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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-17 12:58:52 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-17 12:58:52 -0800
commit0cbeafb245ca568bc0765645aa64f0451b716657 (patch)
tree663c09ff5a62a1b2b66a17c4dfe0413603530a36 /Documentation
parent58cf279acac3080ce03eeea5ca268210b3165fe1 (diff)
parent06b031de22d28ae76b2e5bfaf22c56a265a1e106 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - more MM stuff: - Kirill's page-flags rework - Kirill's now-allegedly-fixed THP rework - MADV_FREE implementation - DAX feature work (msync/fsync). This isn't quite complete but DAX is new and it's good enough and the guys have a handle on what needs to be done - I expect this to be wrapped in the next week or two. - some vsprintf maintenance work - various other misc bits * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (145 commits) printk: change recursion_bug type to bool lib/vsprintf: factor out %pN[F] handler as netdev_bits() lib/vsprintf: refactor duplicate code to special_hex_number() printk-formats.txt: remove unimplemented %pT printk: help pr_debug and pr_devel to optimize out arguments lib/test_printf.c: test dentry printing lib/test_printf.c: add test for large bitmaps lib/test_printf.c: account for kvasprintf tests lib/test_printf.c: add a few number() tests lib/test_printf.c: test precision quirks lib/test_printf.c: check for out-of-bound writes lib/test_printf.c: don't BUG lib/kasprintf.c: add sanity check to kvasprintf lib/vsprintf.c: warn about too large precisions and field widths lib/vsprintf.c: help gcc make number() smaller lib/vsprintf.c: expand field_width to 24 bits lib/vsprintf.c: eliminate potential race in string() lib/vsprintf.c: move string() below widen_string() lib/vsprintf.c: pull out padding code from dentry_name() printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/features/vm/pmdp_splitting_flush/arch-support.txt40
-rw-r--r--Documentation/printk-formats.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt151
3 files changed, 96 insertions, 104 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/features/vm/pmdp_splitting_flush/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/vm/pmdp_splitting_flush/arch-support.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 26f74b457e0b..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/features/vm/pmdp_splitting_flush/arch-support.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Feature name: pmdp_splitting_flush
-# Kconfig: __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SPLITTING_FLUSH
-# description: arch supports the pmdp_splitting_flush() VM API
-#
- -----------------------
- | arch |status|
- -----------------------
- | alpha: | TODO |
- | arc: | TODO |
- | arm: | ok |
- | arm64: | ok |
- | avr32: | TODO |
- | blackfin: | TODO |
- | c6x: | TODO |
- | cris: | TODO |
- | frv: | TODO |
- | h8300: | TODO |
- | hexagon: | TODO |
- | ia64: | TODO |
- | m32r: | TODO |
- | m68k: | TODO |
- | metag: | TODO |
- | microblaze: | TODO |
- | mips: | ok |
- | mn10300: | TODO |
- | nios2: | TODO |
- | openrisc: | TODO |
- | parisc: | TODO |
- | powerpc: | ok |
- | s390: | ok |
- | score: | TODO |
- | sh: | TODO |
- | sparc: | TODO |
- | tile: | TODO |
- | um: | TODO |
- | unicore32: | TODO |
- | x86: | ok |
- | xtensa: | TODO |
- -----------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
index 6389551bbad6..5d1128bf0282 100644
--- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
@@ -306,15 +306,6 @@ Network device features:
Passed by reference.
-Command from struct task_struct
-
- %pT ls
-
- For printing executable name excluding path from struct
- task_struct.
-
- Passed by reference.
-
If you add other %p extensions, please extend lib/test_printf.c with
one or more test cases, if at all feasible.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index 8a282687ee06..21cf34f3ddb2 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ miss is going to run faster.
== Design ==
-- "graceful fallback": mm components which don't have transparent
- hugepage knowledge fall back to breaking a transparent hugepage and
- working on the regular pages and their respective regular pmd/pte
- mappings
+- "graceful fallback": mm components which don't have transparent hugepage
+ knowledge fall back to breaking huge pmd mapping into table of ptes and,
+ if necessary, split a transparent hugepage. Therefore these components
+ can continue working on the regular pages or regular pte mappings.
- if a hugepage allocation fails because of memory fragmentation,
regular pages should be gracefully allocated instead and mixed in
@@ -221,9 +221,18 @@ thp_collapse_alloc_failed is incremented if khugepaged found a range
of pages that should be collapsed into one huge page but failed
the allocation.
