commit cdd591fc86e38ad3899196066219fbbd845f3162 upstream
Introduce a new fault_in_iov_iter_writeable helper for safely faulting
in an iterator for writing. Uses get_user_pages() to fault in the pages
without actually writing to them, which would be destructive.
We'll use fault_in_iov_iter_writeable in gfs2 once we've determined that
the iterator passed to .read_iter isn't in memory.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit bb523b406c849eef8f265a07cd7f320f1f177743 upstream
Turn fault_in_pages_{readable,writeable} into versions that return the
number of bytes not faulted in, similar to copy_to_user, instead of
returning a non-zero value when any of the requested pages couldn't be
faulted in. This supports the existing users that require all pages to
be faulted in as well as new users that are happy if any pages can be
faulted in.
Rename the functions to fault_in_{readable,writeable} to make sure
this change doesn't silently break things.
Neither of these functions is entirely trivial and it doesn't seem
useful to inline them, so move them to mm/gup.c.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap,
ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan),
alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib,
checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig,
selftests, ipc, and scripts"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (94 commits)
scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message
mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations
ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()
selftests/memfd: remove unused variable
Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV
prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables
pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init().
kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file
coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot()
fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
trap: cleanup trap_init()
init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()
...
If more than one futex is placed on a shmem huge page, it can happen
that waking the second wakes the first instead, and leaves the second
waiting: the key's shared.pgoff is wrong.
When 3.11 commit 13d60f4b6a ("futex: Take hugepages into account when
generating futex_key"), the only shared huge pages came from hugetlbfs,
and the code added to deal with its exceptional page->index was put into
hugetlb source. Then that was missed when 4.8 added shmem huge pages.
page_to_pgoff() is what others use for this nowadays: except that, as
currently written, it gives the right answer on hugetlbfs head, but
nonsense on hugetlbfs tails. Fix that by calling hugetlbfs-specific
hugetlb_basepage_index() on PageHuge tails as well as on head.
Yes, it's unconventional to declare hugetlb_basepage_index() there in
pagemap.h, rather than in hugetlb.h; but I do not expect anything but
page_to_pgoff() ever to need it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: give hugetlb_basepage_index() prototype the correct scope]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b17d946b-d09-326e-b42a-52884c36df32@google.com
Fixes: 800d8c63b2 ("shmem: add huge pages support")
Reported-by: Neel Natu <neelnatu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhang Yi <wetpzy@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Remove nrexceptional tracking", v2.
We actually use nrexceptional for very little these days. It's a minor
pain to keep in sync with nrpages, but the pain becomes much bigger with
the THP patches because we don't know how many indices a shadow entry
occupies. It's easier to just remove it than keep it accurate.
Also, we save 8 bytes per inode which is nothing to sneeze at; on my
laptop, it would improve shmem_inode_cache from 22 to 23 objects per
16kB, and inode_cache from 26 to 27 objects. Combined, that saves
a megabyte of memory from a combined usage of 25MB for both caches.
Unfortunately, ext4 doesn't cross a magic boundary, so it doesn't save
any memory for ext4.
This patch (of 4):
Instead of checking the two counters (nrpages and nrexceptional), we can
just check whether i_pages is empty.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull network filesystem helper library updates from David Howells:
"Here's a set of patches for 5.13 to begin the process of overhauling
the local caching API for network filesystems. This set consists of
two parts:
(1) Add a helper library to handle the new VM readahead interface.
This is intended to be used unconditionally by the filesystem
(whether or not caching is enabled) and provides a common
framework for doing caching, transparent huge pages and, in the
future, possibly fscrypt and read bandwidth maximisation. It also
allows the netfs and the cache to align, expand and slice up a
read request from the VM in various ways; the netfs need only
provide a function to read a stretch of data to the pagecache and
the helper takes care of the rest.
(2) Add an alternative fscache/cachfiles I/O API that uses the kiocb
facility to do async DIO to transfer data to/from the netfs's
pages, rather than using readpage with wait queue snooping on one
side and vfs_write() on the other. It also uses less memory, since
it doesn't do buffered I/O on the backing file.
Note that this uses SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA to locate the data
available to be read from the cache. Whilst this is an improvement
from the bmap interface, it still has a problem with regard to a
modern extent-based filesystem inserting or removing bridging
blocks of zeros. Fixing that requires a much greater overhaul.
This is a step towards overhauling the fscache API. The change is
opt-in on the part of the network filesystem. A netfs should not try
to mix the old and the new API because of conflicting ways of handling
pages and the PG_fscache page flag and because it would be mixing DIO
with buffered I/O. Further, the helper library can't be used with the
old API.
