From patchwork Thu Sep 24 03:28:35 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Alex Shi X-Patchwork-Id: 11796005 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FE01668 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB1E23600 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:29:20 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 8CB1E23600 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.alibaba.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 453D390000D; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:28:54 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: linux-mm-outgoing@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 4041A90000A; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:28:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 2CD6590000D; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:28:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: linux-mm@kvack.org X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0251.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.251]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022E090000A for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:28:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin24.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36EF181AE862 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:28:53 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 77296523346.24.tent50_550c6642715b Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (10.5.16.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.16.251]) by smtpin24.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D311A4A0 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:28:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Summary: 1,0,0,411b8332161920fb,d41d8cd98f00b204,alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com,,RULES_HIT:4:41:69:355:379:541:800:960:966:968:973:988:989:1260:1261:1345:1359:1431:1437:1605:1730:1747:1777:1792:1801:1981:2194:2196:2198:2199:2200:2201:2393:2553:2559:2562:2692:2693:2731:2736:2737:2903:2916:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3503:3504:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:4250:4321:4385:4605:5007:6119:6261:6630:6737:6738:7576:7875:7903:7974:8660:9010:9592:10004:11026:11232:11473:11658:11914:12043:12048:12291:12295:12296:12297:12438:12555:12679:12683:12895:12986:13148:13149:13156:13228:13230:13846:13869:13972:14096:14394:14915:21060:21067:21080:21324:21433:21451:21611:21627:21740:21939:21990:30005:30012:30034:30045:30051:30054:30070:30079:30085:30090,0,RBL:115.124.30.43:@linux.alibaba.com:.lbl8.mailshell.net-62.20.2.100 64.201.201.201;04y8tmqeptmm5ez8mxcireq9w9ma4yc4t1z7pzu96cbriefbpj8dhpcys6d3xr4.fd137jmnyqmxayjb4ktmrpnab46q97d968xf5mk871dfuf4ew3pctwb46ife1nk.g-lbl8.mailshell.net-223 .238.255 X-HE-Tag: tent50_550c6642715b X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 17123 Received: from out30-43.freemail.mail.aliyun.com (out30-43.freemail.mail.aliyun.com [115.124.30.43]) by imf37.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:28:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Alimail-AntiSpam: AC=PASS;BC=-1|-1;BR=01201311R101e4;CH=green;DM=||false|;DS=||;FP=0|-1|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1;HT=e01e04400;MF=alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com;NM=1;PH=DS;RN=24;SR=0;TI=SMTPD_---0U9w0Ss1_1600918116; Received: from aliy80.localdomain(mailfrom:alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com fp:SMTPD_---0U9w0Ss1_1600918116) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com(127.0.0.1); Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:28:45 +0800 From: Alex Shi To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, tj@kernel.org, hughd@google.com, khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com, willy@infradead.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, lkp@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, shakeelb@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, richard.weiyang@gmail.com, kirill@shutemov.name, alexander.duyck@gmail.com, rong.a.chen@intel.com, mhocko@suse.com, vdavydov.dev@gmail.com, shy828301@gmail.com, aaron.lwe@gmail.com Cc: Andrey Ryabinin , Jann Horn Subject: [PATCH v19 20/20] mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:28:35 +0800 Message-Id: <1600918115-22007-21-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1600918115-22007-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> References: <1600918115-22007-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: From: Hugh Dickins Since we changed the pgdat->lru_lock to lruvec->lru_lock, it's time to fix the incorrect comments in code. Also fixed some zone->lru_lock comment error from ancient time. etc. I struggled to understand the comment above move_pages_to_lru() (surely it never calls page_referenced()), and eventually realized that most of it had got separated from shrink_active_list(): move that comment back. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Alex Shi Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org --- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst | 15 ++------ Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 21 +++++------ Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst | 2 +- Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst | 22 +++++------- include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 +- mm/filemap.c | 4 +-- mm/rmap.c | 4 +-- mm/vmscan.c | 41 ++++++++++++---------- 9 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst index 3f7115e07b5d..0b9f91589d3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst @@ -133,18 +133,9 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. 