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| author | Linus Torvalds | 2021-11-06 14:08:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2021-11-06 14:08:17 -0700 |
| commit | 512b7931ad0561ffe14265f9ff554a3c081b476b (patch) | |
| tree | a94450d08468e094d2d92a495de4650faab09c1f /Documentation | |
| parent | fe91c4725aeed35023ba4f7a1e1adfebb6878c23 (diff) | |
| parent | 658f9ae761b5965893727dd4edcdad56e5a439bb (diff) | |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"257 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
cleanups, kfence, and damon)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (257 commits)
mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
selftests/damon: support watermarks
mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
21 files changed, 689 insertions, 171 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst index 700329d25f57..3e11926a4df9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst @@ -328,6 +328,14 @@ as idle:: From now on, any pages on zram are idle pages. The idle mark will be removed until someone requests access of the block. IOW, unless there is access request, those pages are still idle pages. +Additionally, when CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING is enabled pages can be +marked as idle based on how long (in seconds) it's been since they were +last accessed:: + + echo 86400 > /sys/block/zramX/idle + +In this example all pages which haven't been accessed in more than 86400 +seconds (one day) will be marked idle. Admin can request writeback of those idle pages at right timing via:: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index 41191b5fb69d..faac50149a22 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -87,10 +87,8 @@ Brief summary of control files. memory.oom_control set/show oom controls. memory.numa_stat show the number of memory usage per numa node - memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes set/show hard limit for kernel memory - This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be - used. It is planned that this be removed in - the foreseeable future. + memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes This knob is deprecated and writing to + it will return -ENOTSUPP. memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes show current kernel memory allocation memory.kmem.failcnt show the number of kernel memory usage hits limits @@ -518,11 +516,6 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. charged file caches. Some out-of-use page caches may keep charged until memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful. - Also, note that when memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set the charges due to - kernel pages will still be seen. This is not considered a failure and the - write will still return success. In this case, it is expected that - memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes == memory.usage_in_bytes. - 5.2 stat file ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 756bfb7d5235..f0d6887e4bf9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1582,8 +1582,10 @@ registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation - of gigantic hugepages. - Format: nn[KMGTPE] + of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size + of a CMA area per node can be specified. + Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) + <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the @@ -1594,9 +1596,11 @@ the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for - the default huge page size. See also - Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. - Format: <integer> + the default huge page size. If using node format, the + number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. + See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: <integer> or (node format) + <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] hugepagesz= [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst index 8c5dde3a5754..61aff88347f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/index.rst @@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ optimize those. start usage + reclaim diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fb9def3a7355 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst @@ -0,0 +1,235 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================= +DAMON-based Reclamation +======================= + +DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM) is a static kernel module that aimed to +be used for proactive and lightweight reclamation under light memory pressure. +It doesn't aim to replace the LRU-list based page_granularity reclamation, but +to be selectively used for different level of memory pressure and requirements. + +Where Proactive Reclamation is Required? +======================================== + +On general memory over-committed systems, proactively reclaiming cold pages +helps saving memory and reducing latency spikes that incurred by the direct +reclaim of the process or CPU consumption of kswapd, while incurring only +minimal performance degradation [1]_ [2]_ . + +Free Pages Reporting [3]_ based memory over-commit virtualization systems are +good example of the cases. In such systems, the guest VMs reports their free +memory to host, and the host reallocates the reported memory to other guests. +As a result, the memory of the systems are fully utilized. However, the +guests could be not so memory-frugal, mainly because some kernel subsystems and +user-space applications are designed to use as much memory as available. Then, +guests could report only small amount of memory as free to host, results in +memory utilization drop of the systems. Running the proactive reclamation in +guests could mitigate this problem. + +How It Works? +============= + +DAMON_RECLAIM finds memory regions that didn't accessed for specific time +duration and page out. To avoid it consuming too much CPU for the paging out +operation, a speed limit can be configured. Under the speed limit, it pages +out memory regions that didn't accessed longer time first. System +administrators can also configure under what situation this scheme should +automatically activated and deactivated with three memory pressure watermarks. + +Interface: Module Parameters +============================ + +To use this feature, you should first ensure your system is running on a kernel +that is built with ``CONFIG_DAMON_RECLAIM=y``. + +To let sysadmins enable or disable it and tune for the given system, +DAMON_RECLAIM utilizes module parameters. That is, you can put +``damon_reclaim.