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[v5,1/2] mm: Add become_kswapd and restore_kswapd

Message ID 20200819022425.25188-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series avoid xfs transaction reservation recursion | expand

Commit Message

Yafang Shao Aug. 19, 2020, 2:24 a.m. UTC
From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>

Since XFS needs to pretend to be kswapd in some of its worker threads,
create methods to save & restore kswapd state.  Don't bother restoring
kswapd state in kswapd -- the only time we reach this code is when we're
exiting and the task_struct is about to be destroyed anyway.

Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c | 14 ++++++++------
 include/linux/sched/mm.h  | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/vmscan.c               | 16 +---------------
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

Comments

Matthew Wilcox Aug. 19, 2020, 3:08 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:24:24AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
> 
> Since XFS needs to pretend to be kswapd in some of its worker threads,
> create methods to save & restore kswapd state.  Don't bother restoring
> kswapd state in kswapd -- the only time we reach this code is when we're
> exiting and the task_struct is about to be destroyed anyway.
> 
> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

See https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200625123143.GK1320@dhcp22.suse.cz/

Please add:

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

> +/*
> + * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
> + * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
> + * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
> + * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
> + *
> + * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
> + * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
> + * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
> + * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
> + * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
> + */

And let's change that comment as suggested by Michal (slightly edited
by me):

/* 
 * Tell the memory management code that this thread is working on behalf
 * of background memory reclaim (like kswapd).  That means that it will
 * get access to memory reserves should it need to allocate memory in
 * order to make forward progress.  With this great power comes great
 * responsibility to not exhaust those reserves.
 */

> +#define KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS		(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD)
> +
> +static inline unsigned long become_kswapd(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long flags = current->flags & KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS;
> +
> +	current->flags |= KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS;
> +
> +	return flags;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void restore_kswapd(unsigned long flags)
> +{
> +	current->flags &= ~(flags ^ KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS);
> +}
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
>  /**
>   * memalloc_use_memcg - Starts the remote memcg charging scope.
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 99e1796eb833..3a2615bfde35 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -3859,19 +3859,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
>  	if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
>  		set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask);
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
> -	 * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
> -	 * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
> -	 * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
> -	 *
> -	 * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
> -	 * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
> -	 * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
> -	 * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
> -	 * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
> -	 */
> -	tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
> +	become_kswapd();
>  	set_freezable();
>  
>  	WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, 0);
> @@ -3921,8 +3909,6 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
>  			goto kswapd_try_sleep;
>  	}
>  
> -	tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD);
> -
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.18.1
>
Yafang Shao Aug. 19, 2020, 5:49 a.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 11:08 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:24:24AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
> >
> > Since XFS needs to pretend to be kswapd in some of its worker threads,
> > create methods to save & restore kswapd state.  Don't bother restoring
> > kswapd state in kswapd -- the only time we reach this code is when we're
> > exiting and the task_struct is about to be destroyed anyway.
> >
> > Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
>
> See https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200625123143.GK1320@dhcp22.suse.cz/
>
> Please add:
>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>

Sure.
I missed that discussion.

> > +/*
> > + * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
> > + * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
> > + * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
> > + * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
> > + *
> > + * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
> > + * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
> > + * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
> > + * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
> > + * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
> > + */
>
> And let's change that comment as suggested by Michal (slightly edited
> by me):
>
> /*
>  * Tell the memory management code that this thread is working on behalf
>  * of background memory reclaim (like kswapd).  That means that it will
>  * get access to memory reserves should it need to allocate memory in
>  * order to make forward progress.  With this great power comes great
>  * responsibility to not exhaust those reserves.
>  */
>

I will update it with that comment.

> > +#define KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS              (PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD)
> > +
> > +static inline unsigned long become_kswapd(void)
> > +{
> > +     unsigned long flags = current->flags & KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS;
> > +
> > +     current->flags |= KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS;
> > +
> > +     return flags;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void restore_kswapd(unsigned long flags)
> > +{
> > +     current->flags &= ~(flags ^ KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS);
> > +}
> > +
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> >  /**
> >   * memalloc_use_memcg - Starts the remote memcg charging scope.
> > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> > index 99e1796eb833..3a2615bfde35 100644
> > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> > @@ -3859,19 +3859,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
> >       if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
> >               set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask);
> >
> > -     /*
> > -      * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
> > -      * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
> > -      * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
> > -      * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
> > -      *
> > -      * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
> > -      * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
> > -      * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
> > -      * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
> > -      * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
> > -      */
> > -     tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
> > +     become_kswapd();
> >       set_freezable();
> >
> >       WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, 0);
> > @@ -3921,8 +3909,6 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
> >                       goto kswapd_try_sleep;
> >       }
> >
> > -     tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD);
> > -
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > --
> > 2.18.1
> >
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
index 2d25bab68764..a04a44238aab 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
@@ -2813,8 +2813,9 @@  xfs_btree_split_worker(
 {
 	struct xfs_btree_split_args	*args = container_of(work,
 						struct xfs_btree_split_args, work);
+	bool			is_kswapd = args->kswapd;
 	unsigned long		pflags;
-	unsigned long		new_pflags = PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS;
+	int			memalloc_nofs;
 
 	/*
 	 * we are in a transaction context here, but may also be doing work
@@ -2822,16 +2823,17 @@  xfs_btree_split_worker(
 	 * temporarily to ensure that we don't block waiting for memory reclaim
 	 * in any way.
 	 */
-	if (args->kswapd)
-		new_pflags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
-
-	current_set_flags_nested(&pflags, new_pflags);
+	if (is_kswapd)
+		pflags = become_kswapd();
+	memalloc_nofs = memalloc_nofs_save();
 
 	args->result = __xfs_btree_split(args->cur, args->level, args->ptrp,
 					 args->key, args->curp, args->stat);
 	complete(args->done);
 
-	current_restore_flags_nested(&pflags, new_pflags);
+	memalloc_nofs_restore(memalloc_nofs);
+	if (is_kswapd)
+		restore_kswapd(pflags);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
index f889e332912f..80cc132f13a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
@@ -303,6 +303,34 @@  static inline void memalloc_nocma_restore(unsigned int flags)
 }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
+ * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
+ * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
+ * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
+ *
+ * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
+ * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
+ * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
+ * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
+ * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
+ */
+#define KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS		(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD)
+
+static inline unsigned long become_kswapd(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags = current->flags & KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS;
+
+	current->flags |= KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS;
+
+	return flags;
+}
+
+static inline void restore_kswapd(unsigned long flags)
+{
+	current->flags &= ~(flags ^ KSWAPD_PF_FLAGS);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
 /**
  * memalloc_use_memcg - Starts the remote memcg charging scope.
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 99e1796eb833..3a2615bfde35 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3859,19 +3859,7 @@  static int kswapd(void *p)
 	if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
 		set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask);
 
-	/*
-	 * Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
-	 * and that if we need more memory we should get access to it
-	 * regardless (see "__alloc_pages()"). "kswapd" should
-	 * never get caught in the normal page freeing logic.
-	 *
-	 * (Kswapd normally doesn't need memory anyway, but sometimes
-	 * you need a small amount of memory in order to be able to
-	 * page out something else, and this flag essentially protects
-	 * us from recursively trying to free more memory as we're
-	 * trying to free the first piece of memory in the first place).
-	 */
-	tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
+	become_kswapd();
 	set_freezable();
 
 	WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, 0);
@@ -3921,8 +3909,6 @@  static int kswapd(void *p)
 			goto kswapd_try_sleep;
 	}
 
-	tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD);
-
 	return 0;
 }