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Rather confusingly, setting all Transparent Huge Page sysfs settings to
"never" does not in fact result in THP being globally disabled.
Rather, it results in khugepaged being disabled, but one can still obtain
THP pages using madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE).
This is something that has remained poorly documented for some time, and
it is likely the received wisdom of most users of THP that never does, in
fact, mean never.
It is therefore important to highlight, very clearly, that this is not the
case.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: update transhuge page to mention MADV_COLLAPSE]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d54d1dfb-f06d-4979-983b-73998f05867e@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250721155530.75944-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, large folio swap-in is supported, but we lack a method to
analyze their success ratio. Similar to anon_fault_fallback, we introduce
per-order mTHP swpin_fallback and swpin_fallback_charge counters for
calculating their success ratio. The new counters are located at:
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-<size>/stats/
swpin_fallback
swpin_fallback_charge
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241202124730.2407037-1-haowenchao22@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Hao <haowenchao22@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Drop 'fadvise()' from the doc, since fadvise() has no HUGEPAGE advise
currently.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a10bb49832f6d9827dc2c76aec0bf43a892876b.1732779148.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Update the large folios policy for tmpfs and shmem.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b7418af30e300d1eb05721b81d79074d0bb0ec9.1732779148.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Now the tmpfs can allow to allocate any sized large folios, and the default
huge policy is still preferred to be 'never'. Due to tmpfs not behaving like
other file systems in some cases as previously explained by David[1]:
: I think I raised this in the past, but tmpfs/shmem is just like any
: other file system .. except it sometimes really isn't and behaves much
: more like (swappable) anonymous memory. (or mlocked files)
:
: There are many systems out there that run without swap enabled, or with
: extremely minimal swap (IIRC until recently kubernetes was completely
: incompatible with swapping). Swap can even be disabled today for shmem
: using a mount option.
:
: That's a big difference to all other file systems where you are
: guaranteed to have backend storage where you can simply evict under
: memory pressure (might temporarily fail, of course).
:
: I *think* that's the reason why we have the "huge=" parameter that also
: controls the THP allocations during page faults (IOW possible memory
: over-allocation). Maybe also because it was a new feature, and we only
: had a single THP size.
Thus adding a new command line to change the default huge policy will be
helpful to use the large folios for tmpfs, which is similar to the
'transparent_hugepage_shmem' cmdline for shmem.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cbadd5fe-69d5-4c21-8eb8-3344ed36c721@redhat.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff390b2656f0d39649547f8f2cbb30fcb7e7be2d.1732779148.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The '/proc/PID/smaps' does not have the 'FileHugeMapped' field to count
the file transparent huge pages, instead, the 'FilePmdMapped' field should
be used. Fix it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d520ce3aba2b03b088be30bece732426a939049a.1734425264.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add the ``thp_shmem=`` kernel command line to allow specifying the default
policy of each supported shmem hugepage size. The kernel parameter
accepts the following format:
thp_shmem=<size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<policy>;<size>[KMG]-<size>[KMG]:<policy>
For example,
thp_shmem=16K-64K:always;128K,512K:inherit;256K:advise;1M-2M:never;4M-8M:within_size
Some GPUs may benefit from using huge pages. Since DRM GEM uses shmem to
allocate anonymous pageable memory, it's essential to control the huge
page allocation policy for the internal shmem mount. This control can be
achieved through the ``transparent_hugepage_shmem=`` parameter.
Beyond just setting the allocation policy, it's crucial to have granular
control over the size of huge pages that can be allocated. The GPU may
support only specific huge page sizes, and allocating pages larger/smaller
than those sizes would be ineffective.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101165719.1074234-6-mcanal@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP", v5.
This series introduces four patches related to the kernel parameters
controlling mTHP and a fifth patch replacing `strcpy()` for `strscpy()` in
the file `mm/huge_memory.c`.
The first patch is a straightforward documentation update, correcting the
format of the kernel parameter ``thp_anon=``.
The second, third, and fourth patches focus on controlling THP support for
shmem via the kernel command line. The second patch introduces a
parameter to control the global default huge page allocation policy for
the internal shmem mount. The third patch moves a piece of code to a
shared header to ease the implementation of the fourth patch. Finally,
the fourth patch implements a parameter similar to ``thp_anon=``, but for
shmem.
