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Vladimir Davydov
4949148ad4 mm: charge/uncharge kmemcg from generic page allocator paths
Currently, to charge a non-slab allocation to kmemcg one has to use
alloc_kmem_pages helper with __GFP_ACCOUNT flag.  A page allocated with
this helper should finally be freed using free_kmem_pages, otherwise it
won't be uncharged.

This API suits its current users fine, but it turns out to be impossible
to use along with page reference counting, i.e.  when an allocation is
supposed to be freed with put_page, as it is the case with pipe or unix
socket buffers.

To overcome this limitation, this patch moves charging/uncharging to
generic page allocator paths, i.e.  to __alloc_pages_nodemask and
free_pages_prepare, and zaps alloc/free_kmem_pages helpers.  This way,
one can use any of the available page allocation functions to get the
allocated page charged to kmemcg - it's enough to pass __GFP_ACCOUNT,
just like in case of kmalloc and friends.  A charged page will be
automatically uncharged on free.

To make it possible, we need to mark pages charged to kmemcg somehow.
To avoid introducing a new page flag, we make use of page->_mapcount for
marking such pages.  Since pages charged to kmemcg are not supposed to
be mapped to userspace, it should work just fine.  There are other
(ab)users of page->_mapcount - buddy and balloon pages - but we don't
conflict with them.

In case kmemcg is compiled out or not used at runtime, this patch
introduces no overhead to generic page allocator paths.  If kmemcg is
used, it will be plus one gfp flags check on alloc and plus one
page->_mapcount check on free, which shouldn't hurt performance, because
the data accessed are hot.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a9736d856f895bcb465d9f257b54efe32eda6f99.1464079538.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
Michal Hocko
72baeef0c2 slab: do not panic on invalid gfp_mask
Both SLAB and SLUB BUG() when a caller provides an invalid gfp_mask.
This is a rather harsh way to announce a non-critical issue.  Allocator
is free to ignore invalid flags.  Let's simply replace BUG() by
dump_stack to tell the offender and fixup the mask to move on with the
allocation request.

This is an example for kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGHMEM) from a test
module:

  Unexpected gfp: 0x2 (__GFP_HIGHMEM). Fixing up to gfp: 0x24000c0 (GFP_KERNEL). Fix your code!
  CPU: 0 PID: 2916 Comm: insmod Tainted: G           O    4.6.0-slabgfp2-00002-g4cdfc2ef4892-dirty #936
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x67/0x90
    cache_alloc_refill+0x201/0x617
    kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xa7/0x24a
    ? 0xffffffffa0005000
    mymodule_init+0x20/0x1000 [test_slab]
    do_one_initcall+0xe7/0x16c
    ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x61/0x69
    ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x197/0x24a
    do_init_module+0x5f/0x1d9
    load_module+0x1a3d/0x1f21
    ? retint_kernel+0x2d/0x2d
    SyS_init_module+0xe8/0x10e
    ? SyS_init_module+0xe8/0x10e
    do_syscall_64+0x68/0x13f
    entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465548200-11384-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
Michal Hocko
bacdcb3460 slab: make GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK information more human readable
printk offers %pGg for quite some time so let's use it to get a human
readable list of invalid flags.

The original output would be
  [  429.191962] gfp: 2

after the change
  [  429.191962] Unexpected gfp: 0x2 (__GFP_HIGHMEM)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465548200-11384-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
Thomas Garnier
210e7a43fa mm: SLUB freelist randomization
Implements freelist randomization for the SLUB allocator.  It was
previous implemented for the SLAB allocator.  Both use the same
configuration option (CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM).

The list is randomized during initialization of a new set of pages.  The
order on different freelist sizes is pre-computed at boot for
performance.  Each kmem_cache has its own randomized freelist.

This security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel SLUB
allocator against heap overflows rendering attacks much less stable.

For example these attacks exploit the predictability of the heap:
 - Linux Kernel CAN SLUB overflow (https://goo.gl/oMNWkU)
 - Exploiting Linux Kernel Heap corruptions (http://goo.gl/EXLn95)

Performance results:

slab_test impact is between 3% to 4% on average for 100000 attempts
without smp.  It is a very focused testing, kernbench show the overall
impact on the system is way lower.

Before:

  Single thread testing
  =====================
  1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
  100000 times kmalloc(8) -> 49 cycles kfree -> 77 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(16) -> 51 cycles kfree -> 79 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(32) -> 53 cycles kfree -> 83 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(64) -> 62 cycles kfree -> 90 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(128) -> 81 cycles kfree -> 97 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(256) -> 98 cycles kfree -> 121 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(512) -> 95 cycles kfree -> 122 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 96 cycles kfree -> 126 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 115 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 149 cycles kfree -> 171 cycles
  2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
  100000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 70 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 70 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 70 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 70 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 70 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 69 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 70 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 73 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 72 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 71 cycles

After:

  Single thread testing
  =====================
  1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
  100000 times kmalloc(8) -> 57 cycles kfree -> 78 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(16) -> 61 cycles kfree -> 81 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(32) -> 76 cycles kfree -> 93 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(64) -> 83 cycles kfree -> 94 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(128) -> 106 cycles kfree -> 107 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(256) -> 118 cycles kfree -> 117 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(512) -> 114 cycles kfree -> 116 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 115 cycles kfree -> 118 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 147 cycles kfree -> 131 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 214 cycles kfree -> 161 cycles
  2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
  100000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 66 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 66 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 66 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 66 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 65 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 67 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 67 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 64 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 67 cycles
  100000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 67 cycles

Kernbench, before:

  Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation):
  Elapsed Time 101.873 (1.16069)
  User Time 1045.22 (1.60447)
  System Time 88.969 (0.559195)
  Percent CPU 1112.9 (13.8279)
  Context Switches 189140 (2282.15)
  Sleeps 99008.6 (768.091)

After:

  Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation):
  Elapsed Time 102.47 (0.562732)
  User Time 1045.3 (1.34263)
  System Time 88.311 (0.342554)
  Percent CPU 1105.8 (6.49444)
  Context Switches 189081 (2355.78)
  Sleeps 99231.5 (800.358)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464295031-26375-3-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
Alexander Potapenko
4ebb31a42f mm, kasan: don't call kasan_krealloc() from ksize().
Instead of calling kasan_krealloc(), which replaces the memory
allocation stack ID (if stack depot is used), just unpoison the whole
memory chunk.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
0139aa7b7f mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount
Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
struct page is _count and atomic type.  They would try to handle it
directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
tracepoint.  To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
to _refcount and add warning message on the code.  After that, developer
who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
accessed directly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Cc: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mintz@qlogic.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
Li Peng
43efd3ea64 mm/slub.c: fix sysfs filename in comment
/sys/kernel/slab/xx/defrag_ratio should be remote_node_defrag_ratio.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463449242-5366-1-git-send-email-lip@dtdream.com
Signed-off-by: Li Peng <lip@dtdream.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
81ae6d0395 mm/slub.c: replace kick_all_cpus_sync() with synchronize_sched() in kmem_cache_shrink()
When we call __kmem_cache_shrink on memory cgroup removal, we need to
synchronize kmem_cache->cpu_partial update with put_cpu_partial that
might be running on other cpus.  Currently, we achieve that by using
kick_all_cpus_sync, which works as a system wide memory barrier.  Though
fast it is, this method has a flaw - it issues a lot of IPIs, which
might hurt high performance or real-time workloads.

To fix this, let's replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched.
Although the latter one may take much longer to finish, it shouldn't be
a problem in this particular case, because memory cgroups are destroyed
asynchronously from a workqueue so that no user visible effects should
be introduced.  OTOH, it will save us from excessive IPIs when someone
removes a cgroup.

Anyway, even if using synchronize_sched turns out to take too long, we
can always introduce a kind of __kmem_cache_shrink batching so that this
method would only be called once per one cgroup destruction (not per
each per memcg kmem cache as it is now).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
Alexander Potapenko
505f5dcb1c mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API
Add GFP flags to KASAN hooks for future patches to use.

This patch is based on the "mm: kasan: unified support for SLUB and SLAB
allocators" patch originally prepared by Dmitry Chernenkov.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
Joe Perches
756a025f00 mm: coalesce split strings
Kernel style prefers a single string over split strings when the string is
'user-visible'.

Miscellanea:

 - Add a missing newline
 - Realign arguments

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>	[percpu]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
444eb2a449 mm: thp: set THP defrag by default to madvise and add a stall-free defrag option
THP defrag is enabled by default to direct reclaim/compact but not wake
kswapd in the event of a THP allocation failure.  The problem is that
THP allocation requests potentially enter reclaim/compaction.  This
potentially incurs a severe stall that is not guaranteed to be offset by
reduced TLB misses.  While there has been considerable effort to reduce
the impact of reclaim/compaction, it is still a high cost and workloads
that should fit in memory fail to do so.  Specifically, a simple
anon/file streaming workload will enter direct reclaim on NUMA at least
even though the working set size is 80% of RAM.  It's been years and
it's time to throw in the towel.

First, this patch defines THP defrag as follows;

 madvise: A failed allocation will direct reclaim/compact if the application requests it
 never:   Neither reclaim/compact nor wake kswapd
 defer:   A failed allocation will wake kswapd/kcompactd
 always:  A failed allocation will direct reclaim/compact (historical behaviour)
          khugepaged defrag will enter direct/reclaim but not wake kswapd.

Next it sets the default defrag option to be "madvise" to only enter
direct reclaim/compaction for applications that specifically requested
it.

Lastly, it removes a check from the page allocator slowpath that is
related to __GFP_THISNODE to allow "defer" to work.  The callers that
really cares are slub/slab and they are updated accordingly.  The slab
one may be surprising because it also corrects a comment as kswapd was
never woken up by that path.

This means that a THP fault will no longer stall for most applications
by default and the ideal for most users that get THP if they are
immediately available.  There are still options for users that prefer a
stall at startup of a new application by either restoring historical
behaviour with "always" or pick a half-way point with "defer" where
kswapd does some of the work in the background and wakes kcompactd if
necessary.  THP defrag for khugepaged remains enabled and will enter
direct/reclaim but no wakeup kswapd or kcompactd.

After this patch a THP allocation failure will quickly fallback and rely
on khugepaged to recover the situation at some time in the future.  In
some cases, this will reduce THP usage but the benefit of THP is hard to
measure and not a universal win where as a stall to reclaim/compaction
is definitely measurable and can be painful.

The first test for this is using "usemem" to read a large file and write
a large anonymous mapping (to avoid the zero page) multiple times.  The
total size of the mappings is 80% of RAM and the benchmark simply
measures how long it takes to complete.  It uses multiple threads to see
if that is a factor.  On UMA, the performance is almost identical so is
not reported but on NUMA, we see this

usemem
                                   4.4.0                 4.4.0
                          kcompactd-v1r1         nodefrag-v1r3
Amean    System-1       102.86 (  0.00%)       46.81 ( 54.50%)
Amean    System-4        37.85 (  0.00%)       34.02 ( 10.12%)
Amean    System-7        48.12 (  0.00%)       46.89 (  2.56%)
Amean    System-12       51.98 (  0.00%)       56.96 ( -9.57%)
Amean    System-21       80.16 (  0.00%)       79.05 (  1.39%)
Amean    System-30      110.71 (  0.00%)      107.17 (  3.20%)
Amean    System-48      127.98 (  0.00%)      124.83 (  2.46%)
Amean    Elapsd-1       185.84 (  0.00%)      105.51 ( 43.23%)
Amean    Elapsd-4        26.19 (  0.00%)       25.58 (  2.33%)
Amean    Elapsd-7        21.65 (  0.00%)       21.62 (  0.16%)
Amean    Elapsd-12       18.58 (  0.00%)       17.94 (  3.43%)
Amean    Elapsd-21       17.53 (  0.00%)       16.60 (  5.33%)
Amean    Elapsd-30       17.45 (  0.00%)       17.13 (  1.84%)
Amean    Elapsd-48       15.40 (  0.00%)       15.27 (  0.82%)

For a single thread, the benchmark completes 43.23% faster with this
patch applied with smaller benefits as the thread increases.  Similar,
notice the large reduction in most cases in system CPU usage.  The
overall CPU time is

               4.4.0       4.4.0
        kcompactd-v1r1 nodefrag-v1r3
User        10357.65    10438.33
System       3988.88     3543.94
Elapsed      2203.01     1634.41

Which is substantial. Now, the reclaim figures

                                 4.4.0       4.4.0
                          kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
Minor Faults                 128458477   278352931
Major Faults                   2174976         225
Swap Ins                      16904701           0
Swap Outs                     17359627           0
Allocation stalls                43611           0
DMA allocs                           0           0
DMA32 allocs                  19832646    19448017
Normal allocs                614488453   580941839
Movable allocs                       0           0
Direct pages scanned          24163800           0
Kswapd pages scanned                 0           0
Kswapd pages reclaimed               0           0
Direct pages reclaimed        20691346           0
Compaction stalls                42263           0
Compaction success                 938           0
Compaction failures              41325           0

This patch eliminates almost all swapping and direct reclaim activity.
There is still overhead but it's from NUMA balancing which does not
identify that it's pointless trying to do anything with this workload.

I also tried the thpscale benchmark which forces a corner case where
compaction can be used heavily and measures the latency of whether base
or huge pages were used

thpscale Fault Latencies
                                       4.4.0                 4.4.0
                              kcompactd-v1r1         nodefrag-v1r3
Amean    fault-base-1      5288.84 (  0.00%)     2817.12 ( 46.73%)
Amean    fault-base-3      6365.53 (  0.00%)     3499.11 ( 45.03%)
Amean    fault-base-5      6526.19 (  0.00%)     4363.06 ( 33.15%)
Amean    fault-base-7      7142.25 (  0.00%)     4858.08 ( 31.98%)
Amean    fault-base-12    13827.64 (  0.00%)    10292.11 ( 25.57%)
Amean    fault-base-18    18235.07 (  0.00%)    13788.84 ( 24.38%)
Amean    fault-base-24    21597.80 (  0.00%)    24388.03 (-12.92%)
Amean    fault-base-30    26754.15 (  0.00%)    19700.55 ( 26.36%)
Amean    fault-base-32    26784.94 (  0.00%)    19513.57 ( 27.15%)
Amean    fault-huge-1      4223.96 (  0.00%)     2178.57 ( 48.42%)
Amean    fault-huge-3      2194.77 (  0.00%)     2149.74 (  2.05%)
Amean    fault-huge-5      2569.60 (  0.00%)     2346.95 (  8.66%)
Amean    fault-huge-7      3612.69 (  0.00%)     2997.70 ( 17.02%)
Amean    fault-huge-12     3301.75 (  0.00%)     6727.02 (-103.74%)
Amean    fault-huge-18     6696.47 (  0.00%)     6685.72 (  0.16%)
Amean    fault-huge-24     8000.72 (  0.00%)     9311.43 (-16.38%)
Amean    fault-huge-30    13305.55 (  0.00%)     9750.45 ( 26.72%)
Amean    fault-huge-32     9981.71 (  0.00%)    10316.06 ( -3.35%)

The average time to fault pages is substantially reduced in the majority
of caseds but with the obvious caveat that fewer THPs are actually used
in this adverse workload

