From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F0DC4320A for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 03:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B497261106 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 03:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235917AbhHSDUc (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2021 23:20:32 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:58124 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230459AbhHSDUa (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2021 23:20:30 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x635.google.com (mail-pl1-x635.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::635]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88A29C061764 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x635.google.com with SMTP id c17so3125273plz.2 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:19:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bytedance-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=u16iA5+owOG8vnM7VIDZOY9VYSsCqqEpRvLkiJHowJM=; b=TVwWpKoMKTB6tvz0kTGMhVMV4ci7WhwCOo3+J56GdY/MhqDwcDqBdErARKHiMgmVAi q46xwGumQRIhwwWleGasRyEDIv8Q+AITHHeDalA3BBbH6wY2u+9V65YR8eO3YYh7o0/0 sIec4mbMQZ6SsvWA6oWjqr91sxF/oieELjhTP+fOfgzuPbEQIKzZh+4t26FLOzr7iwd8 Dov3xd1Gb31Lxb0WUyOZgL8hHgNCdL9VZKErStf+XgktfV0W/8M/lF9Cw9DIH8huCdyA QDa2Ptv2boSa3Sy67vZla0vYJ3F9i/ip0Q4O3kvPQPGBDPVJIWxiXh6Vh9mvTUgr962+ KOjw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=u16iA5+owOG8vnM7VIDZOY9VYSsCqqEpRvLkiJHowJM=; b=VoSE3n7VDyPWOSEXNiXkqO6NyGOdPuJSoSvM8dYNpifYZ0ZyMq/9FrPfSzo0Nx2mJt n5kdIHDT6w6uYm4nPZT1+rF/vEjj61XuLS088GSnd1w5kBIvGKOA48dJdzoSGbIl2XAS fi/1JAwL73IIWBn1kbtAw/ycN0OWiqu/Me0fucQlAG0VgnkRGl+ZCiLXCSQswsaNz6kw GjkXsq4bLYT9LGS07QjZvwRf+FfZQk368r52DpCHS8ARIKAJ1+8VBWkHlBumyzjk1Ed7 6clXldmjTX+fQNFaXw+jLXaTaWiuWcSW3/P9ziRFhvN1qDzG0uqkw3bcUvqqhhyQn3Xd FmqQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531UcYtWTRqqTUD4439eu/6nqKH+qRLsg4FXL+/mEn17CiKRCi/F pjp54EjoBAM4QWuDYpUwgdPp2w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxMfD1wT2G89D25CGwS7u4ooQKwkTepp8xoAKuviQqL6trtAYnR+VMydQdzLzgERm8TXNzviQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:a581:: with SMTP id b1mr9508225pjq.146.1629343194024; Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([139.177.225.255]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k3sm1261276pfc.16.2021.08.18.20.19.49 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Qi Zheng To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org, vdavydov.dev@gmail.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, mika.penttila@nextfour.com, david@redhat.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, songmuchun@bytedance.com, Qi Zheng Subject: [PATCH v2 0/9] Free user PTE page table pages Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 11:18:49 +0800 Message-Id: <20210819031858.98043-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, This patch series aims to free user PTE page table pages when all PTE entries are empty. The beginning of this story is that some malloc libraries(e.g. jemalloc or tcmalloc) usually allocate the amount of VAs by mmap() and do not unmap those VAs. They will use madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) to free physical memory if they want. But the page tables do not be freed by madvise(), so it can produce many page tables when the process touches an enormous virtual address space. The following figures are a memory usage snapshot of one process which actually happened on our server: VIRT: 55t RES: 590g VmPTE: 110g As we can see, the PTE page tables size is 110g, while the RES is 590g. In theory, the process only need 1.2g PTE page tables to map those physical memory. The reason why PTE page tables occupy a lot of memory is that madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) only empty the PTE and free physical memory but doesn't free the PTE page table pages. So we can free those empty PTE page tables to save memory. In the above cases, we can save memory about 108g(best case). And the larger the difference between the size of VIRT and RES, the more memory we save. In this patch series, we add a pte_refcount field to the struct page of page table to track how many users of PTE page table. Similar to the mechanism of page refcount, the user of PTE page table should hold a refcount to it before accessing. The PTE page table page will be freed when the last refcount is dropped. Testing: The following code snippet can show the effect of optimization: mmap 50G while (1) { for (; i < 1024 * 25; i++) { touch 2M memory madvise MADV_DONTNEED 2M } } As we can see, the memory usage of VmPTE is reduced: before after VIRT 50.0 GB 50.0 GB RES 3.1 MB 3.6 MB VmPTE 102640 kB 248 kB I also have tested the stability by LTP[1] for several weeks. I have not seen any crash so far. The performance of page fault can be affected because of the allocation/freeing of PTE page table pages. The following is the test result by using a micro benchmark[2]: root@~# perf stat -e page-faults --repeat 5 ./multi-fault $threads: threads before (pf/min) after (pf/min) 1 32,085,255 31,880,833 (-0.64%) 8 101,674,967 100,588,311 (-1.17%) 16 113,207,000 112,801,832 (-0.36%) (The "pfn/min" means how many page faults in one minute.) The performance of page fault is ~1% slower than before. This series is based on next-20210812. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Qi. [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp [2] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/comment/296794/ Changelog in v1 -> v2: - Change pte_install() to pmd_install(). - Fix some typo and code style problems. - Split [PATCH v1 5/7] into [PATCH v2 4/9], [PATCH v2 5/9]，[PATCH v2 6/9] and [PATCH v2 7/9]. Qi Zheng (9): mm: introduce pmd_install() helper mm: remove redundant smp_wmb() mm: rework the parameter of lock_page_or_retry() mm: move pte_alloc{,_map,_map_lock}() to a separate file mm: pte_refcount infrastructure mm: free user PTE page table pages mm: add THP support for pte_ref mm: free PTE page table by using rcu mechanism mm: use mmu_gather to free PTE page table arch/arm/mm/pgd.c | 1 + arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 1 + arch/ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 1 + arch/parisc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 1 + arch/s390/mm/gmap.c | 1 + arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 1 + arch/sh/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 1 + arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 1 + arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 22 +++- fs/userfaultfd.c | 2 + include/linux/mm.h | 12 +- include/linux/mm_types.h | 8 +- include/linux/pagemap.h | 8 +- include/linux/pgtable.h | 3 +- include/linux/pte_ref.h | 300 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/rmap.h | 4 +- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 3 + mm/Kconfig | 4 + mm/Makefile | 3 +- mm/filemap.c | 57 ++++---- mm/gup.c | 7 + mm/hmm.c | 4 + mm/internal.h | 2 + mm/khugepaged.c | 9 ++ mm/ksm.c | 4 + mm/madvise.c | 18 ++- mm/memcontrol.c | 11 +- mm/memory.c | 276 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- mm/mempolicy.c | 4 +- mm/migrate.c | 18 +-- mm/mincore.c | 5 +- mm/mlock.c | 1 + mm/mmu_gather.c | 40 +++--- mm/mprotect.c | 10 +- mm/mremap.c | 12 +- mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 4 + mm/pagewalk.c | 16 ++- mm/pgtable-generic.c | 2 + mm/pte_ref.c | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++ mm/rmap.c | 13 ++ mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 2 +- mm/swapfile.c | 3 +- mm/userfaultfd.c | 18 ++- 45 files changed, 849 insertions(+), 210 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/pte_ref.h create mode 100644 mm/pte_ref.c -- 2.11.0