/*
* Workingset detection
*
* Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat, Inc., Johannes Weiner
*/
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
/*
* Double CLOCK lists
*
* Per node, two clock lists are maintained for file pages: the
* inactive and the active list. Freshly faulted pages start out at
* the head of the inactive list and page reclaim scans pages from the
* tail. Pages that are accessed multiple times on the inactive list
* are promoted to the active list, to protect them from reclaim,
* whereas active pages are demoted to the inactive list when the
* active list grows too big.
*
* fault ------------------------+
* |
* +--------------+ | +-------------+
* reclaim <- | inactive | <-+-- demotion | active | <--+
* +--------------+ +-------------+ |
* | |
* +-------------- promotion ------------------+
*
*
* Access frequency and refault distance
*
* A workload is thrashing when its pages are frequently used but they
* are evicted from the inactive list every time before another access
* would have promoted them to the active list.
*
* In cases where the average access distance between thrashing pages
* is bigger than the size of memory there is nothing that can be
* done - the thrashing set could never fit into memory under any
* circumstance.
*
* However, the average access distance could be bigger than the
* inactive list, yet smaller than the size of memory. In this case,
* the set could fit into memory if it weren't for the currently
* active pages - which may be used more, hopefully less frequently:
*
* +-memory available to cache-+
* | |
* +-inactive------+-active----+
* a b | c d e f g h i | J K L M N |
* +---------------+-----------+
*
* It is prohibitively expensive to accurately track access frequency
* of pages. But a reasonable approximation can be made to measure
* thrashing on the inactive list, after which refaulting pages can be
* activated optimistically to compete with the existing active pages.
*
* Approximating inactive page access frequency - Observations:
*
* 1. When a page is accessed for the first time, it is added to the
* head of the inactive list, slides every existing inactive page
* towards the tail by one slot, and pushes the current tail page
* out of memory.
*
* 2. When a page is accessed for the second time, it is promoted to
* the active list, shrinking the inactive list by one slot. This
* also slides all inactive pages that were faulted into the cache
* more recently than the activated page towards the tail of the
* inactive list.
*
* Thus:
*
* 1. The sum of evictions and activations between any two points in
* time indicate the minimum number of inactive pages accessed in
* between.
*
* 2. Moving one inactive page N page slots towards the tail of the
* list requires at least N inactive page accesses.
*
* Combining these:
*
* 1. When a page is finally evicted from memory, the number of
* inactive pages accessed while the page was in cache is at least
* the number of page slots on the inactive list.
*
* 2. In addition, measuring the sum of evictions and activations (E)
* at the time of a page's eviction, and comparing it to another
* reading (R) at the time the page faults back into memory tells
* the minimum number of accesses while the page was not cached.
* This is called the refault distance.
*
* Because the first access of the page was the fault and the second
* access the refault, we combine the in-cache distance with the
* out-of-cache distance to get the complete minimum access distance
* of this page:
*
* NR_inactive + (R - E)
*
* And knowing the minimum access distance of a page, we can easily
* tell if the page would be able to stay in cache assuming all page
* slots in the cache were available:
*
* NR_inactive + (R - E) <= NR_inactive + NR_active
*
* which can be further simplified to
*
* (R - E) <= NR_active
*
* Put into words, the refault distance (out-of-cache) can be seen as
* a deficit in inactive list space (in-cache). If the inactive list
* had (R - E) more page slots, the page would not have been evicted
* in between accesses, but activated instead. And on a full system,
* the only thing eating into inactive list space is active pages.
*
*
* Activating refaulting pages
*
* All that is known about the active list is that the pages have been
* accessed more than once in the past. This means that at any given
* time there is actually a good chance that pages on the active list
* are no longer in active use.
*
* So when a refault distance of (R - E) is observed and there are at
* least (R - E) active pages, the refaulting page is activated
* optimistically in the hope that (R - E) active pages are actually
* used less frequently than the refaulting page - or even not used at
* all anymore.
*
* If this is wrong and demotion kicks in, the pages which are truly
* used more frequently will be reactivated while the less frequently
* used once will be evicted from memory.
*
* But if this is right, the stale pages will be pushed out of memory
* and the used pages get to stay in cache.
*
*
* Implementation
*
* For each node's file LRU lists, a counter for inactive evictions
* and activations is maintained (node->inactive_age).
*
* On eviction, a snapshot of this counter (along with some bits to
* identify the node) is stored in the now empty page cache radix tree
* slot of the evicted page. This is called a shadow entry.
*
* On cache misses for which there are shadow entries, an eligible
* refault distance will immediately activate the refaulting page.
*/
#define EVICTION_SHIFT (RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_ENTRY + \
NODES_SHIFT + \
MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT)
#define EVICTION_MASK (~0UL >> EVICTION_SHIFT)
/*
* Eviction timestamps need to be able to cover the full range of
* actionable refaults. However, bits are tight in the radix tree
* entry, and after storing the identifier for the lruvec there might
* not be enough left to represent every single actionable refault. In
* that case, we have to sacrifice granularity for distance, and group
* evictions into coarser buckets by shaving off lower timestamp bits.
