Modify policy layer to support direct page migration
- Add migrate_pages_to() allowing the migration of a list of pages to a a
specified node or to vma with a specific allocation policy in sets of
MIGRATE_CHUNK_SIZE pages
- Modify do_migrate_pages() to do a staged move of pages from the source
nodes to the target nodes.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Move the interrupt check from slab_node into ___cache_alloc and adds an
"unlikely()" to avoid pipeline stalls on some architectures.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.14 against 2.6.13 that causes an
imbalance in memory allocation during bootup.
The slab allocator in 2.6.13 is not numa aware and simply calls
alloc_pages(). This means that memory policies may control the behavior of
alloc_pages(). During bootup the memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE
resulting in the spreading out of allocations during bootup over all
available nodes. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 has only a single list of
slab pages. As a result the per cpu slab cache and the spinlock controlled
page lists may contain slab entries from off node memory. The slab
allocator in 2.6.13 makes no effort to discern the locality of an entry on
its lists.
The NUMA aware slab allocator in 2.6.14 controls locality of the slab pages
explicitly by calling alloc_pages_node(). The NUMA slab allocator manages
slab entries by having lists of available slab pages for each node. The
per cpu slab cache can only contain slab entries associated with the node
local to the processor. This guarantees that the default allocation mode
of the slab allocator always assigns local memory if available.
Setting MPOL_INTERLEAVE as a default policy during bootup has no effect
anymore. In 2.6.14 all node unspecific slab allocations are performed on
the boot processor. This means that most of key data structures are
allocated on one node. Most processors will have to refer to these
structures making the boot node a potential bottleneck. This may reduce
performance and cause unnecessary memory pressure on the boot node.
This patch implements NUMA policies in the slab layer. There is the need
of explicit application of NUMA memory policies by the slab allcator itself
since the NUMA slab allocator does no longer let the page_allocator control
locality.
The check for policies is made directly at the beginning of __cache_alloc
using current->mempolicy. The memory policy is already frequently checked
by the page allocator (alloc_page_vma() and alloc_page_current()). So it
is highly likely that the cacheline is present. For MPOL_INTERLEAVE
kmalloc() will spread out each request to one node after another so that an
equal distribution of allocations can be obtained during bootup.
It is not possible to push the policy check to lower layers of the NUMA
slab allocator since the per cpu caches are now only containing slab
entries from the current node. If the policy says that the local node is
not to be preferred or forbidden then there is no point in checking the
slab cache or local list of slab pages. The allocation better be directed
immediately to the lists containing slab entries for the allowed set of
nodes.
This way of applying policy also fixes another strange behavior in 2.6.13.
alloc_pages() is controlled by the memory allocation policy of the current
process. It could therefore be that one process is running with
MPOL_INTERLEAVE and would f.e. obtain a new page following that policy
since no slab entries are in the lists anymore. A page can typically be
used for multiple slab entries but lets say that the current process is
only using one. The other entries are then added to the slab lists. These
are now non local entries in the slab lists despite of the possible
availability of local pages that would provide faster access and increase
the performance of the application.
Another process without MPOL_INTERLEAVE may now run and expect a local slab
entry from kmalloc(). However, there are still these free slab entries
from the off node page obtained from the other process via MPOL_INTERLEAVE
in the cache. The process will then get an off node slab entry although
other slab entries may be available that are local to that process. This
means that the policy if one process may contaminate the locality of the
slab caches for other processes.
This patch in effect insures that a per process policy is followed for the
allocation of slab entries and that there cannot be a memory policy
influence from one process to another. A process with default policy will
always get a local slab entry if one is available. And the process using
memory policies will get its memory arranged as requested. Off-node slab
allocation will require the use of spinlocks and will make the use of per
cpu caches not possible. A process using memory policies to redirect
allocations offnode will have to cope with additional lock overhead in
addition to the latency added by the need to access a remote slab entry.
Changes V1->V2
- Remove #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA by moving forward declaration into
prior #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA section.
- Give the function determining the node number to use a saner
name.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Simplify migrate_page_add after feedback from Hugh. This also allows us to
drop one parameter from migrate_page_add.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Migration code currently does not take a reference to target page
properly, so between unlocking the pte and trying to take a new
reference to the page with isolate_lru_page, anything could happen to
it.
