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mm: multi-gen LRU: kill switch
authorYu Zhao <[email protected]>
Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:00:07 +0000 (02:00 -0600)
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 02:46:10 +0000 (19:46 -0700)
commit354ed597442952fb680c9cafc7e4eb8a76f9514c
tree455281837f69836a589c09b7a4d34e8151b10d9a
parentf76c83378851f8e70f032848c4e61203f39480e4
mm: multi-gen LRU: kill switch

Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled as a kill switch. Components that
can be disabled include:
  0x0001: the multi-gen LRU core
  0x0002: walking page table, when arch_has_hw_pte_young() returns
          true
  0x0004: clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries, when
          CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y
  [yYnN]: apply to all the components above
E.g.,
  echo y >/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  0x0007
  echo 5 >/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  0x0005

NB: the page table walks happen on the scale of seconds under heavy memory
pressure, in which case the mmap_lock contention is a lesser concern,
compared with the LRU lock contention and the I/O congestion.  So far the
only well-known case of the mmap_lock contention happens on Android, due
to Scudo [1] which allocates several thousand VMAs for merely a few
hundred MBs.  The SPF and the Maple Tree also have provided their own
assessments [2][3].  However, if walking page tables does worsen the
mmap_lock contention, the kill switch can be used to disable it.  In this
case the multi-gen LRU will suffer a minor performance degradation, as
shown previously.

Clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries can also be disabled,
since this behavior was not tested on x86 varieties other than Intel and
AMD.

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/scudo
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220128131006[email protected]/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220426150616.3937571[email protected]/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Larabel <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
include/linux/cgroup.h
include/linux/mm_inline.h
include/linux/mmzone.h
kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h
mm/Kconfig
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