This does not change any of the fscache cookie handling APIs or the
way invalidation is done at this time.
In the near term, I intend to deprecate and remove the old I/O API
(fscache_allocate_page{,s}(), fscache_read_or_alloc_page{,s}(),
fscache_write_page() and fscache_uncache_page()) and eventually
replace most of fscache/cachefiles with something simpler and easier
to follow.
This patchset contains the following parts:
- Some helper patches, including provision of an ITER_XARRAY iov
iterator and a function to do readahead expansion.
- Patches to add the netfs helper library.
- A patch to add the fscache/cachefiles kiocb API.
- A pair of patches to fix some review issues in the ITER_XARRAY and
read helpers as spotted by Al and Willy.
Jeff Layton has patches to add support in Ceph for this that he
intends for this merge window. I have a set of patches to support AFS
that I will post a separate pull request for.
With this, AFS without a cache passes all expected xfstests; with a
cache, there's an extra failure, but that's also there before these
patches. Fixing that probably requires a greater overhaul. Ceph also
passes the expected tests.
I also have patches in a separate branch to tidy up the handling of
PG_fscache/PG_private_2 and their contribution to page refcounting in
the core kernel here, but I haven't included them in this set and will
route them separately"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3779937.1619478404@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
* tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
netfs: Miscellaneous fixes
iov_iter: Four fixes for ITER_XARRAY
fscache, cachefiles: Add alternate API to use kiocb for read/write to cache
netfs: Add a tracepoint to log failures that would be otherwise unseen
netfs: Define an interface to talk to a cache
netfs: Add write_begin helper
netfs: Gather stats
netfs: Add tracepoints
netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers
netfs, mm: Add set/end/wait_on_page_fscache() aliases
netfs, mm: Move PG_fscache helper funcs to linux/netfs.h
netfs: Documentation for helper library
netfs: Make a netfs helper module
mm: Implement readahead_control pageset expansion
mm/readahead: Handle ractl nr_pages being modified
fs: Document file_ra_state
mm/filemap: Pass the file_ra_state in the ractl
mm: Add set/end/wait functions for PG_private_2
iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY
Implement readahead_batch_length() to determine the number of bytes in
the current batch of readahead pages and use it in btrfs. Also use the
readahead_pos to get the offset.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Patch series "Readahead patches for 5.9/5.10".
These are infrastructure for both the THP patchset and for the fscache
rewrite,
For both pieces of infrastructure being build on top of this patchset, we
want the ractl to be available higher in the call-stack.
For David's work, he wants to add the 'critical page' to the ractl so that
he knows which page NEEDS to be brought in from storage, and which ones
are nice-to-have. We might want something similar in block storage too.
It used to be simple -- the first page was the critical one, but then mmap
added fault-around and so for that usecase, the middle page is the
critical one. Anyway, I don't have any code to show that yet, we just
know that the lowest point in the callchain where we have that information
is do_sync_mmap_readahead() and so the ractl needs to start its life
there.
For THP, we havew the code that needs it. It's actually the apex patch to
the series; the one which finally starts to allocate THPs and present them
to consenting filesystems:
798bcf30ab
This patch (of 8):
Allow for a more concise definition of a struct readahead_control.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200903140844.14194-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200903140844.14194-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull iomap updates from Darrick Wong:
"There's not a lot of new stuff going on here -- a little bit of code
refactoring to make iomap workable with btrfs' fsync locking model,
cleanups in preparation for adding THP support for filesystems, and
fixing a data corruption issue for blocksize < pagesize filesystems.
Summary:
- Don't WARN_ON weird states that unprivileged users can create.
- Don't invalidate page cache when direct writes want to fall back to
buffered.
- Fix some problems when readahead ios fail.
- Fix a problem where inline data pages weren't getting flushed
during an unshare operation.
- Rework iomap to support arbitrarily many blocks per page in
preparation to support THP for the page cache.
- Fix a bug in the blocksize < pagesize buffered io path where we
could fail to initialize the many-blocks-per-page uptodate bitmap
correctly when the backing page is actually up to date. This could
cause us to forget to write out dirty pages.
- Split out the generic_write_sync at the end of the directio write
path so that btrfs can drop the inode lock before sync'ing the
file.