Fix this by holding the pte lock until we get a chance to elevate the
refcount.
Other small cleanups while we're here.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately
decrease the available memory on a particular node. Since there's no telling
what sort of application (e.g. dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files
there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their
site's situation.
Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and
a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy. With the default
policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today. This patch adds support for
preferred, bind, and interleave policies.
The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node
which is doing the writing. Some jobs expect a single process to create
and manage the tmpfs files. This results in a node which has a
significantly reduced number of free pages.
With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for
that policy where they would prefer allocations.
This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins. I
added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist
mount option.
Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This ensures that reserved pages are not migrated. Reserved pages
currently cause the WARN_ON to trigger in migrate_page_add()
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix more of longstanding bug in cpuset/mempolicy interaction.
NUMA mempolicies (mm/mempolicy.c) are constrained by the current tasks cpuset
to just the Memory Nodes allowed by that cpuset. The kernel maintains
internal state for each mempolicy, tracking what nodes are used for the
MPOL_INTERLEAVE, MPOL_BIND or MPOL_PREFERRED policies.
When a tasks cpuset memory placement changes, whether because the cpuset
changed, or because the task was attached to a different cpuset, then the
tasks mempolicies have to be rebound to the new cpuset placement, so as to
preserve the cpuset-relative numbering of the nodes in that policy.
An earlier fix handled such mempolicy rebinding for mempolicies attached to a
task.
This fix rebinds mempolicies attached to vma's (address ranges in a tasks
address space.) Due to the need to hold the task->mm->mmap_sem semaphore while
updating vma's, the rebinding of vma mempolicies has to be done when the
cpuset memory placement is changed, at which time mmap_sem can be safely
acquired. The tasks mempolicy is rebound later, when the task next attempts
to allocate memory and notices that its task->cpuset_mems_generation is
out-of-date with its cpusets mems_generation.
Because walking the tasklist to find all tasks attached to a changing cpuset
requires holding tasklist_lock, a spinlock, one cannot update the vma's of the
affected tasks while doing the tasklist scan. In general, one cannot acquire
a semaphore (which can sleep) while already holding a spinlock (such as
tasklist_lock). So a list of mm references has to be built up during the
tasklist scan, then the tasklist lock dropped, then for each mm, its mmap_sem
acquired, and the vma's in that mm rebound.
Once the tasklist lock is dropped, affected tasks may fork new tasks, before
their mm's are rebound. A kernel global 'cpuset_being_rebound' is set to
point to the cpuset being rebound (there can only be one; cpuset modifications
are done under a global 'manage_sem' semaphore), and the mpol_copy code that
is used to copy a tasks mempolicies during fork catches such forking tasks,
and ensures their children are also rebound.
When a task is moved to a different cpuset, it is easier, as there is only one
task involved. It's mm->vma's are scanned, using the same
mpol_rebind_policy() as used above.
It may happen that both the mpol_copy hook and the update done via the
tasklist scan update the same mm twice. This is ok, as the mempolicies of
each vma in an mm keep track of what mems_allowed they are relative to, and
safely no-op a second request to rebind to the same nodes.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cleanup, reorganize and make more robust the mempolicy.c code to rebind
mempolicies relative to the containing cpuset after a tasks memory placement
changes.
The real motivator for this cleanup patch is to lay more groundwork for the
upcoming patch to correctly rebind NUMA mempolicies that are attached to vma's
after the containing cpuset memory placement changes.
NUMA mempolicies are constrained by the cpuset their task is a member of.
When either (1) a task is moved to a different cpuset, or (2) the 'mems'
mems_allowed of a cpuset is changed, then the NUMA mempolicies have embedded
node numbers (for MPOL_BIND, MPOL_INTERLEAVE and MPOL_PREFERRED) that need to
be recalculated, relative to their new cpuset placement.
The old code used an unreliable method of determining what was the old
mems_allowed constraining the mempolicy. It just looked at the tasks
mems_allowed value. This sort of worked with the present code, that just
rebinds the -task- mempolicy, and leaves any -vma- mempolicies broken,
referring to the old nodes. But in an upcoming patch, the vma mempolicies
will be rebound as well. Then the order in which the various task and vma
mempolicies are updated will no longer be deterministic, and one can no longer
count on the task->mems_allowed holding the old value for as long as needed.