The goal of these changes is to simplify the configuration of systems that
rely on mTHP support for shmem. For instance, a platform with a GPU that
benefits from huge pages may want to enable huge pages for shmem. Having
these kernel parameters streamlines the configuration process and ensures
consistency across setups.
This patch (of 4):
Add a new kernel command line to control the hugepage allocation policy
for the internal shmem mount, ``transparent_hugepage_shmem``. The
parameter is similar to ``transparent_hugepage`` and has the following
format:
transparent_hugepage_shmem=<policy>
where ``<policy>`` is one of the seven valid policies available for
shmem.
Configuring the default huge page allocation policy for the internal
shmem mount can be beneficial for DRM GPU drivers. Just as CPU
architectures, GPUs can also take advantage of huge pages, but this is
possible only if DRM GEM objects are backed by huge pages.
Since GEM uses shmem to allocate anonymous pageable memory, having control
over the default huge page allocation policy allows for the exploration of
huge pages use on GPUs that rely on GEM objects backed by shmem.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101165719.1074234-2-mcanal@igalia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101165719.1074234-4-mcanal@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: kernel-dev@igalia.com
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This helps profile the sizes of folios being swapped in. Currently,
only mTHP swap-out is being counted.
The new interface can be found at:
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-<size>/stats
swpin
For example,
cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-64kB/stats/swpin
12809
cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-32kB/stats/swpin
4763
[v-songbaohua@oppo.com: add a blank line in doc]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241030233423.80759-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241026082423.26298-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Added a new MTHP_STAT_ZSWPOUT entry to the sysfs transparent_hugepage
stats so that successful large folio zswap stores can be accounted under
the per-order sysfs "zswpout" stats:
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-*kB/stats/zswpout
Other non-zswap swap device swap-out events will be counted under
the existing sysfs "swpout" stats:
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-*kB/stats/swpout
Also, added documentation for the newly added sysfs per-order hugepage
"zswpout" stats. The documentation clarifies that only non-zswap swapouts
will be accounted in the existing "swpout" stats.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241001053222.6944-8-kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Wajdi Feghali <wajdi.k.feghali@intel.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: "Zou, Nanhai" <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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If we add ``thp_anon=32,64K:always`` to the kernel command line, we
will see the following error:
[ 0.000000] huge_memory: thp_anon=32,64K:always: error parsing string, ignoring setting
This happens because the correct format isn't ``thp_anon=<size>,<size>[KMG]:<state>```,
as [KMG] must follow each number to especify its unit. So, the correct
format is ``thp_anon=<size>[KMG],<size>[KMG]:<state>```.
Therefore, adjust the documentation to reflect the correct format of the
parameter ``thp_anon=``.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101165719.1074234-3-mcanal@igalia.com
Fixes: dd4d30d1cdbe ("mm: override mTHP "enabled" defaults at kernel cmdline")
Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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If disabled, THPs faulted in or collapsed will not be added to
_deferred_list, and therefore won't be considered for splitting under
memory pressure if underused.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240830100438.3623486-7-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Zhu <alexlzhu@fb.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Shuang Zhai <zhais@google.com>
Cc: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This is an attempt to mitigate the issue of running out of memory when THP
is always enabled. During runtime whenever a THP is being faulted in
(__do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page) or collapsed by khugepaged
(collapse_huge_page), the THP is added to _deferred_list. Whenever memory
reclaim happens in linux, the kernel runs the deferred_split shrinker
which goes through the _deferred_list.
If the folio was partially mapped, the shrinker attempts to split it. If
the folio is not partially mapped, the shrinker checks if the THP was
underused, i.e. how many of the base 4K pages of the entire THP were
zero-filled. If this number goes above a certain threshold (decided by
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none), the
shrinker will attempt to split that THP. Then at remap time, the pages
that were zero-filled are mapped to the shared zeropage, hence saving
memory.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240830100438.3623486-6-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Co-authored-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alexander Zhu <alexlzhu@fb.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Shuang Zhai <zhais@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When a THP is added to the deferred_list due to partially mapped, its
partial pages are unused, leading to wasted memory and potentially
increasing memory reclamation pressure.
