Pageblock hints are cleared when compaction restarts or kswapd makes
enough progress that it can sleep but it's over-eager in that the bit is
cleared for migration sources with no LRU pages and migration targets
with no free pages. As pageblock skip hint flushes are relatively rare
and out-of-band with respect to kswapd, this patch makes a few more
expensive checks to see if it's appropriate to even clear the bit.
Every pageblock that is not cleared will avoid 512 pages being scanned
unnecessarily on x86-64.
The impact is variable with different workloads showing small
differences in latency, success rates and scan rates. This is expected
as clearing the hints is not that common but doing a small amount of
work out-of-band to avoid a large amount of work in-band later is
generally a good thing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-22-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
[cai@lca.pw: no stuck in __reset_isolation_pfn()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190206034732.75687-1-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
syzbot reported the following regression in the latest merge window and
it was confirmed by Qian Cai that a similar bug was visible from a
different context.
======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
4.20.0+ #297 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
syz-executor0/8529 is trying to acquire lock:
000000005e7fb829 (&pgdat->kswapd_wait){....}, at:
__wake_up_common_lock+0x19e/0x330 kernel/sched/wait.c:120
but task is already holding lock:
000000009bb7bae0 (&(&zone->lock)->rlock){-.-.}, at: spin_lock
include/linux/spinlock.h:329 [inline]
000000009bb7bae0 (&(&zone->lock)->rlock){-.-.}, at: rmqueue_bulk
mm/page_alloc.c:2548 [inline]
000000009bb7bae0 (&(&zone->lock)->rlock){-.-.}, at: __rmqueue_pcplist
mm/page_alloc.c:3021 [inline]
000000009bb7bae0 (&(&zone->lock)->rlock){-.-.}, at: rmqueue_pcplist
mm/page_alloc.c:3050 [inline]
000000009bb7bae0 (&(&zone->lock)->rlock){-.-.}, at: rmqueue
mm/page_alloc.c:3072 [inline]
000000009bb7bae0 (&(&zone->lock)->rlock){-.-.}, at:
get_page_from_freelist+0x1bae/0x52a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3491
It appears to be a false positive in that the only way the lock ordering
should be inverted is if kswapd is waking itself and the wakeup
allocates debugging objects which should already be allocated if it's
kswapd doing the waking. Nevertheless, the possibility exists and so
it's best to avoid the problem.
This patch flags a zone as needing a kswapd using the, surprisingly,
unused zone flag field. The flag is read without the lock held to do
the wakeup. It's possible that the flag setting context is not the same
as the flag clearing context or for small races to occur. However, each
race possibility is harmless and there is no visible degredation in
fragmentation treatment.
While zone->flag could have continued to be unused, there is potential
for moving some existing fields into the flags field instead.
Particularly read-mostly ones like zone->initialized and
zone->contiguous.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190103225712.GJ31517@techsingularity.net
Fixes: 1c30844d2d ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs")
Reported-by: syzbot+93d94a001cfbce9e60e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
During online_pages phase, pgdat->nr_zones will be updated in case this
zone is empty.
Currently the online_pages phase is protected by the global locks
(device_device_hotplug_lock and mem_hotplug_lock), which ensures there is
no contention during the update of nr_zones.
These global locks introduces scalability issues (especially the second
one), which slow down code relying on get_online_mems(). This is also a
preparation for not having to rely on get_online_mems() but instead some
more fine grained locks.
The patch moves init_currently_empty_zone under both zone_span_writelock
and pgdat_resize_lock because both the pgdat state is changed (nr_zones)
and the zone's start_pfn. Also this patch changes the documentation of
node_size_lock to include the protection of nr_zones.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203205016.14123-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
pgdat_resize_lock is used to protect pgdat's memory region information
like: node_start_pfn, node_present_pages, etc. While in function
sparse_add/remove_one_section(), pgdat_resize_lock is used to protect
initialization/release of one mem_section. This looks not proper.
These code paths are currently protected by mem_hotplug_lock currently but
should there ever be any reason for locking at the sparse layer a
dedicated lock should be introduced.
Following is the current call trace of sparse_add/remove_one_section()
mem_hotplug_begin()
arch_add_memory()
add_pages()
__add_pages()
__add_section()
sparse_add_one_section()
mem_hotplug_done()
mem_hotplug_begin()
arch_remove_memory()
__remove_pages()
__remove_section()
sparse_remove_one_section()
mem_hotplug_done()
The comment above the pgdat_resize_lock also mentions "Holding this will
also guarantee that any pfn_valid() stays that way.", which is true with
the current implementation and false after this patch. But current
implementation doesn't meet this comment. There isn't any pfn walkers to
take the lock so this looks like a relict from the past. This patch also
removes this comment.
