DAMON sysfs interface's update_schemes_tried_regions command has a timeout
of two apply intervals of the DAMOS scheme. Having zero value DAMOS
scheme apply interval means it will use the aggregation interval as the
value. However, the timeout setup logic is mistakenly using the sampling
interval insted of the aggregartion interval for the case. This could
cause earlier-than-expected timeout of the command. Fix it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202191956.88791-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 7d6fa31a2f ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: add timeout for update_schemes_tried_regions")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.7.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
asm-generic/mman-common.h can be replaced by linux/mman.h and the file
will still build correctly. It is an asm-generic file which should be
avoided if possible.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231221-asmgenericvaddr-v1-1-742b170c914e@google.com
Fixes: 6dea8add4d ("mm/damon/vaddr: support DAMON-based Operation Schemes")
Signed-off-by: Tanzir Hasan <tanzirh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 35f5d94187 ("mm/damon: implement a function for max nr_accesses
safe calculation") has fixed an overflow bug that could cause
divide-by-zero. Add a kunit test for the bug to ensure similar bugs are
not introduced again.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8".
Update comments, tests, and documents for DAMON.
This patch (of 6):
SeongJae is using his kernel.org account for DAMON development. Update
the old email addresses on the comments of DAMON source files.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The cleanup tasks of kdamond threads including reset of corresponding
DAMON context's ->kdamond field and decrease of global nr_running_ctxs
counter is supposed to be executed by kdamond_fn(). However, commit
0f91d13366 ("mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism") made neither
damon_start() nor damon_stop() ensure the corresponding kdamond has
started the execution of kdamond_fn().
As a result, the cleanup can be skipped if damon_stop() is called fast
enough after the previous damon_start(). Especially the skipped reset
of ->kdamond could cause a use-after-free.
Fix it by waiting for start of kdamond_fn() execution from
damon_start().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231208175018.63880-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 0f91d13366 ("mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.15.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Implement a simple kunit test for testing the behavior of the feedback
loop algorithm for the aim-oriented feedback-friven DAMOS aggressiveness
auto tuning.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To update DAMOS quota goals, users need to enter 'commit' command to the
'state' file of the kdamond, which applies not only the goals but entire
inputs. It is inefficient. Implement yet another 'state' file input
command for reading and committing only the scheme quota goals, namely
'commit_schemes_quota_goals'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Make DAMON sysfs interface to read the user inputs for DAMOS quota goals
and pass those to DAMOS, so that the users can use the quota auto-tuning
feature. It uses the DAMON sysfs interface's user input commit mechanism,
which applies all user inputs for initial starting of DAMON and online
input updates, which can be done by writing 'on' and 'commit' to the
kdamond's 'state' file, respectively. In other words, the user should
periodically write appropriate value to 'current_value' files and 'commit'
command to the 'state' file. 'target_value' files could also be similarly
updated at any time.
Note that the interface is supporting multiple goals while the core logic
supports only one goal. DAMON sysfs interface passes only best feedback
among the given inputs, to avoid making DAMOS too aggressive.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Implement DAMON sysfs directories and files for the goals of DAMOS quota.
Those allow users set multiple goals for their aim, with target values.
Users can further enter the current score value for each goal as feedback
for DAMOS.
Note that this commit is implementing only the basic file operations, and
not connecting the files with the DAMOS core logic. Hence writing
something to the files makes no real effect. The following commit will
connect the file operations and the core logic.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS".
Introduce Aim-oriented Feedback-driven DAMOS Aggressiveness Auto-tuning.
It makes DAMOS self-tuned with periodic simple user feedback.
Background: DAMOS Control Difficulty
====================================
DAMOS helps users easily implement access pattern aware system operations.
However, controlling DAMOS in the wild is not that easy.
The basic way for DAMOS control is specifying the target access pattern.
In this approach, the user is assumed to well understand the access
pattern and the characteristics of the system and the workloads. Though
there are useful tools for that, it takes time and effort depending on the
complexity and the dynamicity of the system and the workloads. After all,
the access pattern consists of three ranges, namely the size, the access
rate, and the age of the regions. It means users need to tune six
parameters, which is anyway not a simple task.
One of the worst cases would be DAMOS being too aggressive like a
berserker, and therefore consuming too much system resource and making
unwanted radical system operations. To let users avoid such cases, DAMOS
allows users to set the upper-limit of the schemes' aggressiveness, namely
DAMOS quota. DAMOS further provides its best-effort under the limit by
prioritizing regions based on the access pattern of the regions. For
example, users can ask DAMOS to page out up to 100 MiB of memory regions
per second. Then DAMOS pages out regions that are not accessed for a
longer time (colder) first under the limit. This allows users to set the
target access pattern a bit naive with wider ranges, and focus on tuning
only one parameter, the quota. In other words, the number of parameters
to tune can be reduced from six to one.