-thp_split is incremented every time a huge page is split into base
+thp_split_page is incremented every time a huge page is split into base
pages. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a common
reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed.
+ This action implies splitting all PMD the page mapped with.
+
+thp_split_page_failed is is incremented if kernel fails to split huge
+ page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody.
+
+thp_split_pmd is incremented every time a PMD split into table of PTEs.
+ This can happen, for instance, when application calls mprotect() or
+ munmap() on part of huge page. It doesn't split huge page, only
+ page table entry.
thp_zero_page_alloc is incremented every time a huge zero page is
successfully allocated. It includes allocations which where
@@ -274,10 +283,8 @@ is complete, so they won't ever notice the fact the page is huge. But
if any driver is going to mangle over the page structure of the tail
page (like for checking page->mapping or other bits that are relevant
for the head page and not the tail page), it should be updated to jump
-to check head page instead (while serializing properly against
-split_huge_page() to avoid the head and tail pages to disappear from
-under it, see the futex code to see an example of that, hugetlbfs also
-needed special handling in futex code for similar reasons).
+to check head page instead. Taking reference on any head/tail page would
+prevent page from being split by anyone.
NOTE: these aren't new constraints to the GUP API, and they match the
same constrains that applies to hugetlbfs too, so any driver capable
@@ -312,9 +319,9 @@ unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual.
== Graceful fallback ==
Code walking pagetables but unware about huge pmds can simply call
-split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd) where the pmd is the one returned by
+split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr) where the pmd is the one returned by
pmd_offset. It's trivial to make the code transparent hugepage aware
-by just grepping for "pmd_offset" and adding split_huge_page_pmd where
+by just grepping for "pmd_offset" and adding split_huge_pmd where
missing after pmd_offset returns the pmd. Thanks to the graceful
fallback design, with a one liner change, you can avoid to write
hundred if not thousand of lines of complex code to make your code
@@ -323,7 +330,8 @@ hugepage aware.
If you're not walking pagetables but you run into a physical hugepage
but you can't handle it natively in your code, you can split it by
calling split_huge_page(page). This is what the Linux VM does before
-it tries to swapout the hugepage for example.
+it tries to swapout the hugepage for example. split_huge_page() can fail
+if the page is pinned and you must handle this correctly.
Example to make mremap.c transparent hugepage aware with a one liner
change:
@@ -335,14 +343,14 @@ diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
return NULL;
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
-+ split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
++ split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr);
if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
return NULL;
== Locking in hugepage aware code ==
We want as much code as possible hugepage aware, as calling
-split_huge_page() or split_huge_page_pmd() has a cost.
+split_huge_page() or split_huge_pmd() has a cost.
To make pagetable walks huge pmd aware, all you need to do is to call
pmd_trans_huge() on the pmd returned by pmd_offset. You must hold the
@@ -351,47 +359,80 @@ created from under you by khugepaged (khugepaged collapse_huge_page
takes the mmap_sem in write mode in addition to the anon_vma lock). If
pmd_trans_huge returns false, you just fallback in the old code
paths. If instead pmd_trans_huge returns true, you have to take the
-mm->page_table_lock and re-run pmd_trans_huge. Taking the
-page_table_lock will prevent the huge pmd to be converted into a
-regular pmd from under you (split_huge_page can run in parallel to the
+page table lock (pmd_lock()) and re-run pmd_trans_huge. Taking the
+page table lock will prevent the huge pmd to be converted into a
+regular pmd from under you (split_huge_pmd can run in parallel to the
pagetable walk). If the second pmd_trans_huge returns false, you
-should just drop the page_table_lock and fallback to the old code as
-before. Otherwise you should run pmd_trans_splitting on the pmd. In
-case pmd_trans_splitting returns true, it means split_huge_page is
-already in the middle of splitting the page. So if pmd_trans_splitting
-returns true it's enough to drop the page_table_lock and call
-wait_split_huge_page and then fallback the old code paths. You are
-guaranteed by the time wait_split_huge_page returns, the pmd isn't
-huge anymore. If pmd_trans_splitting returns false, you can proceed to
-process the huge pmd and the hugepage natively. Once finished you can
-drop the page_table_lock.
-
-== compound_lock, get_user_pages and put_page ==
+should just drop the page table lock and fallback to the old code as
+before. Otherwise you can proceed to process the huge pmd and the
+hugepage natively. Once finished you can drop the page table lock.