Detailing the specifics of how unmapping occurs is quite difficult and not
that useful, so we adopt a simple approach: each time a THP enters the
deferred_list, we increment the count by 1; whenever it leaves for any
reason, we decrement the count by 1.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240824010441.21308-3-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Chuanhua Han <hanchuanhua@oppo.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuai Yuan <yuanshuai@oppo.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size", v4.
Knowing the number of transparent anon THPs in the system is crucial
for performance analysis. It helps in understanding the ratio and
distribution of THPs versus small folios throughout the system.
Additionally, partial unmapping by userspace can lead to significant waste
of THPs over time and increase memory reclamation pressure. We need this
information for comprehensive system tuning.
This patch (of 2):
Let's track for each anonymous THP size, how many of them are currently
allocated. We'll track the complete lifespan of an anon THP, starting
when it becomes an anon THP ("large anon folio") (->mapping gets set),
until it gets freed (->mapping gets cleared).
Introduce a new "nr_anon" counter per THP size and adjust the
corresponding counter in the following cases:
* We allocate a new THP and call folio_add_new_anon_rmap() to map
it the first time and turn it into an anon THP.
* We split an anon THP into multiple smaller ones.
* We migrate an anon THP, when we prepare the destination.
* We free an anon THP back to the buddy.
Note that AnonPages in /proc/meminfo currently tracks the total number of
*mapped* anonymous *pages*, and therefore has slightly different
semantics. In the future, we might also want to track "nr_anon_mapped"
for each THP size, which might be helpful when comparing it to the number
of allocated anon THPs (long-term pinning, stuck in swapcache, memory
leaks, ...).
Further note that for now, we only track anon THPs after they got their
->mapping set, for example via folio_add_new_anon_rmap(). If we would
allocate some in the swapcache, they will only show up in the statistics
for now after they have been mapped to user space the first time, where we
call folio_add_new_anon_rmap().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: documentation fixups, per David]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e8add35-e26b-443b-8a04-1078f4bc78f6@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240824010441.21308-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240824010441.21308-2-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Chuanhua Han <hanchuanhua@oppo.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuai Yuan <yuanshuai@oppo.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add thp_anon= cmdline parameter to allow specifying the default enablement
of each supported anon THP size. The parameter accepts the following
format and can be provided multiple times to configure each size:
thp_anon=<size>,<size>[KMG]:<value>;<size>-<size>[KMG]:<value>
An example:
thp_anon=16K-64K:always;128K,512K:inherit;256K:madvise;1M-2M:never
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more details.
Configuring the defaults at boot time is useful to allow early user space
to take advantage of mTHP before its been configured through sysfs.
[v-songbaohua@oppo.com: use get_oder() and check size is is_power_of_2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814224635.43272-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
[ryan.roberts@arm.com: some minor cleanup according to David's comments]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240820105244.62703-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814020247.67297-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The legacy PMD-sized THP counters at /proc/vmstat include thp_file_alloc,
thp_file_fallback and thp_file_fallback_charge, which rather confusingly
refer to shmem THP and do not include any other types of file pages. This
is inconsistent since in most other places in the kernel, THP counters are
explicitly separated for anon, shmem and file flavours. However, we are
stuck with it since it constitutes a user ABI.
Recently, commit 66f44583f9b6 ("mm: shmem: add mTHP counters for anonymous
shmem") added equivalent mTHP stats for shmem, keeping the same "file_"
prefix in the names. But in future, we may want to add extra stats to
cover actual file pages, at which point, it would all become very
confusing.
So let's take the opportunity to rename these new counters "shmem_" before
the change makes it upstream and the ABI becomes immutable. While we are
at it, let's improve the documentation for the legacy counters to make it
clear that they count shmem pages only.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240710095503.3193901-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Since the introduction of mTHP, the docuementation has stated that
khugepaged would be enabled when any mTHP size is enabled, and disabled
when all mTHP sizes are disabled. There are 2 problems with this; 1.
this is not what was implemented by the code and 2. this is not the
desirable behavior.
