achieve the same lockout without being caught by lockdep.
This is less elegant for KSM, but it's more important to keep lockdep
useful to other users - and I apologize for how long it took to fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 00:35:16 +00:00
|
|
|
/* There is no significance to this priority 100 */
|
ksm: memory hotremove migration only
The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that. Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?
Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages? Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.
But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA. So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.
So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.
And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 01:59:33 +00:00
|
|
|
hotplug_memory_notifier(ksm_memory_callback, 100);
|
|
|
|
#endif
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
return 0;
|
|
|
|
|
2010-08-10 00:20:02 +00:00
|
|
|
out_free:
|
ksm: Kernel SamePage Merging
Ksm is code that allows merging of identical pages between one or more
applications, in a way invisible to the applications that use it. Pages
that are merged are marked as read-only, then COWed when any application
tries to change them.
Whereas fork() allows sharing anonymous pages between parent and child,
ksm can share anonymous pages between unrelated processes.
Ksm works by walking over the memory pages of the applications it scans,
in order to find identical pages. It uses two sorted data structures,
called the stable and unstable trees, to locate identical pages in an
effective way.
When ksm finds two identical pages, it marks them as readonly and merges
them into a single page. After the pages have been marked as readonly and
merged into one, Linux treats them as normal copy-on-write pages, copying
to a fresh anonymous page if write access is required later.
Ksm scans and merges anonymous pages only in those memory areas that have
been registered with it by madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE).
The ksm scanner is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/:
max_kernel_pages - the maximum number of unswappable kernel pages
which may be allocated by ksm (0 for unlimited).
kernel_pages_allocated - how many ksm pages are currently allocated,
sharing identical content between different
processes (pages unswappable in this release).
pages_shared - how many pages have been saved by sharing with ksm pages
(kernel_pages_allocated being excluded from this count).
pages_to_scan - how many pages ksm should scan before sleeping.
sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans.
run - write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled (default),
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running,
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
Includes contributions by Andrea Arcangeli Chris Wright and Hugh Dickins.
[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: fix rare page leak]
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 00:02:03 +00:00
|
|
|
ksm_slab_free();
|
|
|
|
out:
|
|
|
|
return err;
|
2009-09-22 00:01:57 +00:00
|
|
|
}
|
2014-01-23 23:53:30 +00:00
|
|
|
subsys_initcall(ksm_init);
|