[richard.weiyang@gmail.com: v4]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181204085657.20472-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
[mhocko@suse.com: changelog suggestion]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181128091243.19249-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is configured, only the first section of
each node's highest zone is initialized before defer stage.
static_init_pgcnt is used to store the number of pages like this:
pgdat->static_init_pgcnt = min_t(unsigned long, PAGES_PER_SECTION,
pgdat->node_spanned_pages);
because we don't want to overflow zone's range.
But this is not necessary, since defer_init() is called like this:
memmap_init_zone()
for pfn in [start_pfn, end_pfn)
defer_init(pfn, end_pfn)
In case (pgdat->node_spanned_pages < PAGES_PER_SECTION), the loop would
stop before calling defer_init().
BTW, comparing PAGES_PER_SECTION with node_spanned_pages is not correct,
since nr_initialised is zone based instead of node based. Even
node_spanned_pages is bigger than PAGES_PER_SECTION, its highest zone
would have pages less than PAGES_PER_SECTION.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181122094807.6985-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An external fragmentation event was previously described as
When the page allocator fragments memory, it records the event using
the mm_page_alloc_extfrag event. If the fallback_order is smaller
than a pageblock order (order-9 on 64-bit x86) then it's considered
an event that will cause external fragmentation issues in the future.
The kernel reduces the probability of such events by increasing the
watermark sizes by calling set_recommended_min_free_kbytes early in the
lifetime of the system. This works reasonably well in general but if
there are enough sparsely populated pageblocks then the problem can still
occur as enough memory is free overall and kswapd stays asleep.
This patch introduces a watermark_boost_factor sysctl that allows a zone
watermark to be temporarily boosted when an external fragmentation causing
events occurs. The boosting will stall allocations that would decrease
free memory below the boosted low watermark and kswapd is woken if the
calling context allows to reclaim an amount of memory relative to the size
of the high watermark and the watermark_boost_factor until the boost is
cleared. When kswapd finishes, it wakes kcompactd at the pageblock order
to clean some of the pageblocks that may have been affected by the
fragmentation event. kswapd avoids any writeback, slab shrinkage and swap
from reclaim context during this operation to avoid excessive system
disruption in the name of fragmentation avoidance. Care is taken so that
kswapd will do normal reclaim work if the system is really low on memory.
This was evaluated using the same workloads as "mm, page_alloc: Spread
allocations across zones before introducing fragmentation".
1-socket Skylake machine
config-global-dhp__workload_thpfioscale XFS (no special madvise)
4 fio threads, 1 THP allocating thread
--------------------------------------
4.20-rc3 extfrag events < order 9: 804694
4.20-rc3+patch: 408912 (49% reduction)
4.20-rc3+patch1-4: 18421 (98% reduction)
4.20.0-rc3 4.20.0-rc3
lowzone-v5r8 boost-v5r8
Amean fault-base-1 653.58 ( 0.00%) 652.71 ( 0.13%)
Amean fault-huge-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 178.93 * -99.00%*
4.20.0-rc3 4.20.0-rc3
lowzone-v5r8 boost-v5r8
Percentage huge-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 5.12 ( 100.00%)
Note that external fragmentation causing events are massively reduced by
this path whether in comparison to the previous kernel or the vanilla
kernel. The fault latency for huge pages appears to be increased but that
is only because THP allocations were successful with the patch applied.
1-socket Skylake machine
global-dhp__workload_thpfioscale-madvhugepage-xfs (MADV_HUGEPAGE)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
4.20-rc3 extfrag events < order 9: 291392
4.20-rc3+patch: 191187 (34% reduction)
4.20-rc3+patch1-4: 13464 (95% reduction)
thpfioscale Fault Latencies
4.20.0-rc3 4.20.0-rc3
lowzone-v5r8 boost-v5r8
Min fault-base-1 912.00 ( 0.00%) 905.00 ( 0.77%)
Min fault-huge-1 127.00 ( 0.00%) 135.00 ( -6.30%)
Amean fault-base-1 1467.55 ( 0.00%) 1481.67 ( -0.96%)
Amean fault-huge-1 1127.11 ( 0.00%) 1063.88 * 5.61%*
4.20.0-rc3 4.20.0-rc3
lowzone-v5r8 boost-v5r8
Percentage huge-1 77.64 ( 0.00%) 83.46 ( 7.49%)
As before, massive reduction in external fragmentation events, some jitter
on latencies and an increase in THP allocation success rates.
