Since a283348629 ("page cache: Finish XArray conversion"), on most
major Linux distributions, the page cache doesn't correctly transition
when the hot data set is changing, and leaves the new pages thrashing
indefinitely instead of kicking out the cold ones.
On a freshly booted, freshly ssh'd into virtual machine with 1G RAM
running stock Arch Linux:
[root@ham ~]# ./reclaimtest.sh
+ dd of=workingset-a bs=1M count=0 seek=600
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ ./mincore workingset-a
153600/153600 workingset-a
+ dd of=workingset-b bs=1M count=0 seek=600
+ cat workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ ./mincore workingset-a workingset-b
104029/153600 workingset-a
120086/153600 workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ ./mincore workingset-a workingset-b
104029/153600 workingset-a
120268/153600 workingset-b
workingset-b is a 600M file on a 1G host that is otherwise entirely
idle. No matter how often it's being accessed, it won't get cached.
While investigating, I noticed that the non-resident information gets
aggressively reclaimed - /proc/vmstat::workingset_nodereclaim. This is
a problem because a workingset transition like this relies on the
non-resident information tracked in the page cache tree of evicted
file ranges: when the cache faults are refaults of recently evicted
cache, we challenge the existing active set, and that allows a new
workingset to establish itself.
Tracing the shrinker that maintains this memory revealed that all page
cache tree nodes were allocated to the root cgroup. This is a problem,
because 1) the shrinker sizes the amount of non-resident information
it keeps to the size of the cgroup's other memory and 2) on most major
Linux distributions, only kernel threads live in the root cgroup and
everything else gets put into services or session groups:
[root@ham ~]# cat /proc/self/cgroup
0::/user.slice/user-0.slice/session-c1.scope
As a result, we basically maintain no non-resident information for the
workloads running on the system, thus breaking the caching algorithm.
Looking through the code, I found the culprit in the above-mentioned
patch: when switching from the radix tree to xarray, it dropped the
__GFP_ACCOUNT flag from the tree node allocations - the flag that
makes sure the allocated memory gets charged to and tracked by the
cgroup of the calling process - in this case, the one doing the fault.
To fix this, allow xarray users to specify per-tree flag that makes
xarray allocate nodes using __GFP_ACCOUNT. Then restore the page cache
tree annotation to request such cgroup tracking for the cache nodes.
With this patch applied, the page cache correctly converges on new
workingsets again after just a few iterations:
[root@ham ~]# ./reclaimtest.sh
+ dd of=workingset-a bs=1M count=0 seek=600
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ cat workingset-a
+ ./mincore workingset-a
153600/153600 workingset-a
+ dd of=workingset-b bs=1M count=0 seek=600
+ cat workingset-b
+ ./mincore workingset-a workingset-b
124607/153600 workingset-a
87876/153600 workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ ./mincore workingset-a workingset-b
81313/153600 workingset-a
133321/153600 workingset-b
+ cat workingset-b
+ ./mincore workingset-a workingset-b
63036/153600 workingset-a
153600/153600 workingset-b
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.20+
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Jason feels this is clearer, and it saves a function and an exported
symbol.
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
xa_cmpxchg() was a little too magic in turning ZERO entries into NULL,
and would leave the entry set to the ZERO entry instead of releasing
it for future use. After careful review of existing users of
xa_cmpxchg(), change the semantics so that it does not translate either
incoming argument from NULL into ZERO entries.
Add several tests to the test-suite to make sure this problem doesn't
come back.
Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
If the user doesn't care about the return value from xa_insert(), then
they should be using xa_store() instead. The point of xa_reserve() is
to get the return value early before taking another lock, so this should
also be __must_check.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
This differs slightly from the IDR equivalent in five ways.
1. It can allocate up to UINT_MAX instead of being limited to INT_MAX,
like xa_alloc(). Also like xa_alloc(), it will write to the 'id'
pointer before placing the entry in the XArray.
2. The 'next' cursor is allocated separately from the XArray instead
of being part of the IDR. This saves memory for all the users which
do not use the cyclic allocation API and suits some users better.
3. It returns -EBUSY instead of -ENOSPC.
4. It will attempt to wrap back to the minimum value on memory allocation
failure as well as on an -EBUSY error, assuming that a user would
rather allocate a small ID than suffer an ID allocation failure.