Still, however, the optimum value for the quota depends on the system and
the workloads' characteristics, so not that simple. The number of
parameters to tune can also increase again if the user needs to run
multiple schemes.
Aim-oriented Feedback-driven DAMOS Aggressiveness Auto Tuning
=============================================================
Users would use DAMOS since they want to achieve something with it. They
will likely have measurable metrics representing the achievement and the
target number of the metric like SLO, and continuously measure that
anyway. While the additional cost of getting the information is nearly
zero, it could be useful for DAMOS to understand how appropriate its
current aggressiveness is set, and adjust it on its own to make the metric
value more close to the target.
Based on this idea, we introduce a new way of tuning DAMOS with nearly
zero additional effort, namely Aim-oriented Feedback-driven DAMOS
Aggressiveness Auto Tuning. It asks users to provide feedback
representing how well DAMOS is doing relative to the users' aim. Then
DAMOS adjusts its aggressiveness, specifically the quota that provides
the best effort result under the limit, based on the current level of
the aggressiveness and the users' feedback.
Implementation
==============
The implementation asks users to represent the feedback with score
numbers. The scores could be anything including user-space specific
metrics including latency and throughput of special user-space workloads,
and system metrics including free memory ratio, memory pressure stall time
(PSI), and active to inactive LRU lists size ratio. The feedback scores
and the aggressiveness of the given DAMOS scheme are assumed to be
positively proportional, though. Selecting metrics of the assumption is
the users' responsibility.
The core logic uses the below simple feedback loop algorithm to calculate
the next aggressiveness level of the scheme from the current
aggressiveness level and the current feedback (target_score and
current_score). It calculates the compensation for next aggressiveness as
a proportion of current aggressiveness and distance to the target score.
As a result, it arrives at the near-goal state in a short time using big
steps when it's far from the goal, but avoids making unnecessarily radical
changes that could turn out to be a bad decision using small steps when
its near to the goal.
f(n) = max(1, f(n - 1) * ((target_score - current_score) / target_score + 1))
Note that the compensation value becomes negative when it's over
achieving the goal. That's why the feedback metric and the
aggressiveness of the scheme should be positively proportional. The
distance-adaptive speed manipulation is simply applied.
Example Use Cases
=================
If users want to reduce the memory footprint of the system as much as
possible as long as the time spent for handling the resulting memory
pressure is within a threshold, they could use DAMOS scheme that reclaims
cold memory regions aiming for a little level of memory pressure stall
time.
If users want the active/inactive LRU lists well balanced to reduce the
performance impact due to possible future memory pressure, they could use
two schemes. The first one would be set to locate hot pages in the active
LRU list, aiming for a specific active-to-inactive LRU list size ratio,
say, 70%. The second one would be to locate cold pages in the inactive
LRU list, aiming for a specific inactive-to-active LRU list size ratio,
say, 30%. Then, DAMOS will balance the two schemes based on the goal and
feedback.
This aim-oriented auto tuning could also be useful for general
balancing-required access aware system operations such as system memory
auto scaling[3] and tiered memory management[4]. These two example usages
are not what current DAMOS implementation is already supporting, but
require additional DAMOS action developments, though.
Evaluation: subtle memory pressure aiming proactive reclamation
===============================================================
To show if the implementation works as expected, we prepare four different
system configurations on AWS i3.metal instances. The first setup
(original) runs the workload without any DAMOS scheme. The second setup
(not-tuned) runs the workload with a virtual address space-based proactive
reclamation scheme that pages out memory regions that are not accessed for
five seconds or more. The third setup (offline-tuned) runs the same
proactive reclamation DAMOS scheme, but after making it tuned for each
workload offline, using our previous user-space driven automatic tuning
approach, namely DAMOOS[1]. The fourth and final setup (AFDAA) runs the
scheme that is the same as that of 'not-tuned' setup, but aims to keep
0.5% of 'some' memory pressure stall time (PSI) for the last 10 seconds
using the aiming-oriented auto tuning.
For each setup, we run realistic workloads from PARSEC3 and SPLASH-2X
benchmark suites. For each run, we measure RSS and runtime of the
workload, and 'some' memory pressure stall time (PSI) of the system. We
repeat the runs five times and use averaged measurements.
