kernel/include/trace/events/vmscan.h, branch linux-5.1.y

mm, vmscan, tracing: use pointer to reclaim_stat struct in trace event

2018-04-11T17:28:30Z

The trace event trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive() currently has 12 parameters! Seven of them are from the reclaim_stat structure. This structure is currently local to mm/vmscan.c. By moving it to the global vmstat.h header, we can also reference it from the vmscan tracepoints. In moving it, it brings down the overhead of passing so many arguments to the trace event. In the future, we may limit the number of arguments that a trace event may pass (ideally just 6, but more realistically it may be 8). Before this patch, the code to call the trace event is this: 0f 83 aa fe ff ff jae ffffffff811e6261 48 8b 45 a0 mov -0x60(%rbp),%rax 45 8b 64 24 20 mov 0x20(%r12),%r12d 44 8b 6d d4 mov -0x2c(%rbp),%r13d 8b 4d d0 mov -0x30(%rbp),%ecx 44 8b 75 cc mov -0x34(%rbp),%r14d 44 8b 7d c8 mov -0x38(%rbp),%r15d 48 89 45 90 mov %rax,-0x70(%rbp) 8b 83 b8 fe ff ff mov -0x148(%rbx),%eax 8b 55 c0 mov -0x40(%rbp),%edx 8b 7d c4 mov -0x3c(%rbp),%edi 8b 75 b8 mov -0x48(%rbp),%esi 89 45 80 mov %eax,-0x80(%rbp) 65 ff 05 e4 f7 e2 7e incl %gs:0x7ee2f7e4(%rip) # 15bd0 <__preempt_count> 48 8b 05 75 5b 13 01 mov 0x1135b75(%rip),%rax # ffffffff8231bf68 <__tracepoint_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive+0x28> 48 85 c0 test %rax,%rax 74 72 je ffffffff811e646a 48 89 c3 mov %rax,%rbx 4c 8b 10 mov (%rax),%r10 89 f8 mov %edi,%eax 48 89 85 68 ff ff ff mov %rax,-0x98(%rbp) 89 f0 mov %esi,%eax 48 89 85 60 ff ff ff mov %rax,-0xa0(%rbp) 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax 48 89 85 78 ff ff ff mov %rax,-0x88(%rbp) 89 d0 mov %edx,%eax 48 89 85 70 ff ff ff mov %rax,-0x90(%rbp) 8b 45 8c mov -0x74(%rbp),%eax 48 8b 7b 08 mov 0x8(%rbx),%rdi 48 83 c3 18 add $0x18,%rbx 50 push %rax 41 54 push %r12 41 55 push %r13 ff b5 78 ff ff ff pushq -0x88(%rbp) 41 56 push %r14 41 57 push %r15 ff b5 70 ff ff ff pushq -0x90(%rbp) 4c 8b 8d 68 ff ff ff mov -0x98(%rbp),%r9 4c 8b 85 60 ff ff ff mov -0xa0(%rbp),%r8 48 8b 4d 98 mov -0x68(%rbp),%rcx 48 8b 55 90 mov -0x70(%rbp),%rdx 8b 75 80 mov -0x80(%rbp),%esi 41 ff d2 callq *%r10 After the patch: 0f 83 a8 fe ff ff jae ffffffff811e626d 8b 9b b8 fe ff ff mov -0x148(%rbx),%ebx 45 8b 64 24 20 mov 0x20(%r12),%r12d 4c 8b 6d a0 mov -0x60(%rbp),%r13 65 ff 05 f5 f7 e2 7e incl %gs:0x7ee2f7f5(%rip) # 15bd0 <__preempt_count> 4c 8b 35 86 5b 13 01 mov 0x1135b86(%rip),%r14 # ffffffff8231bf68 <__tracepoint_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive+0x28> 4d 85 f6 test %r14,%r14 74 2a je ffffffff811e6411 49 8b 06 mov (%r14),%rax 8b 4d 8c mov -0x74(%rbp),%ecx 49 8b 7e 08 mov 0x8(%r14),%rdi 49 83 c6 18 add $0x18,%r14 4c 89 ea mov %r13,%rdx 45 89 e1 mov %r12d,%r9d 4c 8d 45 b8 lea -0x48(%rbp),%r8 89 de mov %ebx,%esi 51 push %rcx 48 8b 4d 98 mov -0x68(%rbp),%rcx ff d0 callq *%rax Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2559d7cb-ec60-1200-2362-04fa34fd02bb@fb.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180322121003.4177af15@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory

2018-04-06T04:36:27Z

Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too many previous attempts at background reclaim have failed. This can be true if there is a lot of free memory available. For high- order allocations, kswapd is responsible for waking up kcompactd for background compaction. If the zone is not below its watermarks or reclaim has recently failed (lots of free memory, nothing left to reclaim), kcompactd does not get woken up. When __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is not allowed, allow kcompactd to still be woken up even if kswapd will not reclaim. This allows high-order allocations, such as thp, to still trigger background compaction even when the zone has an abundance of free memory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803111659420.209721@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use sc->priority for slab shrink targets

