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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst | 22 |
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst index 4f83de2dab6e..45b94f7b3beb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst @@ -133,18 +133,9 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. 8. LRU ====== - Each memcg has its own private LRU. Now, its handling is under global - VM's control (means that it's handled under global pgdat->lru_lock). - Almost all routines around memcg's LRU is called by global LRU's - list management functions under pgdat->lru_lock. - - A special function is mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(). This scans - memcg's private LRU and call __isolate_lru_page() to extract a page - from LRU. - - (By __isolate_lru_page(), the page is removed from both of global and - private LRU.) - + Each memcg has its own vector of LRUs (inactive anon, active anon, + inactive file, active file, unevictable) of pages from each node, + each LRU handled under a single lru_lock for that memcg and node. 9. Typical Tests. ================= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index a44cd467d218..52688ae34461 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -287,20 +287,17 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered. 2.6 Locking ----------- - lock_page_cgroup()/unlock_page_cgroup() should not be called under - the i_pages lock. +Lock order is as follows: - Other lock order is following: + Page lock (PG_locked bit of page->flags) + mm->page_table_lock or split pte_lock + lock_page_memcg (memcg->move_lock) + mapping->i_pages lock + lruvec->lru_lock. - PG_locked. - mm->page_table_lock - pgdat->lru_lock - lock_page_cgroup. - - In many cases, just lock_page_cgroup() is called. - - per-zone-per-cgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is just guarded by - pgdat->lru_lock, it has no lock of its own. +Per-node-per-memcgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is guarded by +lruvec->lru_lock; PG_lru bit of page->flags is cleared before +isolating a page from its LRU under lruvec->lru_lock. 2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) ----------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst index 555484110e36..68fa75247488 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ When pages are freed in batch, the also mm_page_free_batched is triggered. Broadly speaking, pages are taken off the LRU lock in bulk and freed in batch with a page list. Significant amounts of activity here could indicate that the system is under memory pressure and can also indicate -contention on the zone->lru_lock. +contention on the lruvec->lru_lock. 4. Per-CPU Allocator Activity ============================= diff --git a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst index 17d0861b0f1d..0e1490524f53 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ reclaim in Linux. The problems have been observed at customer sites on large memory x86_64 systems. To illustrate this with an example, a non-NUMA x86_64 platform with 128GB of -main memory will have over 32 million 4k pages in a single zone. When a large +main memory will have over 32 million 4k pages in a single node. When a large fraction of these pages are not evictable for any reason [see below], vmscan will spend a lot of time scanning the LRU lists looking for the small fraction of pages that are evictable. This can result in a situation where all CPUs are @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ unevictable, either by definition or by circumstance, in the future. The Unevictable Page List ------------------------- -The Unevictable LRU infrastructure consists of an additional, per-zone, LRU list +The Unevictable LRU infrastructure consists of an additional, per-node, LRU list called the "unevictable" list and an associated page flag, PG_unevictable, to indicate that the page is being managed on the unevictable list. @@ -84,15 +84,9 @@ The unevictable list does not differentiate between file-backed and anonymous, swap-backed pages. This differentiation is only important while the pages are, in fact, evictable. -The unevictable list benefits from the "arrayification" of the per-zone LRU +The unevictable list benefits from the "arrayification" of the per-node LRU lists and statistics originally proposed and posted by Christoph Lameter. -The unevictable list does not use the LRU pagevec mechanism. Rather, -unevictable pages are placed directly on the page's zone's unevictable list -under the zone lru_lock. This allows us to prevent the stranding of pages on -the unevictable list when one task has the page isolated from the LRU and other -tasks are changing the "evictability" state of the page. - Memory Control Group Interaction -------------------------------- @@ -101,8 +95,8 @@ The unevictable LRU facility interacts with the memory control group [aka memory controller; see Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst] by extending the lru_list enum. -The memory controller data structure automatically gets a per-zone unevictable -list as a result of the "arrayification" of the per-zone LRU lists (one per +The memory controller data structure automatically gets a per-node unevictable +list as a result of the "arrayification" of the per-node LRU lists (one per lru_list enum element). The memory controller tracks the movement of pages to and from the unevictable list. @@ -196,7 +190,7 @@ for the sake of expediency, to leave a unevictable page on one of the regular active/inactive LRU lists for vmscan to deal with. vmscan checks for such pages in all of the shrink_{active|inactive|page}_list() functions and will "cull" such pages that it encounters: that is, it diverts those pages to the -unevictable list for the zone being scanned. +unevictable list for the node being scanned. There may be situations where a page is mapped into a VM_LOCKED VMA, but the page is not marked as PG_mlocked. Such pages will make it all the way to @@ -328,7 +322,7 @@ If the page was NOT already mlocked, mlock_vma_page() attempts to isolate the page from the LRU, as it is likely on the appropriate active or inactive list at that time. If the isolate_lru_page() succeeds, mlock_vma_page() will put back the page - by calling putback_lru_page() - which will notice that the page -is now mlocked and divert the page to the zone's unevictable list. If +is now mlocked and divert the page to the node's unevictable list. If mlock_vma_page() is unable to isolate the page from the LRU, vmscan will handle it later if and when it attempts to reclaim the page. @@ -603,7 +597,7 @@ Some examples of these unevictable pages on the LRU lists are: unevictable list in mlock_vma_page(). shrink_inactive_list() also diverts any unevictable pages that it finds on the -inactive lists to the appropriate zone's unevictable list. +inactive lists to the appropriate node's unevictable list. shrink_inactive_list() should only see SHM_LOCK'd pages that became SHM_LOCK'd after shrink_active_list() had moved them to the inactive list, or pages mapped |