                                   4.4.0                 4.4.0
                          kcompactd-v1r1         nodefrag-v1r3
Percentage huge-1         0.71 (  0.00%)       14.04 (1865.22%)
Percentage huge-3        10.77 (  0.00%)       33.05 (206.85%)
Percentage huge-5        60.39 (  0.00%)       38.51 (-36.23%)
Percentage huge-7        45.97 (  0.00%)       34.57 (-24.79%)
Percentage huge-12       68.12 (  0.00%)       40.07 (-41.17%)
Percentage huge-18       64.93 (  0.00%)       47.82 (-26.35%)
Percentage huge-24       62.69 (  0.00%)       44.23 (-29.44%)
Percentage huge-30       43.49 (  0.00%)       55.38 ( 27.34%)
Percentage huge-32       50.72 (  0.00%)       51.90 (  2.35%)

                                 4.4.0       4.4.0
                          kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
Minor Faults                  37429143    47564000
Major Faults                      1916        1558
Swap Ins                          1466        1079
Swap Outs                      2936863      149626
Allocation stalls                62510           3
DMA allocs                           0           0
DMA32 allocs                   6566458     6401314
Normal allocs                216361697   216538171
Movable allocs                       0           0
Direct pages scanned          25977580       17998
Kswapd pages scanned                 0     3638931
Kswapd pages reclaimed               0      207236
Direct pages reclaimed         8833714          88
Compaction stalls               103349           5
Compaction success                 270           4
Compaction failures             103079           1

Note again that while this does swap as it's an aggressive workload, the
direct relcim activity and allocation stalls is substantially reduced.
There is some kswapd activity but ftrace showed that the kswapd activity
was due to normal wakeups from 4K pages being allocated.
Compaction-related stalls and activity are almost eliminated.

I also tried the stutter benchmark.  For this, I do not have figures for
NUMA but it's something that does impact UMA so I'll report what is
available

stutter
                                 4.4.0                 4.4.0
                        kcompactd-v1r1         nodefrag-v1r3
Min         mmap      7.3571 (  0.00%)      7.3438 (  0.18%)
1st-qrtle   mmap      7.5278 (  0.00%)     17.9200 (-138.05%)
2nd-qrtle   mmap      7.6818 (  0.00%)     21.6055 (-181.25%)
3rd-qrtle   mmap     11.0889 (  0.00%)     21.8881 (-97.39%)
Max-90%     mmap     27.8978 (  0.00%)     22.1632 ( 20.56%)
Max-93%     mmap     28.3202 (  0.00%)     22.3044 ( 21.24%)
Max-95%     mmap     28.5600 (  0.00%)     22.4580 ( 21.37%)
Max-99%     mmap     29.6032 (  0.00%)     25.5216 ( 13.79%)
Max         mmap   4109.7289 (  0.00%)   4813.9832 (-17.14%)
Mean        mmap     12.4474 (  0.00%)     19.3027 (-55.07%)

This benchmark is trying to fault an anonymous mapping while there is a
heavy IO load -- a scenario that desktop users used to complain about
frequently.  This shows a mix because the ideal case of mapping with THP
is not hit as often.  However, note that 99% of the mappings complete
13.79% faster.  The CPU usage here is particularly interesting

               4.4.0       4.4.0
        kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
User           67.50        0.99
System       1327.88       91.30
Elapsed      2079.00     2128.98

And once again we look at the reclaim figures

                                 4.4.0       4.4.0
                          kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
Minor Faults                 335241922  1314582827
Major Faults                       715         819
Swap Ins                             0           0
Swap Outs                            0           0
Allocation stalls               532723           0
DMA allocs                           0           0
DMA32 allocs                1822364341  1177950222
Normal allocs               1815640808  1517844854
Movable allocs                       0           0
Direct pages scanned          21892772           0
Kswapd pages scanned          20015890    41879484
Kswapd pages reclaimed        19961986    41822072
Direct pages reclaimed        21892741           0
Compaction stalls              1065755           0
Compaction success                 514           0
Compaction failures            1065241           0

Allocation stalls and all direct reclaim activity is eliminated as well
as compaction-related stalls.

THP gives impressive gains in some cases but only if they are quickly
available.  We're not going to reach the point where they are completely
free so lets take the costs out of the fast paths finally and defer the
cost to kswapd, kcompactd and khugepaged where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
922d566cdc mm/slub: query dynamic DEBUG_PAGEALLOC setting
We can disable debug_pagealloc processing even if the code is compiled
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.  This patch changes the code to query
whether it is enabled or not in runtime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up code, per Christian]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
27ee57c93f mm: memcontrol: report slab usage in cgroup2 memory.stat
Show how much memory is used for storing reclaimable and unreclaimable
in-kernel data structures allocated from slab caches.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
Vlastimil Babka
5b3810e5c6 mm, sl[au]b: print gfp_flags as strings in slab_out_of_memory()
We can now print gfp_flags more human-readable.  Make use of this in
slab_out_of_memory() for SLUB and SLAB.  Also convert the SLAB variant
it to pr_warn() along the way.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
d86bd1bece mm/slub: support left redzone
SLUB already has a redzone debugging feature.  But it is only positioned
at the end of object (aka right redzone) so it cannot catch left oob.
Although current object's right redzone acts as left redzone of next
object, first object in a slab cannot take advantage of this effect.
This patch explicitly adds a left red zone to each object to detect left
oob more precisely.

Background:

Someone complained to me that left OOB doesn't catch even if KASAN is
enabled which does page allocation debugging.  That page is out of our
control so it would be allocated when left OOB happens and, in this
case, we can't find OOB.  Moreover, SLUB debugging feature can be
enabled without page allocator debugging and, in this case, we will miss
that OOB.

Before trying to implement, I expected that changes would be too
complex, but, it doesn't look that complex to me now.  Almost changes
are applied to debug specific functions so I feel okay.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Laura Abbott
149daaf3a0 slub: relax CMPXCHG consistency restrictions
When debug options are enabled, cmpxchg on the page is disabled.  This
is because the page must be locked to ensure there are no false
positives when performing consistency checks.  Some debug options such
as poisoning and red zoning only act on the object itself.  There is no
need to protect other CPUs from modification on only the object.  Allow
cmpxchg to happen with poisoning and red zoning are set on a slab.

Credit to Mathias Krause for the original work which inspired this
series

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Laura Abbott
becfda68ab slub: convert SLAB_DEBUG_FREE to SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS
SLAB_DEBUG_FREE allows expensive consistency checks at free to be turned
on or off.  Expand its use to be able to turn off all consistency
checks.  This gives a nice speed up if you only want features such as
poisoning or tracing.

Credit to Mathias Krause for the original work which inspired this
series

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Laura Abbott
804aa132d3 slub: fix/clean free_debug_processing return paths
Since commit 19c7ff9ecd ("slub: Take node lock during object free
checks") check_object has been incorrectly returning success as it
follows the out label which just returns the node.

Thanks to refactoring, the out and fail paths are now basically the
same.  Combine the two into one and just use a single label.

Credit to Mathias Krause for the original work which inspired this
series

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Laura Abbott
282acb4361 slub: drop lock at the end of free_debug_processing
This series takes the suggestion of Christoph Lameter and only focuses
on optimizing the slow path where the debug processing runs.  The two
main optimizations in this series are letting the consistency checks be
skipped and relaxing the cmpxchg restrictions when we are not doing
consistency checks.  With hackbench -g 20 -l 1000 averaged over 100
runs:

Before slub_debug=P
  mean 15.607
  variance .086
  stdev .294

After slub_debug=P
  mean 10.836
  variance .155
  stdev .394

This still isn't as fast as what is in grsecurity unfortunately so there's
still work to be done.  Profiling ___slab_alloc shows that 25-50% of time
is spent in deactivate_slab.  I haven't looked too closely to see if this
is something that can be optimized.  My plan for now is to focus on
getting all of this merged (if appropriate) before digging in to another
task.