<parameter>=<value>`` on the kernel boot command line or write +proper values to ``/sys/modules/damon_reclaim/parameters/<parameter>`` files. + +Note that the parameter values except ``enabled`` are applied only when +DAMON_RECLAIM starts. Therefore, if you want to apply new parameter values in +runtime and DAMON_RECLAIM is already enabled, you should disable and re-enable +it via ``enabled`` parameter file. Writing of the new values to proper +parameter values should be done before the re-enablement. + +Below are the description of each parameter. + +enabled +------- + +Enable or disable DAMON_RECLAIM. + +You can enable DAMON_RCLAIM by setting the value of this parameter as ``Y``. +Setting it as ``N`` disables DAMON_RECLAIM. Note that DAMON_RECLAIM could do +no real monitoring and reclamation due to the watermarks-based activation +condition. Refer to below descriptions for the watermarks parameter for this. + +min_age +------- + +Time threshold for cold memory regions identification in microseconds. + +If a memory region is not accessed for this or longer time, DAMON_RECLAIM +identifies the region as cold, and reclaims it. + +120 seconds by default. + +quota_ms +-------- + +Limit of time for the reclamation in milliseconds. + +DAMON_RECLAIM tries to use only up to this time within a time window +(quota_reset_interval_ms) for trying reclamation of cold pages. This can be +used for limiting CPU consumption of DAMON_RECLAIM. If the value is zero, the +limit is disabled. + +10 ms by default. + +quota_sz +-------- + +Limit of size of memory for the reclamation in bytes. + +DAMON_RECLAIM charges amount of memory which it tried to reclaim within a time +window (quota_reset_interval_ms) and makes no more than this limit is tried. +This can be used for limiting consumption of CPU and IO. If this value is +zero, the limit is disabled. + +128 MiB by default. + +quota_reset_interval_ms +----------------------- + +The time/size quota charge reset interval in milliseconds. + +The charget reset interval for the quota of time (quota_ms) and size +(quota_sz). That is, DAMON_RECLAIM does not try reclamation for more than +quota_ms milliseconds or quota_sz bytes within quota_reset_interval_ms +milliseconds. + +1 second by default. + +wmarks_interval +--------------- + +Minimal time to wait before checking the watermarks, when DAMON_RECLAIM is +enabled but inactive due to its watermarks rule. + +wmarks_high +----------- + +Free memory rate (per thousand) for the high watermark. + +If free memory of the system in bytes per thousand bytes is higher than this, +DAMON_RECLAIM becomes inactive, so it does nothing but only periodically checks +the watermarks. + +wmarks_mid +---------- + +Free memory rate (per thousand) for the middle watermark. + +If free memory of the system in bytes per thousand bytes is between this and +the low watermark, DAMON_RECLAIM becomes active, so starts the monitoring and +the reclaiming. + +wmarks_low +---------- + +Free memory rate (per thousand) for the low watermark. + +If free memory of the system in bytes per thousand bytes is lower than this, +DAMON_RECLAIM becomes inactive, so it does nothing but periodically checks the +watermarks. In the case, the system falls back to the LRU-list based page +granularity reclamation logic. + +sample_interval +--------------- + +Sampling interval for the monitoring in microseconds. + +The sampling interval of DAMON for the cold memory monitoring. Please refer to +the DAMON documentation (:doc:`usage`) for more detail. + +aggr_interval +------------- + +Aggregation interval for the monitoring in microseconds. + +The aggregation interval of DAMON for the cold memory monitoring. Please +refer to the DAMON documentation (:doc:`usage`) for more detail. + +min_nr_regions +-------------- + +Minimum number of monitoring regions. + +The minimal number of monitoring regions of DAMON for the cold memory +monitoring. This can be used to set lower-bound of the monitoring quality. +But, setting this too high could result in increased monitoring overhead. +Please refer to the DAMON documentation (:doc:`usage`) for more detail. + +max_nr_regions +-------------- + +Maximum number of monitoring regions. + +The maximum number of monitoring regions of DAMON for the cold memory +monitoring. This can be used to set upper-bound of the monitoring overhead. +However, setting this too low could result in bad monitoring quality. Please +refer to the DAMON documentation (:doc:`usage`) for more detail. + +monitor_region_start +-------------------- + +Start of target memory region in physical address. + +The start physical address of memory region that DAMON_RECLAIM will do work +against. That is, DAMON_RECLAIM will find cold memory regions in this region +and reclaims. By default, biggest System RAM is used as the region. + +monitor_region_end +------------------ + +End of target memory region in physical address. + +The end physical address of memory region that DAMON_RECLAIM will do work +against. That is, DAMON_RECLAIM will find cold memory regions in this region +and reclaims. By default, biggest System RAM is used as the region. + +kdamond_pid +----------- + +PID of the DAMON thread. + +If DAMON_RECLAIM is enabled, this becomes the PID of the worker thread. Else, +-1. + +Example +======= + +Below runtime example commands make DAMON_RECLAIM to find memory regions that +not accessed for 30 seconds or more and pages out. The reclamation is limited +to be done only up to 1 GiB per second to avoid DAMON_RECLAIM consuming too +much CPU time for the paging out operation. It also asks DAMON_RECLAIM to do +nothing if the system's free memory rate is more than 50%, but start the real +works if it becomes lower than 40%. If DAMON_RECLAIM doesn't make progress and +therefore the free memory rate becomes lower than 20%, it asks DAMON_RECLAIM to +do nothing again, so that we can fall back to the LRU-list based page +granularity reclamation. :: + + # cd /sys/modules/damon_reclaim/parameters + # echo 30000000 > min_age + # echo $((1 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)) > quota_sz + # echo 1000 > quota_reset_interval_ms + # echo 500 > wmarks_high + # echo 400 > wmarks_mid + # echo 200 > wmarks_low + # echo Y > enabled + +.. [1] https://research.google/pubs/pub48551/ +.. [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/787611/ +.. [3] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/vm/free_page_reporting.html diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst index d5eb89a8fc38..4d5ca2c46288 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.rst @@ -6,39 +6,9 @@ Getting Started This document briefly describes how you can use DAMON by demonstrating its default user space tool. Please note that this document describes only a part -of its features for brevity. Please refer to :doc:`usage` for more details. - - -TL; DR -====== - -Follow the commands below to monitor and visualize the memory access pattern of -your workload. :: - - # # build the kernel with CONFIG_DAMON_*=y, install it, and reboot - # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/ - # git clone https://github.com/awslabs/damo - # ./damo/damo record $(pidof <your workload>) - # ./damo/damo report heat --plot_ascii - -The final command draws the access heatmap of ``<your workload>``. The heatmap -shows which memory region (x-axis) is accessed when (y-axis) and how frequently -(number; the higher the more accesses have been observed). :: - - 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110000 - 111121111111111111111111111111211111111111111111111111110000 - 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001555552000 - 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000222223555552000 - 000000000000000000000000000000000000000011111677775000000000 - 000000000000000000000000000000000000000488888000000000000000 - 000000000000000000000000000000000177888400000000000000000000 - 000000000000000000000000000046666522222100000000000000000000 - 000000000000000000000014444344444300000000000000000000000000 - 000000000000000002222245555510000000000000000000000000000000 - # access_frequency: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - # x-axis: space (140286319947776-140286426374096: 101.496 MiB) - # y-axis: time (605442256436361-605479951866441: 37.695430s) - # resolution: 60x10 (1.692 MiB and 3.770s for each character) +of its features for brevity. Please refer to the usage `doc +<https://github.com/awslabs/damo/blob/next/USAGE.md>`_ of the tool for more +details. Prerequisites @@ -91,24 +61,74 @@ pattern in the ``damon.data`` file. Visualizing Recorded Patterns ============================= -The following three commands visualize the recorded access patterns and save -the results as separate image files. :: - - $ damo report heats --heatmap access_pattern_heatmap.png - $ damo report wss --range 0 101 1 --plot wss_dist.png - $ damo report wss --range 0 101 1 --sortby time --plot wss_chron_change.png - -- ``access_pattern_heatmap.png`` will visualize the data access pattern in a - heatmap, showing which memory region (y-axis) got accessed when (x-axis) - and how frequently (color). -- ``wss_dist.png`` will show the distribution of the working set size. -- ``wss_chron_change.png`` will show how the working set size has - chronologically changed. - -You can view the visualizations of this example workload at [1]_. -Visualizations of other realistic workloads are available at [2]_ [3]_ [4]_. - -.. [1] https://damonitor.github.io/doc/html/v17/admin-guide/mm/damon/start.html#visualizing-recorded-patterns -.. [2] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/rec.heatmap.1.png.html -.. [3] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/rec.wss_sz.png.html -.. [4] https://damonitor.github.io/test/result/visual/latest/rec.wss_time.png.html +You can visualize the pattern in a heatmap, showing which memory region +(x-axis) got accessed when (y-axis) and how frequently (number).:: + + $ sudo damo report heats --heatmap stdout + 22222222222222222222222222222222222222211111111111111111111111111111111111111100 + 44444444444444444444444444444444444444434444444444444444444444444444444444443200 + 44444444444444444444444444444444444444433444444444444444444444444444444444444200 + 33333333333333333333333333333333333333344555555555555555555555555555555555555200 + 33333333333333333333333333333333333344444444444444444444444444444444444444444200 + 22222222222222222222222222222222222223355555555555555555555555555555555555555200 + 00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400 + 00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400 + 33333333333333333333333333333333333333355555555555555555555555555555555555555200 + 88888888888888888888888888888888888888600000000000000000000000000000000000000000 + 88888888888888888888888888888888888888600000000000000000000000000000000000000000 + 33333333333333333333333333333333333333444444444444444444444444444444444444443200 + 00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400 + [...] + # access_frequency: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + # x-axis: space (139728247021568-139728453431248: 196.848 MiB) + # y-axis: time (15256597248362-15326899978162: 1 m 10.303 s) + # resolution: 80x40 (2.461 MiB and 1.758 s for each character) + +You can also visualize the distribution of the working set size, sorted by the +size.:: + + $ sudo damo report wss --range 0 101 10 + # <percentile> <wss> + # target_id 18446632103789443072 + # avr: 107.708 MiB + 0 0 B | | + 10 95.328 MiB |**************************** | + 20 95.332 MiB |**************************** | + 30 95.340 MiB |**************************** | + 40 95.387 MiB |**************************** | + 50 95.387 MiB |**************************** | + 60 95.398 MiB |**************************** | + 70 95.398 MiB |**************************** | + 80 95.504 MiB |**************************** | + 90 190.703 MiB |********************************************************* | + 100 196.875 MiB |***********************************************************| + +Using ``--sortby`` option with the above command, you can show how the working +set size has chronologically changed.:: + + $ sudo damo report wss --range 0 101 10 --sortby time + # <percentile> <wss> + # target_id 18446632103789443072 + # avr: 107.708 MiB + 0 3.051 MiB | | + 10 190.703 MiB |***********************************************************| + 20 95.336 MiB |***************************** | + 30 95.328 MiB |***************************** | + 40 95.387 MiB |***************************** | + 50 95.332 MiB |***************************** | + 60 95.320 MiB |***************************** | + 70 95.398 MiB |***************************** | + 80 95.398 MiB |***************************** | + 90 95.340 MiB |***************************** | + 100 95.398 MiB |***************************** | + + +Data Access Pattern Aware Memory Management +=========================================== + +Below three commands make every memory region of size >=4K that doesn't +accessed for >=60 seconds in your workload to be swapped out. :: + + $ echo "#min-size max-size min-acc max-acc min-age max-age action" > test_scheme + $ echo "4K max 0 0 60s max pageout" >> test_scheme + $ damo schemes -c test_scheme <pid of your workload> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index a72cda374aba..ed96bbf0daff 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -10,15 +10,16 @@ DAMON provides below three interfaces for different users. This is for privileged people such as system administrators who want a just-working human-friendly interface. Using this, users can use the DAMON’s major features in a human-friendly way. It may not be highly tuned for - special cases, though. It supports only virtual address spaces monitoring. + special cases, though. It supports both virtual and physical address spaces + monitoring. - *debugfs interface.