It's not even clear if the current code was guaranteed to work reliably for
task mempolicies.
So I added a mems_allowed field to each mempolicy, stating exactly what
mems_allowed the policy is relative to, and updated synchronously and reliably
anytime that the mempolicy is rebound.
Also removed a useless wrapper routine, numa_policy_rebind(), and had its
caller, cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), call directly to the rewritten
policy_rebind() routine, and made that rebind routine extern instead of
static, and added a "mpol_" prefix to its name, making it
mpol_rebind_policy().
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Provide a cpuset_mems_allowed() method, which the sys_migrate_pages() code
needed, to obtain the mems_allowed vector of a cpuset, and replaced the
workaround in sys_migrate_pages() to call this new method.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The important code paths through alloc_pages_current() and alloc_page_vma(),
by which most kernel page allocations go, both called
cpuset_update_current_mems_allowed(), which in turn called refresh_mems().
-Both- of these latter two routines did a tasklock, got the tasks cpuset
pointer, and checked for out of date cpuset->mems_generation.
That was a silly duplication of code and waste of CPU cycles on an important
code path.
Consolidated those two routines into a single routine, called
cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), since it updates more than just
mems_allowed.
Changed all callers of either routine to call the new consolidated routine.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Finish converting mm/mempolicy.c from bitmaps to nodemasks. The previous
conversion had left one routine using bitmaps, since it involved a
corresponding change to kernel/cpuset.c
Fix that interface by replacing with a simple macro that calls nodes_subset(),
or if !CONFIG_CPUSET, returns (1).
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Group page migration functions in mempolicy.c
Add a forward declaration for migrate_page_add (like gather_stats()) and use
our new found mobility to group all page migration related function around
do_migrate_pages().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since the numa_maps functionality is now in mempolicy.c we no longer need to
export get_vma_policy().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
migrate_page_add cannot be called with a spinlock held (calls
isolate_lru_page which calles schedule_on_each_cpu). Drop ptl lock in
check_pte_range before calling migrate_page_add().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
First discussed at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113149255100001&r=1&w=2
- Use the check_range() in mempolicy.c to gather statistics.
- Improve the numa_maps code in general and fix some comments.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This was was first posted at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=113149240227584&w=2
(Part of this functionality is also contained in the direct migration
pathset. The functionality here is more generic and independent of that
patchset.)
- Add internal flags MPOL_MF_INVERT to control check_range() behavior.
- Replace the pagelist passed through by check_range by a general
private pointer that may be used for other purposes.
(The following patches will use that to merge numa_maps into
mempolicy.c and to better group the page migration code in
the policy layer)
- Improve some comments.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Extend the parameters of migrate_pages() to allow the caller control over the
fate of successfully migrated or impossible to migrate pages.
Swap migration and direct migration will have the same interface after this
patch so that patches can be independently applied to the policy layer and the
core migration code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
sys_migrate_pages implementation using swap based page migration
This is the original API proposed by Ray Bryant in his posts during the first
half of 2005 on linux-mm@kvack.org and linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org.
The intent of sys_migrate is to migrate memory of a process. A process may
have migrated to another node. Memory was allocated optimally for the prior
context. sys_migrate_pages allows to shift the memory to the new node.
sys_migrate_pages is also useful if the processes available memory nodes have
changed through cpuset operations to manually move the processes memory. Paul
Jackson is working on an automated mechanism that will allow an automatic
migration if the cpuset of a process is changed. However, a user may decide
to manually control the migration.
This implementation is put into the policy layer since it uses concepts and
functions that are also needed for mbind and friends. The patch also provides
a do_migrate_pages function that may be useful for cpusets to automatically
move memory. sys_migrate_pages does not modify policies in contrast to Ray's
implementation.
The current code here is based on the swap based page migration capability and
thus is not able to preserve the physical layout relative to it containing
nodeset (which may be a cpuset). When direct page migration becomes available
then the implementation needs to be changed to do a isomorphic move of pages
between different nodesets. The current implementation simply evicts all
pages in source nodeset that are not in the target nodeset.