This patch (of 4):

Currently, free_debug_processing has a comment "Keep node_lock to preserve
integrity until the object is actually freed".  In actuallity, the lock is
dropped immediately in __slab_free.  Rather than wait until __slab_free
and potentially throw off the unlikely marking, just drop the lock in
__slab_free.  This also lets free_debug_processing take its own copy of
the spinlock flags rather than trying to share the ones from __slab_free.
Since there is no use for the node afterwards, change the return type of
free_debug_processing to return an int like alloc_debug_processing.

Credit to Mathias Krause for the original work which inspired this series

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
ca25719551 mm: new API kfree_bulk() for SLAB+SLUB allocators
This patch introduce a new API call kfree_bulk() for bulk freeing memory
objects not bound to a single kmem_cache.

Christoph pointed out that it is possible to implement freeing of
objects, without knowing the kmem_cache pointer as that information is
available from the object's page->slab_cache.  Proposing to remove the
kmem_cache argument from the bulk free API.

Jesper demonstrated that these extra steps per object comes at a
performance cost.  It is only in the case CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is compiled
in and activated runtime that these steps are done anyhow.  The extra
cost is most visible for SLAB allocator, because the SLUB allocator does
the page lookup (virt_to_head_page()) anyhow.

Thus, the conclusion was to keep the kmem_cache free bulk API with a
kmem_cache pointer, but we can still implement a kfree_bulk() API fairly
easily.  Simply by handling if kmem_cache_free_bulk() gets called with a
kmem_cache NULL pointer.

This does increase the code size a bit, but implementing a separate
kfree_bulk() call would likely increase code size even more.

Below benchmarks cost of alloc+free (obj size 256 bytes) on CPU i7-4790K
@ 4.00GHz, no PREEMPT and CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=y.

Code size increase for SLAB:

 add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 74/0 (74)
 function                                     old     new   delta
 kmem_cache_free_bulk                         660     734     +74

SLAB fastpath: 87 cycles(tsc) 21.814
  sz - fallback             - kmem_cache_free_bulk - kfree_bulk
   1 - 103 cycles 25.878 ns -  41 cycles 10.498 ns - 81 cycles 20.312 ns
   2 -  94 cycles 23.673 ns -  26 cycles  6.682 ns - 42 cycles 10.649 ns
   3 -  92 cycles 23.181 ns -  21 cycles  5.325 ns - 39 cycles 9.950 ns
   4 -  90 cycles 22.727 ns -  18 cycles  4.673 ns - 26 cycles 6.693 ns
   8 -  89 cycles 22.270 ns -  14 cycles  3.664 ns - 23 cycles 5.835 ns
  16 -  88 cycles 22.038 ns -  14 cycles  3.503 ns - 22 cycles 5.543 ns
  30 -  89 cycles 22.284 ns -  13 cycles  3.310 ns - 20 cycles 5.197 ns
  32 -  88 cycles 22.249 ns -  13 cycles  3.420 ns - 20 cycles 5.166 ns
  34 -  88 cycles 22.224 ns -  14 cycles  3.643 ns - 20 cycles 5.170 ns
  48 -  88 cycles 22.088 ns -  14 cycles  3.507 ns - 20 cycles 5.203 ns
  64 -  88 cycles 22.063 ns -  13 cycles  3.428 ns - 20 cycles 5.152 ns
 128 -  89 cycles 22.483 ns -  15 cycles  3.891 ns - 23 cycles 5.885 ns
 158 -  89 cycles 22.381 ns -  15 cycles  3.779 ns - 22 cycles 5.548 ns
 250 -  91 cycles 22.798 ns -  16 cycles  4.152 ns - 23 cycles 5.967 ns

SLAB when enabling MEMCG_KMEM runtime:
 - kmemcg fastpath: 130 cycles(tsc) 32.684 ns (step:0)
 1 - 148 cycles 37.220 ns -  66 cycles 16.622 ns - 66 cycles 16.583 ns
 2 - 141 cycles 35.510 ns -  51 cycles 12.820 ns - 58 cycles 14.625 ns
 3 - 140 cycles 35.017 ns -  37 cycles 9.326 ns - 33 cycles 8.474 ns
 4 - 137 cycles 34.507 ns -  31 cycles 7.888 ns - 33 cycles 8.300 ns
 8 - 140 cycles 35.069 ns -  25 cycles 6.461 ns - 25 cycles 6.436 ns
 16 - 138 cycles 34.542 ns -  23 cycles 5.945 ns - 22 cycles 5.670 ns
 30 - 136 cycles 34.227 ns -  22 cycles 5.502 ns - 22 cycles 5.587 ns
 32 - 136 cycles 34.253 ns -  21 cycles 5.475 ns - 21 cycles 5.324 ns
 34 - 136 cycles 34.254 ns -  21 cycles 5.448 ns - 20 cycles 5.194 ns
 48 - 136 cycles 34.075 ns -  21 cycles 5.458 ns - 21 cycles 5.367 ns
 64 - 135 cycles 33.994 ns -  21 cycles 5.350 ns - 21 cycles 5.259 ns
 128 - 137 cycles 34.446 ns -  23 cycles 5.816 ns - 22 cycles 5.688 ns
 158 - 137 cycles 34.379 ns -  22 cycles 5.727 ns - 22 cycles 5.602 ns
 250 - 138 cycles 34.755 ns -  24 cycles 6.093 ns - 23 cycles 5.986 ns

Code size increase for SLUB:
 function                                     old     new   delta
 kmem_cache_free_bulk                         717     799     +82

SLUB benchmark:
 SLUB fastpath: 46 cycles(tsc) 11.691 ns (step:0)
  sz - fallback             - kmem_cache_free_bulk - kfree_bulk
   1 -  61 cycles 15.486 ns -  53 cycles 13.364 ns - 57 cycles 14.464 ns
   2 -  54 cycles 13.703 ns -  32 cycles  8.110 ns - 33 cycles 8.482 ns
   3 -  53 cycles 13.272 ns -  25 cycles  6.362 ns - 27 cycles 6.947 ns
   4 -  51 cycles 12.994 ns -  24 cycles  6.087 ns - 24 cycles 6.078 ns
   8 -  50 cycles 12.576 ns -  21 cycles  5.354 ns - 22 cycles 5.513 ns
  16 -  49 cycles 12.368 ns -  20 cycles  5.054 ns - 20 cycles 5.042 ns
  30 -  49 cycles 12.273 ns -  18 cycles  4.748 ns - 19 cycles 4.758 ns
  32 -  49 cycles 12.401 ns -  19 cycles  4.821 ns - 19 cycles 4.810 ns
  34 -  98 cycles 24.519 ns -  24 cycles  6.154 ns - 24 cycles 6.157 ns
  48 -  83 cycles 20.833 ns -  21 cycles  5.446 ns - 21 cycles 5.429 ns
  64 -  75 cycles 18.891 ns -  20 cycles  5.247 ns - 20 cycles 5.238 ns
 128 -  93 cycles 23.271 ns -  27 cycles  6.856 ns - 27 cycles 6.823 ns
 158 - 102 cycles 25.581 ns -  30 cycles  7.714 ns - 30 cycles 7.695 ns
 250 - 107 cycles 26.917 ns -  38 cycles  9.514 ns - 38 cycles 9.506 ns