For simple comparison of the results, we normalize the measurements to
those of 'original'. In the case of the PSI, though, the measurement for
'original' was zero, so we normalize the value to that of 'not-tuned'
scheme's result. The normalized results are shown below.
Not-tuned Offline-tuned AFDAA
RSS 0.622688178226118 0.787950678944904 0.740093483278979
runtime 1.11767826657912 1.0564674983585 1.0910833880499
PSI 1 0.727521443794069 0.308498846350299
The 'not-tuned' scheme achieves about 38.7% memory saving but incur about
11.7% runtime slowdown. The 'offline-tuned' scheme achieves about 22.2%
memory saving with about 5.5% runtime slowdown. It also achieves about
28.2% memory pressure stall time saving. AFDAA achieves about 26% memory
saving with about 9.1% runtime slowdown. It also achieves about 69.1%
memory pressure stall time saving. We repeat this test multiple times,
and get consistent results. AFDAA is now integrated in our daily DAMON
performance test setup.
Apparently the aggressiveness of 'AFDAA' setup is somewhere between those
of 'not-tuned' and 'offline-tuned' setup, since its memory saving and
runtime overhead are between those of the other two setups. Actually we
set the memory pressure stall time goal aiming for this middle
aggressiveness. The difference in the two metrics are not significant,
though. However, it shows significant saving of the memory pressure stall
time, which was the goal of the auto-tuning, over the two variants.
Hence, we conclude the automatic tuning is working as expected.
Please note that the AFDAA setup is only for the evaluation, and
therefore intentionally set a bit aggressive. It might not be
appropriate for production environments.
The test code is also available[2], so you could reproduce it on your
system and workloads.
Patches Sequence
================
The first four patches implement the core logic and user interfaces for
the auto tuning. The first patch implements the core logic for the auto
tuning, and the API for DAMOS users in the kernel space. The second
patch implements basic file operations of DAMON sysfs directories and
files that will be used for setting the goals and providing the
feedback. The third patch connects the quota goals files inputs to the
DAMOS core logic. Finally the fourth patch implements a dedicated DAMOS
sysfs command for efficiently committing the quota goals feedback.
Two patches for simple tests of the logic and interfaces follow. The
fifth patch implements the core logic unit test. The sixth patch
implements a selftest for the DAMON Sysfs interface for the goals.
Finally, three patches for documentation follows. The seventh patch
documents the design of the feature. The eighth patch updates the API
doc for the new sysfs files. The final eighth patch updates the usage
document for the features.
References
==========
[1] DAOS paper:
https://www.amazon.science/publications/daos-data-access-aware-operating-system
[2] Evaluation code:
3f884e6119
[3] Memory auto scaling RFC idea:
https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20231112195114.61474-1-sj@kernel.org/
[4] DAMON-based tiered memory management RFC idea:
https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20231112195602.61525-1-sj@kernel.org/
This patch (of 9)
Users can effectively control the upper-limit aggressiveness of DAMOS
schemes using the quota feature. The quota provides best result under the
limit by prioritizing regions based on the access pattern. That said,
finding the best value, which could depend on dynamic characteristics of
the system and the workloads, is still challenging.
Implement a simple feedback-driven tuning mechanism and use it for
automatic tuning of DAMOS quota. The implementation allows users to
provide the feedback by setting a feedback score returning callback
function. Then DAMOS periodically calls the function back and adjusts the
quota based on the return value of the callback and current quota value.
Note that the absolute-value based time/size quotas still work as the
maximum hard limits of the scheme's aggressiveness. The feedback-driven
auto-tuned quota is applied only if it is not exceeding the manually set
maximum limits. Same for the scheme-target access pattern and filters
like other features.
[sj@kernel.org: document get_score_arg field of struct damos_quota]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231204170106.60992-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
damon_split_region_at() should set access rate related fields of the
resulting regions same. It may forgotten, and actually there was the
mistake before. Test it with the unit test case for the function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231119171529.66863-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If a scheme is set to not applied to any monitoring target region for any
reasons including the target access pattern, quota, filters, or
watermarks, writing 'update_schemes_tried_regions' to 'state' DAMON sysfs
file can indefinitely hang. Fix the case by implementing a timeout for
the operation. The time limit is two apply intervals of each scheme.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231124213840.39157-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 4d4e41b682 ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: do not update tried regions more than one DAMON snapshot")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Regions split function ('damon_split_region_at()') is called at the
beginning of an aggregation interval, and when DAMOS applying the actions
and charging quota. Because 'nr_accesses' fields of all regions are reset
at the beginning of each aggregation interval, and DAMOS was applying the
action at the end of each aggregation interval, there was no need to copy
the 'nr_accesses' field to the split-out region.