*/
static unsigned int bucket_order __read_mostly;
static void *pack_shadow(int memcgid, pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long eviction)
{
eviction >>= bucket_order;
eviction = (eviction << MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT) | memcgid;
eviction = (eviction << NODES_SHIFT) | pgdat->node_id;
eviction = (eviction << RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_SHIFT);
return (void *)(eviction | RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_ENTRY);
}
static void unpack_shadow(void *shadow, int *memcgidp, pg_data_t **pgdat,
unsigned long *evictionp)
{
unsigned long entry = (unsigned long)shadow;
int memcgid, nid;
entry >>= RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_SHIFT;
nid = entry & ((1UL << NODES_SHIFT) - 1);
entry >>= NODES_SHIFT;
memcgid = entry & ((1UL << MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT) - 1);
entry >>= MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT;
*memcgidp = memcgid;
*pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
*evictionp = entry << bucket_order;
}
/**
* workingset_eviction - note the eviction of a page from memory
* @mapping: address space the page was backing
* @page: the page being evicted
*
* Returns a shadow entry to be stored in @mapping->page_tree in place
* of the evicted @page so that a later refault can be detected.
*/
void *workingset_eviction(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page_memcg(page);
struct pglist_data *pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
int memcgid = mem_cgroup_id(memcg);
unsigned long eviction;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
/* Page is fully exclusive and pins page->mem_cgroup */
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, memcg);
eviction = atomic_long_inc_return(&lruvec->inactive_age);
return pack_shadow(memcgid, pgdat, eviction);
}
/**
* workingset_refault - evaluate the refault of a previously evicted page
* @shadow: shadow entry of the evicted page
*
* Calculates and evaluates the refault distance of the previously
* evicted page in the context of the node it was allocated in.
*
* Returns %true if the page should be activated, %false otherwise.
*/
bool workingset_refault(void *shadow)
{
unsigned long refault_distance;
unsigned long active_file;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
unsigned long eviction;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
unsigned long refault;
struct pglist_data *pgdat;
int memcgid;
unpack_shadow(shadow, &memcgid, &pgdat, &eviction);
rcu_read_lock();
/*
* Look up the memcg associated with the stored ID. It might
* have been deleted since the page's eviction.
*
* Note that in rare events the ID could have been recycled
* for a new cgroup that refaults a shared page. This is
* impossible to tell from the available data. However, this
* should be a rare and limited disturbance, and activations
* are always speculative anyway. Ultimately, it's the aging
* algorithm's job to shake out the minimum access frequency
* for the active cache.
*
* XXX: On !CONFIG_MEMCG, this will always return NULL; it
* would be better if the root_mem_cgroup existed in all
* configurations instead.
*/
memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(memcgid);
if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !memcg) {
rcu_read_unlock();
return false;
}
lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, memcg);
refault = atomic_long_read(&lruvec->inactive_age);
active_file = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE);
rcu_read_unlock();
/*
* The unsigned subtraction here gives an accurate distance
* across inactive_age overflows in most cases.
*
* There is a special case: usually, shadow entries have a
* short lifetime and are either refaulted or reclaimed along
* with the inode before they get too old. But it is not
* impossible for the inactive_age to lap a shadow entry in
* the field, which can then can result in a false small
* refault distance, leading to a false activation should this
* old entry actually refault again. However, earlier kernels
* used to deactivate unconditionally with *every* reclaim
* invocation for the longest time, so the occasional
* inappropriate activation leading to pressure on the active
* list is not a problem.
*/
refault_distance = (refault - eviction) & EVICTION_MASK;
inc_node_state(pgdat, WORKINGSET_REFAULT);
if (refault_distance <= active_file) {
inc_node_state(pgdat, WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE);
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* workingset_activation - note a page activation
* @page: page that is being activated
*/
void workingset_activation(struct page *page)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
rcu_read_lock();
/*
* Filter non-memcg pages here, e.g. unmap can call
* mark_page_accessed() on VDSO pages.
*
* XXX: See workingset_refault() - this should return
* root_mem_cgroup even for !CONFIG_MEMCG.
*/
memcg = page_memcg_rcu(page);
if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !memcg)
goto out;
lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(page_pgdat(page), memcg);
atomic_long_inc(&lruvec->inactive_age);
out:
rcu_read_unlock();
}
/*
* Shadow entries reflect the share of the working set that does not
* fit into memory, so their number depends on the access pattern of
* the workload. In most cases, they will refault or get reclaimed
* along with the inode, but a (malicious) workload that streams
* through files with a total size several times that of available
* memory, while preventing the inodes from being reclaimed, can
* create excessive amounts of shadow nodes. To keep a lid on this,
* track shadow nodes and reclaim them when they grow way past the
* point where they would still be useful.