SLUB when enabling MEMCG_KMEM runtime:
 - kmemcg fastpath: 71 cycles(tsc) 17.897 ns (step:0)
 1 - 85 cycles 21.484 ns -  78 cycles 19.569 ns - 75 cycles 18.938 ns
 2 - 81 cycles 20.363 ns -  45 cycles 11.258 ns - 44 cycles 11.076 ns
 3 - 78 cycles 19.709 ns -  33 cycles 8.354 ns - 32 cycles 8.044 ns
 4 - 77 cycles 19.430 ns -  28 cycles 7.216 ns - 28 cycles 7.003 ns
 8 - 101 cycles 25.288 ns -  23 cycles 5.849 ns - 23 cycles 5.787 ns
 16 - 76 cycles 19.148 ns -  20 cycles 5.162 ns - 20 cycles 5.081 ns
 30 - 76 cycles 19.067 ns -  19 cycles 4.868 ns - 19 cycles 4.821 ns
 32 - 76 cycles 19.052 ns -  19 cycles 4.857 ns - 19 cycles 4.815 ns
 34 - 121 cycles 30.291 ns -  25 cycles 6.333 ns - 25 cycles 6.268 ns
 48 - 108 cycles 27.111 ns -  21 cycles 5.498 ns - 21 cycles 5.458 ns
 64 - 100 cycles 25.164 ns -  20 cycles 5.242 ns - 20 cycles 5.229 ns
 128 - 155 cycles 38.976 ns -  27 cycles 6.886 ns - 27 cycles 6.892 ns
 158 - 132 cycles 33.034 ns -  30 cycles 7.711 ns - 30 cycles 7.728 ns
 250 - 130 cycles 32.612 ns -  38 cycles 9.560 ns - 38 cycles 9.549 ns

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
11c7aec2a9 mm/slab: move SLUB alloc hooks to common mm/slab.h
First step towards sharing alloc_hook's between SLUB and SLAB
allocators.  Move the SLUB allocators *_alloc_hook to the common
mm/slab.h for internal slab definitions.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
376bf125ac slub: clean up code for kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk
This change is primarily an attempt to make it easier to realize the
optimizations the compiler performs in-case CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is not
enabled.

Performance wise, even when CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is compiled in, the
overhead is zero.  This is because, as long as no process have enabled
kmem cgroups accounting, the assignment is replaced by asm-NOP
operations.  This is possible because memcg_kmem_enabled() uses a
static_key_false() construct.

It also helps readability as it avoid accessing the p[] array like:
p[size - 1] which "expose" that the array is processed backwards inside
helper function build_detached_freelist().

Lastly this also makes the code more robust, in error case like passing
NULL pointers in the array.  Which were previously handled before commit
033745189b ("slub: add missing kmem cgroup support to
kmem_cache_free_bulk").

Fixes: 033745189b ("slub: add missing kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk")
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Dmitry Safonov
52b4b950b5 mm: slab: free kmem_cache_node after destroy sysfs file
When slub_debug alloc_calls_show is enabled we will try to track
location and user of slab object on each online node, kmem_cache_node
structure and cpu_cache/cpu_slub shouldn't be freed till there is the
last reference to sysfs file.

This fixes the following panic:

   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
   IP:  list_locations+0x169/0x4e0
   PGD 257304067 PUD 438456067 PMD 0
   Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
   CPU: 3 PID: 973074 Comm: cat ve: 0 Not tainted 3.10.0-229.7.2.ovz.9.30-00007-japdoll-dirty #2 9.30
   Hardware name: DEPO Computers To Be Filled By O.E.M./H67DE3, BIOS L1.60c 07/14/2011
   task: ffff88042a5dc5b0 ti: ffff88037f8d8000 task.ti: ffff88037f8d8000
   RIP: list_locations+0x169/0x4e0
   Call Trace:
     alloc_calls_show+0x1d/0x30
     slab_attr_show+0x1b/0x30
     sysfs_read_file+0x9a/0x1a0
     vfs_read+0x9c/0x170
     SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
   Code: 5e 07 12 00 b9 00 04 00 00 3d 00 04 00 00 0f 4f c1 3d 00 04 00 00 89 45 b0 0f 84 c3 00 00 00 48 63 45 b0 49 8b 9c c4 f8 00 00 00 <48> 8b 43 20 48 85 c0 74 b6 48 89 df e8 46 37 44 00 48 8b 53 10
   CR2: 0000000000000020

Separated __kmem_cache_release from __kmem_cache_shutdown which now
called on slab_kmem_cache_release (after the last reference to sysfs
file object has dropped).

Reintroduced locking in free_partial as sysfs file might access cache's
partial list after shutdowning - partial revert of the commit
69cb8e6b7c ("slub: free slabs without holding locks").  Zap
__remove_partial and use remove_partial (w/o underscores) as
free_partial now takes list_lock which s partial revert for commit
1e4dd9461f ("slub: do not assert not having lock in removing freed
partial")

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-18 16:23:24 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
127424c86b mm: memcontrol: move kmem accounting code to CONFIG_MEMCG
The cgroup2 memory controller will account important in-kernel memory
consumers per default.  Move all necessary components to CONFIG_MEMCG.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
48c935ad88 page-flags: define PG_locked behavior on compound pages
lock_page() must operate on the whole compound page.  It doesn't make
much sense to lock part of compound page.  Change code to use head
page's PG_locked, if tail page is passed.

This patch also gets rid of custom helper functions --
__set_page_locked() and __clear_page_locked().  They are replaced with
helpers generated by __SETPAGEFLAG/__CLEARPAGEFLAG.  Tail pages to these
helper would trigger VM_BUG_ON().

SLUB uses PG_locked as a bit spin locked.  IIUC, tail pages should never
appear there.  VM_BUG_ON() is added to make sure that this assumption is
correct.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/cifs/file.c]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
230e9fc286 slab: add SLAB_ACCOUNT flag
Currently, if we want to account all objects of a particular kmem cache,
we have to pass __GFP_ACCOUNT to each kmem_cache_alloc call, which is
inconvenient.  This patch introduces SLAB_ACCOUNT flag which if passed
to kmem_cache_create will force accounting for every allocation from
this cache even if __GFP_ACCOUNT is not passed.

This patch does not make any of the existing caches use this flag - it
will be done later in the series.

Note, a cache with SLAB_ACCOUNT cannot be merged with a cache w/o
SLAB_ACCOUNT, because merged caches share the same kmem_cache struct and
hence cannot have different sets of SLAB_* flags.  Thus using this flag
will probably reduce the number of merged slabs even if kmem accounting
is not used (only compiled in).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
865762a811 slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API
Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users.

Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'.  This
is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API.

A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when
specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects.

The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc
run without local IRQs disabled.  With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing"
the entire c->freelist or page->freelist.  To avoid overshooting we would
stop processing at a slab-page boundary.  Else we always end up returning
some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg.

To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older
kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated
objects with this API change.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
033745189b slub: add missing kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk
Initial implementation missed support for kmem cgroup support in
kmem_cache_free_bulk() call, add this.

If CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is not enabled, the compiler should be smart enough
to not add any asm code.

Incoming bulk free objects can belong to different kmem cgroups, and
object free call can happen at a later point outside memcg context.  Thus,
we need to keep the orig kmem_cache, to correctly verify if a memcg object
match against its "root_cache" (s->memcg_params.root_cache).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
03ec0ed57f slub: fix kmem cgroup bug in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
The call slab_pre_alloc_hook() interacts with kmemgc and is not allowed to
be called several times inside the bulk alloc for loop, due to the call to
memcg_kmem_get_cache().

This would result in hitting the VM_BUG_ON in __memcg_kmem_get_cache.

As suggested by Vladimir Davydov, change slab_post_alloc_hook() to be able
to handle an array of objects.

A subtle detail is, loop iterator "i" in slab_post_alloc_hook() must have
same type (size_t) as size argument.  This helps the compiler to easier
realize that it can remove the loop, when all debug statements inside loop
evaluates to nothing.  Note, this is only an issue because the kernel is
compiled with GCC option: -fno-strict-overflow

In slab_alloc_node() the compiler inlines and optimizes the invocation of
slab_post_alloc_hook(s, flags, 1, &object) by removing the loop and access
object directly.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
d0ecd894e3 slub: optimize bulk slowpath free by detached freelist
This change focus on improving the speed of object freeing in the
"slowpath" of kmem_cache_free_bulk.

The calls slab_free (fastpath) and __slab_free (slowpath) have been
extended with support for bulk free, which amortize the overhead of
the (locked) cmpxchg_double.

