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1 /*
2 * Workingset detection
3 *
4 * Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat, Inc., Johannes Weiner
5 */
6
7 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
8 #include <linux/writeback.h>
9 #include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
10 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
11 #include <linux/atomic.h>
12 #include <linux/module.h>
13 #include <linux/swap.h>
14 #include <linux/dax.h>
15 #include <linux/fs.h>
16 #include <linux/mm.h>
17
18 /*
19 * Double CLOCK lists
20 *
21 * Per node, two clock lists are maintained for file pages: the
22 * inactive and the active list. Freshly faulted pages start out at
23 * the head of the inactive list and page reclaim scans pages from the
24 * tail. Pages that are accessed multiple times on the inactive list
25 * are promoted to the active list, to protect them from reclaim,
26 * whereas active pages are demoted to the inactive list when the
27 * active list grows too big.
28 *
29 * fault ------------------------+
30 * |
31 * +--------------+ | +-------------+
32 * reclaim <- | inactive | <-+-- demotion | active | <--+
33 * +--------------+ +-------------+ |
34 * | |
35 * +-------------- promotion ------------------+
36 *
37 *
38 * Access frequency and refault distance
39 *
40 * A workload is thrashing when its pages are frequently used but they
41 * are evicted from the inactive list every time before another access
42 * would have promoted them to the active list.
43 *
44 * In cases where the average access distance between thrashing pages
45 * is bigger than the size of memory there is nothing that can be
46 * done - the thrashing set could never fit into memory under any
47 * circumstance.
48 *
49 * However, the average access distance could be bigger than the
50 * inactive list, yet smaller than the size of memory. In this case,
51 * the set could fit into memory if it weren't for the currently
52 * active pages - which may be used more, hopefully less frequently:
53 *
54 * +-memory available to cache-+
55 * | |
56 * +-inactive------+-active----+
57 * a b | c d e f g h i | J K L M N |
58 * +---------------+-----------+
59 *
60 * It is prohibitively expensive to accurately track access frequency
61 * of pages. But a reasonable approximation can be made to measure
62 * thrashing on the inactive list, after which refaulting pages can be
63 * activated optimistically to compete with the existing active pages.
64 *
65 * Approximating inactive page access frequency - Observations:
66 *
67 * 1. When a page is accessed for the first time, it is added to the
68 * head of the inactive list, slides every existing inactive page
69 * towards the tail by one slot, and pushes the current tail page
70 * out of memory.
71 *
72 * 2. When a page is accessed for the second time, it is promoted to
73 * the active list, shrinking the inactive list by one slot. This
74 * also slides all inactive pages that were faulted into the cache
75 * more recently than the activated page towards the tail of the
76 * inactive list.
77 *
78 * Thus:
79 *
80 * 1. The sum of evictions and activations between any two points in
81 * time indicate the minimum number of inactive pages accessed in
82 * between.
83 *
84 * 2. Moving one inactive page N page slots towards the tail of the
85 * list requires at least N inactive page accesses.
86 *
87 * Combining these:
88 *
89 * 1. When a page is finally evicted from memory, the number of
90 * inactive pages accessed while the page was in cache is at least
91 * the number of page slots on the inactive list.
92 *
93 * 2. In addition, measuring the sum of evictions and activations (E)
94 * at the time of a page's eviction, and comparing it to another
95 * reading (R) at the time the page faults back into memory tells
96 * the minimum number of accesses while the page was not cached.
97 * This is called the refault distance.
98 *
99 * Because the first access of the page was the fault and the second
100 * access the refault, we combine the in-cache distance with the
101 * out-of-cache distance to get the complete minimum access distance
102 * of this page:
103 *
104 * NR_inactive + (R - E)
105 *
106 * And knowing the minimum access distance of a page, we can easily
107 * tell if the page would be able to stay in cache assuming all page
108 * slots in the cache were available:
109 *
110 * NR_inactive + (R - E) <= NR_inactive + NR_active
111 *
112 * which can be further simplified to
113 *
114 * (R - E) <= NR_active
115 *
116 * Put into words, the refault distance (out-of-cache) can be seen as
117 * a deficit in inactive list space (in-cache). If the inactive list
118 * had (R - E) more page slots, the page would not have been evicted
119 * in between accesses, but activated instead. And on a full system,
120 * the only thing eating into inactive list space is active pages.
