Re: [PATCH v6 02/12] mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration
From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Fri May 27 2016 - 10:26:32 EST
On 05/20/2016 04:23 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was
enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g.,
webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory)
so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order
allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts
(e,g,. enhance compaction algorithm, SLUB fallback to 0-order page,
reserved memory, vmalloc and so on) but if there are lots of
non-movable pages in system, their solutions are void in the long run.
So, this patch is to support facility to change non-movable pages
with movable. For the feature, this patch introduces functions related
to migration to address_space_operations as well as some page flags.
If a driver want to make own pages movable, it should define three functions
which are function pointers of struct address_space_operations.
1. bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode);
What VM expects on isolate_page function of driver is to return *true*
if driver isolates page successfully. On returing true, VM marks the page
as PG_isolated so concurrent isolation in several CPUs skip the page
for isolation. If a driver cannot isolate the page, it should return *false*.
Once page is successfully isolated, VM uses page.lru fields so driver
shouldn't expect to preserve values in that fields.
2. int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *mapping,
struct page *newpage, struct page *oldpage, enum migrate_mode);
After isolation, VM calls migratepage of driver with isolated page.
The function of migratepage is to move content of the old page to new page
and set up fields of struct page newpage. Keep in mind that you should
clear PG_movable of oldpage via __ClearPageMovable under page_lock if you
migrated the oldpage successfully and returns 0.
If driver cannot migrate the page at the moment, driver can return -EAGAIN.
On -EAGAIN, VM will retry page migration in a short time because VM interprets
-EAGAIN as "temporal migration failure". On returning any error except -EAGAIN,
VM will give up the page migration without retrying in this time.
Driver shouldn't touch page.lru field VM using in the functions.
3. void (*putback_page)(struct page *);
If migration fails on isolated page, VM should return the isolated page
to the driver so VM calls driver's putback_page with migration failed page.
In this function, driver should put the isolated page back to the own data
structure.
4. non-lru movable page flags
There are two page flags for supporting non-lru movable page.
* PG_movable
Driver should use the below function to make page movable under page_lock.
void __SetPageMovable(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
It needs argument of address_space for registering migration family functions
which will be called by VM. Exactly speaking, PG_movable is not a real flag of
struct page. Rather than, VM reuses page->mapping's lower bits to represent it.
#define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2
page->mapping = page->mapping | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE;
Interesting, let's see how that works out...
Overal this looks much better than the last version I checked!
[...]
@@ -357,29 +360,37 @@ PAGEFLAG(Idle, idle, PF_ANY)
* with the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit set to distinguish it. See rmap.h.
*
* On an anonymous page in a VM_MERGEABLE area, if CONFIG_KSM is enabled,
- * the PAGE_MAPPING_KSM bit may be set along with the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit;
- * and then page->mapping points, not to an anon_vma, but to a private
+ * the PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE bit may be set along with the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON
+ * bit; and then page->mapping points, not to an anon_vma, but to a private
* structure which KSM associates with that merged page. See ksm.h.
*
- * PAGE_MAPPING_KSM without PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is currently never used.
+ * PAGE_MAPPING_KSM without PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is used for non-lru movable
+ * page and then page->mapping points a struct address_space.
*
* Please note that, confusingly, "page_mapping" refers to the inode
* address_space which maps the page from disk; whereas "page_mapped"
* refers to user virtual address space into which the page is mapped.
*/
-#define PAGE_MAPPING_ANON 1
-#define PAGE_MAPPING_KSM 2
-#define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS (PAGE_MAPPING_ANON | PAGE_MAPPING_KSM)
+#define PAGE_MAPPING_ANON 0x1
+#define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2
+#define PAGE_MAPPING_KSM (PAGE_MAPPING_ANON | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE)
+#define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS (PAGE_MAPPING_ANON | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE)
-static __always_inline int PageAnonHead(struct page *page)
+static __always_inline int PageMappingFlag(struct page *page)
PageMappingFlags()?
[...]
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 1427366ad673..2d6862d0df60 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -81,6 +81,41 @@ static inline bool migrate_async_suitable(int migratetype)
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
+int PageMovable(struct page *page)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping;
+
+ WARN_ON(!PageLocked(page));
Why not VM_BUG_ON_PAGE as elsewhere?
+ if (!__PageMovable(page))
+ goto out;
Just return 0.
+
+ mapping = page_mapping(page);
+ if (mapping && mapping->a_ops && mapping->a_ops->isolate_page)
+ return 1;
+out:
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(PageMovable);
+
+void __SetPageMovable(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE((unsigned long)mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE, page);
+ page->mapping = (void *)((unsigned long)mapping | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__SetPageMovable);
+
+void __ClearPageMovable(struct page *page)
+{
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageMovable(page), page);
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE),
+ page);
The last line sounds redundant, PageMovable() already checked this via
__PageMovable()
+ page->mapping = (void *)((unsigned long)page->mapping &
+ PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE);
This should be negated to clear... use ~PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE ?
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ClearPageMovable);
+
/* Do not skip compaction more than 64 times */
#define COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT 6
@@ -735,21 +770,6 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
}
/*
- * Check may be lockless but that's ok as we recheck later.