Patch supports ia64, i386 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add page migration support via swap to the NUMA policy layer
This patch adds page migration support to the NUMA policy layer. An
additional flag MPOL_MF_MOVE is introduced for mbind. If MPOL_MF_MOVE is
specified then pages that do not conform to the memory policy will be evicted
from memory. When they get pages back in new pages will be allocated
following the numa policy.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently the function to build a zonelist for a BIND policy has the side
effect to set the policy_zone. This seems to be a bit strange. policy
zone seems to not be initialized elsewhere and therefore 0. Do we police
ZONE_DMA if no bind policy has been used yet?
This patch moves the determination of the zone to apply policies to into
the page allocator. We determine the zone while building the zonelist for
nodes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mempolicy.c contains provisional interface for huge page allocation based on
node numbers. This is in use in SLES9 but was never used (AFAIK) in upstream
versions of Linux.
Huge page allocations now use zonelists to figure out where to allocate pages.
The use of zonelists allows us to find the closest hugepage which was the
consideration of the NUMA distance for huge page allocations.
Remove the obsolete functions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The huge_zonelist() function in the memory policy layer provides an list of
zones ordered by NUMA distance. The hugetlb layer will walk that list looking
for a zone that has available huge pages but is also in the nodeset of the
current cpuset.
This patch does not contain the folding of find_or_alloc_huge_page() that was
controversial in the earlier discussion.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Otherwise a bad mem policy system call can confuse the interleaving
code into referencing undefined nodes.
Originally reported by Doug Chapman
I was told it's CVE-2005-3358
(one has to love these security people - they make everything sound important)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very
explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP. It allows a
VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM
never touches, and never considers to be normal pages.
Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new
functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or
indeed mark them any other way. It just works. As a side effect, doing
mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges.
Sparc update from David in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few
drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage. The
PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in
zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages
just leak away.
Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core,
to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they
have then it's not to be touched. Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in
core mm by VM_UNPAGED. Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and
sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range.
Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there. Is it
needed anywhere? It still governs the mm->reserved_vm statistic, and special
vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be
eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it
kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages
don't get on).
Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no
purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch automatically updates a tasks NUMA mempolicy when its cpuset
memory placement changes. It does so within the context of the task,
without any need to support low level external mempolicy manipulation.
If a system is not using cpusets, or if running on a system with just the
root (all-encompassing) cpuset, then this remap is a no-op. Only when a
task is moved between cpusets, or a cpusets memory placement is changed
does the following apply. Otherwise, the main routine below,
rebind_policy() is not even called.
When mixing cpusets, scheduler affinity, and NUMA mempolicies, the
essential role of cpusets is to place jobs (several related tasks) on a set
of CPUs and Memory Nodes, the essential role of sched_setaffinity is to
manage a jobs processor placement within its allowed cpuset, and the
essential role of NUMA mempolicy (mbind, set_mempolicy) is to manage a jobs
memory placement within its allowed cpuset.
However, CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement are managed within the
kernel using absolute system wide numbering, not cpuset relative numbering.
This is ok until a job is migrated to a different cpuset, or what's the
same, a jobs cpuset is moved to different CPUs and Memory Nodes.
Then the CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement of the tasks in the job
need to be updated, to preserve their cpuset-relative position. This can
be done for CPU affinity using sched_setaffinity() from user code, as one
task can modify anothers CPU affinity. This cannot be done from an
external task for NUMA memory placement, as that can only be modified in
the context of the task using it.
However, it easy enough to remap a tasks NUMA mempolicy automatically when
a task is migrated, using the existing cpuset mechanism to trigger a
refresh of a tasks memory placement after its cpuset has changed. All that
is needed is the old and new nodemask, and notice to the task that it needs
to rebind its mempolicy. The tasks mems_allowed has the old mask, the
tasks cpuset has the new mask, and the existing
cpuset_update_current_mems_allowed() mechanism provides the notice. The
bitmap/cpumask/nodemask remap operators provide the cpuset relative
calculations.
This patch leaves open a couple of issues:
1) Updating vma and shmfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs memory policies:
These mempolicies may reference nodes outside of those allowed to
the current task by its cpuset. Tasks are migrated as part of jobs,
which reside on what might be several cpusets in a subtree. When such
a job is migrated, all NUMA memory policy references to nodes within
that cpuset subtree should be translated, and references to any nodes
outside that subtree should be left untouched. A future patch will
provide the cpuset mechanism needed to mark such subtrees. With that
patch, we will be able to correctly migrate these other memory policies
across a job migration.
2) Updating cpuset, affinity and memory policies in user space:
This is harder. Any placement state stored in user space using
system-wide numbering will be invalidated across a migration. More
work will be required to provide user code with a migration-safe means
to manage its cpuset relative placement, while preserving the current
API's that pass system wide numbers, not cpuset relative numbers across
the kernel-user boundary.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Policy contextualization is only useful for task based policies and not for
vma based policies. It may be useful to define allowed nodes that are not
accessible from this thread because other threads may have access to these
nodes. Without this patch strange memory policy situations may cause an
application to fail with out of memory.
Example:
Let's say we have two threads A and B that share the same address space and
a huge array computational array X.
Thread A is restricted by its cpuset to nodes 0 and 1 and thread B is
restricted by its cpuset to nodes 2 and 3.
Thread A now wants to restrict allocations to the first node and thus
applies a BIND policy on X to node 0 and 2. The cpuset limits this to node
0. Thus pages for X must be allocated on node 0 now.
Thread B now touches a page that has never been used in X and faults in a
page. According to the BIND policy of the vma for X the page must be
allocated on page 0. However, the cpuset of B does not allow allocation on
0 and 1. Now the application fails in alloc_pages with out of memory.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Do a separation between do_xxx and sys_xxx functions. sys_xxx functions
take variable sized bitmaps from user space as arguments. do_xxx functions
take fixed sized nodemask_t as arguments and may be used from inside the
kernel. Doing so simplifies the initialization code. There is no
fs = kernel_ds assumption anymore.
- Split up get_nodes into get_nodes (which gets the node list) and
contextualize_policy which restricts the nodes to those accessible
to the task and updates cpusets.
- Add comments explaining limitations of bind policy
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert those common loops using page_table_lock on the outside and
pte_offset_map within to use just pte_offset_map_lock within instead.
These all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level can a
page table be whipped away from beneath them. But whereas pte_alloc loops
tested with the "atomic" pmd_present, these loops are testing with pmd_none,
which on i386 PAE tests both lower and upper halves.
That's now unsafe, so add a cast into pmd_none to test only the vital lower
half: we lose a little sensitivity to a corrupt middle directory, but not
enough to worry about. It appears that i386 and UML were the only
architectures vulnerable in this way, and pgd and pud no problem.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED
handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality.
PageReserved special casing is removed from get_page and put_page.
All setting and clearing of PageReserved is retained, and it is now flagged
in the page_alloc checks to help ensure we don't introduce any refcount
based freeing of Reserved pages.
MAP_PRIVATE, PROT_WRITE of VM_RESERVED regions is tentatively being
deprecated. We never completely handled it correctly anyway, and is be
reintroduced in future if required (Hugh has a proof of concept).
Once PageReserved() calls are removed from kernel/power/swsusp.c, and all
arch/ and driver code, the Set and Clear calls, and the PG_reserved bit can
be trivially removed.
Last real user of PageReserved is swsusp, which uses PageReserved to
determine whether a struct page points to valid memory or not. This still
needs to be addressed (a generic page_is_ram() should work).
A last caveat: the ZERO_PAGE is now refcounted and managed with rmap (and
thus mapcounted and count towards shared rss). These writes to the struct
page could cause excessive cacheline bouncing on big systems. There are a
number of ways this could be addressed if it is an issue.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Refcount bug fix for filemap_xip.c
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Most of them can never be triggered and were only for development.
Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The NUMA policy code predated nodemask_t so it used open coded bitmaps.