* This is for privileged user space programmers who want more optimized use of DAMON. Using this, users can use DAMON’s major features by reading from and writing to special debugfs files. Therefore, you can write and use your personalized DAMON debugfs wrapper programs that reads/writes the debugfs files instead of you. The DAMON user space tool is also a reference - implementation of such programs. It supports only virtual address spaces - monitoring. + implementation of such programs. It supports both virtual and physical + address spaces monitoring. - *Kernel Space Programming Interface.* This is for kernel space programmers. Using this, users can utilize every feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by writing kernel space @@ -34,8 +35,9 @@ the reason, this document describes only the debugfs interface debugfs Interface ================= -DAMON exports three files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, and ``monitor_on`` under -its debugfs directory, ``<debugfs>/damon/``. +DAMON exports five files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, ``init_regions``, +``schemes`` and ``monitor_on`` under its debugfs directory, +``<debugfs>/damon/``. Attributes @@ -71,9 +73,106 @@ check it again:: # cat target_ids 42 4242 +Users can also monitor the physical memory address space of the system by +writing a special keyword, "``paddr\n``" to the file. Because physical address +space monitoring doesn't support multiple targets, reading the file will show a +fake value, ``42``, as below:: + + # cd <debugfs>/damon + # echo paddr > target_ids + # cat target_ids + 42 + Note that setting the target ids doesn't start the monitoring. +Initial Monitoring Target Regions +--------------------------------- + +In case of the virtual address space monitoring, DAMON automatically sets and +updates the monitoring target regions so that entire memory mappings of target +processes can be covered. However, users can want to limit the monitoring +region to specific address ranges, such as the heap, the stack, or specific +file-mapped area. Or, some users can know the initial access pattern of their +workloads and therefore want to set optimal initial regions for the 'adaptive +regions adjustment'. + +In contrast, DAMON do not automatically sets and updates the monitoring target +regions in case of physical memory monitoring. Therefore, users should set the +monitoring target regions by themselves. + +In such cases, users can explicitly set the initial monitoring target regions +as they want, by writing proper values to the ``init_regions`` file. Each line +of the input should represent one region in below form.:: + + <target id> <start address> <end address> + +The ``target id`` should already in ``target_ids`` file, and the regions should +be passed in address order. For example, below commands will set a couple of +address ranges, ``1-100`` and ``100-200`` as the initial monitoring target +region of process 42, and another couple of address ranges, ``20-40`` and +``50-100`` as that of process 4242.:: + + # cd <debugfs>/damon + # echo "42 1 100 + 42 100 200 + 4242 20 40 + 4242 50 100" > init_regions + +Note that this sets the initial monitoring target regions only. In case of +virtual memory monitoring, DAMON will automatically updates the boundary of the +regions after one ``regions update interval``. Therefore, users should set the +``regions update interval`` large enough in this case, if they don't want the +update. + + +Schemes +------- + +For usual DAMON-based data access aware memory management optimizations, users +would simply want the system to apply a memory management action to a memory +region of a specific size having a specific access frequency for a specific +time. DAMON receives such formalized operation schemes from the user and +applies those to the target processes. It also counts the total number and +size of regions that each scheme is applied. This statistics can be used for +online analysis or tuning of the schemes. + +Users can get and set the schemes by reading from and writing to ``schemes`` +debugfs file. Reading the file also shows the statistics of each scheme. To +the file, each of the schemes should be represented in each line in below form: + + min-size max-size min-acc max-acc min-age max-age action + +Note that the ranges are closed interval. Bytes for the size of regions +(``min-size`` and ``max-size``), number of monitored accesses per aggregate +interval for access frequency (``min-acc`` and ``max-acc``), number of +aggregate intervals for the age of regions (``min-age`` and ``max-age``), and a +predefined integer for memory management actions should be used. The supported +numbers and their meanings are as below. + + - 0: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED`` + - 1: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD`` + - 2: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_PAGEOUT`` + - 3: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_HUGEPAGE`` + - 4: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE`` + - 5: Do nothing but count the statistics + +You can disable schemes by simply writing an empty string to the file. For +example, below commands applies a scheme saying "If a memory region of size in +[4KiB, 8KiB] is showing accesses per aggregate interval in [0, 5] for aggregate +interval in [10, 20], page out the region", check the entered scheme again, and +finally remove the scheme. :: + + # cd <debugfs>/damon + # echo "4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2" > schemes + # cat schemes + 4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2 0 0 + # echo > schemes + +The last two integers in the 4th line of above example is the