However, commit 42f994b714 ("mm/damon/core: implement scheme-specific
apply interval") made DAMOS applies action on its own timing interval.
Hence, 'nr_accesses' should also copied to split-out regions, but the
commit didn't. Fix it by copying it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231119171529.66863-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 42f994b714 ("mm/damon/core: implement scheme-specific apply interval")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The function '__damos_filter_out()' causes DAMON to always filter out
schemes whose filter type is anon or memcg if its matching value is set
to false.
This commit addresses the issue by ensuring that '__damos_filter_out()'
no longer applies to filters whose type is 'anon' or 'memcg'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1699594629-3816-1-git-send-email-hyeongtak.ji@gmail.com
Fixes: ab9bda001b ("mm/damon/core: introduce address range type damos filter")
Signed-off-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sysfs interface's before_damos_apply callback
(damon_sysfs_before_damos_apply()), which creates the DAMOS tried regions
for each DAMOS action applied region, is not handling the allocation
failure for the sysfs directory data. As a result, NULL pointer
derefeence is possible. Fix it by handling the case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-4-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: f1d13cacab ("mm/damon/sysfs: implement DAMOS tried regions update command")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMOS tried regions sysfs directory allocation function
(damon_sysfs_scheme_regions_alloc()) is not handling the memory allocation
failure. In the case, the code will dereference NULL pointer. Handle the
failure to avoid such invalid access.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-3-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 9277d0367b ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement scheme region directory")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix unhandled return values".
Some of DAMON sysfs interface code is not handling return values from some
functions. As a result, confusing user input handling or NULL-dereference
is possible. Check those properly.
This patch (of 3):
damon_sysfs_update_target() returns error code for failures, but its
caller, damon_sysfs_set_targets() is ignoring that. The update function
seems making no critical change in case of such failures, but the behavior
will look like DAMON sysfs is silently ignoring or only partially
accepting the user input. Fix it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 19467a950b ("mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The "err" variable is not initialized if damon_target_has_pid(ctx) is
false and sys_target->regions->nr is zero.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/739e6aaf-a634-4e33-98a8-16546379ec9f@moroto.mountain
Fixes: 0bcd216c4741 ("mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.
The lengthier patch series are
- "kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation in
arch", from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and consolidation of
the "crashkernel=" kernel parameter handling.
- After much discussion, David Laight's "minmax: Relax type checks in
min() and max()" is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and the
use of min_t() and max_t().
- A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly fix
our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
task_struct.therad_group.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.
The lengthier patch series are
- 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling
- After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
the use of min_t() and max_t()
- A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
task_struct.thread_group"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
.mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
.mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock
do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
fs: ocfs2: check status values
proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
...
When user input is committed online, DAMON sysfs interface is ignoring the
user input for the monitoring target regions. Such request is valid and
useful for fixed monitoring target regions-based monitoring ops like
'paddr' or 'fvaddr'.
Update the region boundaries as user specified, too. Note that the
monitoring results of the regions that overlap between the latest
monitoring target regions and the new target regions are preserved.
Treat empty monitoring target regions user request as a request to just
make no change to the monitoring target regions. Otherwise, users should
set the monitoring target regions same to current one for every online
input commit, and it could be challenging for dynamic monitoring target
regions update DAMON ops like 'vaddr'. If the user really need to remove
all monitoring target regions, they can simply remove the target and then
create the target again with empty target regions.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231031170131.46972-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: da87878010 ("mm/damon/sysfs: support online inputs update")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
damon_sysfs_set_targets(), which updates the targets of the context for
online commitment, do not remove targets that removed from the
corresponding sysfs files. As a result, more than intended targets of the
context can exist and hence consume memory and monitoring CPU resource
more than expected.
Fix it by removing all targets of the context and fill up again using the
user input. This could cause unnecessary memory dealloc and realloc
operations, but this is not a hot code path. Also, note that damon_target
is stateless, and hence no data is lost.
[sj@kernel.org: fix unnecessary monitoring results removal]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231028213353.45397-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231022210735.46409-2-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: da87878010 ("mm/damon/sysfs: support online inputs update")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.19.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
damon_sysfs_set_targets() had a bug that can result in unexpected memory
usage and monitoring overhead increase. The bug has fixed by a previous
commit. Add a unit test for avoiding a similar bug of future.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231022210735.46409-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When calculating the pseudo-moving access rate, DAMON divides some values
by the maximum nr_accesses. However, due to the type of the related
variables, simple division-based calculation of the divisor can return
zero. As a result, divide-by-zero is possible. Fix it by using
damon_max_nr_accesses(), which handles the case.