Desirable behavior is for khugepaged to be enabled when any PMD-sized THP
is enabled, anon or file. (Note that file THP is still controlled by the
top-level control so we must always consider that, as well as the PMD-size
mTHP control for anon). khugepaged only supports collapsing to PMD-sized
THP so there is no value in enabling it when PMD-sized THP is disabled.
So let's change the code and documentation to reflect this policy.
Further, per-size enabled control modification events were not previously
forwarded to khugepaged to give it an opportunity to start or stop.
Consequently the following was resulting in khugepaged eroneously not
being activated:
echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-2048kB/enabled
[ryan.roberts@arm.com: v3]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240705102849.2479686-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240705102849.2479686-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240704091051.2411934-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Fixes: 3485b88390b0 ("mm: thp: introduce multi-size THP sysfs interface")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/7a0bbe69-1e3d-4263-b206-da007791a5c4@redhat.com/
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This commit introduces documentation for mTHP split counters in
transhuge.rst.
[ioworker0@gmail.com: improve the doc as suggested by Ryan]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240704012905.42971-3-ioworker0@gmail.com
[ioworker0@gmail.com: tweak Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240707013659.1151-1-ioworker0@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240628130750.73097-3-ioworker0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mingzhe Yang <mingzhe.yang@ly.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Bang Li <libang.li@antgroup.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add mTHP counters for anonymous shmem.
[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: update Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d86e2e7f-4141-432b-b2ba-c6691f36ef0b@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4fd9e467d49ae4a747e428bcd821c7d13125ae67.1718090413.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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To support the use of mTHP with anonymous shmem, add a new sysfs interface
'shmem_enabled' in the '/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-kB/'
directory for each mTHP to control whether shmem is enabled for that mTHP,
with a value similar to the top level 'shmem_enabled', which can be set
to: "always", "inherit (to inherit the top level setting)", "within_size",
"advise", "never". An 'inherit' option is added to ensure compatibility
with these global settings, and the options 'force' and 'deny' are
dropped, which are rather testing artifacts from the old ages.
By default, PMD-sized hugepages have enabled="inherit" and all other
hugepage sizes have enabled="never" for
'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-xxkB/shmem_enabled'.
In addition, if top level value is 'force', then only PMD-sized hugepages
have enabled="inherit", otherwise configuration will be failed and vice
versa. That means now we will avoid using non-PMD sized THP to override
the global huge allocation.
[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: fix transhuge.rst indentation]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b189d815-998b-4dfd-ba89-218ff51313f8@linux.alibaba.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reflow transhuge.rst addition to 80 cols]
[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: move huge_shmem_orders_lock under CONFIG_SYSFS]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/eb34da66-7f12-44f3-a39e-2bcc90c33354@linux.alibaba.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: huge_memory.c needs mm_types.h]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ffddfa8b3cb4266ff963099ab78cfd7184c57ac7.1718090413.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The mTHP swap related counters: 'anon_swpout' and 'anon_swpout_fallback'
are confusing with an 'anon_' prefix, since the shmem can swap out
non-anonymous pages. So drop the 'anon_' prefix to keep consistent with
the old swap counter names.
This is needed in 6.10-rcX to avoid having an inconsistent ABI out in the
field.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7a8989c13299920d7589007a30065c3e2c19f0e0.1716431702.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: d0f048ac39f6 ("mm: add per-order mTHP anon_swpout and anon_swpout_fallback counters")
Fixes: 42248b9d34ea ("mm: add docs for per-order mTHP counters and transhuge_page ABI")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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We want to limit the use of page_mapcount() to places where absolutely
required, to prepare for kernel configs where we won't keep track of
per-page mapcounts in large folios.
khugepaged is one of the remaining "more challenging" page_mapcount()
users, but we might be able to move away from page_mapcount() without
resulting in a significant behavior change that would warrant
special-casing based on kernel configs.
In 2020, we first added support to khugepaged for collapsing COW-shared
pages via commit 9445689f3b61 ("khugepaged: allow to collapse a page
shared across fork"), followed by support for collapsing PTE-mapped THP in
commit 5503fbf2b0b8 ("khugepaged: allow to collapse PTE-mapped compound
pages") and limiting the memory waste via the "page_count() > 1" check in
commit 71a2c112a0f6 ("khugepaged: introduce 'max_ptes_shared' tunable").