total number and +the total size of the regions that the scheme is applied. + + Turning On/Off -------------- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index 8abaeb144e44..0166f9de3428 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst @@ -128,7 +128,9 @@ hugepages implicitly specifies the number of huge pages of default size to allocate. If the number of huge pages of default size is implicitly specified, it can not be overwritten by a hugepagesz,hugepages - parameter pair for the default size. + parameter pair for the default size. This parameter also has a + node format. The node format specifies the number of huge pages + to allocate on specific nodes. For example, on an architecture with 2M default huge page size:: @@ -138,6 +140,14 @@ hugepages indicating that the hugepages=512 parameter is ignored. If a hugepages parameter is preceded by an invalid hugepagesz parameter, it will be ignored. + + Node format example:: + + hugepagesz=2M hugepages=0:1,1:2 + + It will allocate 1 2M hugepage on node0 and 2 2M hugepages on node1. + If the node number is invalid, the parameter will be ignored. + default_hugepagesz Specify the default huge page size. This parameter can only be specified once on the command line. default_hugepagesz can @@ -234,8 +244,12 @@ will exist, of the form:: hugepages-${size}kB -Inside each of these directories, the same set of files will exist:: +Inside each of these directories, the set of files contained in ``/proc`` +will exist. In addition, two additional interfaces for demoting huge +pages may exist:: + demote + demote_size nr_hugepages nr_hugepages_mempolicy nr_overcommit_hugepages @@ -243,7 +257,29 @@ Inside each of these directories, the same set of files will exist:: resv_hugepages surplus_hugepages -which function as described above for the default huge page-sized case. +The demote interfaces provide the ability to split a huge page into +smaller huge pages. For example, the x86 architecture supports both +1GB and 2MB huge pages sizes. A 1GB huge page can be split into 512 +2MB huge pages. Demote interfaces are not available for the smallest +huge page size. The demote interfaces are: + +demote_size + is the size of demoted pages. When a page is demoted a corresponding + number of huge pages of demote_size will be created. By default, + demote_size is set to the next smaller huge page size. If there are + multiple smaller huge page sizes, demote_size can be set to any of + these smaller sizes. Only huge page sizes less than the current huge + pages size are allowed. + +demote + is used to demote a number of huge pages. A user with root privileges + can write to this file. It may not be possible to demote the + requested number of huge pages. To determine how many pages were + actually demoted, compare the value of nr_hugepages before and after + writing to the demote interface. demote is a write only interface. + +The interfaces which are the same as in ``/proc`` (all except demote and +demote_size) function as described above for the default huge page-sized case. .. _mem_policy_and_hp_alloc: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index cbd19d5e625f..c21b5823f126 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -37,5 +37,7 @@ the Linux memory management. numaperf pagemap soft-dirty + swap_numa transhuge userfaultfd + zswap diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 03dfbc925252..0f56ecd8ac05 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -165,9 +165,8 @@ Or alternatively:: % echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/online -The kernel will select the target zone automatically, usually defaulting to -``ZONE_NORMAL`` unless ``movablecore=1`` has been specified on the kernel -command line or if the memory block would intersect the ZONE_MOVABLE already. +The kernel will select the target zone automatically, depending on the +configured ``online_policy``. One can explicitly request to associate an offline memory block with ZONE_MOVABLE by:: @@ -198,6 +197,9 @@ Auto-onlining can be enabled by writing ``online``, ``online_kernel`` or % echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks +Similarly to manual onlining, with ``online`` the kernel will select the +target zone automatically, depending on the configured ``online_policy``. + Modifying the auto-online behavior will only affect all subsequently added memory blocks only. @@ -393,11 +395,16 @@ command line parameters are relevant: ======================== ======================================================= ``memhp_default_state`` configure auto-onlining by essentially setting ``/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks``. -``movablecore`` configure automatic zone selection of the kernel. When - set, the kernel will default to ZONE_MOVABLE, unless - other zones can be kept contiguous. +``movable_node`` configure automatic zone selection in the kernel when + using the ``contig-zones`` online policy. When + set, the kernel will default to ZONE_MOVABLE when + onlining a memory block, unless other zones can be kept + contiguous. ======================== ======================================================= +See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for a more generic +description of these command line parameters. + Module Parameters ------------------ @@ -410,24 +417,118 @@ them with ``memory_hotplug.`` such as:: and they can be observed (and some even modified at runtime) via:: - /sys/modules/memory_hotplug/parameters/ + /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/ The following module parameters are currently defined: -======================== ======================================================= -``memmap_on_memory`` read-write: Allocate memory for the memmap from the - added memory block itself. Even if enabled, actual - support depends on various other system properties and - should only be regarded as a hint whether the behavior - would be desired. - - While allocating the memmap from the memory block - itself makes memory hotplug less likely to fail and - keeps the memmap on the same NUMA node in any case, it - can fragment physical memory in a way that huge pages - in bigger granularity cannot be formed on hotplugged - memory. -======================== ======================================================= +================================ =============================================== +``memmap_on_memory`` read-write: Allocate memory for the memmap from + the added memory block itself. Even if enabled, + actual support depends on various other system + properties