- * It's possible to migrate LRU pages and balloon pages
- * Skip any other type of page
- */
- is_lru = PageLRU(page);
- if (!is_lru) {
- if (unlikely(balloon_page_movable(page))) {
- if (balloon_page_isolate(page)) {
- /* Successfully isolated */
- goto isolate_success;
- }
- }
- }
So this effectively prevents movable compound pages from being migrated. Are you
sure no users of this functionality are going to have compound pages? I assumed
that they could, and so made the code like this, with the is_lru variable (which
is redundant after your change).
- /*
* Regardless of being on LRU, compound pages such as THP and
* hugetlbfs are not to be compacted. We can potentially save
* a lot of iterations if we skip them at once. The check is
@@ -765,8 +785,38 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
goto isolate_fail;
}
- if (!is_lru)
+ /*
+ * Check may be lockless but that's ok as we recheck later.
+ * It's possible to migrate LRU and non-lru movable pages.
+ * Skip any other type of page
+ */
+ is_lru = PageLRU(page);
+ if (!is_lru) {
+ if (unlikely(balloon_page_movable(page))) {
+ if (balloon_page_isolate(page)) {
+ /* Successfully isolated */
+ goto isolate_success;
+ }
+ }
[...]
+bool isolate_movable_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping;
+
+ /*
+ * Avoid burning cycles with pages that are yet under __free_pages(),
+ * or just got freed under us.
+ *
+ * In case we 'win' a race for a movable page being freed under us and
+ * raise its refcount preventing __free_pages() from doing its job
+ * the put_page() at the end of this block will take care of
+ * release this page, thus avoiding a nasty leakage.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!get_page_unless_zero(page)))
+ goto out;
+
+ /*
+ * Check PageMovable before holding a PG_lock because page's owner
+ * assumes anybody doesn't touch PG_lock of newly allocated page
+ * so unconditionally grapping the lock ruins page's owner side.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!__PageMovable(page)))
+ goto out_putpage;
+ /*
+ * As movable pages are not isolated from LRU lists, concurrent
+ * compaction threads can race against page migration functions
+ * as well as race against the releasing a page.
+ *
+ * In order to avoid having an already isolated movable page
+ * being (wrongly) re-isolated while it is under migration,
+ * or to avoid attempting to isolate pages being released,
+ * lets be sure we have the page lock
+ * before proceeding with the movable page isolation steps.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!trylock_page(page)))
+ goto out_putpage;
+
+ if (!PageMovable(page) || PageIsolated(page))
+ goto out_no_isolated;
+
+ mapping = page_mapping(page);
Hmm so on first tail page of a THP compound page, page->mapping will alias with
compound_mapcount. That can easily have a value matching PageMovable flags and
we'll proceed and start inspecting the compound head in page_mapping()... maybe
it's not a big deal, or we better check and skip PageTail first, must think
about it more...
[...]
@@ -755,33 +844,69 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
enum migrate_mode mode)
{
struct address_space *mapping;
- int rc;
+ int rc = -EAGAIN;
+ bool is_lru = !__PageMovable(page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(newpage), newpage);
mapping = page_mapping(page);
- if (!mapping)
- rc = migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
- else if (mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
- /*
- * Most pages have a mapping and most filesystems provide a
- * migratepage callback. Anonymous pages are part of swap
- * space which also has its own migratepage callback. This
- * is the most common path for page migration.
- */
- rc = mapping->a_ops->migratepage(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
- else
- rc = fallback_migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
+ /*
+ * In case of non-lru page, it could be released after
+ * isolation step. In that case, we shouldn't try
+ * fallback migration which is designed for LRU pages.
+ */
Hmm but is_lru was determined from !__PageMovable() above, also well after the
isolation step. So if the driver already released it, we wouldn't detect it? And
this function is all under same page lock, so if __PageMovable was true above,
so will be PageMovable below?
+ if (unlikely(!is_lru)) {
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageIsolated(page), page);
+ if (!PageMovable(page)) {
+ rc = MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS;
+ __ClearPageIsolated(page);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (likely(is_lru)) {
+ if (!mapping)
+ rc = migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
+ else if (mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
+ /*
+ * Most pages have a mapping and most filesystems
+ * provide a migratepage callback. Anonymous pages
+ * are part of swap space which also has its own
+ * migratepage callback. This is the most common path
+ * for page migration.
+ */
+ rc = mapping->a_ops->migratepage(mapping, newpage,
+ page, mode);
+ else
+ rc = fallback_migrate_page(mapping, newpage,
+ page, mode);
+ } else {
+ rc = mapping->a_ops->migratepage(mapping, newpage,
+ page, mode);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(rc == MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS &&
+ !PageIsolated(page));
+ }
Why split the !is_lru handling in two places?
/*
* When successful, old pagecache page->mapping must be cleared before
* page is freed; but stats require that PageAnon be left as PageAnon.
*/
if (rc == MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS) {
- if (!PageAnon(page))
+ if (__PageMovable(page)) {
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageIsolated(page), page);
+
+ /*
+ * We clear PG_movable under page_lock so any compactor
+ * cannot try to migrate this page.
+ */
+ __ClearPageIsolated(page);
+ }
+
+ if (!((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS))
page->mapping = NULL;
The two lines above make little sense to me without a comment. Should the
condition be negated, even?