syzbot detects that cachestat() is flushing stats, which can sleep, in its
RCU read section (see [1]).  This is done in the workingset_test_recent()
step (which checks if the folio's eviction is recent).

Move the stat flushing step to before the RCU read section of cachestat,
and skip stat flushing during the recency check.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/000000000000f71227061bdf97e0@google.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240627201737.3506959-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Fixes: b0068472

 ("mm: workingset: move the stats flush into workingset_test_recent()")
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reported-by:  <syzbot+b7f13b2d0cc156edf61a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/000000000000f71227061bdf97e0@google.com/


Debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[6.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

WORKINGSET_NODES is not exposed in the memcg stats and thus there is no
need to use the memcg specific stat update functions for it.  In future if
we decide to expose WORKINGSET_NODES in the memcg stats, we can revert
this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240501172617.678560-7-shakeel.butt@linux.dev


Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

mapping_set_update is only used inside mm/.  Move mapping_set_update to
mm/internal.h and turn it into an inline function instead of a macro.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>

One of our workloads (Postgres 14 + sysbench OLTP) regressed on newer
upstream kernel and on further investigation, it seems like the cause is
the always synchronous rstat flush in the count_shadow_nodes() added by
the commit f82e6bf9 ("mm: memcg: use rstat for non-hierarchical
stats").  On further inspection it seems like we don't really need
accurate stats in this function as it was already approximating the amount
of appropriate shadow entries to keep for maintaining the refault
information.  Since there is already 2 sec periodic rstat flush, we don't
need exact stats here.  Let's ratelimit the rstat flush in this code path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228073055.4046430-1-shakeelb@google.com
Fixes: f82e6bf9

 ("mm: memcg: use rstat for non-hierarchical stats")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Stats flushing for memcg currently follows the following rules:
- Always flush the entire memcg hierarchy (i.e. flush the root).
- Only one flusher is allowed at a time. If someone else tries to flush
  concurrently, they skip and return immediately.
- A periodic flusher flushes all the stats every 2 seconds.

The reason this approach is followed is because all flushes are serialized
by a global rstat spinlock.  On the memcg side, flushing is invoked from
userspace reads as well as in-kernel flushers (e.g.  reclaim, refault,
etc).  This approach aims to avoid serializing all flushers on the global
lock, which can cause a significant performance hit under high
concurrency.

This approach has the following problems:
- Occasionally a userspace read of the stats of a non-root cgroup will
  be too expensive as it has to flush the entire hierarchy [1].
- Sometimes the stats accuracy are compromised if there is an ongoing
  flush, and we skip and return before the subtree of interest is
  actually flushed, yielding stale stats (by up to 2s due to periodic
  flushing). This is more visible when reading stats from userspace,
  but can also affect in-kernel flushers.

The latter problem is particulary a concern when userspace reads stats
after an event occurs, but gets stats from before the event. Examples:
- When memory usage / pressure spikes, a userspace OOM handler may look
  at the stats of different memcgs to select a victim based on various
  heuristics (e.g. how much private memory will be freed by killing
  this). Reading stale stats from before the usage spike in this case
  may cause a wrongful OOM kill.
- A proactive reclaimer may read the stats after writing to
  memory.reclaim to measure the success of the reclaim operation. Stale
  stats from before reclaim may give a false negative.
- Reading the stats of a parent and a child memcg may be inconsistent
  (child larger than parent), if the flush doesn't happen when the
  parent is read, but happens when the child is read.

As for in-kernel flushers, they will occasionally get stale stats.  No
regressions are currently known from this, but if there are regressions,
they would be very difficult to debug and link to the source of the
problem.

This patch aims to fix these problems by restoring subtree flushing, and
removing the unified/coalesced flushing logic that skips flushing if there
is an ongoing flush.  This change would introduce a significant regression
with global stats flushing thresholds.  With per-memcg stats flushing
thresholds, this seems to perform really well.  The thresholds protect the
underlying lock from unnecessary contention.

This patch was tested in two ways to ensure the latency of flushing is
up to par, on a machine with 384 cpus:

- A synthetic test with 5000 concurrent workers in 500 cgroups doing
  allocations and reclaim, as well as 1000 readers for memory.stat
  (variation of [2]). No regressions were noticed in the total runtime.
  Note that significant regressions in this test are observed with
  global stats thresholds, but not with per-memcg thresholds.