and should only be regarded as a + hint whether the behavior would be desired. + + While allocating the memmap from the memory + block itself makes memory hotplug less likely + to fail and keeps the memmap on the same NUMA + node in any case, it can fragment physical + memory in a way that huge pages in bigger + granularity cannot be formed on hotplugged + memory. +``online_policy`` read-write: Set the basic policy used for + automatic zone selection when onlining memory + blocks without specifying a target zone. + ``contig-zones`` has been the kernel default + before this parameter was added. After an + online policy was configured and memory was + online, the policy should not be changed + anymore. + + When set to ``contig-zones``, the kernel will + try keeping zones contiguous. If a memory block + intersects multiple zones or no zone, the + behavior depends on the ``movable_node`` kernel + command line parameter: default to ZONE_MOVABLE + if set, default to the applicable kernel zone + (usually ZONE_NORMAL) if not set. + + When set to ``auto-movable``, the kernel will + try onlining memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE if + possible according to the configuration and + memory device details. With this policy, one + can avoid zone imbalances when eventually + hotplugging a lot of memory later and still + wanting to be able to hotunplug as much as + possible reliably, very desirable in + virtualized environments. This policy ignores + the ``movable_node`` kernel command line + parameter and isn't really applicable in + environments that require it (e.g., bare metal + with hotunpluggable nodes) where hotplugged + memory might be exposed via the + firmware-provided memory map early during boot + to the system instead of getting detected, + added and onlined later during boot (such as + done by virtio-mem or by some hypervisors + implementing emulated DIMMs). As one example, a + hotplugged DIMM will be onlined either + completely to ZONE_MOVABLE or completely to + ZONE_NORMAL, not a mixture. + As another example, as many memory blocks + belonging to a virtio-mem device will be + onlined to ZONE_MOVABLE as possible, + special-casing units of memory blocks that can + only get hotunplugged together. *This policy + does not protect from setups that are + problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and does not + change the zone of memory blocks dynamically + after they were onlined.* +``auto_movable_ratio`` read-write: Set the maximum MOVABLE:KERNEL + memory ratio in % for the ``auto-movable`` + online policy. Whether the ratio applies only + for the system across all NUMA nodes or also + per NUMA nodes depends on the + ``auto_movable_numa_aware`` configuration. + + All accounting is based on present memory pages + in the zones combined with accounting per + memory device. Memory dedicated to the CMA + allocator is accounted as MOVABLE, although + residing on one of the kernel zones. The + possible ratio depends on the actual workload. + The kernel default is "301" %, for example, + allowing for hotplugging 24 GiB to a 8 GiB VM + and automatically onlining all hotplugged + memory to ZONE_MOVABLE in many setups. The + additional 1% deals with some pages being not + present, for example, because of some firmware + allocations. + + Note that ZONE_NORMAL memory provided by one + memory device does not allow for more + ZONE_MOVABLE memory for a different memory + device. As one example, onlining memory of a + hotplugged DIMM to ZONE_NORMAL will not allow + for another hotplugged DIMM to get onlined to + ZONE_MOVABLE automatically. In contrast, memory + hotplugged by a virtio-mem device that got + onlined to ZONE_NORMAL will allow for more + ZONE_MOVABLE memory within *the same* + virtio-mem device. +``auto_movable_numa_aware`` read-write: Configure whether the + ``auto_movable_ratio`` in the ``auto-movable`` + online policy also applies per NUMA + node in addition to the whole system across all + NUMA nodes. The kernel default is "Y". + + Disabling NUMA awareness can be helpful when + dealing with NUMA nodes that should be + completely hotunpluggable, onlining the memory + completely to ZONE_MOVABLE automatically if + possible. + + Parameter availability depends on CONFIG_NUMA. +================================ =============================================== ZONE_MOVABLE ============ diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst index 4581527c07ae..bfc28704856c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst @@ -90,13 +90,14 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags ==================================== 0 - LOCKED - page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write IO + The page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write + IO. 7 - SLAB - page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator + The page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator. When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head page; SLOB will not flag it at all. 10 - BUDDY - a free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator + A free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator. The buddy system organizes free memory in blocks of various orders. An order N block has 2^N physically contiguous pages, with the BUDDY flag set for and _only_ for the first page. @@ -112,65 +113,65 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags 16 - COMPOUND_TAIL A compound page tail (see description above). 17 - HUGE - this is an integral part of a HugeTLB page + This is an integral part of a HugeTLB page. 19 - HWPOISON - hardware detected memory corruption on this page: don't touch the data! + Hardware detected memory corruption on this page: don't touch the data! 20 - NOPAGE - no page frame exists at the requested address + No page frame exists at the requested address. 21 - KSM - identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes + Identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes. 22 - THP - contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages + Contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages. 23 - OFFLINE - page is logically offline + The page is logically offline. 24 - ZERO_PAGE - zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page + Zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page. 25 - IDLE - page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see + The page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst <idle_page_tracking>`). Note that this flag may be stale in case the page was accessed via a PTE. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` first. 26 - PGTABLE - page is in use as a page table + The page is in use as a page table. IO related page flags --------------------- 1 - ERROR - IO error occurred + IO error occurred. 3 - UPTODATE - page has up-to-date data + The page has up-to-date data. ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >= on-disk one) 4 - DIRTY - page has been written to, hence contains new data + The page has been written to, hence contains new data. i.e. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision > on-disk one) 8 - WRITEBACK - page is being synced to disk + The page is being synced to disk. LRU related page flags ---------------------- 5 - LRU - page is in one of the LRU lists + The page is in one of the LRU lists. 6 - ACTIVE - page is in the active LRU list + The page is in the active LRU list. 18 - UNEVICTABLE - page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list It is somehow pinned and + The page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list It is somehow pinned and not a candidate for LRU page reclaims, e.g. ramfs pages, - shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments + shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments. 2 - REFERENCED - page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue + The page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue. 9 - RECLAIM - page will be reclaimed soon after its pageout IO completed + The page will be reclaimed soon after its pageout IO completed. 11 - MMAP - a memory mapped page + A memory mapped page. 12 - ANON - a memory mapped page that is not part of a file + A memory mapped page that is not part of a file. 13 - SWAPCACHE - page is mapped to swap space, i.e. has an associated swap entry + The page is mapped to swap space, i.e. has an associated swap entry. 14 - SWAPBACKED - page is backed by swap/RAM + The page is backed by swap/RAM. The page-types tool in the tools/vm directory can be used to query the above flags. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/swap_numa.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/swap_numa.rst index e0466f2db8fa..e0466f2db8fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/swap_numa.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/swap_numa.rst diff --git a/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst index 8edb8d578caf..8edb8d578caf 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst index de7467e48067..682259ee633a 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ The third argument (arg) passes a pointer of struct memory_notify:: unsigned long start_pfn; unsigned long nr_pages; int status_change_nid_normal; - int status_change_nid_high; int status_change_nid; } @@ -65,8 +64,6 @@ The third argument (arg) passes a pointer of struct memory_notify:: - nr_pages is # of pages of online/offline memory. - status_change_nid_normal is set node id when N_NORMAL_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed. -- status_change_nid_high is set node id when N_HIGH_MEMORY of nodemask - is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed. - status_change_nid is set node id when N_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be) set/clear. It means a new(memoryless) node gets new memory by online and a node loses all memory. If this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed. diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst index 0fbe3308bf37..ac6b89d1a8c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst @@ -231,10 +231,14 @@ Guarded allocations are set up based on the sample interval. After expiration of the sample interval, the next allocation through the main allocator (SLAB or SLUB) returns a guarded allocation from the KFENCE object pool (allocation sizes up to PAGE_SIZE are supported). At this point, the timer is reset, and -the next allocation is set up after the expiration of the interval. To "gate" a -KFENCE allocation through the main allocator's fast-path without overhead, -KFENCE relies on static branches via the static keys infrastructure. The static -branch is toggled to redirect the allocation to KFENCE. +the next allocation is set up after the expiration of the interval. + +When using ``CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS=y``, KFENCE allocations are "gated" +through the main allocator's fast-path by relying on static branches via the +static keys infrastructure. The static branch is toggled to redirect the +allocation to KFENCE. Depending on sample interval, target workloads, and +system architecture, this may perform better than the simple dynamic branch. +Careful benchmarking is recommended. KFENCE objects each reside on a dedicated page, at either the left or right page boundaries selected at random. The pages to the left and right of the @@ -269,6 +273,17 @@ tail of KFENCE's freelist, so that the least recently freed objects are reused first, and the chances of detecting use-after-frees of recently freed objects is increased. +If pool utilization reaches 75% (default) or above, to reduce the risk of the +pool eventually being fully occupied by allocated objects yet ensure diverse +coverage of allocations, KFENCE limits currently covered allocations of the +same source from further filling up the pool. The "source" of an allocation is +based on its partial allocation stack trace. A side-effect is that this also +limits frequent long-lived allocations (e.g. pagecache) of the same source +filling up the pool permanently, which is the most common risk for the pool +becoming full and the sampled allocation rate dropping to zero. The threshold +at which to start limiting currently covered allocations can be configured via +the boot parameter ``kfence.skip_covered_thresh`` (pool usage%). + Interface --------- diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst index 0750d9442477..9b2841fb9a5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ memory_notify结构体的指针:: unsigned long start_pfn; unsigned long nr_pages; int status_change_nid_normal; - int status_change_nid_high; int status_change_nid; } @@ -74,9 +73,6 @@ memory_notify结构体的指针:: - status_change_nid_normal是当nodemask的N_NORMAL_MEMORY被设置/清除时设置节 点id，如果是-1，则nodemask状态不改变。 -- status_change_nid_high是当nodemask的N_HIGH_MEMORY被设置/清除时设置的节点 - id，如果这个值为-1，那么nodemask状态不会改变。 - - status_change_nid是当nodemask的N_MEMORY被（将）设置/清除时设置的节点id。这 意味着一个新的（没上线的）节点通过联机获得新的内存，而一个节点失去了所有的内 存。如果这个值为-1，那么nodemask的状态就不会改变。 