121 *
122 *
123 * Activating refaulting pages
124 *
125 * All that is known about the active list is that the pages have been
126 * accessed more than once in the past. This means that at any given
127 * time there is actually a good chance that pages on the active list
128 * are no longer in active use.
129 *
130 * So when a refault distance of (R - E) is observed and there are at
131 * least (R - E) active pages, the refaulting page is activated
132 * optimistically in the hope that (R - E) active pages are actually
133 * used less frequently than the refaulting page - or even not used at
134 * all anymore.
135 *
136 * If this is wrong and demotion kicks in, the pages which are truly
137 * used more frequently will be reactivated while the less frequently
138 * used once will be evicted from memory.
139 *
140 * But if this is right, the stale pages will be pushed out of memory
141 * and the used pages get to stay in cache.
142 *
143 *
144 * Implementation
145 *
146 * For each node's file LRU lists, a counter for inactive evictions
147 * and activations is maintained (node->inactive_age).
148 *
149 * On eviction, a snapshot of this counter (along with some bits to
150 * identify the node) is stored in the now empty page cache radix tree
151 * slot of the evicted page. This is called a shadow entry.
152 *
153 * On cache misses for which there are shadow entries, an eligible
154 * refault distance will immediately activate the refaulting page.
155 */
156
157 #define EVICTION_SHIFT (RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_ENTRY + \
158 NODES_SHIFT + \
159 MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT)
160 #define EVICTION_MASK (~0UL >> EVICTION_SHIFT)
161
162 /*
163 * Eviction timestamps need to be able to cover the full range of
164 * actionable refaults. However, bits are tight in the radix tree
165 * entry, and after storing the identifier for the lruvec there might
166 * not be enough left to represent every single actionable refault. In
167 * that case, we have to sacrifice granularity for distance, and group
168 * evictions into coarser buckets by shaving off lower timestamp bits.
169 */
170 static unsigned int bucket_order __read_mostly;
171
172 static void *pack_shadow(int memcgid, pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long eviction)
173 {
174 eviction >>= bucket_order;
175 eviction = (eviction << MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT) | memcgid;
176 eviction = (eviction << NODES_SHIFT) | pgdat->node_id;
177 eviction = (eviction << RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_SHIFT);
178
179 return (void *)(eviction | RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_ENTRY);
180 }
181
182 static void unpack_shadow(void *shadow, int *memcgidp, pg_data_t **pgdat,
183 unsigned long *evictionp)
184 {
185 unsigned long entry = (unsigned long)shadow;
186 int memcgid, nid;
187
188 entry >>= RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_SHIFT;
189 nid = entry & ((1UL << NODES_SHIFT) - 1);
190 entry >>= NODES_SHIFT;
191 memcgid = entry & ((1UL << MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT) - 1);
192 entry >>= MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT;
193
194 *memcgidp = memcgid;
195 *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
196 *evictionp = entry << bucket_order;
197 }
198
199 /**
200 * workingset_eviction - note the eviction of a page from memory
201 * @mapping: address space the page was backing
202 * @page: the page being evicted
203 *
204 * Returns a shadow entry to be stored in @mapping->page_tree in place
205 * of the evicted @page so that a later refault can be detected.