- Call inode_dio_end before trying to sync the file after a O_DSYNC
direct write (instead of afterwards) to match the behavior of the
old directio code"
* tag 'iomap-5.10-merge-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
iomap: Call inode_dio_end() before generic_write_sync()
iomap: Allow filesystem to call iomap_dio_complete without i_rwsem
iomap: Set all uptodate bits for an Uptodate page
iomap: Change calling convention for zeroing
iomap: Convert iomap_write_end types
iomap: Convert write_count to write_bytes_pending
iomap: Convert read_count to read_bytes_pending
iomap: Support arbitrarily many blocks per page
iomap: Use bitmap ops to set uptodate bits
iomap: Use kzalloc to allocate iomap_page
fs: Introduce i_blocks_per_page
iomap: Fix misplaced page flushing
iomap: Use round_down/round_up macros in __iomap_write_begin
iomap: Mark read blocks uptodate in write_begin
iomap: Clear page error before beginning a write
iomap: Fix direct I/O write consistency check
iomap: fix WARN_ON_ONCE() from unprivileged users
This helper is useful for both THPs and for supporting block size larger
than page size. Convert all users that I could find (we have a few
different ways of writing this idiom, and I may have missed some).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
The thp prefix is more frequently used than hpage and we should be
consistent between the various functions.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/migrate.c]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629151959.15779-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:
"Lots of cleanups in here, hardening the code and/or making it easier
to read and fixing bugs, but a core feature/change too adding support
for real async buffered reads. With the latter in place, we just need
buffered write async support and we're done relying on kthreads for
the fast path. In detail:
- Cleanup how memory accounting is done on ring setup/free (Bijan)
- sq array offset calculation fixup (Dmitry)
- Consistently handle blocking off O_DIRECT submission path (me)
- Support proper async buffered reads, instead of relying on kthread
offload for that. This uses the page waitqueue to drive retries
from task_work, like we handle poll based retry. (me)
- IO completion optimizations (me)
- Fix race with accounting and ring fd install (me)
- Support EPOLLEXCLUSIVE (Jiufei)
- Get rid of the io_kiocb unionizing, made possible by shrinking
other bits (Pavel)
- Completion side cleanups (Pavel)
- Cleanup REQ_F_ flags handling, and kill off many of them (Pavel)
- Request environment grabbing cleanups (Pavel)
- File and socket read/write cleanups (Pavel)
- Improve kiocb_set_rw_flags() (Pavel)
- Tons of fixes and cleanups (Pavel)
- IORING_SQ_NEED_WAKEUP clear fix (Xiaoguang)"
* tag 'for-5.9/io_uring-20200802' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (127 commits)
io_uring: flip if handling after io_setup_async_rw
fs: optimise kiocb_set_rw_flags()
io_uring: don't touch 'ctx' after installing file descriptor
io_uring: get rid of atomic FAA for cq_timeouts
io_uring: consolidate *_check_overflow accounting
io_uring: fix stalled deferred requests
io_uring: fix racy overflow count reporting
io_uring: deduplicate __io_complete_rw()
io_uring: de-unionise io_kiocb
io-wq: update hash bits
io_uring: fix missing io_queue_linked_timeout()
io_uring: mark ->work uninitialised after cleanup
io_uring: deduplicate io_grab_files() calls
io_uring: don't do opcode prep twice
io_uring: clear IORING_SQ_NEED_WAKEUP after executing task works
io_uring: batch put_task_struct()
tasks: add put_task_struct_many()
io_uring: return locked and pinned page accounting
io_uring: don't miscount pinned memory
io_uring: don't open-code recv kbuf managment
...
Checks if the file supports it, and initializes the values that we need.
Caller passes in 'data' pointer, if any, and the callback function to
be used.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Normally waiting for a page to become unlocked, or locking the page,
requires waiting for IO to complete. Add support for lock_page_async()
and wait_on_page_locked_async(), which are callback based instead. This
allows a caller to get notified when a page becomes unlocked, rather
than wait for it.
We add a new iocb field, ki_waitq, to pass in the necessary data for this
to happen. We can unionize this with ki_cookie, since that is only used
for polled IO. Polled IO can never co-exist with async callbacks, as it is
(by definition) polled completions. struct wait_page_key is made public,
and we define struct wait_page_async as the interface between the caller
and the core.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
No functional changes in this patch, just in preparation for allowing
more callers.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Patch series "Change readahead API", v11.
This series adds a readahead address_space operation to replace the
readpages operation. The key difference is that pages are added to the
page cache as they are allocated (and then looked up by the filesystem)
instead of passing them on a list to the readpages operation and having
the filesystem add them to the page cache. It's a net reduction in code
for each implementation, more efficient than walking a list, and solves
the direct-write vs buffered-read problem reported by yu kuai at
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116063601.39201-1-yukuai3@huawei.com
The only unconverted filesystems are those which use fscache. Their
conversion is pending Dave Howells' rewrite which will make the
conversion substantially easier. This should be completed by the end of
the year.