2-socket Haswell machine
config-global-dhp__workload_thpfioscale XFS (no special madvise)
4 fio threads, 5 THP allocating threads
----------------------------------------------------------------
4.20-rc3 extfrag events < order 9: 215698
4.20-rc3+patch: 200210 (7% reduction)
4.20-rc3+patch1-4: 14263 (93% reduction)
4.20.0-rc3 4.20.0-rc3
lowzone-v5r8 boost-v5r8
Amean fault-base-5 1346.45 ( 0.00%) 1306.87 ( 2.94%)
Amean fault-huge-5 3418.60 ( 0.00%) 1348.94 ( 60.54%)
4.20.0-rc3 4.20.0-rc3
lowzone-v5r8 boost-v5r8
Percentage huge-5 0.78 ( 0.00%) 7.91 ( 910.64%)
There is a 93% reduction in fragmentation causing events, there is a big
reduction in the huge page fault latency and allocation success rate is
higher.
2-socket Haswell machine
global-dhp__workload_thpfioscale-madvhugepage-xfs (MADV_HUGEPAGE)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
4.20-rc3 extfrag events < order 9: 166352
4.20-rc3+patch: 147463 (11% reduction)
4.20-rc3+patch1-4: 11095 (93% reduction)
thpfioscale Fault Latencies
4.20.0-rc3 4.20.0-rc3
lowzone-v5r8 boost-v5r8
Amean fault-base-5 6217.43 ( 0.00%) 7419.67 * -19.34%*
Amean fault-huge-5 3163.33 ( 0.00%) 3263.80 ( -3.18%)
4.20.0-rc3 4.20.0-rc3
lowzone-v5r8 boost-v5r8
Percentage huge-5 95.14 ( 0.00%) 87.98 ( -7.53%)
There is a large reduction in fragmentation events with some jitter around
the latencies and success rates. As before, the high THP allocation
success rate does mean the system is under a lot of pressure. However, as
the fragmentation events are reduced, it would be expected that the
long-term allocation success rate would be higher.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181123114528.28802-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Notable changes:
- Mitigations for Spectre v2 on some Freescale (NXP) CPUs.
- A large series adding support for pass-through of Nvidia V100 GPUs
to guests on Power9.
- Another large series to enable hardware assistance for TLB table
walk on MPC8xx CPUs.
- Some preparatory changes to our DMA code, to make way for further
cleanups from Christoph.
- Several fixes for our Transactional Memory handling discovered by
fuzzing the signal return path.
- Support for generating our system call table(s) from a text file
like other architectures.
- A fix to our page fault handler so that instead of generating a
WARN_ON_ONCE, user accesses of kernel addresses instead print a
ratelimited and appropriately scary warning.
- A cosmetic change to make our unhandled page fault messages more
similar to other arches and also more compact and informative.
- Freescale updates from Scott:
"Highlights include elimination of legacy clock bindings use from
dts files, an 83xx watchdog handler, fixes to old dts interrupt
errors, and some minor cleanup."
And many clean-ups, reworks and minor fixes etc.
Thanks to: Alexandre Belloni, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan,
Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao,
Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel
Axtens, Darren Stevens, David Gibson, Diana Craciun, Dmitry V. Levin,
Firoz Khan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero, Hari
Bathini, Joel Stanley, Kees Cook, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Mathieu Malaterre, Michal Suchánek, Naveen
N. Rao, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai,
Ravi Bangoria, Rob Herring, Russell Currey, Sabyasachi Gupta, Sam
Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Wood, Segher Boessenkool, Stephen
Rothwell, Tang Yuantian, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Yangtao Li, Yuantian
Tang, Yue Haibing"
* tag 'powerpc-4.21-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (201 commits)
Revert "powerpc/fsl_pci: simplify fsl_pci_dma_set_mask"
powerpc/zImage: Also check for stdout-path
powerpc: Fix HMIs on big-endian with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
macintosh: Use of_node_name_{eq, prefix} for node name comparisons
ide: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons
powerpc: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons
powerpc/pseries/pmem: Convert to %pOFn instead of device_node.name
powerpc/mm: Remove very old comment in hash-4k.h
powerpc/pseries: Fix node leak in update_lmb_associativity_index()
powerpc/configs/85xx: Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
powerpc/dts/fsl: Fix dtc-flagged interrupt errors
clk: qoriq: add more compatibles strings
powerpc/fsl: Use new clockgen binding
powerpc/83xx: handle machine check caused by watchdog timer
powerpc/fsl-rio: fix spelling mistake "reserverd" -> "reserved"
powerpc/fsl_pci: simplify fsl_pci_dma_set_mask
arch/powerpc/fsl_rmu: Use dma_zalloc_coherent
vfio_pci: Add NVIDIA GV100GL [Tesla V100 SXM2] subdriver
vfio_pci: Allow regions to add own capabilities
vfio_pci: Allow mapping extra regions
...