As a default, khugepaged will allow up to half of the PTEs to map shared
pages: where page_mapcount() > 1. MADV_COLLAPSE ignores the khugepaged
setting.
khugepaged does currently not care about swapcache page references, and
does not check under folio lock: so in some corner cases the "shared vs.
exclusive" detection might be a bit off, making us detect "exclusive" when
it's actually "shared".
Most of our anonymous folios in the system are usually exclusive. We
frequently see sharing of anonymous folios for a short period of time,
after which our short-lived suprocesses either quit or exec().
There are some famous examples, though, where child processes exist for a
long time, and where memory is COW-shared with a lot of processes
(webservers, webbrowsers, sshd, ...) and COW-sharing is crucial for
reducing the memory footprint. We don't want to suddenly change the
behavior to result in a significant increase in memory waste.
Interestingly, khugepaged will only collapse an anonymous THP if at least
one PTE is writable. After fork(), that means that something (usually a
page fault) populated at least a single exclusive anonymous THP in that
PMD range.
So ... what happens when we switch to "is this folio mapped shared"
instead of "is this page mapped shared" by using
folio_likely_mapped_shared()?
For "not-COW-shared" folios, small folios and for THPs (large folios) that
are completely mapped into at least one process, switching to
folio_likely_mapped_shared() will not result in a change.
We'll only see a change for COW-shared PTE-mapped THPs that are partially
mapped into all involved processes.
There are two cases to consider:
(A) folio_likely_mapped_shared() returns "false" for a PTE-mapped THP
If the folio is detected as exclusive, and it actually is exclusive,
there is no change: page_mapcount() == 1. This is the common case
without fork() or with short-lived child processes.
folio_likely_mapped_shared() might currently still detect a folio as
exclusive although it is shared (false negatives): if the first page is
not mapped multiple times and if the average per-page mapcount is smaller
than 1, implying that (1) the folio is partially mapped and (2) if we are
responsible for many mapcounts by mapping many pages others can't
("mostly exclusive") (3) if we are not responsible for many mapcounts by
mapping little pages ("mostly shared") it won't make a big impact on the
end result.
So while we might now detect a page as "exclusive" although it isn't,
it's not expected to make a big difference in common cases.
(B) folio_likely_mapped_shared() returns "true" for a PTE-mapped THP
folio_likely_mapped_shared() will never detect a large anonymous folio
as shared although it is exclusive: there are no false positives.
If we detect a THP as shared, at least one page of the THP is mapped by
another process. It could well be that some pages are actually exclusive.
For example, our child processes could have unmapped/COW'ed some pages
such that they would now be exclusive to out process, which we now
would treat as still-shared.
Examples:
(1) Parent maps all pages of a THP, child maps some pages. We detect
all pages in the parent as shared although some are actually
exclusive.
(2) Parent maps all but some page of a THP, child maps the remainder.
We detect all pages of the THP that the parent maps as shared
although they are all exclusive.
In (1) we wouldn't collapse a THP right now already: no PTE
is writable, because a write fault would have resulted in COW of a
single page and the parent would no longer map all pages of that THP.
For (2) we would have collapsed a THP in the parent so far, now we
wouldn't as long as the child process is still alive: unless the child
process unmaps the remaining THP pages or we decide to split that THP.
Possibly, the child COW'ed many pages, meaning that it's likely that
we can populate a THP for our child first, and then for our parent.
For (2), we are making really bad use of the THP in the first
place (not even mapped completely in at least one process). If the
THP would be completely partially mapped, it would be on the deferred
split queue where we would split it lazily later.
For short-running child processes, we don't particularly care. For
long-running processes, the expectation is that such scenarios are
rather rare: further, a THP might be best placed if most data in the
PMD range is actually written, implying that we'll have to COW more
pages first before khugepaged would collapse it.
To summarize, in the common case, this change is not expected to matter
much. The more common application of khugepaged operates on exclusive
pages, either before fork() or after a child quit.
Can we improve (A)? Yes, if we implement more precise tracking of "mapped
shared" vs. "mapped exclusively", we could get rid of the false negatives
completely.