To use the new bulking feature, we build what I call a detached
freelist.  The detached freelist takes advantage of three properties:

 1) the free function call owns the object that is about to be freed,
    thus writing into this memory is synchronization-free.

 2) many freelist's can co-exist side-by-side in the same slab-page
    each with a separate head pointer.

 3) it is the visibility of the head pointer that needs synchronization.

Given these properties, the brilliant part is that the detached
freelist can be constructed without any need for synchronization.  The
freelist is constructed directly in the page objects, without any
synchronization needed.  The detached freelist is allocated on the
stack of the function call kmem_cache_free_bulk.  Thus, the freelist
head pointer is not visible to other CPUs.

All objects in a SLUB freelist must belong to the same slab-page.
Thus, constructing the detached freelist is about matching objects
that belong to the same slab-page.  The bulk free array is scanned is
a progressive manor with a limited look-ahead facility.

Kmem debug support is handled in call of slab_free().

Notice kmem_cache_free_bulk no longer need to disable IRQs. This
only slowed down single free bulk with approx 3 cycles.

Performance data:
 Benchmarked[1] obj size 256 bytes on CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz

SLUB fastpath single object quick reuse: 47 cycles(tsc) 11.931 ns

To get stable and comparable numbers, the kernel have been booted with
"slab_merge" (this also improve performance for larger bulk sizes).

Performance data, compared against fallback bulking:

bulk -  fallback bulk            - improvement with this patch
   1 -  62 cycles(tsc) 15.662 ns - 49 cycles(tsc) 12.407 ns- improved 21.0%
   2 -  55 cycles(tsc) 13.935 ns - 30 cycles(tsc) 7.506 ns - improved 45.5%
   3 -  53 cycles(tsc) 13.341 ns - 23 cycles(tsc) 5.865 ns - improved 56.6%
   4 -  52 cycles(tsc) 13.081 ns - 20 cycles(tsc) 5.048 ns - improved 61.5%
   8 -  50 cycles(tsc) 12.627 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.659 ns - improved 64.0%
  16 -  49 cycles(tsc) 12.412 ns - 17 cycles(tsc) 4.495 ns - improved 65.3%
  30 -  49 cycles(tsc) 12.484 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.533 ns - improved 63.3%
  32 -  50 cycles(tsc) 12.627 ns - 18 cycles(tsc) 4.707 ns - improved 64.0%
  34 -  96 cycles(tsc) 24.243 ns - 23 cycles(tsc) 5.976 ns - improved 76.0%
  48 -  83 cycles(tsc) 20.818 ns - 21 cycles(tsc) 5.329 ns - improved 74.7%
  64 -  74 cycles(tsc) 18.700 ns - 20 cycles(tsc) 5.127 ns - improved 73.0%
 128 -  90 cycles(tsc) 22.734 ns - 27 cycles(tsc) 6.833 ns - improved 70.0%
 158 -  99 cycles(tsc) 24.776 ns - 30 cycles(tsc) 7.583 ns - improved 69.7%
 250 - 104 cycles(tsc) 26.089 ns - 37 cycles(tsc) 9.280 ns - improved 64.4%

Performance data, compared current in-kernel bulking:

bulk - curr in-kernel  - improvement with this patch
   1 -  46 cycles(tsc) - 49 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-3) -6.5%
   2 -  27 cycles(tsc) - 30 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-3) -11.1%
   3 -  21 cycles(tsc) - 23 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-2) -9.5%
   4 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 20 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-2) -11.1%
   8 -  17 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:-1) -5.9%
  16 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 17 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles: 1)  5.6%
  30 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles: 0)  0.0%
  32 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles: 0)  0.0%
  34 -  78 cycles(tsc) - 23 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:55) 70.5%
  48 -  60 cycles(tsc) - 21 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:39) 65.0%
  64 -  49 cycles(tsc) - 20 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:29) 59.2%
 128 -  69 cycles(tsc) - 27 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:42) 60.9%
 158 -  79 cycles(tsc) - 30 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:49) 62.0%
 250 -  86 cycles(tsc) - 37 cycles(tsc) - improved (cycles:49) 57.0%

Performance with normal SLUB merging is significantly slower for
larger bulking.  This is believed to (primarily) be an effect of not
having to share the per-CPU data-structures, as tuning per-CPU size
can achieve similar performance.

bulk - slab_nomerge   -  normal SLUB merge
   1 -  49 cycles(tsc) - 49 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0
   2 -  30 cycles(tsc) - 30 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0
   3 -  23 cycles(tsc) - 23 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0
   4 -  20 cycles(tsc) - 20 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0
   8 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 18 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0
  16 -  17 cycles(tsc) - 17 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:0
  30 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 23 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:5
  32 -  18 cycles(tsc) - 22 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:4
  34 -  23 cycles(tsc) - 22 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:-1
  48 -  21 cycles(tsc) - 22 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:1
  64 -  20 cycles(tsc) - 48 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:28
 128 -  27 cycles(tsc) - 57 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:30
 158 -  30 cycles(tsc) - 59 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:29
 250 -  37 cycles(tsc) - 56 cycles(tsc) - merge slower with cycles:19

Joint work with Alexander Duyck.

[1] https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/mm/slab_bulk_test01.c

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: BUG_ON -> WARN_ON;return]
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-22 11:58:43 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
81084651d7 slub: support for bulk free with SLUB freelists
Make it possible to free a freelist with several objects by adjusting API
of slab_free() and __slab_free() to have head, tail and an objects counter
(cnt).

Tail being NULL indicate single object free of head object.  This allow
compiler inline constant propagation in slab_free() and
slab_free_freelist_hook() to avoid adding any overhead in case of single
object free.

This allows a freelist with several objects (all within the same
slab-page) to be free'ed using a single locked cmpxchg_double in
__slab_free() and with an unlocked cmpxchg_double in slab_free().

Object debugging on the free path is also extended to handle these
freelists.  When CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled it will also detect if
objects don't belong to the same slab-page.

These changes are needed for the next patch to bulk free the detached
freelists it introduces and constructs.

Micro benchmarking showed no performance reduction due to this change,
when debugging is turned off (compiled with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-22 11:58:41 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
b4a6471879 slub: mark the dangling ifdef #else of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
The #ifdef of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is located very far from the associated
#else.  For readability mark it with a comment.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-20 16:17:32 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
87098373e2 slub: avoid irqoff/on in bulk allocation
Use the new function that can do allocation while interrupts are disabled.
Avoids irq on/off sequences.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-20 16:17:32 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
a380a3c755 slub: create new ___slab_alloc function that can be called with irqs disabled
Bulk alloc needs a function like that because it enables interrupts before
calling __slab_alloc which promptly disables them again using the expensive
local_irq_save().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-20 16:17:32 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
bc4f610d5a slab, slub: use page->rcu_head instead of page->lru plus cast
We have properly typed page->rcu_head, no need to cast page->lru.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
Mel Gorman
d0164adc89 mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd
__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
Andrey Ryabinin
89d3c87e20 mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y
It's recommended to have slub's user tracking enabled with CONFIG_KASAN,
because:

a) User tracking disables slab merging which improves
    detecting out-of-bounds accesses.
b) User tracking metadata acts as redzone which also improves
    detecting out-of-bounds accesses.
c) User tracking provides additional information about object.
    This information helps to understand bugs.

Currently it is not enabled by default.  Besides recompiling the kernel
with KASAN and reinstalling it, user also have to change the boot cmdline,
which is not very handy.

Enable slub user tracking by default with KASAN=y, since there is no good
reason to not do this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: little fixes, per David]
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
f3ccb2c422 memcg: unify slab and other kmem pages charging
We have memcg_kmem_charge and memcg_kmem_uncharge methods for charging and
uncharging kmem pages to memcg, but currently they are not used for
charging slab pages (i.e.  they are only used for charging pages allocated
with alloc_kmem_pages).  The only reason why the slab subsystem uses
special helpers, memcg_charge_slab and memcg_uncharge_slab, is that it
needs to charge to the memcg of kmem cache while memcg_charge_kmem charges
to the memcg that the current task belongs to.