+
+== Refcounts and transparent huge pages ==
+
+Refcounting on THP is mostly consistent with refcounting on other compound
+pages:
+
+ - get_page()/put_page() and GUP operate in head page's ->_count.
+
+ - ->_count in tail pages is always zero: get_page_unless_zero() never
+ succeed on tail pages.
+
+ - map/unmap of the pages with PTE entry increment/decrement ->_mapcount
+ on relevant sub-page of the compound page.
+
+ - map/unmap of the whole compound page accounted in compound_mapcount
+ (stored in first tail page).
+
+PageDoubleMap() indicates that ->_mapcount in all subpages is offset up by one.
+This additional reference is required to get race-free detection of unmap of
+subpages when we have them mapped with both PMDs and PTEs.
+
+This is optimization required to lower overhead of per-subpage mapcount
+tracking. The alternative is alter ->_mapcount in all subpages on each
+map/unmap of the whole compound page.
+
+We set PG_double_map when a PMD of the page got split for the first time,
+but still have PMD mapping. The addtional references go away with last
+compound_mapcount.
split_huge_page internally has to distribute the refcounts in the head
-page to the tail pages before clearing all PG_head/tail bits from the
-page structures. It can do that easily for refcounts taken by huge pmd
-mappings. But the GUI API as created by hugetlbfs (that returns head
-and tail pages if running get_user_pages on an address backed by any
-hugepage), requires the refcount to be accounted on the tail pages and
-not only in the head pages, if we want to be able to run
-split_huge_page while there are gup pins established on any tail
-page. Failure to be able to run split_huge_page if there's any gup pin
-on any tail page, would mean having to split all hugepages upfront in
-get_user_pages which is unacceptable as too many gup users are
-performance critical and they must work natively on hugepages like
-they work natively on hugetlbfs already (hugetlbfs is simpler because
-hugetlbfs pages cannot be split so there wouldn't be requirement of
-accounting the pins on the tail pages for hugetlbfs). If we wouldn't
-account the gup refcounts on the tail pages during gup, we won't know
-anymore which tail page is pinned by gup and which is not while we run
-split_huge_page. But we still have to add the gup pin to the head page
-too, to know when we can free the compound page in case it's never
-split during its lifetime. That requires changing not just
-get_page, but put_page as well so that when put_page runs on a tail
-page (and only on a tail page) it will find its respective head page,
-and then it will decrease the head page refcount in addition to the
-tail page refcount. To obtain a head page reliably and to decrease its
-refcount without race conditions, put_page has to serialize against
-__split_huge_page_refcount using a special per-page lock called
-compound_lock.
+page to the tail pages before clearing all PG_head/tail bits from the page
+structures. It can be done easily for refcounts taken by page table
+entries. But we don't have enough information on how to distribute any
+additional pins (i.e. from get_user_pages). split_huge_page() fails any
+requests to split pinned huge page: it expects page count to be equal to
+sum of mapcount of all sub-pages plus one (split_huge_page caller must
+have reference for head page).
+
+split_huge_page uses migration entries to stabilize page->_count and
+page->_mapcount.
+
+We safe against physical memory scanners too: the only legitimate way
+scanner can get reference to a page is get_page_unless_zero().
+
+All tail pages has zero ->_count until atomic_add(). It prevent scanner
+from geting reference to tail page up to the point. After the atomic_add()
+we don't care about ->_count value. We already known how many references
+with should uncharge from head page.
+
+For head page get_page_unless_zero() will succeed and we don't mind. It's
+clear where reference should go after split: it will stay on head page.
+
+Note that split_huge_pmd() doesn't have any limitation on refcounting:
+pmd can be split at any point and never fails.
+
+== Partial unmap and deferred_split_huge_page() ==
+
+Unmapping part of THP (with munmap() or other way) is not going to free
+memory immediately. Instead, we detect that a subpage of THP is not in use
+in page_remove_rmap() and queue the THP for splitting if memory pressure
+comes. Splitting will free up unused subpages.
+
+Splitting the page right away is not an option due to locking context in
+the place where we can detect partial unmap. It's also might be
+counterproductive since in many cases partial unmap unmap happens during
+exit(2) if an THP crosses VMA boundary.
+
+Function deferred_split_huge_page() is used to queue page for splitting.
+The splitting itself will happen when we get memory pressure via shrinker
+interface.