I want to thank the reviewers/testers; Dave Chinner, John Hubbard, Eric
Biggers, Johannes Thumshirn, Dave Sterba, Zi Yan, Christoph Hellwig and
Miklos Szeredi have done a marvellous job of providing constructive
criticism.
These patches pass an xfstests run on ext4, xfs & btrfs with no
regressions that I can tell (some of the tests seem a little flaky
before and remain flaky afterwards).
This patch (of 25):
The readahead code is part of the page cache so should be found in the
pagemap.h file. force_page_cache_readahead is only used within mm, so
move it to mm/internal.h instead. Remove the parameter names where they
add no value, and rename the ones which were actively misleading.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "vfs: have syncfs() return error when there are writeback
errors", v6.
Currently, syncfs does not return errors when one of the inodes fails to
be written back. It will return errors based on the legacy AS_EIO and
AS_ENOSPC flags when syncing out the block device fails, but that's not
particularly helpful for filesystems that aren't backed by a blockdev.
It's also possible for a stray sync to lose those errors.
The basic idea in this set is to track writeback errors at the
superblock level, so that we can quickly and easily check whether
something bad happened without having to fsync each file individually.
syncfs is then changed to reliably report writeback errors after they
occur, much in the same fashion as fsync does now.
This patch (of 2):
Usually we suggest that applications call fsync when they want to ensure
that all data written to the file has made it to the backing store, but
that can be inefficient when there are a lot of open files.
Calling syncfs on the filesystem can be more efficient in some
situations, but the error reporting doesn't currently work the way most
people expect. If a single inode on a filesystem reports a writeback
error, syncfs won't necessarily return an error. syncfs only returns an
error if __sync_blockdev fails, and on some filesystems that's a no-op.
It would be better if syncfs reported an error if there were any
writeback failures. Then applications could call syncfs to see if there
are any errors on any open files, and could then call fsync on all of
the other descriptors to figure out which one failed.
This patch adds a new errseq_t to struct super_block, and has
mapping_set_error also record writeback errors there.
To report those errors, we also need to keep an errseq_t in struct file
to act as a cursor. This patch adds a dedicated field for that purpose,
which slots nicely into 4 bytes of padding at the end of struct file on
x86_64.
An earlier version of this patch used an O_PATH file descriptor to cue
the kernel that the open file should track the superblock error and not
the inode's writeback error.
I think that API is just too weird though. This is simpler and should
make syncfs error reporting "just work" even if someone is multiplexing
fsync and syncfs on the same fds.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428135155.19223-1-jlayton@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428135155.19223-2-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When backporting commit 9c4e6b1a70 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping
pagevecs") to our 4.9 kernel, our test bench noticed around 10% down with
a couple of vm-scalability's test cases (lru-file-readonce,
lru-file-readtwice and lru-file-mmap-read). I didn't see that much down
on my VM (32c-64g-2nodes). It might be caused by the test configuration,
which is 32c-256g with NUMA disabled and the tests were run in root memcg,
so the tests actually stress only one inactive and active lru. It sounds
not very usual in mordern production environment.
That commit did two major changes:
1. Call page_evictable()
2. Use smp_mb to force the PG_lru set visible
It looks they contribute the most overhead. The page_evictable() is a
function which does function prologue and epilogue, and that was used by
page reclaim path only. However, lru add is a very hot path, so it sounds
better to make it inline. However, it calls page_mapping() which is not
inlined either, but the disassemble shows it doesn't do push and pop
operations and it sounds not very straightforward to inline it.
Other than this, it sounds smp_mb() is not necessary for x86 since
SetPageLRU is atomic which enforces memory barrier already, replace it
with smp_mb__after_atomic() in the following patch.
With the two fixes applied, the tests can get back around 5% on that test
bench and get back normal on my VM. Since the test bench configuration is
not that usual and I also saw around 6% up on the latest upstream, so it
sounds good enough IMHO.
The below is test data (lru-file-readtwice throughput) against the v5.6-rc4:
mainline w/ inline fix
150MB 154MB
With this patch the throughput gets 2.67% up. The data with using
smp_mb__after_atomic() is showed in the following patch.
Shakeel Butt did the below test:
On a real machine with limiting the 'dd' on a single node and reading 100
GiB sparse file (less than a single node). Just ran a single instance to
not cause the lru lock contention. The cmdline used is "dd if=file-100GiB
of=/dev/null bs=4k". Ran the cmd 10 times with drop_caches in between and
measured the time it took.
Without patch: 56.64143 +- 0.672 sec
With patches: 56.10 +- 0.21 sec
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move page_evictable() to internal.h]
Fixes: 9c4e6b1a70 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584500541-46817-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