- A synthetic stress test for concurrently reading memcg stats while
  memory allocation/freeing workers are running in the background,
  provided by Wei Xu [3]. With 250k threads reading the stats every
  100ms in 50k cgroups, 99.9% of reads take <= 50us. Less than 0.01%
  of reads take more than 1ms, and no reads take more than 100ms.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABWYdi0c6__rh-K7dcM_pkf9BJdTRtAU08M43KO9ME4-dsgfoQ@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tka13M-zVZTyQJYL1iUAYvuQ1fcHbCjcOBZcz6POYTV-4g@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAAPL-u9D2b=iF5Lf_cRnKxUfkiEe0AMDTu6yhrUAzX0b6a6rDg@mail.gmail.com/

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/zswap.c]
[yosryahmed@google.com: remove stats flushing mutex]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJD7tkZgP3m-VVPn+fF_YuvXeQYK=tZZjJHj=dzD=CcSSpp2qg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231129032154.3710765-6-yosryahmed@google.com


Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Tested-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

The workingset code flushes the stats in workingset_refault() to get
accurate stats of the eviction memcg.  In preparation for more scoped
flushed and passing the eviction memcg to the flush call, move the call to
workingset_test_recent() where we have a pointer to the eviction memcg.

The flush call is sleepable, and cannot be made in an rcu read section. 
Hence, minimize the rcu read section by also moving it into
workingset_test_recent().  Furthermore, instead of holding the rcu read
lock throughout workingset_test_recent(), only hold it briefly to get a
ref on the eviction memcg.  This allows us to make the flush call after we
get the eviction memcg.

As for workingset_refault(), nothing else there appears to be protected by
rcu.  The memcg of the faulted folio (which is not necessarily the same as
the eviction memcg) is protected by the folio lock, which is held from all
callsites.  Add a VM_BUG_ON() to make sure this doesn't change from under
us.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231129032154.3710765-5-yosryahmed@google.com


Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Tested-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Unmapped folios accessed through file descriptors can be underprotected. 
Those folios are added to the oldest generation based on:

1. The fact that they are less costly to reclaim (no need to walk the
   rmap and flush the TLB) and have less impact on performance (don't
   cause major PFs and can be non-blocking if needed again).
2. The observation that they are likely to be single-use. E.g., for
   client use cases like Android, its apps parse configuration files
   and store the data in heap (anon); for server use cases like MySQL,
   it reads from InnoDB files and holds the cached data for tables in
   buffer pools (anon).

However, the oldest generation can be very short lived, and if so, it
doesn't provide the PID controller with enough time to respond to a surge
of refaults.  (Note that the PID controller uses weighted refaults and
those from evicted generations only take a half of the whole weight.) In
other words, for a short lived generation, the moving average smooths out
the spike quickly.

To fix the problem:
1. For folios that are already on LRU, if they can be beyond the
   tracking range of tiers, i.e., five accesses through file
   descriptors, move them to the second oldest generation to give them
   more time to age. (Note that tiers are used by the PID controller
   to statistically determine whether folios accessed multiple times
   through file descriptors are worth protecting.)
2. When adding unmapped folios to LRU, adjust the placement of them so
   that they are not too close to the tail. The effect of this is
   similar to the above.

On Android, launching 55 apps sequentially:
                           Before     After      Change
  workingset_refault_anon  25641024   25598972   0%
  workingset_refault_file  115016834  106178438  -8%

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231208061407.2125867-1-yuzhao@google.com
Fixes: ac35a490

 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Tested-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Pulchart <jaroslav.pulchart@gooddata.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Patch series "workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap
writeback", v8.

There are currently several issues with zswap writeback:

1. There is only a single global LRU for zswap, making it impossible to
   perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg under memory pressure
   cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up
   writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously
   observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling
   memcg-initiated shrinking:

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u

   But this solution leaves a lot to be desired, as we still do not
   have an avenue for an memcg to free up its own memory locked up in
   the zswap pool.

2. We only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is hit.
   This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are
   unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious
   memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed
   ahead of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on
   factors such as memory access patterns and compressibility of the
   memory pages).

This patch series solves these issues by separating the global zswap LRU
into per-memcg and per-NUMA LRUs, and performs workload-specific (i.e
memcg- and NUMA-aware) zswap writeback under memory pressure.  The new
shrinker does not have any parameter that must be tuned by the user, and
can be opted in or out on a per-memcg basis.

As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the
linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in
tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall
performance.  Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe
from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds.


This patch (of 6):

The interface of list_lru is based on the assumption that the list node
and the data it represents belong to the same allocated on the correct
node/memcg.  While this assumption is valid for existing slab objects LRU
such as dentries and inodes, it is undocumented, and rather inflexible for
certain potential list_lru users (such as the upcoming zswap shrinker and
the THP shrinker).  It has caused us a lot of issues during our
development.

This patch changes list_lru interface so that the caller must explicitly
specify numa node and memcg when adding and removing objects.  The old
list_lru_add() and list_lru_del() are renamed to list_lru_add_obj() and
list_lru_del_obj(), respectively.

