Userspace processes often have multiple allocators that each do
anonymous mmaps to get memory. When examining memory usage of
individual processes or systems as a whole, it is useful to be
able to break down the various heaps that were allocated by
each layer and examine their size, RSS, and physical memory
usage.
This patch adds a user pointer to the shared union in
vm_area_struct that points to a null terminated string inside
the user process containing a name for the vma. vmas that
point to the same address will be merged, but vmas that
point to equivalent strings at different addresses will
not be merged.
Userspace can set the name for a region of memory by calling
prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, start, len, (unsigned long)name);
Setting the name to NULL clears it.
The names of named anonymous vmas are shown in /proc/pid/maps
as [anon:<name>] and in /proc/pid/smaps in a new "Name" field
that is only present for named vmas. If the userspace pointer
is no longer valid all or part of the name will be replaced
with "<fault>".
The idea to store a userspace pointer to reduce the complexity
within mm (at the expense of the complexity of reading
/proc/pid/mem) came from Dave Hansen. This results in no
runtime overhead in the mm subsystem other than comparing
the anon_name pointers when considering vma merging. The pointer
is stored in a union with fieds that are only used on file-backed
mappings, so it does not increase memory usage.
Change-Id: Ie2ffc0967d4ffe7ee4c70781313c7b00cf7e3092
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Add a userspace visible knob to tell the VM to keep an extra amount
of memory free, by increasing the gap between each zone's min and
low watermarks.
This is useful for realtime applications that call system
calls and have a bound on the number of allocations that happen
in any short time period. In this application, extra_free_kbytes
would be left at an amount equal to or larger than than the
maximum number of allocations that happen in any burst.
It may also be useful to reduce the memory use of virtual
machines (temporarily?), in a way that does not cause memory
fragmentation like ballooning does.
[ccross]
Revived for use on old kernels where no other solution exists.
The tunable will be removed on kernels that do better at avoiding
direct reclaim.
Change-Id: I765a42be8e964bfd3e2886d1ca85a29d60c3bb3e
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a sigtimedwait call during
suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call. Previous
patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads
that are blocked in freezable blocking calls.
This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because
it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted
that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver
during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are
blocked.
Change-Id: Ic27469b60a67d50cdc0d0c78975951a99c25adcd
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a nanosleep call during
suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call. Previous
patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads
that are blocked in freezable blocking calls.
This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because
it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted
that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver
during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are
blocked.
Change-Id: I93383201d4dd62130cd9a9153842d303fc2e2986
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a futex_wait call during
suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call. Previous
patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads
that are blocked in freezable blocking calls.
This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because
it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted
that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver
during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are
blocked.
Change-Id: I9ccab9c2d201adb66c85432801cdcf43fc91e94f
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Android goes through suspend/resume very often (every few seconds when
on a busy wifi network with the screen off), and a significant portion
of the energy used to go in and out of suspend is spent in the
freezer. If a task has called freezer_do_not_count(), don't bother
waking it up. If it happens to wake up later it will call
freezer_count() and immediately enter the refrigerator.
Combined with patches to convert freezable helpers to use
freezer_do_not_count() and convert common sites where idle userspace
tasks are blocked to use the freezable helpers, this reduces the
time and energy required to suspend and resume.
Change-Id: I6ba019d24273619849af757a413271da3261d7db
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
All tasks can easily be frozen in under 10 ms, switch to using
an initial 1 ms sleep followed by exponential backoff until
8 ms. Also convert the printed time to ms instead of centiseconds.
Change-Id: I7b198b16eefb623c2b0fc45dce50d9bca320afdc
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The only existing caller to debug_check_no_locks_held calls it
with 'current' as the task, and the freezer needs to call
debug_check_no_locks_held but doesn't already have a current
task pointer, so remove the argument. It is already assuming
that the current task is relevant by dumping the current stack
trace as part of the warning.
This was originally part of 6aa9707099 (lockdep: check that
no locks held at freeze time) which was reverted in
dbf520a9d7.
Change-Id: Idbaf1332ce6c80dc49c1d31c324c7fbf210657c5
Original-author: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Similar to hrtimer_expires_remaining, return the amount of time
remaining until alarm expiry.
Change-Id: I8c57512d619ac66bcdaf2d9ccdf0d7f74af2ff66
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Start an alarmtimer with an expires time relative to the current time
of the associated clock.
Change-Id: Ifb5309a15e0d502bb4d0209ca5510a56ee7fa88c
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Similar to hrtimer_forward_now, move the expires time forward to an
interval from the current time of the associated clock.
Change-Id: I73fed223321167507b6eddcb7a57d235ffcfc1be
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Analogous to hrtimer_restart, restart an alarmtimer after the expires
time has already been updated (as with alarm_forward).
Change-Id: Ia2613bbb467404cb2c35c11efa772bc56294963a
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Add the 'funcgraph-flat' option to the function_graph tracer to use the default
trace printing format rather than the hierarchical formatting normally used.
Change-Id: If2900bfb86e6f8f51379f56da4f6fabafa630909
Signed-off-by: Jamie Gennis <jgennis@google.com>
The tgids are tracked along side the saved_cmdlines tracking, and can be
included in trace output by enabling the 'print-tgid' trace option. This is
useful when doing post-processing of the trace data, as it allows events to be
grouped by tgid.
Change-Id: I52ed04c3a8ca7fddbb868b792ce5d21ceb76250e
Signed-off-by: Jamie Gennis <jgennis@google.com>
Emulate NMIs on systems where they are not available by using timer
interrupts on other cpus. Each cpu will use its softlockup hrtimer
to check that the next cpu is processing hrtimer interrupts by
verifying that a counter is increasing.
This patch is useful on systems where the hardlockup detector is not
available due to a lack of NMIs, for example most ARM SoCs.
Without this patch any cpu stuck with interrupts disabled can
cause a hardware watchdog reset with no debugging information,
but with this patch the kernel can detect the lockup and panic,
which can result in useful debugging info.
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
On non-developer devices kgdb prevents CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT from
rebooting the device after a panic. Add module parameters
debug_core.break_on_exception and debug_core.break_on_panic to
allow skipping debug on panics and exceptions respectively. Both
default to true to preserve existing behavior.
Change-Id: I75dce7263e96cee069a9750920cce83dc6f98e8c
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
kdb expects carriage returns through the serial port to terminate
commands. Modify it to accept the first seen carriage return or
new line as a terminator, but not treat \r\n as two terminators.
Change-Id: I06166017e7703d24310eefcb71c3a7d427088db7
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Move the x86_64 idle notifiers originally by Andi Kleen and Venkatesh
Pallipadi to generic.
Change-Id: Idf29cda15be151f494ff245933c12462643388d5
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
This patch adds a notifier which can be used by subsystems that may
be interested in when a task has completely died and is about to
have it's last resource freed.
The Android lowmemory killer uses this to determine when a task
it has killed has finally given up its goods.
Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@google.com>
By default the kernel tries to keep half as much memory free at each
order as it does for one order below. This can be too agressive when
running without swap.
Change-Id: I5efc1a0b50f41ff3ac71e92d2efd175dedd54ead
Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