Note that this is a fix for a commit that not in the mainline but mm
tree.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019194924.100347-6-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: ace30fb21a ("mm/damon/core: use pseudo-moving sum for nr_accesses_bp")
Reported-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When calculating the hotness threshold for lru_prio scheme of
DAMON_LRU_SORT, the module divides some values by the maximum nr_accesses.
However, due to the type of the related variables, simple division-based
calculation of the divisor can return zero. As a result, divide-by-zero
is possible. Fix it by using damon_max_nr_accesses(), which handles the
case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019194924.100347-5-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 40e983cca9 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based LRU-lists Sorting")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When calculating the hotness of each region for the under-quota regions
prioritization, DAMON divides some values by the maximum nr_accesses.
However, due to the type of the related variables, simple division-based
calculation of the divisor can return zero. As a result, divide-by-zero
is possible. Fix it by using damon_max_nr_accesses(), which handles the
case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019194924.100347-4-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 198f0f4c58 ("mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.16+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When monitoring attributes are changed, DAMON updates access rate of the
monitoring results accordingly. For that, it divides some values by the
maximum nr_accesses. However, due to the type of the related variables,
simple division-based calculation of the divisor can return zero. As a
result, divide-by-zero is possible. Fix it by using
damon_max_nr_accesses(), which handles the case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019194924.100347-3-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 2f5bef5a59 ("mm/damon/core: update monitoring results for new monitoring attributes")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON_SYSFS assumes all schemes will be applied for at least one DAMON
monitoring results snapshot within one aggregation interval, or makes no
sense to wait for it while DAMON is deactivated by the watermarks. That
for deactivated status still makes sense, but the aggregation interval
based assumption is invalid now because each scheme can has its own apply
interval. For schemes having larger than the aggregation or watermarks
check interval, DAMOS tried regions update request can be finished without
the update. Avoid the case by explicitly checking the status of the
schemes tried regions update and watermarks based DAMON deactivation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231012192256.33556-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for
only one apply interval".
DAMOS tried regions update feature of DAMON sysfs interface is doing the
update for one aggregation interval after the request is made. Since the
per-scheme apply interval is supported, that behavior makes no much sense.
That is, the tried regions directory will have regions from multiple
DAMON monitoring results snapshots, or no region for apply intervals that
much shorter than, or longer than the aggregation interval, respectively.
Update the behavior to update the regions for each scheme for only its
apply interval, and update the document.
Since DAMOS apply interval is the aggregation by default, this change
makes no visible behavioral difference to old users who don't explicitly
set the apply intervals.
Patches Sequence
----------------
The first two patches makes schemes of apply intervals that much shorter
or longer than the aggregation interval to keep the maximum and minimum
times for continuing the update. After the two patches, the update aligns
with the each scheme's apply interval.
Finally, the third patch updates the document to reflect the behavior.
This patch (of 3):
DAMON_SYSFS exposes every DAMON-found region that eligible for applying
the scheme action for one aggregation interval. However, each DAMON-based
operation scheme has its own apply interval. Hence, for a scheme that
having its apply interval much smaller than the aggregation interval,
DAMON_SYSFS will expose the scheme regions that applied to more than one
DAMON monitoring results snapshots. Since the purpose of DAMON tried
regions is exposing single snapshot, this makes no much sense. Track
progress of each scheme's tried regions update and avoid the case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231012192256.33556-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231012192256.33556-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON_SYSFS can receive DAMOS tried regions update request while kdamond
is already out of the main loop and before_terminate callback
(damon_sysfs_before_terminate() in this case) is not yet called. And
damon_sysfs_handle_cmd() can further be finished before the callback is
invoked. Then, damon_sysfs_before_terminate() unlocks damon_sysfs_lock,
which is not locked by anyone. This happens because the callback function
assumes damon_sysfs_cmd_request_callback() should be called before it.
Check if the assumption was true before doing the unlock, to avoid this
problem.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231007200432.3110-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: f1d13cacab ("mm/damon/sysfs: implement DAMOS tried regions update command")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.2.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
si_meminfo() will read and assign more info not just free/ram pages. For
just DAMOS_WMARK_FREE_MEM_RATE use, only get free and ram pages is ok to
save cpu.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230920015727.4482-1-link@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Huan Yang <link@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a kthread_stop_put() helper that stops a thread and puts its task
struct. Use it to replace the various instances of kthread_stop()
followed by put_task_struct().