8. LRU ====== - Each memcg has its own private LRU. Now, its handling is under global - VM's control (means that it's handled under global pgdat->lru_lock). - Almost all routines around memcg's LRU is called by global LRU's - list management functions under pgdat->lru_lock. - - A special function is mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(). This scans - memcg's private LRU and call __isolate_lru_page() to extract a page - from LRU. - - (By __isolate_lru_page(), the page is removed from both of global and - private LRU.) - + Each memcg has its own vector of LRUs (inactive anon, active anon, + inactive file, active file, unevictable) of pages from each node, + each LRU handled under a single lru_lock for that memcg and node. 9. Typical Tests. ================= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index 12757e63b26c..24450696579f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -285,20 +285,17 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered. 2.6 Locking ----------- - lock_page_cgroup()/unlock_page_cgroup() should not be called under - the i_pages lock. +Lock order is as follows: - Other lock order is following: + Page lock (PG_locked bit of page->flags) + mm->page_table_lock or split pte_lock + lock_page_memcg (memcg->move_lock) + mapping->i_pages lock + lruvec->lru_lock. - PG_locked. - mm->page_table_lock - pgdat->lru_lock - lock_page_cgroup. - - In many cases, just lock_page_cgroup() is called. - - per-zone-per-cgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is just guarded by - pgdat->lru_lock, it has no lock of its own. +Per-node-per-memcgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is guarded by +lruvec->lru_lock; PG_lru bit of page->flags is cleared before +isolating a page from its LRU under lruvec->lru_lock. 2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) ----------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst index 555484110e36..68fa75247488 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ When pages are freed in batch, the also mm_page_free_batched is triggered. Broadly speaking, pages are taken off the LRU lock in bulk and freed in batch with a page list. Significant amounts of activity here could indicate that the system is under memory pressure and can also indicate -contention on the zone->lru_lock. +contention on the lruvec->lru_lock. 4. Per-CPU Allocator Activity ============================= diff --git a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst index 17d0861b0f1d..0e1490524f53 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ reclaim in Linux. The problems have been observed at customer sites on large memory x86_64 systems. To illustrate this with an example, a non-NUMA x86_64 platform with 128GB of -main memory will have over 32 million 4k pages in a single zone. When a large +main memory will have over 32 million 4k pages in a single node. When a large fraction of these pages are not evictable for any reason [see below], vmscan will spend a lot of time scanning the LRU lists looking for the small fraction of pages that are evictable. This can result in a situation where all CPUs are @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ unevictable, either by definition or by circumstance, in the future. The Unevictable Page List ------------------------- -The Unevictable LRU infrastructure consists of an additional, per-zone, LRU list +The Unevictable LRU infrastructure consists of an additional, per-node, LRU list called the "unevictable" list and an associated page flag, PG_unevictable, to indicate that the page is being managed on the unevictable list. @@ -84,15 +84,9 @@ The unevictable list does not differentiate between file-backed and anonymous, swap-backed pages. This differentiation is only important while the pages are, in fact, evictable. -The unevictable list benefits from the "arrayification" of the per-zone LRU +The unevictable list benefits from the "arrayification" of the per-node LRU lists and statistics originally proposed and posted by Christoph Lameter. -The unevictable list does not use the LRU pagevec mechanism. Rather, -unevictable pages are placed directly on the page's zone's unevictable list -under the zone lru_lock. This allows us to prevent the stranding of pages on -the unevictable list when one task has the page isolated from the LRU and other -tasks are changing the "evictability" state of the page. - Memory Control Group Interaction -------------------------------- @@ -101,8 +95,8 @@ The unevictable LRU facility interacts with the memory control group [aka memory controller; see Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst] by extending the lru_list enum. -The memory controller data structure automatically gets a per-zone unevictable -list as a result of the "arrayification" of the per-zone LRU lists (one per +The memory controller data structure automatically gets a per-node unevictable +list as a result of the "arrayification" of the per-node LRU lists (one per lru_list enum element). The memory controller tracks the movement of pages to and from the unevictable list. @@ -196,7 +190,7 @@ for the sake of expediency, to leave a unevictable page on one of the regular active/inactive LRU lists for vmscan to deal with. vmscan checks for such pages in all of the shrink_{active|inactive|page}_list() functions and will "cull" such pages that it encounters: that is, it diverts those pages to the -unevictable list for the zone being scanned. +unevictable list for the node being scanned. There may be situations where a page is mapped into a VM_LOCKED VMA, but the page is not marked as PG_mlocked. Such pages will make it all the way to @@ -328,7 +322,7 @@ If the page was NOT already mlocked, mlock_vma_page() attempts to isolate the page from the LRU, as it is likely on the appropriate active or inactive list at that time. If the isolate_lru_page() succeeds, mlock_vma_page() will put back the page - by calling putback_lru_page() - which will notice that the page -is now mlocked and divert the page to the zone's unevictable list. If +is now mlocked and divert the page to the node's unevictable list. If mlock_vma_page() is unable to isolate the page from the LRU, vmscan will handle it later if and when it attempts to reclaim the page. @@ -603,7 +597,7 @@ Some examples of these unevictable pages on