Powerpc has somewhat odd usage where ZONE_DMA is used for all memory on
common 64-bit configfs, and ZONE_DMA32 is used for 31-bit schemes.
Move to a scheme closer to what other architectures use (and I dare to
say the intent of the system):
- ZONE_DMA: optionally for memory < 31-bit (64-bit embedded only)
- ZONE_NORMAL: everything addressable by the kernel
- ZONE_HIGHMEM: memory > 32-bit for 32-bit kernels
Also provide information on how ZONE_DMA is used by defining
ARCH_ZONE_DMA_BITS.
Contains various fixes from Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Refaults happen during transitions between workingsets as well as in-place
thrashing. Knowing the difference between the two has a range of
applications, including measuring the impact of memory shortage on the
system performance, as well as the ability to smarter balance pressure
between the filesystem cache and the swap-backed workingset.
During workingset transitions, inactive cache refaults and pushes out
established active cache. When that active cache isn't stale, however,
and also ends up refaulting, that's bonafide thrashing.
Introduce a new page flag that tells on eviction whether the page has been
active or not in its lifetime. This bit is then stored in the shadow
entry, to classify refaults as transitioning or thrashing.
How many page->flags does this leave us with on 32-bit?
20 bits are always page flags
21 if you have an MMU
23 with the zone bits for DMA, Normal, HighMem, Movable
29 with the sparsemem section bits
30 if PAE is enabled
31 with this patch.
So on 32-bit PAE, that leaves 1 bit for distinguishing two NUMA nodes. If
that's not enough, the system can switch to discontigmem and re-gain the 6
or 7 sparsemem section bits.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The vmstat counter NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES was introduced by
commit eb59254608 ("mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES") with
the goal of accounting objects that can be reclaimed, but cannot be
allocated via a SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT cache. This is now possible via
kmalloc() with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE flag, and the dcache external names user
is converted.
The counter is however still useful for accounting direct page allocations
(i.e. not slab) with a shrinker, such as the ION page pool. So keep it,
and:
- change granularity to pages to be more like other counters; sub-page
allocations should be able to use kmalloc
- rename the counter to NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE
- expose the counter again in vmstat as "nr_kernel_misc_reclaimable"; we can
again remove the check for not printing "hidden" counters
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731090649.16028-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rate limiting of page migrations due to automatic NUMA balancing was
introduced to mitigate the worst-case scenario of migrating at high
frequency due to false sharing or slowly ping-ponging between nodes.
Since then, a lot of effort was spent on correctly identifying these
pages and avoiding unnecessary migrations and the safety net may no longer
be required.
Jirka Hladky reported a regression in 4.17 due to a scheduler patch that
avoids spreading STREAM tasks wide prematurely. However, once the task
was properly placed, it delayed migrating the memory due to rate limiting.
Increasing the limit fixed the problem for him.
Currently, the limit is hard-coded and does not account for the real
capabilities of the hardware. Even if an estimate was attempted, it would
not properly account for the number of memory controllers and it could
not account for the amount of bandwidth used for normal accesses. Rather
than fudging, this patch simply eliminates the rate limiting.
However, Jirka reports that a STREAM configuration using multiple
processes achieved similar performance to 4.16. In local tests, this patch
improved performance of STREAM relative to the baseline but it is somewhat
machine-dependent. Most workloads show little or not performance difference
implying that there is not a heavily reliance on the throttling mechanism
and it is safe to remove.
STREAM on 2-socket machine
4.19.0-rc5 4.19.0-rc5
numab-v1r1 noratelimit-v1r1
MB/sec copy 43298.52 ( 0.00%) 44673.38 ( 3.18%)
MB/sec scale 30115.06 ( 0.00%) 31293.06 ( 3.91%)
MB/sec add 32825.12 ( 0.00%) 34883.62 ( 6.27%)
MB/sec triad 32549.52 ( 0.00%) 34906.60 ( 7.24%
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001100525.29789-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Patch series "indirectly reclaimable memory", v2.
This patchset introduces the concept of indirectly reclaimable memory
and applies it to fix the issue of when a big number of dentries with
external names can significantly affect the MemAvailable value.
This patch (of 3):
Introduce a concept of indirectly reclaimable memory and adds the
corresponding memory counter and /proc/vmstat item.
Indirectly reclaimable memory is any sort of memory, used by the kernel
(except of reclaimable slabs), which is actually reclaimable, i.e. will
be released under memory pressure.
The counter is in bytes, as it's not always possible to count such
objects in pages. The name contains BYTES by analogy to
NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180305133743.12746-2-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