It also extends the list_lru API with a new function, list_lru_putback,
which undoes a previous list_lru_isolate call.  Unlike list_lru_add, it
does not increment the LRU node count (as list_lru_isolate does not
decrement the node count).  list_lru_putback also allows for explicit
memcg and NUMA node selection.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-2-nphamcs@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Use new APIs to dynamically allocate the mm-shadow shrinker.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911094444.68966-20-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com


Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Cc: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@ya.ru>
Cc: Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@somainline.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Yue Hu <huyue2@coolpad.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Currently, memcg uses rstat to maintain aggregated hierarchical stats. 
Counters are maintained for hierarchical stats at each memcg.  Rstat
tracks which cgroups have updates on which cpus to keep those counters
fresh on the read-side.

Non-hierarchical stats are currently not covered by rstat.  Their per-cpu
counters are summed up on every read, which is expensive.  The original
implementation did the same.  At some point before rstat, non-hierarchical
aggregated counters were introduced by commit a983b5eb ("mm:
memcontrol: fix excessive complexity in memory.stat reporting").  However,
those counters were updated on the performance critical write-side, which
caused regressions, so they were later removed by commit 815744d7
("mm: memcontrol: don't batch updates of local VM stats and events").  See
[1] for more detailed history.

Kernel versions in between a983b5eb & 815744d7 (a year and a half)
enjoyed cheap reads of non-hierarchical stats, s...

On Android app cycle workloads, MGLRU showed a significant reduction in
workingset refaults although pgpgin/pswpin remained relatively unchanged. 
This indicated MGLRU may be undercounting workingset refaults.

This has impact on userspace programs, like Android's LMKD, that monitor
workingset refault statistics to detect thrashing.

It was found that refaults were only accounted if the MGLRU shadow entry
was for a recently evicted folio.  However, recently evicted folios should
be accounted as workingset activation, and refaults should be accounted
regardless of recency.

Fix MGLRU's workingset refault and activation accounting to more closely
match that of the conventional active/inactive LRU.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230523205922.3852731-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Fixes: ac35a490

 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation")
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Avoid passing memcg* and pglist_data* to lru_gen_test_recent()
since we only use the lruvec anyway.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230522112058.2965866-4-talumbau@google.com


Signed-off-by: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Patch series "cachestat: a new syscall for page cache state of files",
v13.

There is currently no good way to query the page cache statistics of large
files and directory trees.  There is mincore(), but it scales poorly: the
kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to aggregate,
when the user really does not care about per-page information in that
case.  The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes along,
which can be quite slow as well.

Some use cases where this information could come in handy:
  * Allowing database to decide whether to perform an index scan or direct
    table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the index.
  * Visibility into the writeback algorithm, for performance issues
    diagnostic.
  * Workload-aware writeback pacing: estimating IO fulfilled by page cache
    (and IO to be done) within a range of a file, allowing for more
    frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and batching
    when there is not.
  * Computing memory usage of large files/directory trees, analogous to
    the du tool for disk usage.

More information about these use cases could be found in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315170934.GA97793@cmpxchg.org/

This series of patches introduces a new system call, cachestat, that
summarizes the page cache statistics (number of cached pages, dirty pages,
pages marked for writeback, evicted pages etc.) of a file, in a specified
range of bytes.  It also include a selftest suite that tests some typical
usage.  Currently, the syscall is only wired in for x86 architecture.

This interface is inspired by past discussion and concerns with fincore,
which has a similar design (and as a result, issues) as mincore.  Relevant
links:

https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/04207.html
https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/04209.html


I have also developed a small tool that computes the memory usage of files
and directories, analogous to the du utility.  User can choose between
mincore or cachestat (with cachestat exporting more information than
mincore).  To compare the performance of these two options, I benchmarked
the tool on the root directory of a Meta's server machine, each for five
runs:

Using cachestat
real -- Median: 33.377s, Average: 33.475s, Standard Deviation: 0.3602
user -- Median: 4.08s, Average: 4.1078s, Standard Deviation: 0.0742
sys -- Median: 28.823s, Average: 28.8866s, Standard Deviation: 0.2689

Using mincore:
real -- Median: 102.352s, Average: 102.3442s, Standard Deviation: 0.2059
user -- Median: 10.149s, Average: 10.1482s, Standard Deviation: 0.0162
sys -- Median: 91.186s, Average: 91.2084s, Standard Deviation: 0.2046

I also ran both syscalls on a 2TB sparse file:

Using cachestat:
real    0m0.009s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.009s

Using mincore:
real    0m37.510s
user    0m2.934s
sys     0m34.558s

Very large files like this are the pathological case for mincore.  In
fact, to compute the stats for a single 2TB file, mincore takes as long as
cachestat takes to compute the stats for the entire tree!  This could
easily happen inadvertently when we run it on subdirectories.  Mincore is
clearly not suitable for a general-purpose command line tool.

Regarding security concerns, cachestat() should not pose any additional
issues.  The caller already has read permission to the file itself (since
they need an fd to that file to call cachestat).  This means that the
caller can access the underlying data in its entirety, which is a much
greater source of information (and as a result, a much greater security
risk) than the cache status itself.

The latest API change (in v13 of the patch series) is suggested by Jens
Axboe.  It allows for 64-bit length argument, even on 32-bit architecture
(which is previously not possible due to the limit on the number of
syscall arguments).  Furthermore, it eliminates the need for compatibility
handling - every user can use the same ABI.


This patch (of 4):

In preparation for computing recently evicted pages in cachestat, refactor
workingset_refault and lru_gen_refault to expose a helper function that
would test if an evicted page is recently evicted.

[penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp: add missing rcu_read_unlock() in lru_gen_refault()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/610781bc-cf11-fc89-a46f-87cb8235d439@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-2-nphamcs@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

The calculation of workingset size is the core logic of handling refault,
it had been updated several times[1][2] after workingset.c was created[3].
But the description hadn't been updated accordingly, this mismatch may
confuse the readers.  So we update the description to make it consistent
to the code.

[1] commit 34e58cac ("mm: workingset: let cache workingset challenge anon")
[2] commit aae466b0 ("mm/swap: implement workingset detection for anonymous LRU")
[3] commit a528910e ("mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizing")

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202304131634494948454@zte.com.cn


Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

In workingset_refault(), we call
mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited() to read accurate stats within
an RCU read section and with sleeping disallowed.  Move the call above the
RCU read section to make it non-atomic.

Flushing is an expensive operation that scales with the number of cpus and
the number of cgroups in the system, so avoid doing it atomically where
possible.

Since workingset_refault() is the only caller of
mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited(), just make it non-atomic, and
rename it to mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-7-yosryahmed@google.com


Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Currently, all contexts that flush memcg stats do so with sleeping not
allowed.  Some of these contexts are perfectly safe to sleep in, such as
reading cgroup files from userspace or the background periodic flusher. 
Flushing is an expensive operation that scales with the number of cpus and
the number of cgroups in the system, so avoid doing it atomically where
possible.

Refactor the code to make mem_cgroup_flush_stats() non-atomic (aka
sleepable), and provide a separate atomic version.  The atomic version is
used in reclaim, refault, writeback, and in mem_cgroup_usage().  All other
code paths are left to use the non-atomic version.  This includes
callbacks for userspace reads and the periodic flusher.

Since refault is the only caller of mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(),
change it to mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited().  Reclaim and
refault code paths are modified to do non-atomic flushing in separate
later patches -- so it will eventually be changed back to
mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-6-yosryahmed@google.com


Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed() suggests his is using a delayed_work, but
this is actually sometimes flushing directly from the callsite.

What it's doing is ratelimited calls.  A better name would be
mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-3-yosryahmed@google.com


Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Shadow_nodes is for shadow nodes reclaiming of workingset handling, it is
updated when page cache add or delete since long time ago workingset only
supported page cache.  But when workingset supports anonymous page
detection, we missied updating shadow nodes for it.  This caused that
shadow nodes of anonymous page will never be reclaimd by
scan_shadow_nodes() even they use much memory and system memory is tense.

So update shadow_nodes of anonymous page when swap cache is add or delete
by calling xas_set_update(..workingset_update_node).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202301182013032211005@zte.com.cn
Fixes: aae466b0

 ("mm/swap: implement workingset detection for anonymous LRU")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Refault decisions are made based on the lruvec where the page was evicted,
as that determined its LRU order while it was alive.  Stats and workingset
aging must then occur on the lruvec of the new page, as that's the node
and cgroup that experience the refault and that's the lruvec whose
nonresident info ages out by a new resident page.  Those lruvecs could be
different when a page is shared between cgroups, or the refaulting page is
allocated on a different node.

There are currently two mix-ups:

1. When swap is available, the resident anon set must be considered
   when comparing the refault distance. The comparison is made against
   the right anon set, but the check for swap is not. When pages get
   evicted from a cgroup with swap, and refault in one without, this
   can incorrectly consider a hot refault as cold - and vice
   versa. Fix that by using the eviction cgroup for the swap check.

2. The stats and workingset age are updated against the wrong lruvec
   altogether: the right cgroup but the wrong NUMA node. When a page
   refaults on a different NUMA node, this will have confusing stats
   and distort the workingset age on a different lruvec - again
   possibly resulting in hot/cold misclassifications down the line.

Fix the swap check and the refault pgdat to address both concerns.

This was found during code review.  It hasn't caused notable issues in
production, suggesting that those refault-migrations are relatively rare
in practice.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104222944.2380117-1-nphamcs@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Co-developed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Patch series "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU", v3.

Overview
========

An memcg LRU is a per-node LRU of memcgs.  It is also an LRU of LRUs,
since each node and memcg combination has an LRU of folios (see
mem_cgroup_lruvec()).

Its goal is to improve the scalability of global reclaim, which is
critical to system-wide memory overcommit in data centers.  Note that
memcg reclaim is currently out of scope.

Its memory bloat is a pointer to each lruvec and negligible to each
pglist_data.  In terms of traversing memcgs during global reclaim, it
improves the best-case complexity from O(n) to O(1) and does not affect
the worst-case complexity O(n).  Therefore, on average, it has a sublinear
complexity in contrast to the current linear complexity.

The basic structure of an memcg LRU can be understood by an analogy to
the active/inactive LRU (of folios):
1. It has the young and the old (generations), i.e., the counterparts
   to the active and the inactive;
2. The increment of max_seq triggers promotion, i.e., the counterpart
   to activation;
3. Other events trigger similar operations, e.g., offlining an memcg
   triggers demotion, i.e., the counterpart to deactivation.

In terms of global reclaim, it has two distinct features:
1. Sharding, which allows each thread to start at a random memcg (in
   the old generation) and improves parallelism;
2. Eventual fairness, which allows direct reclaim to bail out at will
   and reduces latency without affecting fairness over some time.

The commit message in patch 6 details the workflow:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-7-yuzhao@google.com/

The following is a simple test to quickly verify its effectiveness.

  Test design:
  1. Create multiple memcgs.
  2. Each memcg contains a job (fio).
  3. All jobs access the same amount of memory randomly.
  4. The system does not experience global memory pressure.
  5. Periodically write to the root memory.reclaim.

  Desired outcome:
  1. All memcgs have similar pgsteal counts, i.e., stddev(pgsteal)
     over mean(pgsteal) is close to 0%.
  2. The total pgsteal is close to the total requested through
     memory.reclaim, i.e., sum(pgsteal) over sum(requested) is close
     to 100%.

  Actual outcome [1]:
                                     MGLRU off    MGLRU on
  stddev(pgsteal) / mean(pgsteal)    75%          20%
  sum(pgsteal) / sum(requested)      425%         95%

  ####################################################################
  MEMCGS=128

  for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
      mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg
  done

  start() {
      echo $BASHPID > /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg/cgroup.procs

      fio -name=memcg$memcg --numjobs=1 --ioengine=mmap \
          --filename=/dev/zero --size=1920M --rw=randrw \
          --rate=64m,64m --random_distribution=random \
          --fadvise_hint=0 --time_based --runtime=10h \
          --group_reporting --minimal
  }

  for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
      start &
  done

  sleep 600

  for ((i = 0; i < 600; i++)); do
      echo 256m >/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.reclaim
      sleep 6
  done

  for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
      grep "pgsteal " /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg/memory.stat
  done
  ####################################################################

[1]: This was obtained from running the above script (touches less
     than 256GB memory) on an EPYC 7B13 with 512GB DRAM for over an
     hour.


This patch (of 8):

The new name lru_gen_folio will be more distinct from the coming
lru_gen_memcg.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-2-yuzhao@google.com


Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

There are no longer any callers of lru_cache_add(), so remove it.  This
saves 79 bytes of kernel text.  Also cleanup some comments such that
they reference the new folio_add_lru() instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221101175326.13265-6-vishal.moola@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

We noticed a 2% webserver throughput regression after upgrading from 5.6. 
This could be tracked down to a shift in the anon/file reclaim balance
(confirmed with swappiness) that resulted in worse reclaim efficiency and
thus more kswapd activity for the same outcome.

The change that exposed the problem is aae466b0 ("mm/swap: implement
workingset detection for anonymous LRU").  By qualifying swapins based on
their refault distance, it lowered the cost of anon reclaim in this
workload, in turn causing (much) more anon scanning than before.  Scanning
the anon list is more expensive due to the higher ratio of mmapped pages
that may rotate during reclaim, and so the result was an increase in %sys
time.

Right now, rotations aren't considered a cost when balancing scan pressure
between LRUs.  We can end up with very few file refaults putting all the
scan pressure on hot anon pages that are rotated en masse, don't get
reclaimed, and never push back on the file LRU again.  We still only
reclaim file cache in that case, but we burn a lot CPU rotating anon
pages.  It's "fair" from an LRU age POV, but doesn't reflect the real cost
it imposes on the system.