the LRU lists are: unevictable list in mlock_vma_page(). shrink_inactive_list() also diverts any unevictable pages that it finds on the -inactive lists to the appropriate zone's unevictable list. +inactive lists to the appropriate node's unevictable list. shrink_inactive_list() should only see SHM_LOCK'd pages that became SHM_LOCK'd after shrink_active_list() had moved them to the inactive list, or pages mapped diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 496c3ff97cce..c3f1e76720af 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct page { struct { /* Page cache and anonymous pages */ /** * @lru: Pageout list, eg. active_list protected by - * pgdat->lru_lock. Sometimes used as a generic list + * lruvec->lru_lock. Sometimes used as a generic list * by the page owner. */ struct list_head lru; diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 7727f4c373f7..0ed520954843 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -113,8 +113,7 @@ static inline bool free_area_empty(struct free_area *area, int migratetype) struct pglist_data; /* - * zone->lock and the zone lru_lock are two of the hottest locks in the kernel. - * So add a wild amount of padding here to ensure that they fall into separate + * Add a wild amount of padding here to ensure datas fall into separate * cachelines. There are very few zone structures in the machine, so space * consumption is not a concern here. */ diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 5202e38ab79e..28ced379849f 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ * ->swap_lock (try_to_unmap_one) * ->private_lock (try_to_unmap_one) * ->i_pages lock (try_to_unmap_one) - * ->pgdat->lru_lock (follow_page->mark_page_accessed) - * ->pgdat->lru_lock (check_pte_range->isolate_lru_page) + * ->lruvec->lru_lock (follow_page->mark_page_accessed) + * ->lruvec->lru_lock (check_pte_range->isolate_lru_page) * ->private_lock (page_remove_rmap->set_page_dirty) * ->i_pages lock (page_remove_rmap->set_page_dirty) * bdi.wb->list_lock (page_remove_rmap->set_page_dirty) diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 9425260774a1..46cc5a959790 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ * hugetlb_fault_mutex (hugetlbfs specific page fault mutex) * anon_vma->rwsem * mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock - * pgdat->lru_lock (in mark_page_accessed, isolate_lru_page) * swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get) * mmlist_lock (in mmput, drain_mmlist and others) * mapping->private_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers) - * mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_page_stat (memcg->move_lock) + * lock_page_memcg move_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers) * i_pages lock (widely used) + * lruvec->lru_lock (in lock_page_lruvec_irq) * inode->i_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty) * bdi.wb->list_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty) * sb_lock (within inode_lock in fs/fs-writeback.c) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 68ec8a631242..550d21d9369d 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1612,14 +1612,16 @@ static __always_inline void update_lru_sizes(struct lruvec *lruvec, } /** - * pgdat->lru_lock is heavily contended. Some of the functions that + * Isolating page from the lruvec to fill in @dst list by nr_to_scan times. + * + * lruvec->lru_lock is heavily contended. Some of the functions that * shrink the lists perform better by taking out a batch of pages * and working on them outside the LRU lock. * * For pagecache intensive workloads, this function is the hottest * spot in the kernel (apart from copy_*_user functions). * - * Appropriate locks must be held before calling this function. + * Lru_lock must be held before calling this function. * * @nr_to_scan: The number of eligible pages to look through on the list. * @lruvec: The LRU vector to pull pages from. @@ -1813,25 +1815,11 @@ static int too_many_isolated(struct pglist_data *pgdat, int file, } /* - * This moves pages from @list to corresponding LRU list. - * - * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more - * processes, from rmap. - * - * If the pages are mostly unmapped, the processing is fast and it is - * appropriate to hold zone_lru_lock across the whole operation. But if - * the pages are mapped, the processing is slow (page_referenced()) so we - * should drop zone_lru_lock around each page. It's impossible to balance - * this, so instead we remove the pages from the LRU while processing them. - * It is safe to rely on PG_active against the non-LRU pages in here because - * nobody will play with that bit on a non-LRU page. - * - * The downside is that we have to touch page->_refcount against each page. - * But we had to alter page->flags anyway. + * move_pages_to_lru() moves pages from private @list to appropriate LRU list. + * On return, @list is reused as a list of pages to be freed by the caller. * * Returns the number of pages moved to the given lruvec. */ - static unsigned noinline_for_stack move_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *list) { @@ -2006,6 +1994,23 @@ static int current_may_throttle(void) return nr_reclaimed; } +/* + * shrink_active_list() moves pages from the active LRU to the inactive LRU. + * + * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more + * processes. + * + * If the pages are mostly unmapped, the processing is fast and it is + * appropriate to hold lru_lock across the whole operation. But if + * the pages are mapped, the processing is slow (page_referenced()), so + * we should drop lru_lock around each page. It's impossible to balance + * this, so instead we remove the pages from the LRU while processing them. + * It is safe to rely on PG_active against the non-LRU pages in here because + * nobody will play with that bit on a non-LRU page. + * + * The downside is that we have to touch page->_refcount against each page. + * But we had to alter page->flags anyway. + */ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,