Patch series "Make core VMA operations internal and testable", v4.
There are a number of "core" VMA manipulation functions implemented in
mm/mmap.c, notably those concerning VMA merging, splitting, modifying,
expanding and shrinking, which logically don't belong there.
More importantly this functionality represents an internal implementation
detail of memory management and should not be exposed outside of mm/
itself.
This patch series isolates core VMA manipulation functionality into its
own file, mm/vma.c, and provides an API to the rest of the mm code in
mm/vma.h.
Importantly, it also carefully implements mm/vma_internal.h, which
specifies which headers need to be imported by vma.c, leading to the very
useful property that vma.c depends only on mm/vma.h and mm/vma_internal.h.
This means we can then re-implement vma_internal.h in userland, adding
shims for kernel mechanisms as required, allowing us to unit test internal
VMA functionality.
This testing is useful as opposed to an e.g. kunit implementation as this
way we can avoid all external kernel side-effects while testing, run tests
VERY quickly, and iterate on and debug problems quickly.
Excitingly this opens the door to, in the future, recreating precise
problems observed in production in userland and very quickly debugging
problems that might otherwise be very difficult to reproduce.
This patch series takes advantage of existing shim logic and full userland
maple tree support contained in tools/testing/radix-tree/ and
tools/include/linux/, separating out shared components of the radix tree
implementation to provide this testing.
Kernel functionality is stubbed and shimmed as needed in
tools/testing/vma/ which contains a fully functional userland
vma_internal.h file and which imports mm/vma.c and mm/vma.h to be directly
tested from userland.
A simple, skeleton testing implementation is provided in
tools/testing/vma/vma.c as a proof-of-concept, asserting that simple VMA
merge, modify (testing split), expand and shrink functionality work
correctly.
This patch (of 4):
This patch forms part of a patch series intending to separate out VMA
logic and render it testable from userspace, which requires that core
manipulation functions be exposed in an mm/-internal header file.
In order to do this, we must abstract APIs we wish to test, in this
instance functions which ultimately invoke vma_modify().
This patch therefore moves all logic which ultimately invokes vma_modify()
to mm/userfaultfd.c, trying to transfer code at a functional granularity
where possible.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: fix user-after-free in userfaultfd_clear_vma()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c947ddc-b804-49b7-8fe9-3ea3ca13def5@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1722251717.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/50c3ed995fd81c45876c86304c8a00bf3e396cfd.1722251717.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers", v7.
This patch (of 2):
Other mechanisms for querying the peak memory usage of either a process or
v1 memory cgroup allow for resetting the high watermark. Restore parity
with those mechanisms, but with a less racy API.
For example:
- Any write to memory.max_usage_in_bytes in a cgroup v1 mount resets
the high watermark.
- writing "5" to the clear_refs pseudo-file in a processes's proc
directory resets the peak RSS.
This change is an evolution of a previous patch, which mostly copied the
cgroup v1 behavior, however, there were concerns about races/ownership
issues with a global reset, so instead this change makes the reset
filedescriptor-local.
Writing any non-empty string to the memory.peak and memory.swap.peak
pseudo-files reset the high watermark to the current usage for subsequent
reads through that same FD.
Notably, following Johannes's suggestion, this implementation moves the
O(FDs that have written) behavior onto the FD write(2) path. Instead, on
the page-allocation path, we simply add one additional watermark to
conditionally bump per-hierarchy level in the page-counter.
Additionally, this takes Longman's suggestion of nesting the
page-charging-path checks for the two watermarks to reduce the number of
common-case comparisons.
This behavior is particularly useful for work scheduling systems that need
to track memory usage of worker processes/cgroups per-work-item. Since
memory can't be squeezed like CPU can (the OOM-killer has opinions), these
systems need to track the peak memory usage to compute system/container
fullness when binpacking workitems.
Most notably, Vimeo's use-case involves a system that's doing global
binpacking across many Kubernetes pods/containers, and while we can use
PSI for some local decisions about overload, we strive to avoid packing
workloads too tightly in the first place. To facilitate this, we track
the peak memory usage. However, since we run with long-lived workers (to
amortize startup costs) we need a way to track the high watermark while a
work-item is executing. Polling runs the risk of missing short spikes
that last for timescales below the polling interval, and peak memory
tracking at the cgroup level is otherwise perfect for this use-case.
As this data is used to ensure that binpacked work ends up with sufficient
headroom, this use-case mostly avoids the inaccuracies surrounding
reclaimable memory.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730231304.761942-1-davidf@vimeo.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240729143743.34236-1-davidf@vimeo.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240729143743.34236-2-davidf@vimeo.com
Signed-off-by: David Finkel <davidf@vimeo.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations", v3.
This patchset contains 3 independent small optimizations of page counters.
This patch (of 3):
Memory protection (min/low) requires a constant tracking of protected
memory usage. propagate_protected_usage() is called on each page counters
update and does a number of operations even in cases when the actual
memory protection functionality is not supported (e.g. hugetlb cgroups or
memcg swap counters).
It's obviously inefficient and leads to a waste of CPU cycles. It can be
addressed by calling propagate_protected_usage() only for the counters
which do support memory guarantees. As of now it's only memcg->memory -
the unified memory memcg counter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240726203110.1577216-2-roman.gushchin@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
As part of the dynamic kernel stack project, we need to know the amount of
data that can be saved by reducing the default kernel stack size [1].
Provide a kernel stack usage histogram to aid in optimizing kernel stack
sizes and minimizing memory waste in large-scale environments. The
histogram divides stack usage into power-of-two buckets and reports the
results in /proc/vmstat. This information is especially valuable in
environments with millions of machines, where even small optimizations can
have a significant impact.
The histogram data is presented in /proc/vmstat with entries like
"kstack_1k", "kstack_2k", and so on, indicating the number of threads that
exited with stack usage falling within each respective bucket.
Example outputs:
Intel:
$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 3
kstack_2k 188
kstack_4k 11391
kstack_8k 243
kstack_16k 0
ARM with 64K page_size:
$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 1
kstack_2k 340
kstack_4k 25212
kstack_8k 1659
kstack_16k 0
kstack_32k 0
kstack_64k 0
Note: once the dynamic kernel stack is implemented it will depend on the
implementation the usability of this feature: On hardware that supports
faults on kernel stacks, we will have other metrics that show the total
number of pages allocated for stacks. On hardware where faults are not
supported, we will most likely have some optimization where only some
threads are extended, and for those, these metrics will still be very
useful.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974367
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730150158.832783-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240724203322.2765486-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