Consider rotations as a secondary factor in balancing the LRUs.  This
doesn't attempt to make a precise comparison between IO cost and CPU cost,
it just says: if reloads are about comparable between the lists, or
rotations are overwhelmingly different, adjust for CPU work.

This fixed the regression on our webservers.  It has since been deployed
to the entire Meta fleet and hasn't caused any problems.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221013193113.726425-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org


Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

To avoid confusion, the terms "promotion" and "demotion" will be applied
to the multi-gen LRU, as a new convention; the terms "activation" and
"deactivation" will be applied to the active/inactive LRU, as usual.

The aging produces young generations.  Given an lruvec, it increments
max_seq when max_seq-min_seq+1 approaches MIN_NR_GENS.  The aging promotes
hot pages to the youngest generation when it finds them accessed through
page tables; the demotion of cold pages happens consequently when it
increments max_seq.  Promotion in the aging path does not involve any LRU
list operations, only the updates of the gen counter and
lrugen->nr_pages[]; demotion, unless as the result of the increment of
max_seq, requires LRU list operations, e.g., lru_deactivate_fn().  The
aging has the complexity O(nr_hot_pages), since it is only interested in
hot pages.

The eviction consumes old generations.  Given an lruvec, it increments
min_seq when lrugen->lists[] indexed by min_seq%M...

Currently shrinkers are anonymous objects.  For debugging purposes they
can be identified by count/scan function names, but it's not always
useful: e.g.  for superblock's shrinkers it's nice to have at least an
idea of to which superblock the shrinker belongs.

This commit adds names to shrinkers.  register_shrinker() and
prealloc_shrinker() functions are extended to take a format and arguments
to master a name.

In some cases it's not possible to determine a good name at the time when
a shrinker is allocated.  For such cases shrinker_debugfs_rename() is
provided.

The expected format is:
    <subsystem>-<shrinker_type>[:<instance>]-<id>
For some shrinkers an instance can be encoded as (MAJOR:MINOR) pair.

After this change the shrinker debugfs directory looks like:
  $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/shrinker/
  $ ls
    dquota-cache-16     sb-devpts-28     sb-proc-47       sb-tmpfs-42
    mm-shadow-18        sb-devtmpfs-5    sb-proc-48       sb-tmpfs-43
    mm-zspool:zram0-34  sb-hugetlbfs-17  sb-pstore-31     sb-tmpfs-44
    rcu-kfree-0         sb-hugetlbfs-33  sb-rootfs-2      sb-tmpfs-49
    sb-aio-20           sb-iomem-12      sb-securityfs-6  sb-tracefs-13
    sb-anon_inodefs-15  sb-mqueue-21     sb-selinuxfs-22  sb-xfs:vda1-36
    sb-bdev-3           sb-nsfs-4        sb-sockfs-8      sb-zsmalloc-19
    sb-bpf-32           sb-pipefs-14     sb-sysfs-26      thp-deferred_split-10
    sb-btrfs:vda2-24    sb-proc-25       sb-tmpfs-1       thp-zero-9
    sb-cgroup2-30       sb-proc-39       sb-tmpfs-27      xfs-buf:vda1-37
    sb-configfs-23      sb-proc-41       sb-tmpfs-29      xfs-inodegc:vda1-38
    sb-dax-11           sb-proc-45       sb-tmpfs-35
    sb-debugfs-7        sb-proc-46       sb-tmpfs-40

[roman.gushchin@linux.dev: fix build warnings]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yr+ZTnLb9lJk6fJO@castle


Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220601032227.4076670-4-roman.gushchin@linux.dev


Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Daniel Dao has reported [1] a regression on workloads that may trigger a
lot of refaults (anon and file).  The underlying issue is that flushing
rstat is expensive.  Although rstat flush are batched with (nr_cpus *
MEMCG_BATCH) stat updates, it seems like there are workloads which
genuinely do stat updates larger than batch value within short amount of
time.  Since the rstat flush can happen in the performance critical
codepaths like page faults, such workload can suffer greatly.

This patch fixes this regression by making the rstat flushing
conditional in the performance critical codepaths.  More specifically,
the kernel relies on the async periodic rstat flusher to flush the stats
and only if the periodic flusher is delayed by more than twice the
amount of its normal time window then the kernel allows rstat flushing
from the performance critical codepaths.

Now the question: what are the side-effects of this change? The worst
that can happen is the refault codepath will see 4sec old lruvec stats
and may cause false (or missed) activations of the refaulted page which
may under-or-overestimate the workingset size.  Though that is not very
concerning as the kernel can already miss or do false activations.