206 */
207 void *workingset_eviction(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
208 {
209 struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page_memcg(page);
210 struct pglist_data *pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
211 int memcgid = mem_cgroup_id(memcg);
212 unsigned long eviction;
213 struct lruvec *lruvec;
214
215 /* Page is fully exclusive and pins page->mem_cgroup */
216 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
217 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page);
218 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
219
220 lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, memcg);
221 eviction = atomic_long_inc_return(&lruvec->inactive_age);
222 return pack_shadow(memcgid, pgdat, eviction);
223 }
224
225 /**
226 * workingset_refault - evaluate the refault of a previously evicted page
227 * @shadow: shadow entry of the evicted page
228 *
229 * Calculates and evaluates the refault distance of the previously
230 * evicted page in the context of the node it was allocated in.
231 *
232 * Returns %true if the page should be activated, %false otherwise.
233 */
234 bool workingset_refault(void *shadow)
235 {
236 unsigned long refault_distance;
237 unsigned long active_file;
238 struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
239 unsigned long eviction;
240 struct lruvec *lruvec;
241 unsigned long refault;
242 struct pglist_data *pgdat;
243 int memcgid;
244
245 unpack_shadow(shadow, &memcgid, &pgdat, &eviction);
246
247 rcu_read_lock();
248 /*
249 * Look up the memcg associated with the stored ID. It might
250 * have been deleted since the page's eviction.
251 *
252 * Note that in rare events the ID could have been recycled
253 * for a new cgroup that refaults a shared page. This is
254 * impossible to tell from the available data. However, this
255 * should be a rare and limited disturbance, and activations
256 * are always speculative anyway. Ultimately, it's the aging
257 * algorithm's job to shake out the minimum access frequency
258 * for the active cache.
259 *
260 * XXX: On !CONFIG_MEMCG, this will always return NULL; it
261 * would be better if the root_mem_cgroup existed in all
262 * configurations instead.
263 */
264 memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(memcgid);
265 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !memcg) {
266 rcu_read_unlock();
267 return false;
268 }
269 lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, memcg);
270 refault = atomic_long_read(&lruvec->inactive_age);
271 active_file = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE, MAX_NR_ZONES);
272 rcu_read_unlock();
273
274 /*
275 * The unsigned subtraction here gives an accurate distance
276 * across inactive_age overflows in most cases.
277 *
278 * There is a special case: usually, shadow entries have a
279 * short lifetime and are either refaulted or reclaimed along
280 * with the inode before they get too old. But it is not
281 * impossible for the inactive_age to lap a shadow entry in
282 * the field, which can then can result in a false small
283 * refault distance, leading to a false activation should this
284 * old entry actually refault again. However, earlier kernels
285 * used to deactivate unconditionally with *every* reclaim
286 * invocation for the longest time, so the occasional
287 * inappropriate activation leading to pressure on the active
288 * list is not a problem.
289 */
290 refault_distance = (refault - eviction) & EVICTION_MASK;
291
292 inc_node_state(pgdat, WORKINGSET_REFAULT);
293
294 if (refault_distance <= active_file) {
295 inc_node_state(pgdat, WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE);
296 return true;
297 }
298 return false;
299 }
300
301 /**
302 * workingset_activation - note a page activation
303 * @page: page that is being activated
304 */
305 void workingset_activation(struct page *page)
306 {
307 struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
308 struct lruvec *lruvec;
309
310 rcu_read_lock();
311 /*
312 * Filter non-memcg pages here, e.g. unmap can call
313 * mark_page_accessed() on VDSO pages.
314 *
315 * XXX: See workingset_refault() - this should return
316 * root_mem_cgroup even for !CONFIG_MEMCG.
317 */
318 memcg = page_memcg_rcu(page);
319 if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !memcg)
320 goto out;
321 lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(page_pgdat(page), memcg);
322 atomic_long_inc(&lruvec->inactive_age);
323 out:
324 rcu_read_unlock();
325 }
326
327 /*
328 * Shadow entries reflect the share of the working set that does not
329 * fit into memory, so their number depends on the access pattern of
330 * the workload. In most cases, they will refault or get reclaimed
331 * along with the inode, but a (malicious) workload that streams
332 * through files with a total size several times that of available
333 * memory, while preventing the inodes from being reclaimed, can
334 * create excessive amounts of shadow nodes. To keep a lid on this,
335 * track shadow nodes and reclaim them when they grow way past the
336 * point where they would still be useful.
337 */
338
339 static struct list_lru shadow_nodes;
340
341 void workingset_update_node(struct radix_tree_node *node, void *private)
342 {
343 struct address_space *mapping = private;
344
345 /* Only regular page cache has shadow entries */
346 if (dax_mapping(mapping) || shmem_mapping(mapping))
347 return;
348
349 /*
350 * Track non-empty nodes that contain only shadow entries;
351 * unlink those that contain pages or are being freed.
352 *
353 * Avoid acquiring the list_lru lock when the nodes are
354 * already where they should be. The list_empty() test is safe
355 * as node->private_list is protected by &mapping->tree_lock.
356 */
357 if (node->count && node->count == node->exceptional) {
358 if (list_empty(&node->private_list))
359 list_lru_add(&shadow_nodes, &node->private_list);
360 } else {
361 if (!list_empty(&node->private_list))
362 list_lru_del(&shadow_nodes, &node->private_list);
363 }
364 }
365
366 static unsigned long count_shadow_nodes(struct shrinker *shrinker,
367 struct shrink_control *sc)
368 {
369 unsigned long max_nodes;
370 unsigned long nodes;
371 unsigned long cache;
372
373 /* list_lru lock nests inside IRQ-safe mapping->tree_lock */
374 local_irq_disable();
375 nodes = list_lru_shrink_count(&shadow_nodes, sc);
376 local_irq_enable();
377
378 /*
379 * Approximate a reasonable limit for the radix tree nodes
380 * containing shadow entries. We don't need to keep more
381 * shadow entries than possible pages on the active list,
382 * since refault distances bigger than that are dismissed.
383 *
384 * The size of the active list converges toward 100% of
385 * overall page cache as memory grows, with only a tiny
386 * inactive list. Assume the total cache size for that.
387 *
388 * Nodes might be sparsely populated, with only one shadow
389 * entry in the extreme case. Obviously, we cannot keep one
390 * node for every eligible shadow entry, so compromise on a
391 * worst-case density of 1/8th. Below that, not all eligible
392 * refaults can be detected anymore.
393 *
394 * On 64-bit with 7 radix_tree_nodes per page and 64 slots
395 * each, this will reclaim shadow entries when they consume
396 * ~1.8% of available memory:
397 *
398 * PAGE_SIZE / radix_tree_nodes / node_entries * 8 / PAGE_SIZE
399 */
400 if (sc->memcg) {
401 cache = mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages(sc->memcg, sc->nid,
402 LRU_ALL_FILE);
403 } else {
404 cache = node_page_state(NODE_DATA(sc->nid), NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
405 node_page_state(NODE_DATA(sc->nid), NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
406 }
407 max_nodes = cache >> (RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT - 3);
408
409 if (nodes <= max_nodes)
410 return 0;
411 return nodes - max_nodes;
412 }
413
414 static enum lru_status shadow_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item,
415 struct list_lru_one *lru,
416 spinlock_t *lru_lock,
417 void *arg)
418 {
419 struct address_space *mapping;
420 struct radix_tree_node *node;
421 unsigned int i;
422 int ret;
423
424 /*
425 * Page cache insertions and deletions synchroneously maintain
426 * the shadow node LRU under the mapping->tree_lock and the
427 * lru_lock. Because the page cache tree is emptied before
428 * the inode can be destroyed, holding the lru_lock pins any
429 * address_space that has radix tree nodes on the LRU.
430 *
431 * We can then safely transition to the mapping->tree_lock to
432 * pin only the address_space of the particular node we want
433 * to reclaim, take the node off-LRU, and drop the lru_lock.
434 */
435
436 node = container_of(item, struct radix_tree_node, private_list);
437 mapping = container_of(node->root, struct address_space, page_tree);
438
439 /* Coming from the list, invert the lock order */
440 if (!spin_trylock(&mapping->tree_lock)) {
441 spin_unlock(lru_lock);
442 ret = LRU_RETRY;
443 goto out;
444 }
445
446 list_lru_isolate(lru, item);
447 spin_unlock(lru_lock);
448
449 /*
450 * The nodes should only contain one or more shadow entries,
451 * no pages, so we expect to be able to remove them all and
452 * delete and free the empty node afterwards.
453 */
454 if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!node->exceptional))
455 goto out_invalid;
456 if (WARN_ON_ONCE(node->count != node->exceptional))
457 goto out_invalid;
458 for (i = 0; i < RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE; i++) {
459 if (node->slots[i]) {
460 if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!radix_tree_exceptional_entry(node->slots[i])))
461 goto out_invalid;
462 if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!node->exceptional))
463 goto out_invalid;
464 if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mapping->nrexceptional))
465 goto out_invalid;
466 node->slots[i] = NULL;
467 node->exceptional--;
468 node->count--;
469 mapping->nrexceptional--;
470 }
471 }
472 if (WARN_ON_ONCE(node->exceptional))
473 goto out_invalid;
474 inc_node_state(page_pgdat(virt_to_page(node)), WORKINGSET_NODERECLAIM);
475 __radix_tree_delete_node(&mapping->page_tree, node,
476 workingset_update_node, mapping);
477
478 out_invalid:
479 spin_unlock(&mapping->tree_lock);
480 ret = LRU_REMOVED_RETRY;
481 out:
482 local_irq_enable();
483 cond_resched();
484 local_irq_disable();
485 spin_lock(lru_lock);
486 return ret;
487 }
488
489 static unsigned long scan_shadow_nodes(struct shrinker *shrinker,
490 struct shrink_control *sc)
491 {
492 unsigned long ret;
493
494 /* list_lru lock nests inside IRQ-safe mapping->tree_lock */
495 local_irq_disable();
496 ret = list_lru_shrink_walk(&shadow_nodes, sc, shadow_lru_isolate, NULL);
497 local_irq_enable();
498 return ret;
499 }
500
501 static struct shrinker workingset_shadow_shrinker = {
502 .count_objects = count_shadow_nodes,
503 .scan_objects = scan_shadow_nodes,
504 .seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS,
505 .flags = SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE | SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE,
506 };
507
508 /*
509 * Our list_lru->lock is IRQ-safe as it nests inside the IRQ-safe
510 * mapping->tree_lock.
511 */
512 static struct lock_class_key shadow_nodes_key;
513
514 static int __init workingset_init(void)
515 {
516 unsigned int timestamp_bits;
517 unsigned int max_order;
518 int ret;
519
520 BUILD_BUG_ON(BITS_PER_LONG < EVICTION_SHIFT);
521 /*
522 * Calculate the eviction bucket size to cover the longest
523 * actionable refault distance, which is currently half of
524 * memory (totalram_pages/2). However, memory hotplug may add
525 * some more pages at runtime, so keep working with up to
526 * double the initial memory by using totalram_pages as-is.
527 */
528 timestamp_bits = BITS_PER_LONG - EVICTION_SHIFT;
529 max_order = fls_long(totalram_pages - 1);
530 if (max_order > timestamp_bits)
531 bucket_order = max_order - timestamp_bits;
532 pr_info("workingset: timestamp_bits=%d max_order=%d bucket_order=%u\n",
533 timestamp_bits, max_order, bucket_order);
534
535 ret = __list_lru_init(&shadow_nodes, true, &shadow_nodes_key);
536 if (ret)
537 goto err;
538 ret = register_shrinker(&workingset_shadow_shrinker);
539 if (ret)
540 goto err_list_lru;
541 return 0;
542 err_list_lru:
543 list_lru_destroy(&shadow_nodes);
544 err:
545 return ret;
546 }
547 module_init(workingset_init);