To remove this diversity, this patch adds an extra argument to
__memcg_kmem_charge that can be a pointer to a memcg or NULL.  If it is
not NULL, the function tries to charge to the memcg it points to,
otherwise it charge to the current context.  Next, it makes the slab
subsystem use this function to charge slab pages.

Since memcg_charge_kmem and memcg_uncharge_kmem helpers are now used only
in __memcg_kmem_charge and __memcg_kmem_uncharge, they are inlined.  Since
__memcg_kmem_charge stores a pointer to the memcg in the page struct, we
don't need memcg_uncharge_slab anymore and can use free_kmem_pages.
Besides, one can now detect which memcg a slab page belongs to by reading
/proc/kpagecgroup.

Note, this patch switches slab to charge-after-alloc design.  Since this
design is already used for all other memcg charges, it should not make any
difference.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: better to have an outer function than a magic parameter for the memcg lookup]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
Wei Yang
9f835703ea mm/slub: calculate start order with reserved in consideration
In slub_order(), the order starts from max(min_order,
get_order(min_objects * size)).  When (min_objects * size) has different
order from (min_objects * size + reserved), it will skip this order via a
check in the loop.

This patch optimizes this a little by calculating the start order with
`reserved' in consideration and removing the check in loop.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
Wei Yang
033fd1bd3c mm/slub: use get_order() instead of fls()
get_order() is more easy to understand.

This patch just replaces it.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
Wei Yang
422ff4d70c mm/slub: correct the comment in calculate_order()
In calculate_order(), it tries to calculate the best order by adjusting
the fraction and min_objects.  On each iteration on min_objects, fraction
iterates on 16, 8, 4.  Which means the acceptable waste increases with
1/16, 1/8, 1/4.

This patch corrects the comment according to the code.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
Vlastimil Babka
96db800f5d mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node()
alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a ("page
allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is
valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't
fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE.  Unfortunately the
name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is
restricted to the given node and fails otherwise.  In truth, the node is
only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags.

The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example
commits 5265047ac3 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage
allocation to local node") and b360edb43f ("mm, mempolicy:
migrate_to_node should only migrate to node").

Another issue with the name is that there's a family of
alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead
of page order), which leads to more confusion.

To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames
alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that
it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general
usage.  Both functions get described in comments.

It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for
allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that
__GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't
duplicate the API needlessly.  The number of users would be small
anyway.

Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to
call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent()
which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use
alloc_pages_node() instead.  This means it no longer performs some
VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in
alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid < 0' comparison (which includes
NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously
exposed.

Both differences will be rectified by the next patch.

To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily
hiding potentially buggy callers.  Restricting the checks in
alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose
more existing buggy callers.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cliff Whickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
45eb00cd3a mm/slub: don't wait for high-order page allocation
Description is almost copied from commit fb05e7a89f ("net: don't wait
for order-3 page allocation").

I saw excessive direct memory reclaim/compaction triggered by slub.  This
causes performance issues and add latency.  Slub uses high-order
allocation to reduce internal fragmentation and management overhead.  But,
direct memory reclaim/compaction has high overhead and the benefit of
high-order allocation can't compensate the overhead of both work.

This patch makes auxiliary high-order allocation atomic.  If there is no
memory pressure and memory isn't fragmented, the alloction will still
success, so we don't sacrifice high-order allocation's benefit here.  If
the atomic allocation fails, direct memory reclaim/compaction will not be
triggered, allocation fallback to low-order immediately, hence the direct
memory reclaim/compaction overhead is avoided.  In the allocation failure
case, kswapd is waken up and trying to make high-order freepages, so
allocation could success next time.

Following is the test to measure effect of this patch.

System: QEMU, CPU 8, 512 MB
Mem: 25% memory is allocated at random position to make fragmentation.
 Memory-hogger occupies 150 MB memory.
Workload: hackbench -g 20 -l 1000

Average result by 10 runs (Base va Patched)

elapsed_time(s): 4.3468 vs 2.9838
compact_stall: 461.7 vs 73.6
pgmigrate_success: 28315.9 vs 7256.1

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
80da026a8e mm/slub: fix slab double-free in case of duplicate sysfs filename
sysfs_slab_add() shouldn't call kobject_put at error path: this puts last
reference of kmem-cache kobject and frees it.  Kmem cache will be freed
second time at error path in kmem_cache_create().

For example this happens when slub debug was enabled in runtime and
somebody creates new kmem cache:

# echo 1 | tee /sys/kernel/slab/*/sanity_checks
# modprobe configfs

"configfs_dir_cache" cannot be merged because existing slab have debug and
cannot create new slab because unique name ":t-0000096" already taken.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
588f8ba913 mm/slub: move slab initialization into irq enabled region
Initializing a new slab can introduce rather large latencies because most
of the initialization runs always with interrupts disabled.

There is no point in doing so.  The newly allocated slab is not visible
yet, so there is no reason to protect it against concurrent alloc/free.

Move the expensive parts of the initialization into allocate_slab(), so
for all allocations with GFP_WAIT set, interrupts are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
3eed034d04 slub: add support for kmem_cache_debug in bulk calls
Per request of Joonsoo Kim adding kmem debug support.

I've tested that when debugging is disabled, then there is almost no
performance impact as this code basically gets removed by the compiler.

Need some guidance in enabling and testing this.

bulk- PREVIOUS                  - THIS-PATCH
  1 -  43 cycles(tsc) 10.811 ns -  44 cycles(tsc) 11.236 ns  improved  -2.3%
  2 -  27 cycles(tsc)  6.867 ns -  28 cycles(tsc)  7.019 ns  improved  -3.7%
  3 -  21 cycles(tsc)  5.496 ns -  22 cycles(tsc)  5.526 ns  improved  -4.8%
  4 -  24 cycles(tsc)  6.038 ns -  19 cycles(tsc)  4.786 ns  improved  20.8%
  8 -  17 cycles(tsc)  4.280 ns -  18 cycles(tsc)  4.572 ns  improved  -5.9%
 16 -  17 cycles(tsc)  4.483 ns -  18 cycles(tsc)  4.658 ns  improved  -5.9%
 30 -  18 cycles(tsc)  4.531 ns -  18 cycles(tsc)  4.568 ns  improved   0.0%
 32 -  58 cycles(tsc) 14.586 ns -  65 cycles(tsc) 16.454 ns  improved -12.1%
 34 -  53 cycles(tsc) 13.391 ns -  63 cycles(tsc) 15.932 ns  improved -18.9%
 48 -  65 cycles(tsc) 16.268 ns -  50 cycles(tsc) 12.506 ns  improved  23.1%
 64 -  53 cycles(tsc) 13.440 ns -  63 cycles(tsc) 15.929 ns  improved -18.9%
128 -  79 cycles(tsc) 19.899 ns -  86 cycles(tsc) 21.583 ns  improved  -8.9%
158 -  90 cycles(tsc) 22.732 ns -  90 cycles(tsc) 22.552 ns  improved   0.0%
250 -  95 cycles(tsc) 23.916 ns -  98 cycles(tsc) 24.589 ns  improved  -3.2%

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
fbd02630c6 slub: initial bulk free implementation
This implements SLUB specific kmem_cache_free_bulk().  SLUB allocator now
both have bulk alloc and free implemented.

Choose to reenable local IRQs while calling slowpath __slab_free().  In
worst case, where all objects hit slowpath call, the performance should
still be faster than fallback function __kmem_cache_free_bulk(), because
local_irq_{disable+enable} is very fast (7-cycles), while the fallback
invokes this_cpu_cmpxchg() which is slightly slower (9-cycles).
Nitpicking, this should be faster for N>=4, due to the entry cost of
local_irq_{disable+enable}.