There are two more codepaths whose flushing behavior is not changed by
this patch and we may need to come to them in future.  One is the
writeback stats used by dirty throttling and second is the deactivation
heuristic in the reclaim.  For now keeping an eye on them and if there
is report of regression due to these codepaths, we will reevaluate then.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+wXwBSyO87ZX5PVwdHm-=dBjZYECGmfnydUicUyrQqndgX2MQ@mail.gmail.com [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220304184040.1304781-1-shakeelb@google.com
Fixes: 1f828223

 ("memcg: flush lruvec stats in the refault")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reported-by: Daniel Dao <dqminh@cloudflare.com>
Tested-by: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Frank Hofmann <fhofmann@cloudflare.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit 68d48e6a ("mm: workingset: add vmstat counter for shadow
nodes") introduced an IRQ-off check to ensure that a lock is held which
also disabled interrupts.  This does not work the same way on PREEMPT_RT
because none of the locks, that are held, disable interrupts.

Replace this check with a lockdep assert which ensures that the lock is
held.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220301122143.1521823-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de


Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The workingset will add the xa_node to the shadow_nodes list.  So the
allocation of xa_node should be done by kmem_cache_alloc_lru().  Using
xas_set_lru() to pass the list_lru which we want to insert xa_node into to
set up the xa_node reclaim context correctly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228122126.37293-9-songmuchun@bytedance.com


Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This removes an assumption that THPs are the only kind of compound
pages and removes a few hidden calls to compound_head().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Historically (pre-2.5), the inode shrinker used to reclaim only empty
inodes and skip over those that still contained page cache.  This caused
problems on highmem hosts: struct inode could put fill lowmem zones
before the cache was getting reclaimed in the highmem zones.

To address this, the inode shrinker started to strip page cache to
facilitate reclaiming lowmem.  However, this comes with its own set of
problems: the shrinkers may drop actively used page cache just because
the inodes are not currently open or dirty - think working with a large
git tree.  It further doesn't respect cgroup memory protection settings
and can cause priority inversions between containers.

Nowadays, the page cache also holds non-resident info for evicted cache
pages in order to detect refaults.  We've come to rely heavily on this
data inside reclaim for protecting the cache workingset and driving swap
behavior.  We also use it to quantify and report workload health through
psi.  The latter in turn is used for fleet health monitoring, as well as
driving automated memory sizing of workloads and containers, proactive
reclaim and memory offloading schemes.

The consequences of dropping page cache prematurely is that we're seeing
subtle and not-so-subtle failures in all of the above-mentioned
scenarios, with the workload generally entering unexpected thrashing
states while losing the ability to reliably detect it.

To fix this on non-highmem systems at least, going back to rotating
inodes on the LRU isn't feasible.  We've tried (commit a76cf1a4
("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages")) and failed
(commit 69056ee6 ("Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many
attached pages"")).

The issue is mostly that shrinker pools attract pressure based on their
size, and when objects get skipped the shrinkers remember this as
deferred reclaim work.  This accumulates excessive pressure on the
remaining inodes, and we can quickly eat into heavily used ones, or
dirty ones that require IO to reclaim, when there potentially is plenty
of cold, clean cache around still.

Instead, this patch keeps populated inodes off the inode LRU in the
first place - just like an open file or dirty state would.  An otherwise
clean and unused inode then gets queued when the last cache entry
disappears.  This solves the problem without reintroducing the reclaim
issues, and generally is a bit more scalable than having to wade through
potentially hundreds of thousands of busy inodes.

Locking is a bit tricky because the locks protecting the inode state
(i_lock) and the inode LRU (lru_list.lock) don't nest inside the
irq-safe page cache lock (i_pages.xa_lock).  Page cache deletions are
serialized through i_lock, taken before the i_pages lock, to make sure
depopulated inodes are queued reliably.  Additions may race with
deletions, but we'll check again in the shrinker.  If additions race
with the shrinker itself, we're protected by the i_lock: if find_inode()
or iput() win, the shrinker will bail on the elevated i_count or
I_REFERENCED; if the shrinker wins and goes ahead with the inode, it
will set I_FREEING and inhibit further igets(), which will cause the
other side to create a new instance of the inode instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614211904.14420-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org


Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This nets us 178 bytes of savings from removing calls to compound_head.
The three callers all grow a little, but each of them will be converted
to use folios soon, so that's fine.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

This function already assumed it was being passed a head page.  No real
change here, except that thp_nr_pages() compiles away on kernels with
THP compiled out while folio_nr_pages() is always present.  Also convert
page_memcg_rcu() to folio_memcg_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

This replaces mem_cgroup_page_lruvec().  All callers converted.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Prior to the commit 7e1c0d6f ("memcg: switch lruvec stats to rstat")
and the commit aa48e47e ("memcg: infrastructure to flush memcg
stats"), each lruvec memcg stats can be off by (nr_cgroups * nr_cpus *
32) at worst and for unbounded amount of time.  The commit aa48e47e
moved the lruvec stats to rstat infrastructure and the commit
7e1c0d6f bounded the error for all the lruvec stats to (nr_cpus *
32) at worst for at most 2 seconds.  More specifically it decoupled the
number of stats and the number of cgroups from the error rate.