Remove the kthread_stop_put() macro in usbip that is similar but doesn't
return the result of kthread_stop().
[agruenba@redhat.com: fix kerneldoc comment]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911111730.2565537-1-agruenba@redhat.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document kthread_stop_put()'s argument]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907234048.2499820-1-agruenba@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Update DAMON sysfs interface to support DAMOS apply intervals by adding a
new file, 'apply_interval_us' in each scheme directory. Users can set and
get the interval for each scheme in microseconds by writing to and reading
from the file.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230916020945.47296-7-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON-based operation schemes are applied for every aggregation interval.
That was mainly because schemes were using nr_accesses, which be complete
to be used for every aggregation interval. However, the schemes are now
using nr_accesses_bp, which is updated for each sampling interval in a way
that reasonable to be used. Therefore, there is no reason to apply
schemes for each aggregation interval.
The unnecessary alignment with aggregation interval was also making some
use cases of DAMOS tricky. Quotas setting under long aggregation interval
is one such example. Suppose the aggregation interval is ten seconds, and
there is a scheme having CPU quota 100ms per 1s. The scheme will actually
uses 100ms per ten seconds, since it cannobe be applied before next
aggregation interval. The feature is working as intended, but the results
might not that intuitive for some users. This could be fixed by updating
the quota to 1s per 10s. But, in the case, the CPU usage of DAMOS could
look like spikes, and would actually make a bad effect to other
CPU-sensitive workloads.
Implement a dedicated timing interval for each DAMON-based operation
scheme, namely apply_interval. The interval will be sampling interval
aligned, and each scheme will be applied for its apply_interval. The
interval is set to 0 by default, and it means the scheme should use the
aggregation interval instead. This avoids old users getting any
behavioral difference.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230916020945.47296-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sysfs interface exposes access rate of each region via DAMOS tried
regions directory. For this, the nr_accesses field of the region is used.
DAMOS was actually using nr_accesses in the past, but it uses
nr_accesses_bp now. Use the value that it is really using as the source.
Note that this doesn't expose nr_accesses_bp as is (in basis point), but
after converting it to the natural number by dividing the value by 10,000.
Hence there is no behavioral change from users' perspective.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230916020945.47296-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals".
DAMON-based operation schemes are applied for every aggregation interval.
That is mainly because schemes are using nr_accesses, which be complete to
be used for every aggregation interval.
This makes some DAMOS use cases be tricky. Quota setting under long
aggregation interval is one such example. Suppose the aggregation
interval is ten seconds, and there is a scheme having CPU quota 100ms per
1s. The scheme will actually uses 100ms per ten seconds, since it cannobe
be applied before next aggregation interval. The feature is working as
intended, but the results might not that intuitive for some users. This
could be fixed by updating the quota to 1s per 10s. But, in the case, the
CPU usage of DAMOS could look like spikes, and actually make a bad effect
to other CPU-sensitive workloads.
Also, with such huge aggregation interval, users may want schemes to be
applied more frequently.
DAMON provides nr_accesses_bp, which is updated for each sampling interval
in a way that reasonable to be used. By using that instead of
nr_accesses, DAMOS can have its own time interval and mitigate abovely
mentioned issues.
This patchset makes DAMOS schemes to use nr_accesses_bp instead of
nr_accesses, and have their own timing intervals. Also update DAMOS tried
regions sysfs files and DAMOS before_apply tracepoint to use the new data
as their source. Note that the interval is zero by default, and it is
interpreted to use the aggregation interval instead. This avoids making
user-visible behavioral changes.
Patches Seuqeunce
-----------------
The first patch (patch 1/9) makes DAMOS uses nr_accesses_bp instead of
nr_accesses, and following two patches (patches 2/9 and 3/9) updates DAMON
sysfs interface for DAMOS tried regions and the DAMOS before_apply
tracespoint to use nr_accesses_bp instead of nr_accesses, respectively.
The following two patches (patches 4/9 and 5/9) implements the
scheme-specific apply interval for DAMON kernel API users and update the
design document for the new feature.
Finally, the following four patches (patches 6/9, 7/9, 8/9 and 9/9) add
support of the feature in DAMON sysfs interface, add a simple selftest
test case, and document the new file on the usage and the ABI documents,
repsectively.