Do notice that the save+restore variant is very expensive, this is key to
why this optimization works.

CPU: i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
 * local_irq_{disable,enable}:  7 cycles(tsc) - 1.821 ns
 * local_irq_{save,restore}  : 37 cycles(tsc) - 9.443 ns

Measurements on CPU CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz
Baseline normal fastpath (alloc+free cost): 43 cycles(tsc) 10.834 ns

Bulk- fallback                   - this-patch
  1 -  58 cycles(tsc) 14.542 ns  -  43 cycles(tsc) 10.811 ns  improved 25.9%
  2 -  50 cycles(tsc) 12.659 ns  -  27 cycles(tsc)  6.867 ns  improved 46.0%
  3 -  48 cycles(tsc) 12.168 ns  -  21 cycles(tsc)  5.496 ns  improved 56.2%
  4 -  47 cycles(tsc) 11.987 ns  -  24 cycles(tsc)  6.038 ns  improved 48.9%
  8 -  46 cycles(tsc) 11.518 ns  -  17 cycles(tsc)  4.280 ns  improved 63.0%
 16 -  45 cycles(tsc) 11.366 ns  -  17 cycles(tsc)  4.483 ns  improved 62.2%
 30 -  45 cycles(tsc) 11.433 ns  -  18 cycles(tsc)  4.531 ns  improved 60.0%
 32 -  75 cycles(tsc) 18.983 ns  -  58 cycles(tsc) 14.586 ns  improved 22.7%
 34 -  71 cycles(tsc) 17.940 ns  -  53 cycles(tsc) 13.391 ns  improved 25.4%
 48 -  80 cycles(tsc) 20.077 ns  -  65 cycles(tsc) 16.268 ns  improved 18.8%
 64 -  71 cycles(tsc) 17.799 ns  -  53 cycles(tsc) 13.440 ns  improved 25.4%
128 -  91 cycles(tsc) 22.980 ns  -  79 cycles(tsc) 19.899 ns  improved 13.2%
158 - 100 cycles(tsc) 25.241 ns  -  90 cycles(tsc) 22.732 ns  improved 10.0%
250 - 102 cycles(tsc) 25.583 ns  -  95 cycles(tsc) 23.916 ns  improved  6.9%

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
ebe909e0fd slub: improve bulk alloc strategy
Call slowpath __slab_alloc() from within the bulk loop, as the side-effect
of this call likely repopulates c->freelist.

Choose to reenable local IRQs while calling slowpath.

Saving some optimizations for later.  E.g.  it is possible to extract
parts of __slab_alloc() and avoid the unnecessary and expensive (37
cycles) local_irq_{save,restore}.  For now, be happy calling
__slab_alloc() this lower icache impact of this func and I don't have to
worry about correctness.

Measurements on CPU CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz
Baseline normal fastpath (alloc+free cost): 42 cycles(tsc) 10.601 ns

Bulk- fallback                   - this-patch
  1 -  58 cycles(tsc) 14.516 ns  -  49 cycles(tsc) 12.459 ns  improved 15.5%
  2 -  51 cycles(tsc) 12.930 ns  -  38 cycles(tsc)  9.605 ns  improved 25.5%
  3 -  49 cycles(tsc) 12.274 ns  -  34 cycles(tsc)  8.525 ns  improved 30.6%
  4 -  48 cycles(tsc) 12.058 ns  -  32 cycles(tsc)  8.036 ns  improved 33.3%
  8 -  46 cycles(tsc) 11.609 ns  -  31 cycles(tsc)  7.756 ns  improved 32.6%
 16 -  45 cycles(tsc) 11.451 ns  -  32 cycles(tsc)  8.148 ns  improved 28.9%
 30 -  79 cycles(tsc) 19.865 ns  -  68 cycles(tsc) 17.164 ns  improved 13.9%
 32 -  76 cycles(tsc) 19.212 ns  -  66 cycles(tsc) 16.584 ns  improved 13.2%
 34 -  74 cycles(tsc) 18.600 ns  -  63 cycles(tsc) 15.954 ns  improved 14.9%
 48 -  88 cycles(tsc) 22.092 ns  -  77 cycles(tsc) 19.373 ns  improved 12.5%
 64 -  80 cycles(tsc) 20.043 ns  -  68 cycles(tsc) 17.188 ns  improved 15.0%
128 -  99 cycles(tsc) 24.818 ns  -  89 cycles(tsc) 22.404 ns  improved 10.1%
158 -  99 cycles(tsc) 24.977 ns  -  92 cycles(tsc) 23.089 ns  improved  7.1%
250 - 106 cycles(tsc) 26.552 ns  -  99 cycles(tsc) 24.785 ns  improved  6.6%

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
994eb764ec slub bulk alloc: extract objects from the per cpu slab
First piece: acceleration of retrieval of per cpu objects

If we are allocating lots of objects then it is advantageous to disable
interrupts and avoid the this_cpu_cmpxchg() operation to get these objects
faster.

Note that we cannot do the fast operation if debugging is enabled, because
we would have to add extra code to do all the debugging checks.  And it
would not be fast anyway.

Note also that the requirement of having interrupts disabled avoids having
to do processor flag operations.

Allocate as many objects as possible in the fast way and then fall back to
the generic implementation for the rest of the objects.

Measurements on CPU CPU i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz
Baseline normal fastpath (alloc+free cost): 42 cycles(tsc) 10.554 ns

Bulk- fallback                   - this-patch
  1 -  57 cycles(tsc) 14.432 ns  -  48 cycles(tsc) 12.155 ns  improved 15.8%
  2 -  50 cycles(tsc) 12.746 ns  -  37 cycles(tsc)  9.390 ns  improved 26.0%
  3 -  48 cycles(tsc) 12.180 ns  -  33 cycles(tsc)  8.417 ns  improved 31.2%
  4 -  48 cycles(tsc) 12.015 ns  -  32 cycles(tsc)  8.045 ns  improved 33.3%
  8 -  46 cycles(tsc) 11.526 ns  -  30 cycles(tsc)  7.699 ns  improved 34.8%
 16 -  45 cycles(tsc) 11.418 ns  -  32 cycles(tsc)  8.205 ns  improved 28.9%
 30 -  80 cycles(tsc) 20.246 ns  -  73 cycles(tsc) 18.328 ns  improved  8.8%
 32 -  79 cycles(tsc) 19.946 ns  -  72 cycles(tsc) 18.208 ns  improved  8.9%
 34 -  78 cycles(tsc) 19.659 ns  -  71 cycles(tsc) 17.987 ns  improved  9.0%
 48 -  86 cycles(tsc) 21.516 ns  -  82 cycles(tsc) 20.566 ns  improved  4.7%
 64 -  93 cycles(tsc) 23.423 ns  -  89 cycles(tsc) 22.480 ns  improved  4.3%
128 - 100 cycles(tsc) 25.170 ns  -  99 cycles(tsc) 24.871 ns  improved  1.0%
158 - 102 cycles(tsc) 25.549 ns  - 101 cycles(tsc) 25.375 ns  improved  1.0%
250 - 101 cycles(tsc) 25.344 ns  - 100 cycles(tsc) 25.182 ns  improved  1.0%

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
484748f0b6 slab: infrastructure for bulk object allocation and freeing
Add the basic infrastructure for alloc/free operations on pointer arrays.
It includes a generic function in the common slab code that is used in
this infrastructure patch to create the unoptimized functionality for slab
bulk operations.

Allocators can then provide optimized allocation functions for situations
in which large numbers of objects are needed.  These optimization may
avoid taking locks repeatedly and bypass metadata creation if all objects
in slab pages can be used to provide the objects required.

Allocators can extend the skeletons provided and add their own code to the
bulk alloc and free functions.  They can keep the generic allocation and
freeing and just fall back to those if optimizations would not work (like
for example when debugging is on).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00