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  1. /*
  2. * Linux VM pressure
  3. *
  4. * Copyright 2012 Linaro Ltd.
  5. * Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
  6. *
  7. * Based on ideas from Andrew Morton, David Rientjes, KOSAKI Motohiro,
  8. * Leonid Moiseichuk, Mel Gorman, Minchan Kim and Pekka Enberg.
  9. *
  10. * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  11. * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published
  12. * by the Free Software Foundation.
  13. */
  14. #include <linux/cgroup.h>
  15. #include <linux/fs.h>
  16. #include <linux/log2.h>
  17. #include <linux/sched.h>
  18. #include <linux/mm.h>
  19. #include <linux/vmstat.h>
  20. #include <linux/eventfd.h>
  21. #include <linux/slab.h>
  22. #include <linux/swap.h>
  23. #include <linux/printk.h>
  24. #include <linux/vmpressure.h>
  25. /*
  26. * The window size (vmpressure_win) is the number of scanned pages before
  27. * we try to analyze scanned/reclaimed ratio. So the window is used as a
  28. * rate-limit tunable for the "low" level notification, and also for
  29. * averaging the ratio for medium/critical levels. Using small window
  30. * sizes can cause lot of false positives, but too big window size will
  31. * delay the notifications.
  32. *
  33. * As the vmscan reclaimer logic works with chunks which are multiple of
  34. * SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, it makes sense to use it for the window size as well.
  35. *
  36. * TODO: Make the window size depend on machine size, as we do for vmstat
  37. * thresholds. Currently we set it to 512 pages (2MB for 4KB pages).
  38. */
  39. static const unsigned long vmpressure_win = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * 16;
  40. /*
  41. * These thresholds are used when we account memory pressure through
  42. * scanned/reclaimed ratio. The current values were chosen empirically. In
  43. * essence, they are percents: the higher the value, the more number
  44. * unsuccessful reclaims there were.
  45. */
  46. static const unsigned int vmpressure_level_med = 60;
  47. static const unsigned int vmpressure_level_critical = 95;
  48. /*
  49. * When there are too little pages left to scan, vmpressure() may miss the
  50. * critical pressure as number of pages will be less than "window size".
  51. * However, in that case the vmscan priority will raise fast as the
  52. * reclaimer will try to scan LRUs more deeply.
  53. *
  54. * The vmscan logic considers these special priorities:
  55. *
  56. * prio == DEF_PRIORITY (12): reclaimer starts with that value
  57. * prio <= DEF_PRIORITY - 2 : kswapd becomes somewhat overwhelmed
  58. * prio == 0 : close to OOM, kernel scans every page in an lru
  59. *
  60. * Any value in this range is acceptable for this tunable (i.e. from 12 to
  61. * 0). Current value for the vmpressure_level_critical_prio is chosen
  62. * empirically, but the number, in essence, means that we consider
  63. * critical level when scanning depth is ~10% of the lru size (vmscan
  64. * scans 'lru_size >> prio' pages, so it is actually 12.5%, or one
  65. * eights).
  66. */
  67. static const unsigned int vmpressure_level_critical_prio = ilog2(100 / 10);
  68. static struct vmpressure *work_to_vmpressure(struct work_struct *work)
  69. {
  70. return container_of(work, struct vmpressure, work);
  71. }
  72. static struct vmpressure *vmpressure_parent(struct vmpressure *vmpr)
  73. {
  74. struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = vmpressure_to_css(vmpr);
  75. struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
  76. memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg);
  77. if (!memcg)
  78. return NULL;
  79. return memcg_to_vmpressure(memcg);
  80. }
  81. enum vmpressure_levels {
  82. VMPRESSURE_LOW = 0,
  83. VMPRESSURE_MEDIUM,
  84. VMPRESSURE_CRITICAL,
  85. VMPRESSURE_NUM_LEVELS,
  86. };
  87. static const char * const vmpressure_str_levels[] = {
  88. [VMPRESSURE_LOW] = "low",
  89. [VMPRESSURE_MEDIUM] = "medium",
  90. [VMPRESSURE_CRITICAL] = "critical",
  91. };
  92. static enum vmpressure_levels vmpressure_level(unsigned long pressure)
  93. {
  94. if (pressure >= vmpressure_level_critical)
  95. return VMPRESSURE_CRITICAL;
  96. else if (pressure >= vmpressure_level_med)
  97. return VMPRESSURE_MEDIUM;
  98. return VMPRESSURE_LOW;
  99. }
  100. static enum vmpressure_levels vmpressure_calc_level(unsigned long scanned,
  101. unsigned long reclaimed)
  102. {
  103. unsigned long scale = scanned + reclaimed;
  104. unsigned long pressure = 0;
  105. /*
  106. * reclaimed can be greater than scanned in cases
  107. * like THP, where the scanned is 1 and reclaimed
  108. * could be 512
  109. */
  110. if (reclaimed >= scanned)
  111. goto out;
  112. /*
  113. * We calculate the ratio (in percents) of how many pages were
  114. * scanned vs. reclaimed in a given time frame (window). Note that
  115. * time is in VM reclaimer's "ticks", i.e. number of pages
  116. * scanned. This makes it possible to set desired reaction time
  117. * and serves as a ratelimit.
  118. */
  119. pressure = scale - (reclaimed * scale / scanned);
  120. pressure = pressure * 100 / scale;
  121. out:
  122. pr_debug("%s: %3lu (s: %lu r: %lu)\n", __func__, pressure,
  123. scanned, reclaimed);
  124. return vmpressure_level(pressure);
  125. }
  126. struct vmpressure_event {
  127. struct eventfd_ctx *efd;
  128. enum vmpressure_levels level;
  129. struct list_head node;
  130. };
  131. static bool vmpressure_event(struct vmpressure *vmpr,
  132. unsigned long scanned, unsigned long reclaimed)
  133. {
  134. struct vmpressure_event *ev;
  135. enum vmpressure_levels level;
  136. bool signalled = false;
  137. level = vmpressure_calc_level(scanned, reclaimed);
  138. mutex_lock(&vmpr->events_lock);
  139. list_for_each_entry(ev, &vmpr->events, node) {
  140. if (level >= ev->level) {
  141. eventfd_signal(ev->efd, 1);
  142. signalled = true;
  143. }
  144. }
  145. mutex_unlock(&vmpr->events_lock);
  146. return signalled;
  147. }
  148. static void vmpressure_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
  149. {
  150. struct vmpressure *vmpr = work_to_vmpressure(work);
  151. unsigned long scanned;
  152. unsigned long reclaimed;
  153. spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
  154. /*
  155. * Several contexts might be calling vmpressure(), so it is
  156. * possible that the work was rescheduled again before the old
  157. * work context cleared the counters. In that case we will run
  158. * just after the old work returns, but then scanned might be zero
  159. * here. No need for any locks here since we don't care if
  160. * vmpr->reclaimed is in sync.
  161. */
  162. scanned = vmpr->scanned;
  163. if (!scanned) {
  164. spin_unlock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
  165. return;
  166. }
  167. reclaimed = vmpr->reclaimed;
  168. vmpr->scanned = 0;
  169. vmpr->reclaimed = 0;
  170. spin_unlock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
  171. do {
  172. if (vmpressure_event(vmpr, scanned, reclaimed))
  173. break;
  174. /*
  175. * If not handled, propagate the event upward into the
  176. * hierarchy.
  177. */
  178. } while ((vmpr = vmpressure_parent(vmpr)));
  179. }
  180. /**
  181. * vmpressure() - Account memory pressure through scanned/reclaimed ratio
  182. * @gfp: reclaimer's gfp mask
  183. * @memcg: cgroup memory controller handle
  184. * @scanned: number of pages scanned
  185. * @reclaimed: number of pages reclaimed
  186. *
  187. * This function should be called from the vmscan reclaim path to account
  188. * "instantaneous" memory pressure (scanned/reclaimed ratio). The raw
  189. * pressure index is then further refined and averaged over time.
  190. *
  191. * This function does not return any value.
  192. */
  193. void vmpressure(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
  194. unsigned long scanned, unsigned long reclaimed)
  195. {
  196. struct vmpressure *vmpr = memcg_to_vmpressure(memcg);
  197. /*
  198. * Here we only want to account pressure that userland is able to
  199. * help us with. For example, suppose that DMA zone is under
  200. * pressure; if we notify userland about that kind of pressure,
  201. * then it will be mostly a waste as it will trigger unnecessary
  202. * freeing of memory by userland (since userland is more likely to
  203. * have HIGHMEM/MOVABLE pages instead of the DMA fallback). That
  204. * is why we include only movable, highmem and FS/IO pages.
  205. * Indirect reclaim (kswapd) sets sc->gfp_mask to GFP_KERNEL, so
  206. * we account it too.
  207. */
  208. if (!(gfp & (__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)))
  209. return;
  210. /*
  211. * If we got here with no pages scanned, then that is an indicator
  212. * that reclaimer was unable to find any shrinkable LRUs at the
  213. * current scanning depth. But it does not mean that we should
  214. * report the critical pressure, yet. If the scanning priority
  215. * (scanning depth) goes too high (deep), we will be notified
  216. * through vmpressure_prio(). But so far, keep calm.
  217. */
  218. if (!scanned)
  219. return;
  220. spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
  221. vmpr->scanned += scanned;
  222. vmpr->reclaimed += reclaimed;
  223. scanned = vmpr->scanned;
  224. spin_unlock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
  225. if (scanned < vmpressure_win)
  226. return;
  227. schedule_work(&vmpr->work);
  228. }
  229. /**
  230. * vmpressure_prio() - Account memory pressure through reclaimer priority level
  231. * @gfp: reclaimer's gfp mask
  232. * @memcg: cgroup memory controller handle
  233. * @prio: reclaimer's priority
  234. *
  235. * This function should be called from the reclaim path every time when
  236. * the vmscan's reclaiming priority (scanning depth) changes.
  237. *
  238. * This function does not return any value.
  239. */
  240. void vmpressure_prio(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int prio)
  241. {
  242. /*
  243. * We only use prio for accounting critical level. For more info
  244. * see comment for vmpressure_level_critical_prio variable above.
  245. */
  246. if (prio > vmpressure_level_critical_prio)
  247. return;
  248. /*
  249. * OK, the prio is below the threshold, updating vmpressure
  250. * information before shrinker dives into long shrinking of long
  251. * range vmscan. Passing scanned = vmpressure_win, reclaimed = 0
  252. * to the vmpressure() basically means that we signal 'critical'
  253. * level.
  254. */
  255. vmpressure(gfp, memcg, vmpressure_win, 0);
  256. }
  257. /**
  258. * vmpressure_register_event() - Bind vmpressure notifications to an eventfd
  259. * @memcg: memcg that is interested in vmpressure notifications
  260. * @eventfd: eventfd context to link notifications with
  261. * @args: event arguments (used to set up a pressure level threshold)
  262. *
  263. * This function associates eventfd context with the vmpressure
  264. * infrastructure, so that the notifications will be delivered to the
  265. * @eventfd. The @args parameter is a string that denotes pressure level
  266. * threshold (one of vmpressure_str_levels, i.e. "low", "medium", or
  267. * "critical").
  268. *
  269. * To be used as memcg event method.
  270. */
  271. int vmpressure_register_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
  272. struct eventfd_ctx *eventfd, const char *args)
  273. {
  274. struct vmpressure *vmpr = memcg_to_vmpressure(memcg);
  275. struct vmpressure_event *ev;
  276. int level;
  277. for (level = 0; level < VMPRESSURE_NUM_LEVELS; level++) {
  278. if (!strcmp(vmpressure_str_levels[level], args))
  279. break;
  280. }
  281. if (level >= VMPRESSURE_NUM_LEVELS)
  282. return -EINVAL;
  283. ev = kzalloc(sizeof(*ev), GFP_KERNEL);
  284. if (!ev)
  285. return -ENOMEM;
  286. ev->efd = eventfd;
  287. ev->level = level;
  288. mutex_lock(&vmpr->events_lock);
  289. list_add(&ev->node, &vmpr->events);
  290. mutex_unlock(&vmpr->events_lock);
  291. return 0;
  292. }
  293. /**
  294. * vmpressure_unregister_event() - Unbind eventfd from vmpressure
  295. * @memcg: memcg handle
  296. * @eventfd: eventfd context that was used to link vmpressure with the @cg
  297. *
  298. * This function does internal manipulations to detach the @eventfd from
  299. * the vmpressure notifications, and then frees internal resources
  300. * associated with the @eventfd (but the @eventfd itself is not freed).
  301. *
  302. * To be used as memcg event method.
  303. */
  304. void vmpressure_unregister_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
  305. struct eventfd_ctx *eventfd)
  306. {
  307. struct vmpressure *vmpr = memcg_to_vmpressure(memcg);
  308. struct vmpressure_event *ev;
  309. mutex_lock(&vmpr->events_lock);
  310. list_for_each_entry(ev, &vmpr->events, node) {
  311. if (ev->efd != eventfd)
  312. continue;
  313. list_del(&ev->node);
  314. kfree(ev);
  315. break;
  316. }
  317. mutex_unlock(&vmpr->events_lock);
  318. }
  319. /**
  320. * vmpressure_init() - Initialize vmpressure control structure
  321. * @vmpr: Structure to be initialized
  322. *
  323. * This function should be called on every allocated vmpressure structure
  324. * before any usage.
  325. */
  326. void vmpressure_init(struct vmpressure *vmpr)
  327. {
  328. spin_lock_init(&vmpr->sr_lock);
  329. mutex_init(&vmpr->events_lock);
  330. INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vmpr->events);
  331. INIT_WORK(&vmpr->work, vmpressure_work_fn);
  332. }
  333. /**
  334. * vmpressure_cleanup() - shuts down vmpressure control structure
  335. * @vmpr: Structure to be cleaned up
  336. *
  337. * This function should be called before the structure in which it is
  338. * embedded is cleaned up.
  339. */
  340. void vmpressure_cleanup(struct vmpressure *vmpr)
  341. {
  342. /*
  343. * Make sure there is no pending work before eventfd infrastructure
  344. * goes away.
  345. */
  346. flush_work(&vmpr->work);
  347. }