This patch (of 9):
DAMON provides nr_accesses_bp, which becomes same to nr_accesses * 10000
for every aggregation interval, but updated every sampling interval with a
reasonable accuracy. Since DAMON-based operation schemes are applied in
every aggregation interval using nr_accesses, using nr_accesses_bp instead
will make no difference to users. Meanwhile, it allows DAMOS to apply the
schemes in a time interval that less than the aggregation interval. It
could be useful and more flexible for some cases. Do it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230916020945.47296-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230916020945.47296-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The function is used by only mm/damon/core.c. Mark it as a static
function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-9-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
damon_merge_regions_of(), which is called for each aggregation interval,
updates nr_accesses_bp to nr_accesses * 10000. However, nr_accesses_bp is
updated for each sampling interval via damon_moving_sum() using the
aggregation interval as the moving time window. And by the definition of
the algorithm, the value becomes same to discrete-window based sum for
each time window-aligned time. Hence, nr_accesses_bp will be same to
nr_accesses * 10000 for each aggregation interval without explicit update.
Remove the unnecessary update of nr_accesses_bp in
damon_merge_regions_of().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-8-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let nr_accesses_bp be calculated as a pseudo-moving sum that updated for
every sampling interval, using damon_moving_sum(). This is assumed to be
useful for cases that the aggregation interval is set quite huge, but the
monivoting results need to be collected earlier than next aggregation
interval is passed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-7-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add yet another representation of the access rate of each region, namely
nr_accesses_bp. It is just same to the nr_accesses but represents the
value in basis point (1 in 10,000), and updated at once in every
aggregation interval. That is, moving_accesses_bp is just nr_accesses *
10000. This may seems useless at the moment. However, it will be useful
for representing less than one nr_accesses value that will be needed to
make moving sum-based nr_accesses.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a simple unit test for the pseudo moving-sum function
(damon_moving_sum()).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For values that continuously change, moving average or sum are good ways
to provide fast updates while handling temporal and errorneous variability
of the value. For example, the access rate counter (nr_accesses) is
calculated as a sum of the number of positive sampled access check results
that collected during a discrete time window (aggregation interval), and
hence it handles temporal and errorneous access check results, but
provides the update only for every aggregation interval. Using a moving
sum method for that could allow providing the value for every sampling
interval. That could be useful for getting monitoring results snapshot or
running DAMOS in fine-grained timing.
However, supporting the moving sum for cases that number of samples in the
time window is arbirary could impose high overhead, since the number of
past values that it needs to keep could be too high. The nr_accesses
would also be one of the cases. To mitigate the overhead, implement a
pseudo-moving sum function that only provides an estimated pseudo-moving
sum. It assumes there was no error in last discrete time window and
subtract constant portion of last discrete time window sum.
Note that the function is not strictly implementing the moving sum, but it
keeps a property of moving sum, which makes the value same to the
dsicrete-window based sum for each time window-aligned timing. Hence,
people collecting the value in the old timings would show no difference.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When getting mm_struct of the monitoring target process fails, there wil
be no need to increase the access rate counter (nr_accesses) of the
regions for the process. Hence, damon_va_check_accesses() skips calling
damon_update_region_access_rate() in the case. This breaks the assumption
that damon_update_region_access_rate() is called for every region, for
every sampling interval. Call the function for every region even in the
case. This might increase the overhead in some cases, but such case would
not be frequent, so no significant impact is really expected.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate".
DAMON checks the access to each region for every sampling interval,
increase the access rate counter of the region, namely nr_accesses, if the
access was made. For every aggregation interval, the counter is reset.
The counter is exposed to users to be used as a metric showing the
relative access rate (frequency) of each region. In other words, DAMON
provides access rate of each region in every aggregation interval. The
aggregation avoids temporal access pattern changes making things
confusing. However, this also makes a few DAMON-related operations to
unnecessarily need to be aligned to the aggregation interval. This can
restrict the flexibility of DAMON applications, especially when the
aggregation interval is huge.
To provide the monitoring results in finer-grained timing while keeping
handling of temporal access pattern change, this patchset implements a
pseudo-moving sum based access rate metric. It is pseudo-moving sum
because strict moving sum implementation would need to keep all values for
last time window, and that could incur high overhead of there could be
arbitrary number of values in a time window. Especially in case of the
nr_accesses, since the sampling interval and aggregation interval can
arbitrarily set and the past values should be maintained for every region,
it could be risky. The pseudo-moving sum assumes there were no temporal
access pattern change in last discrete time window to remove the needs for
keeping the list of the last time window values. As a result, it beocmes
not strict moving sum implementation, but provides a reasonable accuracy.
Also, it keeps an important property of the moving sum. That is, the
moving sum becomes same to discrete-window based sum at the time that
aligns to the time window. This means using the pseudo moving sum based
nr_accesses makes no change to users who shows the value for every
aggregation interval.