Convert everything to nodemask_t. Big patch, but shouldn't have any actual
behaviour changes (except I removed one unnecessary check against
node_online_map and one unnecessary BUG_ON)
Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Beginning of gfp_t annotations:
- -Wbitwise added to CHECKFLAGS
- old __bitwise renamed to __bitwise__
- __bitwise defined to either __bitwise__ or nothing, depending on
__CHECK_ENDIAN__ being defined
- gfp_t switched from __nocast to __bitwise__
- force cast to gfp_t added to __GFP_... constants
- new helper - gfp_zone(); extracts zone bits out of gfp_t value and casts
the result to int
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;
- replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
typedef) and documents what's going on far better.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There was a pretty bad bug in there that the code would always check the full
VMA, not the range the user requested.
When the VMA to be checked was merged with the previous VMA this could lead to
spurious failures.
Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Run PCI driver initialization on local node
Instead of adding messy kmalloc_node()s everywhere run the
PCI driver probe on the node local to the device.
This would not have helped for IDE, but should for
other more clean drivers that do more initialization in probe().
It won't help for drivers that do most of the work
on first open (like many network drivers)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch was recently discussed on linux-mm:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=112085728500002&r=1&w=2
I inherited a large code base from Ray for page migration. There was a
small patch in there that I find to be very useful since it allows the
display of the locality of the pages in use by a process. I reworked that
patch and came up with a /proc/<pid>/numa_maps that gives more information
about the vma's of a process. numa_maps is indexes by the start address
found in /proc/<pid>/maps. F.e. with this patch you can see the page use
of the "getty" process:
margin:/proc/12008 # cat maps
00000000-00004000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0
2000000000000000-200000000002c000 r-xp 00000000 08:04 516 /lib/ld-2.3.3.so
2000000000038000-2000000000040000 rw-p 00028000 08:04 516 /lib/ld-2.3.3.so
2000000000040000-2000000000044000 rw-p 2000000000040000 00:00 0
2000000000058000-2000000000260000 r-xp 00000000 08:04 54707842 /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1
2000000000260000-2000000000268000 ---p 00208000 08:04 54707842 /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1
2000000000268000-2000000000274000 rw-p 00200000 08:04 54707842 /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1
2000000000274000-2000000000280000 rw-p 2000000000274000 00:00 0
2000000000280000-20000000002b4000 r--p 00000000 08:04 9126923 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_CTYPE
2000000000300000-2000000000308000 r--s 00000000 08:04 60071467 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
2000000000318000-2000000000328000 rw-p 2000000000318000 00:00 0
4000000000000000-4000000000008000 r-xp 00000000 08:04 29576399 /sbin/mingetty
6000000000004000-6000000000008000 rw-p 00004000 08:04 29576399 /sbin/mingetty
6000000000008000-600000000002c000 rw-p 6000000000008000 00:00 0 [heap]
60000fff7fffc000-60000fff80000000 rw-p 60000fff7fffc000 00:00 0
60000ffffff44000-60000ffffff98000 rw-p 60000ffffff44000 00:00 0 [stack]
a000000000000000-a000000000020000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
cat numa_maps
2000000000000000 default MaxRef=43 Pages=11 Mapped=11 N0=4 N1=3 N2=2 N3=2
2000000000038000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=2 Mapped=2 Anon=2 N0=2
2000000000040000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=1 Mapped=1 Anon=1 N0=1
2000000000058000 default MaxRef=43 Pages=61 Mapped=61 N0=14 N1=15 N2=16 N3=16
2000000000268000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=2 Mapped=2 Anon=2 N0=2
2000000000274000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=3 Mapped=3 Anon=3 N0=3
2000000000280000 default MaxRef=8 Pages=3 Mapped=3 N0=3
2000000000300000 default MaxRef=8 Pages=2 Mapped=2 N0=2
2000000000318000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=1 Mapped=1 Anon=1 N2=1
4000000000000000 default MaxRef=6 Pages=2 Mapped=2 N1=2
6000000000004000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=1 Mapped=1 Anon=1 N0=1
6000000000008000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=1 Mapped=1 Anon=1 N0=1
60000fff7fffc000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=1 Mapped=1 Anon=1 N0=1
60000ffffff44000 default MaxRef=1 Pages=1 Mapped=1 Anon=1 N0=1
getty uses ld.so. The first vma is the code segment which is used by 43
other processes and the pages are evenly distributed over the 4 nodes.
The second vma is the process specific data portion for ld.so. This is
only one page.
The display format is:
<startaddress> Links to information in /proc/<pid>/map
<memory policy> This can be "default" "interleave={}", "prefer=<node>" or "bind={<zones>}"
MaxRef= <maximum reference to a page in this vma>
Pages= <Nr of pages in use>
Mapped= <Nr of pages with mapcount >
Anon= <nr of anonymous pages>
Nx= <Nr of pages on Node x>
The content of the proc-file is self-evident. If this would be tied into
the sparsemem system then the contents of this file would not be too
useful.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A kernel BUG() is triggered by a call to set_mempolicy() with a negative
first argument. This is because the mode is declared as an int, and the
validity check doesnt check < 0 values. Alternatively, mode could be
declared as unsigned int or unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Strict mbind's check for currently mapped pages being on node has been
using a slow loop which re-evaluates pgd, pud, pmd, pte for each entry:
replace that by a standard four-level page table walk like others in mm.
Since mmap_sem is held for writing, page_table_lock can be taken at the
inner level to limit latency.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Strict mbind's check that pages already mapped are on right node has been
using pte_page without checking if pfn_valid, and without page_table_lock
to prevent spurious failures when try_to_unmap_one intervenes between the
pte_present and the pte_page.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch modifies the way pagesets in struct zone are managed.
Each zone has a per-cpu array of pagesets. So any particular CPU has some
memory in each zone structure which belongs to itself. Even if that CPU is
not local to that zone.
So the patch relocates the pagesets for each cpu to the node that is nearest
to the cpu instead of allocating the pagesets in the (possibly remote) target
zone. This means that the operations to manage pages on remote zone can be
done with information available locally.
We play a macro trick so that non-NUMA pmachines avoid the additional
pointer chase on the page allocator fastpath.
AIM7 benchmark on a 32 CPU SGI Altix
w/o patches:
Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu
1 484.68 100 484.6769 12.01 1.97 Fri Mar 25 11:01:42 2005
100 27140.46 89 271.4046 21.44 148.71 Fri Mar 25 11:02:04 2005
200 30792.02 82 153.9601 37.80 296.72 Fri Mar 25 11:02:42 2005
300 32209.27 81 107.3642 54.21 451.34 Fri Mar 25 11:03:37 2005
400 34962.83 78 87.4071 66.59 588.97 Fri Mar 25 11:04:44 2005
500 31676.92 75 63.3538 91.87 742.71 Fri Mar 25 11:06:16 2005
600 36032.69 73 60.0545 96.91 885.44 Fri Mar 25 11:07:54 2005
700 35540.43 77 50.7720 114.63 1024.28 Fri Mar 25 11:09:49 2005
800 33906.70 74 42.3834 137.32 1181.65 Fri Mar 25 11:12:06 2005
900 34120.67 73 37.9119 153.51 1325.26 Fri Mar 25 11:14:41 2005
1000 34802.37 74 34.8024 167.23 1465.26 Fri Mar 25 11:17:28 2005
with slab API changes and pageset patch:
Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu
1 485.00 100 485.0000 12.00 1.96 Fri Mar 25 11:46:18 2005
100 28000.96 89 280.0096 20.79 150.45 Fri Mar 25 11:46:39 2005
200 32285.80 79 161.4290 36.05 293.37 Fri Mar 25 11:47:16 2005
300 40424.15 84 134.7472 43.19 438.42 Fri Mar 25 11:47:59 2005
400 39155.01 79 97.8875 59.46 590.05 Fri Mar 25 11:48:59 2005
500 37881.25 82 75.7625 76.82 730.19 Fri Mar 25 11:50:16 2005
600 39083.14 78 65.1386 89.35 872.79 Fri Mar 25 11:51:46 2005
700 38627.83 77 55.1826 105.47 1022.46 Fri Mar 25 11:53:32 2005
800 39631.94 78 49.5399 117.48 1169.94 Fri Mar 25 11:55:30 2005
900 36903.70 79 41.0041 141.94 1310.78 Fri Mar 25 11:57:53 2005
1000 36201.23 77 36.2012 160.77 1458.31 Fri Mar 25 12:00:34 2005
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <Shai@Scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
zonelist_policy() forgot to mask non-zone bits from gfp when comparing
zone number with policy_zone.
ACKed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Christoph Lameter