Can we improve (B)? We could count how many pages of a large folio we map
inside the current page table and detect that we are responsible for most
of the folio mapcount and conclude "as good as exclusive", which might
help in some cases. ... but likely, some other mechanism should detect
that the THP is not a good use in the scenario (not even mapped completely
in a single process) and try splitting that folio lazily etc.
We'll move the folio_test_anon() check before our "shared" check, so we
might get more expressive results for SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE: this order
of checks now matches the one in __collapse_huge_page_isolate(). Extend
documentation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240424122630.495788-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The documentation does not align with the code. In
__do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(), THP_FAULT_FALLBACK is incremented when
mem_cgroup_charge() fails, despite the allocation succeeding, whereas
THP_FAULT_ALLOC is only incremented after a successful charge.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412114858.407208-5-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch includes documentation for mTHP counters and an ABI file for
sys-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage, which appears to have been missing for
some time.
[v-songbaohua@oppo.com: fix the name and unexpected indentation]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415054538.17071-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412114858.407208-4-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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In preparation for adding support for anonymous multi-size THP, introduce
new sysfs structure that will be used to control the new behaviours. A
new directory is added under transparent_hugepage for each supported THP
size, and contains an `enabled` file, which can be set to "inherit" (to
inherit the global setting), "always", "madvise" or "never". For now, the
kernel still only supports PMD-sized anonymous THP, so only 1 directory is
populated.
The first half of the change converts transhuge_vma_suitable() and
hugepage_vma_check() so that they take a bitfield of orders for which the
user wants to determine support, and the functions filter out all the
orders that can't be supported, given the current sysfs configuration and
the VMA dimensions. The resulting functions are renamed to
thp_vma_suitable_orders() and thp_vma_allowable_orders() respectively.
Convenience functions that take a single, unencoded order and return a
boolean are also defined as thp_vma_suitable_order() and
thp_vma_allowable_order().
The second half of the change implements the new sysfs interface. It has
been done so that each supported THP size has a `struct thpsize`, which
describes the relevant metadata and is itself a kobject. This is pretty
minimal for now, but should make it easy to add new per-thpsize files to
the interface if needed in future (e.g. per-size defrag). Rather than
keep the `enabled` state directly in the struct thpsize, I've elected to
directly encode it into huge_anon_orders_[always|madvise|inherit]
bitfields since this reduces the amount of work required in
thp_vma_allowable_orders() which is called for every page fault.
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst, as modified by this
commit, for details of how the new sysfs interface works.
[ryan.roberts@arm.com: fix build warning when CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231211125320.3997543-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207161211.2374093-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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It is enough to use a file name to cross-reference another rst document.
Jon says:
The right things will happen in the HTML output, readers of the
plain-text will know immediately where to go, and we don't have to add
the label clutter.
Drop reference markup and unnecessary labels and use plain file names.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230201094156.991542-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The main benefit of THPs are that they can be mapped at the pmd level,
increasing the likelihood of TLB hit and spending less cycles in page
table walks. pte-mapped hugepages - that is - hugepage-aligned compound
pages of order HPAGE_PMD_ORDER mapped by ptes - although being contiguous
in physical memory, don't have this advantage. In fact, one could argue
they are detrimental to system performance overall since they occupy a
precious hugepage-aligned/sized region of physical memory that could
otherwise be used more effectively. Additionally, pte-mapped hugepages
can be the cheapest memory to collapse for khugepaged since no new
hugepage allocation or copying of memory contents is necessary - we only
need to update the mapping page tables.
In the anonymous collapse path, we are able to collapse pte-mapped
hugepages (albeit, perhaps suboptimally), but the file/shmem path makes no
effort when compound pages (of any order) are encountered.
Identify pte-mapped hugepages in the file/shmem collapse path. The
final step of which makes a racy check of the value of the pmd to
ensure it maps a pte table. This should be fine, since races that
result in false-positive (i.e. attempt collapse even though we
shouldn't) will fail later in collapse_pte_mapped_thp() once we
actually lock mmap_lock and reinspect the pmd value. Races that result
in false-negatives (i.e. where we decide to not attempt collapse, but
should have) shouldn't be an issue, since in the worst case, we do
nothing - which is what we've done up to this point. We make a similar
check in retract_page_tables(). If we do think we've found a
pte-mapped hugepgae in khugepaged context, attempt to update page
tables mapping this hugepage.