Patches Sequence
----------------
The sequence of the patches is as follows. The first four patches are for
preparation of the change. The first two (patches 1 and 2) implements a
helper function for nr_accesses update and eliminate corner case that
skips use of the function, respectively. Following two (patches 3 and 4)
respectively implement the pseudo-moving sum function and its simple unit
test case.
Two patches for making DAMON to use the pseudo-moving sum follow. The
fifthe one (patch 5) introduces a new field for representing the
pseudo-moving sum-based access rate of each region, and the sixth one
makes the new representation to actually updated with the pseudo-moving
sum function.
Last two patches (patches 7 and 8) makes followup fixes for skipping
unnecessary updates and marking the moving sum function as static,
respectively.
This patch (of 8):
Each DAMON operarions set is updating nr_accesses field of each
damon_region for each of their access check results, from the
check_accesses() callback. Directly accessing the field could make things
complex to manage and change in future. Define and use a dedicated
function for the purpose.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915025251.72816-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
DAMON sleeps for sampling interval after each sampling, and check if the
aggregation interval and the ops update interval have passed using
ktime_get_coarse_ts64() and baseline timestamps for the intervals. That
design is for making the operations occur at deterministic timing
regardless of the time that spend for each work. However, it turned out
it is not that useful, and incur not-that-intuitive results.
After all, timer functions, and especially sleep functions that DAMON uses
to wait for specific timing, are not necessarily strictly accurate. It is
legal design, so no problem. However, depending on such inaccuracies, the
nr_accesses can be larger than aggregation interval divided by sampling
interval. For example, with the default setting (5 ms sampling interval
and 100 ms aggregation interval) we frequently show regions having
nr_accesses larger than 20. Also, if the execution of a DAMOS scheme
takes a long time, next aggregation could happen before enough number of
samples are collected. This is not what usual users would intuitively
expect.
Since access check sampling is the smallest unit work of DAMON, using the
number of passed sampling intervals as the DAMON-internal timer can easily
avoid these problems. That is, convert aggregation and ops update
intervals to numbers of sampling intervals that need to be passed before
those operations be executed, count the number of passed sampling
intervals, and invoke the operations as soon as the specific amount of
sampling intervals passed. Make the change.
Note that this could make a behavioral change to settings that using
intervals that not aligned by the sampling interval. For example, if the
sampling interval is 5 ms and the aggregation interval is 12 ms, DAMON
effectively uses 15 ms as its aggregation interval, because it checks
whether the aggregation interval after sleeping the sampling interval.
This change will make DAMON to effectively use 10 ms as aggregation
interval, since it uses 'aggregation interval / sampling interval *
sampling interval' as the effective aggregation interval, and we don't use
floating point types. Usual users would have used aligned intervals, so
this behavioral change is not expected to make any meaningful impact, so
just make this change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230914021523.60649-1-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions",
v2.
DAMON provides damon_aggregated tracepoint to let users record full
monitoring results. Sometimes, users need to record monitoring results of
specific pattern. DAMOS tried regions directory of DAMON sysfs interface
allows it, but the interface is mainly designed for snapshots and
therefore would be inefficient for such recording. Implement yet another
tracepoint for efficient support of the usecase.
This patch (of 2):
DAMON provides damon_aggregated tracepoint, which exposes details of each
region and its access monitoring results. It is useful for getting whole
monitoring results, e.g., for recording purposes.
For investigations of DAMOS, DAMON Sysfs interface provides DAMOS
statistics and tried_regions directory. But, those provides only
statistics and snapshots. If the scheme is frequently applied and if the
user needs to know every detail of DAMOS behavior, the snapshot-based
interface could be insufficient and expensive.
As a last resort, userspace users need to record the all monitoring
results via damon_aggregated tracepoint and simulate how DAMOS would
worked. It is unnecessarily complicated. DAMON kernel API users,
meanwhile, can do that easily via before_damos_apply() callback field of
'struct damon_callback', though.
Add a tracepoint that will be called just after before_damos_apply()
callback for more convenient investigations of DAMOS. The tracepoint
exposes all details about each regions, similar to damon_aggregated
tracepoint.
Please note that DAMOS is currently not only for memory management but
also for query-like efficient monitoring results retrievals (when 'stat'
action is used). Until now, only statistics or snapshots were supported.
Addition of this tracepoint allows efficient full recording of DAMOS-based
filtered monitoring results.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230913022050.2109-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230913022050.2109-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> [tracing]
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
damon_aggregateed tracepoint is receiving 'struct target *', but doesn't
use it. Remove it from the prototype.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-12-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