diff --git a/Documentation/vm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/vm/damon/design.rst index b05159c295f4..210f0f50efd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/damon/design.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/damon/design.rst @@ -35,13 +35,17 @@ two parts: 1. Identification of the monitoring target address range for the address space. 2. Access check of specific address range in the target space. -DAMON currently provides the implementation of the primitives for only the -virtual address spaces. Below two subsections describe how it works. +DAMON currently provides the implementations of the primitives for the physical +and virtual address spaces. Below two subsections describe how those work. VMA-based Target Address Range Construction ------------------------------------------- +This is only for the virtual address space primitives implementation. That for +the physical address space simply asks users to manually set the monitoring +target address ranges. + Only small parts in the super-huge virtual address space of the processes are mapped to the physical memory and accessed. Thus, tracking the unmapped address regions is just wasteful. However, because DAMON can deal with some @@ -71,15 +75,18 @@ to make a reasonable trade-off. Below shows this in detail:: PTE Accessed-bit Based Access Check ----------------------------------- -The implementation for the virtual address space uses PTE Accessed-bit for -basic access checks. It finds the relevant PTE Accessed bit from the address -by walking the page table for the target task of the address. In this way, the -implementation finds and clears the bit for next sampling target address and -checks whether the bit set again after one sampling period. This could disturb -other kernel subsystems using the Accessed bits, namely Idle page tracking and -the reclaim logic. To avoid such disturbances, DAMON makes it mutually -exclusive with Idle page tracking and uses ``PG_idle`` and ``PG_young`` page -flags to solve the conflict with the reclaim logic, as Idle page tracking does. +Both of the implementations for physical and virtual address spaces use PTE +Accessed-bit for basic access checks. Only one difference is the way of +finding the relevant PTE Accessed bit(s) from the address. While the +implementation for the virtual address walks the page table for the target task +of the address, the implementation for the physical address walks every page +table having a mapping to the address. In this way, the implementations find +and clear the bit(s) for next sampling target address and checks whether the +bit(s) set again after one sampling period. This could disturb other kernel +subsystems using the Accessed bits, namely Idle page tracking and the reclaim +logic. To avoid such disturbances, DAMON makes it mutually exclusive with Idle +page tracking and uses ``PG_idle`` and ``PG_young`` page flags to solve the +conflict with the reclaim logic, as Idle page tracking does. Address Space Independent Core Mechanisms diff --git a/Documentation/vm/damon/faq.rst b/Documentation/vm/damon/faq.rst index cb3d8b585a8b..11aea40eb328 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/damon/faq.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/damon/faq.rst @@ -36,10 +36,9 @@ constructions and actual access checks can be implemented and configured on the DAMON core by the users. In this way, DAMON users can monitor any address space with any access check technique. -Nonetheless, DAMON provides vma tracking and PTE Accessed bit check based +Nonetheless, DAMON provides vma/rmap tracking and PTE Accessed bit check based implementations of the address space dependent functions for the virtual memory -by default, for a reference and convenient use. In near future, we will -provide those for physical memory address space. +and the physical memory by default, for a reference and convenient use. Can I simply monitor page granularity? diff --git a/Documentation/vm/damon/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/damon/index.rst index a2858baf3bf1..48c0bbff98b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/damon/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/damon/index.rst @@ -27,4 +27,3 @@ workloads and systems. faq design api - plans diff --git a/Documentation/vm/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/index.rst index b51f0d8992f8..6f5ffef4b716 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst @@ -3,27 +3,11 @@ Linux Memory Management Documentation ===================================== This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm) -subsystem. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, -see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. - -User guides for MM features -=========================== - -The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning -various features of the Linux memory management - -.. toctree:: - :maxdepth: 1 - - swap_numa - zswap - -Kernel developers MM documentation -================================== - -The below documents describe MM internals with different level of -details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate -descriptions of data structures and algorithms. +subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from notes and +mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data structures and +algorithms. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, see the +:ref:`memory_allocation`. For controlling and tuning guides, see the +:doc:`admin guide <../admin-guide/mm/index>`. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst index 2175465c9bf2..9837fc8147dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst @@ -85,5 +85,26 @@ Usage cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt ./page_owner_sort page_owner_full.txt sorted_page_owner.txt + The general output of ``page_owner_full.txt`` is as follows: + + Page allocated via order XXX, ... + PFN XXX ... + // Detailed stack + + Page allocated via order XXX, ... + PFN XXX ... + // Detailed stack + + The ``page_owner_sort`` tool ignores ``PFN`` rows, puts the remaining rows + in buf, uses regexp to extract the page order value, counts the times + and pages of buf, and finally sorts them according to the times. + See the result about who allocated each page - in the ``sorted_page_owner.txt``. + in the ``sorted_page_owner.txt``. General output: + + XXX times, XXX pages: + Page allocated via order XXX, ... + // Detailed stack + + By default, ``page_owner_sort`` is sorted according to the times of buf. + If you want to sort by the pages nums of buf, use the ``-m`` parameter. |