6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
commit 82241a83cd15aaaf28200a40ad1a8b480012edaf upstream.
On some large machines with a high number of CPUs running a 64K pagesize kernel, we found that the 'RES' field is always 0 displayed by the top command for some processes, which will cause a lot of confusion for users.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 875525 root 20 0 12480 0 0 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.08 top 1 root 20 0 172800 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.52 systemd
The main reason is that the batch size of the percpu counter is quite large on these machines, caching a significant percpu value, since converting mm's rss stats into percpu_counter by commit f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter"). Intuitively, the batch number should be optimized, but on some paths, performance may take precedence over statistical accuracy. Therefore, introducing a new interface to add the percpu statistical count and display it to users, which can remove the confusion. In addition, this change is not expected to be on a performance-critical path, so the modification should be acceptable.
In addition, the 'mm->rss_stat' is updated by using add_mm_counter() and dec/inc_mm_counter(), which are all wrappers around percpu_counter_add_batch(). In percpu_counter_add_batch(), there is percpu batch caching to avoid 'fbc->lock' contention. This patch changes task_mem() and task_statm() to get the accurate mm counters under the 'fbc->lock', but this should not exacerbate kernel 'mm->rss_stat' lock contention due to the percpu batch caching of the mm counters. The following test also confirm the theoretical analysis.
I run the stress-ng that stresses anon page faults in 32 threads on my 32 cores machine, while simultaneously running a script that starts 32 threads to busy-loop pread each stress-ng thread's /proc/pid/status interface. From the following data, I did not observe any obvious impact of this patch on the stress-ng tests.
w/o patch: stress-ng: info: [6848] 4,399,219,085,152 CPU Cycles 67.327 B/sec stress-ng: info: [6848] 1,616,524,844,832 Instructions 24.740 B/sec (0.367 instr. per cycle) stress-ng: info: [6848] 39,529,792 Page Faults Total 0.605 M/sec stress-ng: info: [6848] 39,529,792 Page Faults Minor 0.605 M/sec
w/patch: stress-ng: info: [2485] 4,462,440,381,856 CPU Cycles 68.382 B/sec stress-ng: info: [2485] 1,615,101,503,296 Instructions 24.750 B/sec (0.362 instr. per cycle) stress-ng: info: [2485] 39,439,232 Page Faults Total 0.604 M/sec stress-ng: info: [2485] 39,439,232 Page Faults Minor 0.604 M/sec
On comparing a very simple app which just allocates & touches some memory against v6.1 (which doesn't have f1a7941243c1) and latest Linus tree (4c06e63b9203) I can see that on latest Linus tree the values for VmRSS, RssAnon and RssFile from /proc/self/status are all zeroes while they do report values on v6.1 and a Linus tree with this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4586b17f66f97c174f7fd1f8647374fdb53de1c.174911905... Fixes: f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter") Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Reviewed-by: Aboorva Devarajan aboorvad@linux.ibm.com Tested-by: Aboorva Devarajan aboorvad@linux.ibm.com Tested-by Donet Tom donettom@linux.ibm.com Acked-by: Shakeel Butt shakeel.butt@linux.dev Acked-by: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Liam Howlett liam.howlett@oracle.com Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Cc: Mike Rapoport rppt@kernel.org Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 14 +++++++------- include/linux/mm.h | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ void task_mem(struct seq_file *m, struct unsigned long text, lib, swap, anon, file, shmem; unsigned long hiwater_vm, total_vm, hiwater_rss, total_rss;
- anon = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); - file = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES); - shmem = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES); + anon = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); + file = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_FILEPAGES); + shmem = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES);
/* * Note: to minimize their overhead, mm maintains hiwater_vm and @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ void task_mem(struct seq_file *m, struct text = min(text, mm->exec_vm << PAGE_SHIFT); lib = (mm->exec_vm << PAGE_SHIFT) - text;
- swap = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS); + swap = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_SWAPENTS); SEQ_PUT_DEC("VmPeak:\t", hiwater_vm); SEQ_PUT_DEC(" kB\nVmSize:\t", total_vm); SEQ_PUT_DEC(" kB\nVmLck:\t", mm->locked_vm); @@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ unsigned long task_statm(struct mm_struc unsigned long *shared, unsigned long *text, unsigned long *data, unsigned long *resident) { - *shared = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES) + - get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES); + *shared = get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_FILEPAGES) + + get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES); *text = (PAGE_ALIGN(mm->end_code) - (mm->start_code & PAGE_MASK)) >> PAGE_SHIFT; *data = mm->data_vm + mm->stack_vm; - *resident = *shared + get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); + *resident = *shared + get_mm_counter_sum(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); return mm->total_vm; }
--- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2551,6 +2551,11 @@ static inline unsigned long get_mm_count return percpu_counter_read_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]); }
+static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter_sum(struct mm_struct *mm, int member) +{ + return percpu_counter_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]); +} + void mm_trace_rss_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, int member);
static inline void add_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member, long value)