Note that these collapses still count towards the
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_collapsed counter,
and if the pte-mapped hugepage was also mapped into multiple process'
address spaces, could be incremented for each page table update. Since we
increment the counter when a pte-mapped hugepage is successfully added to
the list of to-collapse pte-mapped THPs, it's possible that we never
actually update the page table either. This is different from how
file/shmem pages_collapsed accounting works today where only a successful
page cache update is counted (it's also possible here that no page tables
are actually changed). Though it incurs some slop, this is preferred to
either not accounting for the event at all, or plumbing through data in
struct mm_slot on whether to account for the collapse or not.
Also note that work still needs to be done to support arbitrary compound
pages, and that this should all be converted to using folios.
[shy828301@gmail.com: Spelling mistake, update comment, and add Documentation]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAHbLzkpHwZxFzjfX9nxVoRhzup8WMjMfyL6Xiq8mZ9M-N3ombw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220907144521.3115321-3-zokeefe@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220922224046.1143204-3-zokeefe@google.com
Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Chris Kennelly <ckennelly@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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A user who reads THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC may be more concerned about the huge
zero pages that are really allocated for thp. It is misleading to
increase THP_ZERO_PAGE_ALLOC twice if two threads call get_huge_zero_page
concurrently. Don't increase the value if the huge page is not really
used.
Update Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst to suit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220909021653.3371879-1-liushixin2@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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There are only two callers of __alloc_pages() so prune the thicket of
alloc_page variants by combining the two functions together. Current
callers of __alloc_pages() simply add an extra 'NULL' parameter and
current callers of __alloc_pages_nodemask() call __alloc_pages() instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210225150642.2582252-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 5647bc293ab1 ("mm: compaction: Move migration fail/success
stats to migrate.c"), removed 3 items in /proc/vmstat. but the docs
still has their explanation. let's remove them.
"compact_blocks_moved",
"compact_pages_moved",
"compact_pagemigrate_failed",
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1605520282-51993-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since commit 3917c80280c9 ("thp: change CoW semantics for anon-THP"),
THP CoW page fault is rewritten. Now it just splits pmd then fallback
to base page fault, it doesn't try to allocate THP anymore. So it is no
longer counted in THP_FAULT_ALLOC.
Remove the obsolete statement in documentation about THP CoW allocation
to avoid confusion.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1592424895-5421-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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'max_ptes_shared' specifies how many pages can be shared across multiple
processes. Exceeding the number would block the collapse::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_shared
A higher value may increase memory footprint for some workloads.
By default, at least half of pages has to be not shared.
[colin.king@canonical.com: fix several spelling mistakes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200420084241.65433-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416160026.16538-9-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The thp_fault_fallback and thp_file_fallback vmstats are incremented if
either the hugepage allocation fails through the page allocator or the
hugepage charge fails through mem cgroup.
This patch leaves this field untouched but adds two new fields,
thp_{fault,file}_fallback_charge, which is incremented only when the mem
cgroup charge fails.
This distinguishes between attempted hugepage allocations that fail due to
fragmentation (or low memory conditions) and those that fail due to mem
cgroup limits. That can be used to determine the impact of fragmentation
on the system by excluding faults that failed due to memcg usage.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2003061422070.7412@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The existing thp_fault_fallback indicates when thp attempts to allocate a
hugepage but fails, or if the hugepage cannot be charged to the mem cgroup
hierarchy.
Extend this to shmem as well. Adds a new thp_file_fallback to complement
thp_file_alloc that gets incremented when a hugepage is attempted to be
allocated but fails, or if it cannot be charged to the mem cgroup
hierarchy.
Additionally, remove the check for CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE from
shmem_alloc_hugepage() since it is only called with this configuration
option.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2003061421240.7412@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix an off-by-one typo in the transparent huge pages admin
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Now that the administrative information for transparent huge pages is
nicely separated, move it to its own page under the admin guide.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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