However this reduction in error comes with the cost of triggering the
slowpath of stats update more frequently.  Previously in the slowpath
the kernel adds the stats up the memcg tree.  After aa48e47e, the
kernel triggers the asyn lruvec stats flush through queue_work().  This
causes regression reports from 0day kernel bot [1] as well as from
phoronix test suite [2].

We tried two options to fix the regression:

 1) Increase the threshold to trigger the slowpath in lruvec stats
    update codepath from 32 to 512.

 2) Remove the slowpath from lruvec stats update codepath and instead
    flush the stats in the page refault codepath. The assumption is that
    the kernel timely flush the stats, so, the update tree would be
    small in the refault codepath to not cause the preformance impact.

Following are the results of will-it-scale/page_fault[1|2|3] benchmark
on four settings i.e.  (1) 5.15-rc1 as baseline (2) 5.15-rc1 with
aa48e47e and 7e1c0d6f reverted (3) 5.15-rc1 with option-1
(4) 5.15-rc1 with option-2.

  test       (1)      (2)               (3)               (4)
  pg_f1   368563   406277 (10.23%)   399693  (8.44%)   416398 (12.97%)
  pg_f2   338399   372133  (9.96%)   369180  (9.09%)   381024 (12.59%)
  pg_f3   500853   575399 (14.88%)   570388 (13.88%)   576083 (15.02%)

From the above result, it seems like the option-2 not only solves the
regression but also improves the performance for at least these
benchmarks.

Feng Tang (intel) ran the aim7 benchmark with these two options and
confirms that option-1 reduces the regression but option-2 removes the
regression.

Michael Larabel (phoronix) ran multiple benchmarks with these options
and reported the results at [3] and it shows for most benchmarks
option-2 removes the regression introduced by the commit aa48e47e
("memcg: infrastructure to flush memcg stats").

Based on the experiment results, this patch proposed the option-2 as the
solution to resolve the regression.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210726022421.GB21872@xsang-OptiPlex-9020 [1]
Link: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux515-compile-regress [2]
Link: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2109226-DEBU-LINUX5104 [3]
Fixes: aa48e47e

 ("memcg: infrastructure to flush memcg stats")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Tested-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@phoronix.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Use the documented kernel-doc format to prevent kernel-doc warnings.

mm/workingset.c:256: warning: No description found for return value of 'workingset_eviction'
mm/workingset.c:285: warning: Function parameter or member 'folio' not described in 'workingset_refault'
mm/workingset.c:285: warning: Excess function parameter 'page' description in 'workingset_refault'

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808203153.10678-1-rdunlap@infradead.org


Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The magic number 1 is used in several places in workingset.c.  Define a
macro WORKINGSET_SHIFT for it to improve code readability.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210624122307.1759342-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

All the callers of mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() just pass page_pgdat(page) as
the 2nd parameter to it (except isolate_migratepages_block()).  But for
isolate_migratepages_block(), the page_pgdat(page) is also equal to the
local variable of @pgdat.  So mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() do not need the
pgdat parameter.  Just remove it to simplify the code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210417043538.9793-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com


Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We no longer need to keep track of how many shadow entries are present in
a mapping.  This saves a few writes to the inode and memory barriers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-3-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>

The premise of the refault distance is that it can be seen as a deficit of
the inactive list space, so that if the inactive list would have had (R -
E) more slots, the page would not have been evicted but promoted to the
active list instead.

However, the way the code is ordered right now set us to be off by one, so
the real number of slots would be (R - E) + 1.  I stumbled upon this when
trying to understand the code and it puzzled me that the comments did not
match what the code did.

This it not an issue at all since evictions and refaults tend to happen in
a number large enough that being off-by-one does not have any impact - and
since the compiler and CPUs are free to rearrange the execution sequence
anyway.

But as Johannes says, it is better to re-arrange the code in the proper
order since otherwise would be misleading to somebody who is actively
reading and trying to understand the logic of the code - like it happened
to me.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201060651.3781-1-osalvador@suse.de


Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If list_lru_shrink_count is 0, we always return SHRINK_EMPTY regardless of
the value of max_nodes.  So we can return early if nodes == 0 to save some
cpu cycles of approximating a reasonable limit for the nodes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210123073825.46709-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We have to move lru_lock into lru_note_cost, since it cycle up on memcg
tree, for future per lruvec lru_lock replace.  It's a bit ugly and may
cost a bit more locking, but benefit from multiple memcg locking could
cover the lost.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604566549-62481-11-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com


Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>