*/
struct list_lru workingset_shadow_nodes;
static unsigned long count_shadow_nodes(struct shrinker *shrinker,
struct shrink_control *sc)
{
unsigned long shadow_nodes;
unsigned long max_nodes;
unsigned long pages;
/* list_lru lock nests inside IRQ-safe mapping->tree_lock */
local_irq_disable();
shadow_nodes = list_lru_shrink_count(&workingset_shadow_nodes, sc);
local_irq_enable();
if (memcg_kmem_enabled()) {
pages = mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages(sc->memcg, sc->nid,
LRU_ALL_FILE);
} else {
pages = node_page_state(NODE_DATA(sc->nid), NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
node_page_state(NODE_DATA(sc->nid), NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
}
/*
* Active cache pages are limited to 50% of memory, and shadow
* entries that represent a refault distance bigger than that
* do not have any effect. Limit the number of shadow nodes
* such that shadow entries do not exceed the number of active
* cache pages, assuming a worst-case node population density
* of 1/8th on average.
*
* On 64-bit with 7 radix_tree_nodes per page and 64 slots
* each, this will reclaim shadow entries when they consume
* ~2% of available memory:
*
* PAGE_SIZE / radix_tree_nodes / node_entries / PAGE_SIZE
*/
max_nodes = pages >> (1 + RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT - 3);
if (shadow_nodes <= max_nodes)
return 0;
return shadow_nodes - max_nodes;
}
static enum lru_status shadow_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item,
struct list_lru_one *lru,
spinlock_t *lru_lock,
void *arg)
{
struct address_space *mapping;
struct radix_tree_node *node;
unsigned int i;
int ret;
/*
* Page cache insertions and deletions synchroneously maintain
* the shadow node LRU under the mapping->tree_lock and the
* lru_lock. Because the page cache tree is emptied before
* the inode can be destroyed, holding the lru_lock pins any
* address_space that has radix tree nodes on the LRU.
*
* We can then safely transition to the mapping->tree_lock to
* pin only the address_space of the particular node we want
* to reclaim, take the node off-LRU, and drop the lru_lock.
*/
node = container_of(item, struct radix_tree_node, private_list);
mapping = node->private_data;
/* Coming from the list, invert the lock order */
if (!spin_trylock(&mapping->tree_lock)) {
spin_unlock(lru_lock);
ret = LRU_RETRY;
goto out;
}
list_lru_isolate(lru, item);
spin_unlock(lru_lock);
/*
* The nodes should only contain one or more shadow entries,
* no pages, so we expect to be able to remove them all and
* delete and free the empty node afterwards.
*/
BUG_ON(!node->count);
BUG_ON(node->count & RADIX_TREE_COUNT_MASK);
for (i = 0; i < RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE; i++) {
if (node->slots[i]) {
BUG_ON(!radix_tree_exceptional_entry(node->slots[i]));
node->slots[i] = NULL;
BUG_ON(node->count < (1U << RADIX_TREE_COUNT_SHIFT));
node->count -= 1U << RADIX_TREE_COUNT_SHIFT;
BUG_ON(!mapping->nrexceptional);
mapping->nrexceptional--;
}
}
BUG_ON(node->count);
inc_node_state(page_pgdat(virt_to_page(node)), WORKINGSET_NODERECLAIM);
if (!__radix_tree_delete_node(&mapping->page_tree, node))
BUG();
spin_unlock(&mapping->tree_lock);
ret = LRU_REMOVED_RETRY;
out:
local_irq_enable();
cond_resched();
local_irq_disable();
spin_lock(lru_lock);
return ret;
}
static unsigned long scan_shadow_nodes(struct shrinker *shrinker,
struct shrink_control *sc)
{
unsigned long ret;
/* list_lru lock nests inside IRQ-safe mapping->tree_lock */
local_irq_disable();
ret = list_lru_shrink_walk(&workingset_shadow_nodes, sc,
shadow_lru_isolate, NULL);
local_irq_enable();
return ret;
}
static struct shrinker workingset_shadow_shrinker = {
.count_objects = count_shadow_nodes,
.scan_objects = scan_shadow_nodes,
.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS,
.flags = SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE | SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE,
};
/*
* Our list_lru->lock is IRQ-safe as it nests inside the IRQ-safe
* mapping->tree_lock.
*/
static struct lock_class_key shadow_nodes_key;
static int __init workingset_init(void)
{
unsigned int timestamp_bits;
unsigned int max_order;
int ret;
BUILD_BUG_ON(BITS_PER_LONG < EVICTION_SHIFT);
/*
* Calculate the eviction bucket size to cover the longest
* actionable refault distance, which is currently half of
* memory (totalram_pages/2). However, memory hotplug may add
* some more pages at runtime, so keep working with up to
* double the initial memory by using totalram_pages as-is.
*/
timestamp_bits = BITS_PER_LONG - EVICTION_SHIFT;
max_order = fls_long(totalram_pages - 1);
if (max_order > timestamp_bits)
bucket_order = max_order - timestamp_bits;
pr_info("workingset: timestamp_bits=%d max_order=%d bucket_order=%u\n",
timestamp_bits, max_order, bucket_order);
ret = list_lru_init_key(&workingset_shadow_nodes, &shadow_nodes_key);
if (ret)
goto err;
ret = register_shrinker(&workingset_shadow_shrinker);
if (ret)
goto err_list_lru;
return 0;
err_list_lru:
list_lru_destroy(&workingset_shadow_nodes);
err:
return ret;
}
module_init(workingset_init);
