[PATCH] mm/damon/core: Avoid fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps

[PATCH] mm/damon/core: Avoid fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps

[SeongJae Park]

Because DAMON sleeps in uninterruptible mode, /proc/loadavg reports fake
load while DAMON is turned on, though it is doing nothing.  This can
confuse users[1].  To avoid the case, this commit makes DAMON sleeps in
idle mode.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/11868371.O9o76ZdvQC@natalenko.name/

Fixes: 2224d8485492 ("mm: introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON)")
Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.15.x
---
I think this needs to be applied on v5.15.y, but this cannot cleanly
applied there as is.  I will back-port this on v5.15.y and post later
once this is merged in the mainline.

 mm/damon/core.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index daacd9536c7c..7813f47aadc9 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 
@@ -976,12 +978,25 @@ static unsigned long damos_wmark_wait_us(struct damos *scheme)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* sleep for @usecs in idle mode */
+static void __sched damon_usleep_idle(unsigned long usecs)
+{
+	ktime_t exp = ktime_add_us(ktime_get(), usecs);
+	u64 delta = usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC / 100;	/* allow 1% error */
+
+	for (;;) {
+		__set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
+		if (!schedule_hrtimeout_range(&exp, delta, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS))
+			break;
+	}
+}
+
 static void kdamond_usleep(unsigned long usecs)
 {
 	if (usecs > 100 * 1000)
-		schedule_timeout_interruptible(usecs_to_jiffies(usecs));
+		schedule_timeout_idle(usecs_to_jiffies(usecs));
 	else
-		usleep_range(usecs, usecs + 1);
+		damon_usleep_idle(usecs);
 }
 
 /* Returns negative error code if it's not activated but should return */
@@ -1036,7 +1051,7 @@ static int kdamond_fn(void *data)
 				ctx->callback.after_sampling(ctx))
 			done = true;
 
-		usleep_range(ctx->sample_interval, ctx->sample_interval + 1);
+		kdamond_usleep(ctx->sample_interval);
 
 		if (ctx->primitive.check_accesses)
 			max_nr_accesses = ctx->primitive.check_accesses(ctx);
-- 
2.17.1

Re: [PATCH] mm/damon/core: Avoid fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:52:19 +0000 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote:

> Because DAMON sleeps in uninterruptible mode, /proc/loadavg reports fake
> load while DAMON is turned on, though it is doing nothing.  This can
> confuse users[1].  To avoid the case, this commit makes DAMON sleeps in
> idle mode.
> 
> --- a/mm/damon/core.c
> +++ b/mm/damon/core.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
>  #include <linux/kthread.h>
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/random.h>
> +#include <linux/sched.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  
> @@ -976,12 +978,25 @@ static unsigned long damos_wmark_wait_us(struct damos *scheme)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/* sleep for @usecs in idle mode */
> +static void __sched damon_usleep_idle(unsigned long usecs)
> +{
> +	ktime_t exp = ktime_add_us(ktime_get(), usecs);
> +	u64 delta = usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC / 100;	/* allow 1% error */
> +
> +	for (;;) {
> +		__set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
> +		if (!schedule_hrtimeout_range(&exp, delta, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS))
> +			break;
> +	}
> +}

Let's not copy-n-paste usleep_range() into damon code?

A new usleep_idle_range() in kernel/time/timer.c seems like a
worthwhile addition.  Perhaps usleep_idle_range() and usleep_range()
can be static inline wrappers against a new, more general function in
kernel/time/timer.c - usleep_range_state(min, max, state)?

Re: [PATCH] mm/damon/core: Avoid fake load reports due to uninterruptible sleeps

[SeongJae Park]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:42:10 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:52:19 +0000 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Because DAMON sleeps in uninterruptible mode, /proc/loadavg reports fake
> > load while DAMON is turned on, though it is doing nothing.  This can
> > confuse users[1].  To avoid the case, this commit makes DAMON sleeps in
> > idle mode.
> > 
> > --- a/mm/damon/core.c
> > +++ b/mm/damon/core.c
> > @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
> >  #include <linux/kthread.h>
> >  #include <linux/mm.h>
> >  #include <linux/random.h>
> > +#include <linux/sched.h>
> > +#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
> >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> >  #include <linux/string.h>
> >  
> > @@ -976,12 +978,25 @@ static unsigned long damos_wmark_wait_us(struct damos *scheme)
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > +/* sleep for @usecs in idle mode */
> > +static void __sched damon_usleep_idle(unsigned long usecs)
> > +{
> > +	ktime_t exp = ktime_add_us(ktime_get(), usecs);
> > +	u64 delta = usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC / 100;	/* allow 1% error */
> > +
> > +	for (;;) {
> > +		__set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
> > +		if (!schedule_hrtimeout_range(&exp, delta, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS))
> > +			break;
> > +	}
> > +}
> 
> Let's not copy-n-paste usleep_range() into damon code?
> 
> A new usleep_idle_range() in kernel/time/timer.c seems like a
> worthwhile addition.  Perhaps usleep_idle_range() and usleep_range()
> can be static inline wrappers against a new, more general function in
> kernel/time/timer.c - usleep_range_state(min, max, state)?

Makes sense, agreed.  I will post next version soon.


Thanks,
SJ