2018-02-01T01:18:36Z

Previously we were using the ratio of the number of lru pages scanned to the number of eligible lru pages to determine the number of slab objects to scan. The problem with this is that these two things have nothing to do with each other, so in slab heavy work loads where there is little to no page cache we can end up with the pages scanned being a very low number. This means that we reclaim next to no slab pages and waste a lot of time reclaiming small amounts of space. Consider the following scenario, where we have the following values and the rest of the memory usage is in slab Active: 58840 kB Inactive: 46860 kB Every time we do a get_scan_count() we do this scan = size >> sc->priority where sc->priority starts at DEF_PRIORITY, which is 12. The first loop through reclaim would result in a scan target of 2 pages to 11715 total inactive pages, and 3 pages to 14710 total active pages. This is a really really small target for a system that is entirely slab pages. And this is super optimistic, this assumes we even get to scan these pages. We don't increment sc->nr_scanned unless we 1) isolate the page, which assumes it's not in use, and 2) can lock the page. Under pressure these numbers could probably go down, I'm sure there's some random pages from daemons that aren't actually in use, so the targets get even smaller. Instead use sc->priority in the same way we use it to determine scan amounts for the lru's. This generally equates to pages. Consider the following slab_pages = (nr_objects * object_size) / PAGE_SIZE What we would like to do is scan = slab_pages >> sc->priority but we don't know the number of slab pages each shrinker controls, only the objects. However say that theoretically we knew how many pages a shrinker controlled, we'd still have to convert this to objects, which would look like the following scan = shrinker_pages >> sc->priority scan_objects = (PAGE_SIZE / object_size) * scan or written another way scan_objects = (shrinker_pages >> sc->priority) * (PAGE_SIZE / object_size) which can thus be written scan_objects = ((shrinker_pages * PAGE_SIZE) / object_size) >> sc->priority which is just scan_objects = nr_objects >> sc->priority We don't need to know exactly how many pages each shrinker represents, it's objects are all the information we need. Making this change allows us to place an appropriate amount of pressure on the shrinker pools for their relative size. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510780549-6812-1-git-send-email-josef@toxicpanda.com Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Dave Chinner Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2017-11-17T22:58:01Z

Pull tracing updates from - allow module init functions to be traced - clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space) - clean up of trace histogram code - add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events - other various clean ups * tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits) tracing, thermal: Hide cpu cooling trace events when not in use tracing, thermal: Hide devfreq trace events when not in use ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU perf/ftrace: Small cleanup perf/ftrace: Fix function trace events perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function") tracing, dma-buf: Remove unused trace event dma_fence_annotate_wait_on tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use tracing/xen: Hide events that are not used when X86_PAE is not defined tracing: mark trace_test_buffer as __maybe_unused printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe ftrace: Clear hashes of stale ips of init memory tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions ftrace: Add freeing algorithm to free ftrace_mod_maps ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing ftrace: Allow module init functions to be traced ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use tracing: Reimplement log2 ...

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use

2017-10-13T15:08:03Z

When trace events are defined but not used they still create data structures and functions for their use, even though nothing may be using them. The trace events mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin, mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin, mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end, and mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end are not used if CONFIG_MEMCG is not defined. Do not create these trace events unless CONFIG_MEMCG is defined. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012184632.2bd247cd@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

mm, vmscan: add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint

2017-02-23T00:41:29Z

Currently we have tracepoints for both active and inactive LRU lists reclaim but we do not have any which would tell us why we we decided to age the active list. Without that it is quite hard to diagnose active/inactive lists balancing. Add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint to tell us this information. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-8-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, vmscan: enhance mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive tracepoint

2017-02-23T00:41:29Z

mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive will currently report the number of scanned and reclaimed pages. This doesn't give us an idea how the reclaim went except for the overall effectiveness though. Export and show other counters which will tell us why we couldn't reclaim some pages. - nr_dirty, nr_writeback, nr_congested and nr_immediate tells us how many pages are blocked due to IO - nr_activate tells us how many pages were moved to the active list - nr_ref_keep reports how many pages are kept on the LRU due to references (mostly for the file pages which are about to go for another round through the inactive list) - nr_unmap_fail - how many pages failed to unmap All these are rather low level so they might change in future but the tracepoint is already implementation specific so no tools should be depending on its stability. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-7-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, vmscan: show LRU name in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate tracepoint

2017-02-23T00:41:29Z

mm_vmscan_lru_isolate currently prints only whether the LRU we isolate from is file or anonymous but we do not know which LRU this is. It is useful to know whether the list is active or inactive, since we are using the same function to isolate pages from both of them and it's hard to distinguish otherwise. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-5-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, vmscan: show the number of skipped pages in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate

2017-02-23T00:41:29Z

mm_vmscan_lru_isolate shows the number of requested, scanned and taken pages. This is mostly OK but on 32b systems the number of scanned pages is quite misleading because it includes both the scanned and skipped pages. Moreover the skipped part is scaled based on the number of taken pages. Let's report the exact numbers without any additional logic and add the number of skipped pages. This should make the reported data much more easier to interpret. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-4-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds