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RFC PATCH In review Michal Hocko 7 participants 27 messages Nov 20, 2018 – Nov 23, 2018

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cover few memory offlining enhancements

I have been chasing memory offlining not making progress recently. On the way I have noticed few weird decisions in the code. The migration itself is restricted without a reasonable justification and the retry loop around the migration is quite messy. This is addressed by patch 1 and patch 2.

Patch 3 is targeting on the faultaround code which has been a hot candidate for the initial issue reported upstream [1] and that I am debugging internally. It turned out to be not the main contributor in the end but I believe we should address it regardless. See the patch description for more details.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181114070909.GB2653@MiWiFi-R3L-srv

#1 lore raw

RFC PATCH 1/3 mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

do_migrate_range has been limiting the number of pages to migrate to 256 for some reason which is not documented. Even if the limit made some sense back then when it was introduced it doesn't really serve a good purpose these days. If the range contains huge pages then
we break out of the loop too early and go through LRU and pcp caches draining and scan_movable_pages is quite suboptimal.

The only reason to limit the number of pages I can think of is to reduce the potential time to react on the fatal signal. But even then the number of pages is a questionable metric because even a single page might migration block in a non-killable state (e.g. __unmap_and_move).

Remove the limit and offline the full requested range (this is one membblock worth of pages with the current code). Should we ever get a report that offlining takes too long to react on fatal signal then we should rather fix the core migration to use killable waits and bailout on a signal.

---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
mm/memory_hotplug.c +2 -6
index c82193db4be6..6263c8cd4491 100644
@@ -1339,18 +1339,16 @@ static struct page *new_node_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private)
 	return new_page_nodemask(page, nid, &nmask);
 }
 
-#define NR_OFFLINE_AT_ONCE_PAGES	(256)
 static int
 do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn;
 	struct page *page;
-	int move_pages = NR_OFFLINE_AT_ONCE_PAGES;
 	int not_managed = 0;
 	int ret = 0;
 	LIST_HEAD(source);
 
-	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn && move_pages > 0; pfn++) {
+	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
 		if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
 			continue;
 		page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
@@ -1362,8 +1360,7 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 				ret = -EBUSY;
 				break;
 			}
-			if (isolate_huge_page(page, &source))
-				move_pages -= 1 << compound_order(head);
+			isolate_huge_page(page, &source);
 			continue;
 		} else if (PageTransHuge(page))
 			pfn = page_to_pfn(compound_head(page))
@@ -1382,7 +1379,6 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 		if (!ret) { /* Success */
 			put_page(page);
 			list_add_tail(&page->lru, &source);
-			move_pages--;
 			if (!__PageMovable(page))
 				inc_node_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
 						    page_is_file_cache(page));
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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

Quoted 61 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

do_migrate_range has been limiting the number of pages to migrate to 256 for some reason which is not documented. Even if the limit made some sense back then when it was introduced it doesn't really serve a good purpose these days. If the range contains huge pages then
we break out of the loop too early and go through LRU and pcp caches draining and scan_movable_pages is quite suboptimal.

The only reason to limit the number of pages I can think of is to reduce the potential time to react on the fatal signal. But even then the number of pages is a questionable metric because even a single page might migration block in a non-killable state (e.g. __unmap_and_move).

Remove the limit and offline the full requested range (this is one membblock worth of pages with the current code). Should we ever get a report that offlining takes too long to react on fatal signal then we should rather fix the core migration to use killable waits and bailout on a signal.

---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
mm/memory_hotplug.c +2 -5
index c82193db4be6..6263c8cd4491 100644
@@ -1339,18 +1339,16 @@ static struct page *new_node_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private)
 	return new_page_nodemask(page, nid, &nmask);
 }
 
-#define NR_OFFLINE_AT_ONCE_PAGES	(256)
 static int
 do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn;
 	struct page *page;
-	int move_pages = NR_OFFLINE_AT_ONCE_PAGES;
 	int not_managed = 0;
 	int ret = 0;
 	LIST_HEAD(source);
 
-	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn && move_pages > 0; pfn++) {
+	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
 		if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
 			continue;
 		page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
@@ -1362,8 +1360,7 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 				ret = -EBUSY;
 				break;
 			}
-			if (isolate_huge_page(page, &source))
-				move_pages -= 1 << compound_order(head);
+			isolate_huge_page(page, &source);
 			continue;
 		} else if (PageTransHuge(page))
 			pfn = page_to_pfn(compound_head(page))

mm/memory_hotplug.c do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn) · line 1384

Quoted 7 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +0 -1
@@ -1382,7 +1379,6 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 		if (!ret) { /* Success */
 			put_page(page);
 			list_add_tail(&page->lru, &source);
-			move_pages--;
 			if (!__PageMovable(page))
 				inc_node_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
 						    page_is_file_cache(page));

Yes, there is basically no statement why it was done that way. If it is important, there should be one.

(we could also check for pending signals inside that function if really required)

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David / dhildenb
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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

On Tue 20-11-18 15:18:41, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[...]

Quoted 2 lines

(we could also check for pending signals inside that function if really required)

do_migrate_pages is not the proper layer to check signals. Because the loop only isolates pages and that is not expensive. The most expensive part is deeper down in the migration core. We wait for page lock or writeback and that can take a long. None of that is killable wait which is a larger surgery but something that we should consider should there be any need to address this.

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Thanks!

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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

Quoted 11 lines · Michal Hocko

On Tue 20-11-18 15:18:41, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[...]

Quoted 2 lines

(we could also check for pending signals inside that function if really required)

do_migrate_pages is not the proper layer to check signals. Because the loop only isolates pages and that is not expensive. The most expensive part is deeper down in the migration core. We wait for page lock or writeback and that can take a long. None of that is killable wait which is a larger surgery but something that we should consider should there be any need to address this.

Indeed, that makes sense.

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Quoted 2 lines

Thanks!

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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

In reply to Michal Hocko
Quoted 14 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

do_migrate_range has been limiting the number of pages to migrate to 256 for some reason which is not documented. Even if the limit made some sense back then when it was introduced it doesn't really serve a good purpose these days. If the range contains huge pages then
we break out of the loop too early and go through LRU and pcp caches draining and scan_movable_pages is quite suboptimal.

The only reason to limit the number of pages I can think of is to reduce the potential time to react on the fatal signal. But even then the number of pages is a questionable metric because even a single page might migration block in a non-killable state (e.g. __unmap_and_move).

Quoted 7 lines

Remove the limit and offline the full requested range (this is one membblock worth of pages with the current code). Should we ever get a report that offlining takes too long to react on fatal signal then we should rather fix the core migration to use killable waits and bailout on a signal.

Looks good to me, I also do not see a reason for 256 pages limit.

Added Kame to CC, who introduced page offlining, and this limit, but as far as I can tell the last time he was active on LKML was in 2016.

Pasha

Reviewed-by Oscar Salvador on v1 1/3
#6 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

In reply to Michal Hocko
Quoted 5 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

do_migrate_range has been limiting the number of pages to migrate to 256
for some reason which is not documented.

When looking back at old memory-hotplug commits one feels pretty sad about the brevity of the changelogs.

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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full section worth of pages

Quoted 9 lines · Oscar Salvador
Quoted 5 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

do_migrate_range has been limiting the number of pages to migrate to 256
for some reason which is not documented.

When looking back at old memory-hotplug commits one feels pretty sad about the brevity of the changelogs.

Well, things evolve and we've become much more careful about changelogs over time. It still gets quite a lot of time to push back on changelogs even these days though. People still keep forgetting that "what" is not as important as "why" because the former is usually quite easy to understand from reading the diff. The intention behind is usually what gets forgotten after years. I guess people realize this much more after few excavation git blame tours.

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Quoted 1 line

Thanks!

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SUSE Labs
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RFC PATCH 2/3 mm, memory_hotplug: deobfuscate migration part of offlining

In reply to Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

Memory migration might fail during offlining and we keep retrying in that case. This is currently obfuscate by goto retry loop. The code is hard to follow and as a result it is even suboptimal becase each retry round scans the full range from start_pfn even though we have successfully scanned/migrated [start_pfn, pfn] range already. This is all only because check_pages_isolated failure has to rescan the full range again.

De-obfuscate the migration retry loop by promoting it to a real for loop. In fact remove the goto altogether by making it a proper double loop (yeah, gotos are nasty in this specific case). In the end we will get a slightly more optimal code which is better readable.

---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
mm/memory_hotplug.c +31 -29
index 6263c8cd4491..9cd161db3061 100644
@@ -1591,38 +1591,40 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 		goto failed_removal_isolated;
 	}
 
-	pfn = start_pfn;
-repeat:
-	/* start memory hot removal */
-	ret = -EINTR;
-	if (signal_pending(current)) {
-		reason = "signal backoff";
-		goto failed_removal_isolated;
-	}
+	do {
+		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;)
+		{
+			/* start memory hot removal */
+			ret = -EINTR;
+			if (signal_pending(current)) {
+				reason = "signal backoff";
+				goto failed_removal_isolated;
+			}
 
-	cond_resched();
-	lru_add_drain_all();
-	drain_all_pages(zone);
+			cond_resched();
+			lru_add_drain_all();
+			drain_all_pages(zone);
 
-	pfn = scan_movable_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (pfn) { /* We have movable pages */
-		ret = do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn);
-		goto repeat;
-	}
+			pfn = scan_movable_pages(pfn, end_pfn);
+			if (pfn) {
+				/* TODO fatal migration failures should bail out */
+				do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn);
+			}
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * dissolve free hugepages in the memory block before doing offlining
+		 * actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object counting consistent.
+		 */
+		ret = dissolve_free_huge_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
+		if (ret) {
+			reason = "failure to dissolve huge pages";
+			goto failed_removal_isolated;
+		}
+		/* check again */
+		offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn, end_pfn);
+	} while (offlined_pages < 0);
 
-	/*
-	 * dissolve free hugepages in the memory block before doing offlining
-	 * actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object counting consistent.
-	 */
-	ret = dissolve_free_huge_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (ret) {
-		reason = "failure to dissolve huge pages";
-		goto failed_removal_isolated;
-	}
-	/* check again */
-	offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (offlined_pages < 0)
-		goto repeat;
 	pr_info("Offlined Pages %ld\n", offlined_pages);
 	/* Ok, all of our target is isolated.
 	   We cannot do rollback at this point. */
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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, memory_hotplug: deobfuscate migration part of offlining

Quoted 29 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

Memory migration might fail during offlining and we keep retrying in that case. This is currently obfuscate by goto retry loop. The code is hard to follow and as a result it is even suboptimal becase each retry round scans the full range from start_pfn even though we have successfully scanned/migrated [start_pfn, pfn] range already. This is all only because check_pages_isolated failure has to rescan the full range again.

De-obfuscate the migration retry loop by promoting it to a real for loop. In fact remove the goto altogether by making it a proper double loop (yeah, gotos are nasty in this specific case). In the end we will get a slightly more optimal code which is better readable.

---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
mm/memory_hotplug.c +0 -1
index 6263c8cd4491..9cd161db3061 100644
@@ -1591,38 +1591,40 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 		goto failed_removal_isolated;
 	}
 
-	pfn = start_pfn;

mm/memory_hotplug.c static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, · line 1596

Quoted 10 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +3 -7
-repeat:
-	/* start memory hot removal */
-	ret = -EINTR;
-	if (signal_pending(current)) {
-		reason = "signal backoff";
-		goto failed_removal_isolated;
-	}
+	do {
+		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;)
+		{

{ on a new line looks weird.

mm/memory_hotplug.c static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, · line 1598

Quoted 2 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +2 -0
+			/* start memory hot removal */
+			ret = -EINTR;

I think we can move that into the "if (signal_pending(current))"

(if my eyes are not wrong, this will not be touched otherwise)

Quoted 11 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +7 -3
+			if (signal_pending(current)) {
+				reason = "signal backoff";
+				goto failed_removal_isolated;
+			}
 
-	cond_resched();
-	lru_add_drain_all();
-	drain_all_pages(zone);
+			cond_resched();
+			lru_add_drain_all();
+			drain_all_pages(zone);

mm/memory_hotplug.c static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, · line 1611

Quoted 10 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +4 -5
 
-	pfn = scan_movable_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (pfn) { /* We have movable pages */
-		ret = do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn);
-		goto repeat;
-	}
+			pfn = scan_movable_pages(pfn, end_pfn);
+			if (pfn) {
+				/* TODO fatal migration failures should bail out */
+				do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn);

Right, that return value was always ignored.

Quoted 23 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +15 -6
+			}
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * dissolve free hugepages in the memory block before doing offlining
+		 * actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object counting consistent.
+		 */
+		ret = dissolve_free_huge_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
+		if (ret) {
+			reason = "failure to dissolve huge pages";
+			goto failed_removal_isolated;
+		}
+		/* check again */
+		offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn, end_pfn);
+	} while (offlined_pages < 0);
 
-	/*
-	 * dissolve free hugepages in the memory block before doing offlining
-	 * actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object counting consistent.
-	 */
-	ret = dissolve_free_huge_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (ret) {

mm/memory_hotplug.c static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, · line 1630

Quoted 10 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +0 -7
-		reason = "failure to dissolve huge pages";
-		goto failed_removal_isolated;
-	}
-	/* check again */
-	offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (offlined_pages < 0)
-		goto repeat;
 	pr_info("Offlined Pages %ld\n", offlined_pages);
 	/* Ok, all of our target is isolated.
 	   We cannot do rollback at this point. */

Looks much better to me.

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#10 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, memory_hotplug: deobfuscate migration part of offlining

On Tue 20-11-18 15:26:43, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[...]

Quoted 6 lines

Review

Quoted 3 lines
(quoted diff) +3 -0
+	do {
+		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;)
+		{

{ on a new line looks weird.

Quoted 6 lines

Review

Quoted 2 lines
(quoted diff) +2 -0
+			/* start memory hot removal */
+			ret = -EINTR;

I think we can move that into the "if (signal_pending(current))"

(if my eyes are not wrong, this will not be touched otherwise)

Better?

mm/memory_hotplug.c +2 -3
index 9cd161db3061..6bc3aee30f5e 100644
@@ -1592,11 +1592,10 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	}
 
 	do {
-		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;)
-		{
+		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;) {
 			/* start memory hot removal */
-			ret = -EINTR;
 			if (signal_pending(current)) {
+				ret = -EINTR;
 				reason = "signal backoff";
 				goto failed_removal_isolated;
 			}
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#11 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, memory_hotplug: deobfuscate migration part of offlining

Quoted 26 lines · Michal Hocko

On Tue 20-11-18 15:26:43, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[...]

Quoted 6 lines

Review

Quoted 3 lines
(quoted diff) +3 -0
+	do {
+		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;)
+		{

{ on a new line looks weird.

Quoted 6 lines

Review

Quoted 2 lines
(quoted diff) +2 -0
+			/* start memory hot removal */
+			ret = -EINTR;

I think we can move that into the "if (signal_pending(current))"

(if my eyes are not wrong, this will not be touched otherwise)

Better?

mm/memory_hotplug.c +0 -0
index 9cd161db3061..6bc3aee30f5e 100644
@@ -1592,11 +1592,10 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	}
 
 	do {

mm/memory_hotplug.c static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, · line 1601

Quoted 10 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +2 -3
-		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;)
-		{
+		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;) {
 			/* start memory hot removal */
-			ret = -EINTR;
 			if (signal_pending(current)) {
+				ret = -EINTR;
 				reason = "signal backoff";
 				goto failed_removal_isolated;
 			}

:)

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Reviewed-by Oscar Salvador on v1 2/3
#12 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, memory_hotplug: deobfuscate migration part of offlining

In reply to Michal Hocko
Quoted 2 lines

[...]

mm/memory_hotplug.c static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, · line 1597

Quoted 4 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +4 -0
+	do {
+		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;)
+		{
+			/* start memory hot removal */

Should we change thAT comment? I mean, this is not really the hot- removal stage.

Maybe "start memory migration" suits better? or memory offlining?

Quoted 47 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +11 -8
+			ret = -EINTR;
+			if (signal_pending(current)) {
+				reason = "signal backoff";
+				goto failed_removal_isolated;
+			}
 
-	cond_resched();
-	lru_add_drain_all();
-	drain_all_pages(zone);
+			cond_resched();
+			lru_add_drain_all();
+			drain_all_pages(zone);
 
-	pfn = scan_movable_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (pfn) { /* We have movable pages */
-		ret = do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn);
-		goto repeat;
-	}
+			pfn = scan_movable_pages(pfn, end_pfn);
+			if (pfn) {
+				/* TODO fatal migration failures

should bail out */

mm/memory_hotplug.c +6 -0
+				do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn);
+			}
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * dissolve free hugepages in the memory block

before doing offlining

(quoted diff) +1 -0
+		 * actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object

counting consistent.

mm/memory_hotplug.c +8 -0
+		 */
+		ret = dissolve_free_huge_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
+		if (ret) {
+			reason = "failure to dissolve huge pages";
+			goto failed_removal_isolated;
+		}
+		/* check again */
+		offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn,

end_pfn);

mm/memory_hotplug.c +1 -2
+	} while (offlined_pages < 0);
 
-	/*
-	 * dissolve free hugepages in the memory block before doing

offlining

(quoted diff) +0 -1
-	 * actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object counting

consistent.

mm/memory_hotplug.c static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, · line 1625

Quoted 10 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +0 -10
-	 */
-	ret = dissolve_free_huge_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (ret) {
-		reason = "failure to dissolve huge pages";
-		goto failed_removal_isolated;
-	}
-	/* check again */
-	offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (offlined_pages < 0)
-		goto repeat;

This indeed looks much nicer and it is easier to follow. With the changes commented by David:

#13 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, memory_hotplug: deobfuscate migration part of offlining

Quoted 11 lines · Oscar Salvador
Quoted 2 lines

[...]

mm/memory_hotplug.c static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, · line 1597

Quoted 4 lines
mm/memory_hotplug.c +4 -0
+	do {
+		for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn;)
+		{
+			/* start memory hot removal */

Should we change thAT comment? I mean, this is not really the hot- removal stage.

Quoted 1 line

Maybe "start memory migration" suits better? or memory offlining?

I will just drop it. It doesn't really explain anything. [...]

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This indeed looks much nicer and it is easier to follow. With the changes commented by David:

Thanks!

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
#14 lore raw

RFC PATCH 3/3 mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

In reply to Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

---
 mm/filemap.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
mm/filemap.c +3 -0
index 81adec8ee02c..c76d6a251770 100644
@@ -2553,6 +2553,9 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 			goto next;
 
 		head = compound_head(page);
+
+		if (PageLocked(head))
+			goto next;
 		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
 			goto next;
 
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#15 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 9 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

Looks fine to me.

But please drop a line of comment in the code. As is it might be confusing for a reader.

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 Kirill A. Shutemov
#16 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 11 lines · Kirill A. Shutemov
Quoted 9 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

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Looks fine to me.

Thanks for the review.

Quoted 2 lines

But please drop a line of comment in the code. As is it might be confusing for a reader.

This?

mm/filemap.c +4 -0
index c76d6a251770..7c4e439a2e85 100644
@@ -2554,6 +2554,10 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 
 		head = compound_head(page);
 
+		/*
+		 * Check the locked pages before taking a reference to not
+		 * go in the way of migration.
+		 */
 		if (PageLocked(head))
 			goto next;
 		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
#17 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 12 lines · Michal Hocko
Quoted 11 lines · Kirill A. Shutemov
Quoted 9 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

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Looks fine to me.

Thanks for the review.

Quoted 2 lines

But please drop a line of comment in the code. As is it might be confusing for a reader.

This?

Yep.

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mm/filemap.c +4 -0
index c76d6a251770..7c4e439a2e85 100644
@@ -2554,6 +2554,10 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 
 		head = compound_head(page);
 
+		/*
+		 * Check the locked pages before taking a reference to not
+		 * go in the way of migration.
+		 */
 		if (PageLocked(head))
 			goto next;
 		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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 Kirill A. Shutemov
#18 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 17 lines · Kirill A. Shutemov
Quoted 16 lines · Michal Hocko
Quoted 11 lines · Kirill A. Shutemov
Quoted 9 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

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Looks fine to me.

Thanks for the review.

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Quoted 4 lines
Quoted 2 lines

But please drop a line of comment in the code. As is it might be confusing for a reader.

This?

Yep.

Cool, thanks! I will wait some more time for review feedback for other patches and then repost with this folded in.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
Reviewed-by
#19 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

In reply to Michal Hocko

mm/filemap.c void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf, · line 2560

Quoted 8 lines · Michal Hocko
mm/filemap.c +4 -0
+		/*
+		 * Check the locked pages before taking a reference to not
+		 * go in the way of migration.
+		 */

Could you make this a tiny bit more explanative, something like:

+ /*
+ * Check for a locked page first, as a speculative
+ * reference may adversely influence page migration.
+ */

#20 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 11 lines · William Kucharski

mm/filemap.c void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf, · line 2560

Quoted 8 lines · Michal Hocko
mm/filemap.c +4 -0
+		/*
+		 * Check the locked pages before taking a reference to not
+		 * go in the way of migration.
+		 */

Could you make this a tiny bit more explanative, something like:

mm/filemap.c void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf, · line 2560

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mm/filemap.c +4 -0
+		/*
+		 * Check for a locked page first, as a speculative
+		 * reference may adversely influence page migration.
+		 */

sure

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Thanks!

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
Reviewed-by on v1 3/3
#21 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

In reply to Michal Hocko
Quoted 23 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

---
 mm/filemap.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
mm/filemap.c +0 -0
index 81adec8ee02c..c76d6a251770 100644

mm/filemap.c void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf, · line 2561

Quoted 9 lines
mm/filemap.c +3 -0
@@ -2553,6 +2553,9 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 			goto next;
 
 		head = compound_head(page);
+
+		if (PageLocked(head))
+			goto next;
 		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
 			goto next;
 

Right, no sense in referencing a page if we know we will drop the reference right away.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb
Acked-by on v1 3/3
#22 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

In reply to Michal Hocko
Quoted 10 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

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though I think this patch is more useful to the avoid atomic ops, and unnecessary dirtying of the cacheline, than to avoid the very transient elevation of refcount, which will not affect page migration very much.

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---
 mm/filemap.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
mm/filemap.c +3 -0
index 81adec8ee02c..c76d6a251770 100644
@@ -2553,6 +2553,9 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 			goto next;
 
 		head = compound_head(page);
+
+		if (PageLocked(head))
+			goto next;
 		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(head))
 			goto next;
 
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#23 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 12 lines · Hugh Dickins
Quoted 10 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

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Thanks!

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though I think this patch is more useful to the avoid atomic ops, and unnecessary dirtying of the cacheline, than to avoid the very transient elevation of refcount, which will not affect page migration very much.

Are you sure it would really be transient? In other words is it possible that the fault around can block migration repeatedly under refault heavy workload? I just couldn't convince myself, to be honest.

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SUSE Labs
#24 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 21 lines · Michal Hocko
Quoted 12 lines · Hugh Dickins
Quoted 10 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

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Thanks!

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though I think this patch is more useful to the avoid atomic ops, and unnecessary dirtying of the cacheline, than to avoid the very transient elevation of refcount, which will not affect page migration very much.

Are you sure it would really be transient? In other words is it possible that the fault around can block migration repeatedly under refault heavy workload? I just couldn't convince myself, to be honest.

I don't deny that it is possible: I expect that, using fork() (which does not copy the ptes in a shared file vma), you can construct a test case where each child faults one or another page near a page of no interest, and that page of no interest is a target of migration perpetually frustrated by filemap_map_pages()'s briefly raised refcount.

But I suggest that's a third-order effect: well worth fixing because it's easily and uncontroversially dealt with, as you have; but not of great importance.

The first-order effect is migration conspiring to defeat itself: that's what my put_and_wait_on_page_locked() patch, in other thread, is about.

The second order effect is when a page that is really wanted is waited on - the target of a fault, for which page refcount is raised maybe long before it finally gets into the page table (whereupon it becomes visible to try_to_unmap(), and its mapcount matches refcount so that migration can fully account for the page). One class of that can be well dealt with by using put_and_wait_on_page_locked_killable() in lock_page_or_retry(), but I was keeping that as a future instalment.

But I shouldn't denigrate the transient case by referring so lightly to migrate_pages()' 10 attempts: each of those failed attempts can be very expensive, unmapping and TLB flushing (including IPIs) and remapping. It may well be that 2 or 3 would be a more cost-effective number of attempts, at least when the page is mapped.

Hugh

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Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 31 lines · Hugh Dickins
Quoted 21 lines · Michal Hocko
Quoted 12 lines · Hugh Dickins
Quoted 10 lines · Michal Hocko

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

filemap_map_pages takes a speculative reference to each page in the range before it tries to lock that page. While this is correct it also can influence page migration which will bail out when seeing an elevated reference count. The faultaround code would bail on seeing a locked page so we can pro-actively check the PageLocked bit before page_cache_get_speculative and prevent from pointless reference count churn.

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Thanks!

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though I think this patch is more useful to the avoid atomic ops, and unnecessary dirtying of the cacheline, than to avoid the very transient elevation of refcount, which will not affect page migration very much.

Are you sure it would really be transient? In other words is it possible that the fault around can block migration repeatedly under refault heavy workload? I just couldn't convince myself, to be honest.

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I don't deny that it is possible: I expect that, using fork() (which does not copy the ptes in a shared file vma), you can construct a test case where each child faults one or another page near a page of no interest, and that page of no interest is a target of migration perpetually frustrated by filemap_map_pages()'s briefly raised refcount.

The other issue I am debugging and which very likely has the same underlying issue in the end has shown

[  883.930477] rac1 kernel: page:ffffea2084bf5cc0 count:1889 mapcount:1887 mapping:ffff8833c82c9ad8 index:0x6b
[  883.930485] rac1 kernel: ext4_da_aops [ext4]
[  883.930497] rac1 kernel: name:"libc-2.22.so"
[  883.931241] rac1 kernel: do_migrate_range done ret=23

pattern. After we have disabled the faultaround the failure has moved to a different page but libc hasn't shown up again. This might be a matter of (bad)luck and timing. But we thought that it is not too unlikely for faultaround on such a shared page to strike in.

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But I suggest that's a third-order effect: well worth fixing because it's easily and uncontroversially dealt with, as you have; but not of great importance.

The first-order effect is migration conspiring to defeat itself: that's what my put_and_wait_on_page_locked() patch, in other thread, is about.

yes. That is obviously a much more effective fix.

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The second order effect is when a page that is really wanted is waited on - the target of a fault, for which page refcount is raised maybe long before it finally gets into the page table (whereupon it becomes visible to try_to_unmap(), and its mapcount matches refcount so that migration can fully account for the page). One class of that can be well dealt with by using put_and_wait_on_page_locked_killable() in lock_page_or_retry(), but I was keeping that as a future instalment.

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But I shouldn't denigrate the transient case by referring so lightly to migrate_pages()' 10 attempts: each of those failed attempts can be very expensive, unmapping and TLB flushing (including IPIs) and remapping. It may well be that 2 or 3 would be a more cost-effective number of attempts, at least when the page is mapped.

If you want some update to the comment in this function or to the changelog, I am open of course. Right now I have
+ * Check for a locked page first, as a speculative
+ * reference may adversely influence page migration.
as suggested by William.

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SUSE Labs
#26 lore raw

Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm, fault_around: do not take a reference to a locked page

Quoted 6 lines · Michal Hocko

If you want some update to the comment in this function or to the changelog, I am open of course. Right now I have

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+                * Check for a locked page first, as a speculative
+                * reference may adversely influence page migration.

as suggested by William.

I ought to care, since I challenged the significance of this aspect in the first place, but find I don't care enough - I much prefer the patch to the comments on and in it, but have not devised any wording that I'd prefer to see instead - sorry.

Hugh