5. It reports whether it has wrapped, which is important to some users.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
It was too easy to forget to initialise the start index. Add an
xa_limit data structure which can be used to pass min & max, and
define a couple of special values for common cases. Also add some
more tests cribbed from the IDR test suite. Change the return value
from -ENOSPC to -EBUSY to match xa_insert().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
A lot of places want to allocate IDs starting at 1 instead of 0.
While the xa_alloc() API supports this, it's not very efficient if lots
of IDs are allocated, due to having to walk down to the bottom of the
tree to see if ID 1 is available, then all the way over to the next
non-allocated ID. This method marks ID 0 as being occupied which wastes
one slot in the XArray, but preserves xa_empty() as working.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Userspace translates EEXIST to "File exists" which isn't a very good
error message for the problem. "Device or resource busy" is a better
indication of what went wrong.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
xa_erase does not allocate memory and doesn't have a gfp parameter.
Update the descriptions of all four variants to be more useful.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
There is a math problem here which leads to a lot of static checker
warnings for me:
net/sunrpc/clnt.c:451 rpc_new_client() error: (-4096) too low for ERR_PTR
Error values are from -1 to -4095 or from 0xffffffff to 0xfffff001 in
hexadecimal. (I am assuming a 32 bit system for simplicity). We are
using the lowest two bits to hold some internal XArray data so the
error is shifted two spaces to the left. 0xfffff001 << 2 is 0xffffc004.
And finally we want to check that BIT(1) is set so we add 2 which gives
us 0xffffc006.
In other words, we should be checking that "entry >= 0xffffc006", but
the check is actually testing if "entry >= 0xffffc002".
Fixes: 76b4e52995 ("XArray: Permit storing 2-byte-aligned pointers")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
[Use xa_mk_internal() instead of changing the bracketing]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Seems copy and paste typo, not a big deal but still
for consistency sake better to fix.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
xa_insert() should treat reserved entries as occupied, not as available.
Also, it should treat requests to insert a NULL pointer as a request
to reserve the slot. Add xa_insert_bh() and xa_insert_irq() for
completeness.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
On m68k, statically allocated pointers may only be two-byte aligned.
This clashes with the XArray's method for tagging internal pointers.
Permit storing these pointers in single slots (ie not in multislots).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
There were three problems with this API:
1. It took too many arguments; almost all users wanted to iterate over
every element in the array rather than a subset.
2. It required that 'index' be initialised before use, and there's no
realistic way to make GCC catch that.
3. 'index' and 'entry' were the opposite way round from every other
member of the XArray APIs.
So split it into three different APIs:
xa_for_each(xa, index, entry)
xa_for_each_start(xa, index, entry, start)
xa_for_each_marked(xa, index, entry, filter)
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
A regular xa_init_flags() put all dynamically-initialised XArrays into
the same locking class. That leads to lockdep believing that taking
one XArray lock while holding another is a deadlock. It's possible to
work around some of these situations with separate locking classes for
irq/bh/regular XArrays, and SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING, but that's ugly, and
it doesn't work for all situations (where we have completely unrelated
XArrays).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
These convenience wrappers match the other _irq and _bh wrappers we
already have. It turns out I'd already open-coded xa_cmpxchg_irq()
in the shmem code, so convert that.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
These convenience wrappers disable interrupts while taking the spinlock.
A number of drivers would otherwise have to open-code these functions.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Make xa_erase() take the spinlock and then call __xa_erase(), but make
it out of line since it's such a common function.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
xa_cmpxchg() was one of the largest functions in the xarray
implementation. By turning it into a wrapper and having the callers
take the lock (like several other functions), we save 160 bytes on a
tinyconfig build and reduce the duplication in xarray.c.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
The xa_reserve() function was a little unusual in that it attempted to
be callable for all kinds of locking scenarios. Make it look like the
other APIs with __xa_reserve, xa_reserve_bh and xa_reserve_irq variants.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
This version of xa_store_range() really only supports load and store.
Our only user only needs basic load and store functionality, so there's
no need to do the extra work to support marking and overlapping stores
correctly yet.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Add the optional ability to track which entries in an XArray are free
and provide xa_alloc() to replace most of the functionality of the IDR.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
This function reserves a slot in the XArray for users which need
to acquire multiple locks before storing their entry in the tree and
so cannot use a plain xa_store().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
This hopefully temporary function is useful for users who have not yet
been converted to multi-index entries.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
This iterator iterates over each entry that is stored in the index or
indices specified by the xa_state. This is intended for use for a
conditional store of a multiindex entry, or to allow entries which are
about to be removed from the xarray to be disposed of properly.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
The xas_next and xas_prev functions move the xas index by one position,
and adjust the rest of the iterator state to match it. This is more
efficient than calling xas_set() as it keeps the iterator at the leaves
of the tree instead of walking the iterator from the root each time.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
This function frees all the internal memory allocated to the xarray
and reinitialises it to be empty.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
The xa_extract function combines the functionality of
radix_tree_gang_lookup() and radix_tree_gang_lookup_tagged().
It extracts entries matching the specified filter into a normal array.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
The xa_for_each iterator allows the user to efficiently walk a range
of the array, executing the loop body once for each entry in that
range that matches the filter. This commit also includes xa_find()
and xa_find_after() which are helper functions for xa_for_each() but
may also be useful in their own right.
In the xas family of functions, we have xas_for_each(), xas_find(),
xas_next_entry(), xas_for_each_tagged(), xas_find_tagged(),
xas_next_tagged() and xas_pause().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Like cmpxchg(), xa_cmpxchg will only store to the index if the current
entry matches the old entry. It returns the current entry, which is
usually more useful than the errno returned by radix_tree_insert().
For the users who really only want the errno, the xa_insert() wrapper
provides a more convenient calling convention.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
xa_store() differs from radix_tree_insert() in that it will overwrite an
existing element in the array rather than returning an error. This is
the behaviour which most users want, and those that want more complex
behaviour generally want to use the xas family of routines anyway.
For memory allocation, xa_store() will first attempt to request memory
from the slab allocator; if memory is not immediately available, it will
drop the xa_lock and allocate memory, keeping a pointer in the xa_state.
It does not use the per-CPU cache, although those will continue to exist
until all radix tree users are converted to the xarray.
This patch also includes xa_erase() and __xa_erase() for a streamlined
way to store NULL. Since there is no need to allocate memory in order
to store a NULL in the XArray, we do not need to trouble the user with
deciding what memory allocation flags to use.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
XArray marks are like the radix tree tags, only slightly more strongly
typed. They are renamed in order to distinguish them from tagged
pointers. This commit adds the basic get/set/clear operations.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
The xa_load function brings with it a lot of infrastructure; xa_empty(),
xa_is_err(), and large chunks of the XArray advanced API that are used
to implement xa_load.
As the test-suite demonstrates, it is possible to use the XArray functions
on a radix tree. The radix tree functions depend on the GFP flags being
stored in the root of the tree, so it's not possible to use the radix
tree functions on an XArray.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
This is a direct replacement for struct radix_tree_node. A couple of
struct members have changed name, so convert those. Use a #define so
that radix tree users continue to work without change.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
This is a direct replacement for struct radix_tree_root. Some of the
struct members have changed name; convert those, and use a #define so
that radix_tree users continue to work without change.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Instead of storing a pointer to the slot containing the canonical entry,
store the offset of the slot. Produces slightly more efficient code
(~300 bytes) and simplifies the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Introduce xarray value entries and tagged pointers to replace radix
tree exceptional entries. This is a slight change in encoding to allow
the use of an extra bit (we can now store BITS_PER_LONG - 1 bits in a
value entry). It is also a change in emphasis; exceptional entries are
intimidating and different. As the comment explains, you can choose
to store values or pointers in the xarray and they are both first-class
citizens.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
This results in no change in structure size on 64-bit machines as it
fits in the padding between the gfp_t and the void *. 32-bit machines
will grow the structure from 8 to 12 bytes. Almost all radix trees are
protected with (at least) a spinlock, so as they are converted from
radix trees to xarrays, the data structures will shrink again.
Initialising the spinlock requires a name for the benefit of lockdep, so
RADIX_TREE_INIT() now needs to know the name of the radix tree it's
initialising, and so do IDR_INIT() and IDA_INIT().
Also add the xa_lock() and xa_unlock() family of wrappers to make it
easier to use the lock. If we could rely on -fplan9-extensions in the
compiler, we could avoid all of this syntactic sugar, but that wasn't
added until gcc 4.6.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-8-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner