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   1// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
   2/*
   3 * Workingset detection
   4 *
   5 * Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat, Inc., Johannes Weiner
   6 */
   7
   8#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
   9#include <linux/writeback.h>
  10#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
  11#include <linux/pagemap.h>
  12#include <linux/atomic.h>
  13#include <linux/module.h>
  14#include <linux/swap.h>
  15#include <linux/dax.h>
  16#include <linux/fs.h>
  17#include <linux/mm.h>
  18
  19/*
  20 *              Double CLOCK lists
  21 *
  22 * Per node, two clock lists are maintained for file pages: the
  23 * inactive and the active list.  Freshly faulted pages start out at
  24 * the head of the inactive list and page reclaim scans pages from the
  25 * tail.  Pages that are accessed multiple times on the inactive list
  26 * are promoted to the active list, to protect them from reclaim,
  27 * whereas active pages are demoted to the inactive list when the
  28 * active list grows too big.
  29 *
  30 *   fault ------------------------+
  31 *                                 |
  32 *              +--------------+   |            +-------------+
  33 *   reclaim <- |   inactive   | <-+-- demotion |    active   | <--+
  34 *              +--------------+                +-------------+    |
  35 *                     |                                           |
  36 *                     +-------------- promotion ------------------+
  37 *
  38 *
  39 *              Access frequency and refault distance
  40 *
  41 * A workload is thrashing when its pages are frequently used but they
  42 * are evicted from the inactive list every time before another access
  43 * would have promoted them to the active list.
  44 *
  45 * In cases where the average access distance between thrashing pages
  46 * is bigger than the size of memory there is nothing that can be
  47 * done - the thrashing set could never fit into memory under any
  48 * circumstance.
  49 *
  50 * However, the average access distance could be bigger than the
  51 * inactive list, yet smaller than the size of memory.  In this case,
  52 * the set could fit into memory if it weren't for the currently
  53 * active pages - which may be used more, hopefully less frequently:
  54 *
  55 *      +-memory available to cache-+
  56 *      |                           |
  57 *      +-inactive------+-active----+
  58 *  a b | c d e f g h i | J K L M N |
  59 *      +---------------+-----------+
  60 *
  61 * It is prohibitively expensive to accurately track access frequency
  62 * of pages.  But a reasonable approximation can be made to measure
  63 * thrashing on the inactive list, after which refaulting pages can be
  64 * activated optimistically to compete with the existing active pages.
  65 *
  66 * Approximating inactive page access frequency - Observations:
  67 *
  68 * 1. When a page is accessed for the first time, it is added to the
  69 *    head of the inactive list, slides every existing inactive page
  70 *    towards the tail by one slot, and pushes the current tail page
  71 *    out of memory.
  72 *
  73 * 2. When a page is accessed for the second time, it is promoted to
  74 *    the active list, shrinking the inactive list by one slot.  This
  75 *    also slides all inactive pages that were faulted into the cache
  76 *    more recently than the activated page towards the tail of the
  77 *    inactive list.
  78 *
  79 * Thus:
  80 *
  81 * 1. The sum of evictions and activations between any two points in
  82 *    time indicate the minimum number of inactive pages accessed in
  83 *    between.
  84 *
  85 * 2. Moving one inactive page N page slots towards the tail of the
  86 *    list requires at least N inactive page accesses.
  87 *
  88 * Combining these:
  89 *
  90 * 1. When a page is finally evicted from memory, the number of
  91 *    inactive pages accessed while the page was in cache is at least
  92 *    the number of page slots on the inactive list.
  93 *
  94 * 2. In addition, measuring the sum of evictions and activations (E)
  95 *    at the time of a page's eviction, and comparing it to another
  96 *    reading (R) at the time the page faults back into memory tells
  97 *    the minimum number of accesses while the page was not cached.
  98 *    This is called the refault distance.
  99 *
 100 * Because the first access of the page was the fault and the second
 101 * access the refault, we combine the in-cache distance with the
 102 * out-of-cache distance to get the complete minimum access distance
 103 * of this page:
 104 *
 105 *      NR_inactive + (R - E)
 106 *
 107 * And knowing the minimum access distance of a page, we can easily
 108 * tell if the page would be able to stay in cache assuming all page
 109 * slots in the cache were available:
 110 *
 111 *   NR_inactive + (R - E) <= NR_inactive + NR_active
 112 *
 113 * which can be further simplified to
 114 *
 115 *   (R - E) <= NR_active
 116 *
 117 * Put into words, the refault distance (out-of-cache) can be seen as
 118 * a deficit in inactive list space (in-cache).  If the inactive list
 119 * had (R - E) more page slots, the page would not have been evicted
 120 * in between accesses, but activated instead.  And on a full system,
 121 * the only thing eating into inactive list space is active pages.
 122 *
 123 *
 124 *              Activating refaulting pages
 125 *
 126 * All that is known about the active list is that the pages have been
 127 * accessed more than once in the past.  This means that at any given
 128 * time there is actually a good chance that pages on the active list
 129 * are no longer in active use.
 130 *
 131 * So when a refault distance of (R - E) is observed and there are at
 132 * least (R - E) active pages, the refaulting page is activated
 133 * optimistically in the hope that (R - E) active pages are actually
 134 * used less frequently than the refaulting page - or even not used at
 135 * all anymore.
 136 *
 137 * If this is wrong and demotion kicks in, the pages which are truly
 138 * used more frequently will be reactivated while the less frequently
 139 * used once will be evicted from memory.
 140 *
 141 * But if this is right, the stale pages will be pushed out of memory
 142 * and the used pages get to stay in cache.
 143 *
 144 *
 145 *              Implementation
 146 *
 147 * For each node's file LRU lists, a counter for inactive evictions
 148 * and activations is maintained (node->inactive_age).
 149 *
 150 * On eviction, a snapshot of this counter (along with some bits to
 151 * identify the node) is stored in the now empty page cache radix tree
 152 * slot of the evicted page.  This is called a shadow entry.
 153 *
 154 * On cache misses for which there are shadow entries, an eligible
 155 * refault distance will immediately activate the refaulting page.
 156 */
 157
 158#define EVICTION_SHIFT  (RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_ENTRY + \
 159                         NODES_SHIFT +  \
 160                         MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT)
 161#define EVICTION_MASK   (~0UL >> EVICTION_SHIFT)
 162
 163/*
 164 * Eviction timestamps need to be able to cover the full range of
 165 * actionable refaults. However, bits are tight in the radix tree
 166 * entry, and after storing the identifier for the lruvec there might
 167 * not be enough left to represent every single actionable refault. In
 168 * that case, we have to sacrifice granularity for distance, and group
 169 * evictions into coarser buckets by shaving off lower timestamp bits.
 170 */
 171static unsigned int bucket_order __read_mostly;
 172
 173static void *pack_shadow(int memcgid, pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long eviction)
 174{
 175        eviction >>= bucket_order;
 176        eviction = (eviction << MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT) | memcgid;
 177        eviction = (eviction << NODES_SHIFT) | pgdat->node_id;
 178        eviction = (eviction << RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_SHIFT);
 179
 180        return (void *)(eviction | RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_ENTRY);
 181}
 182
 183static void unpack_shadow(void *shadow, int *memcgidp, pg_data_t **pgdat,
 184                          unsigned long *evictionp)
 185{
 186        unsigned long entry = (unsigned long)shadow;
 187        int memcgid, nid;
 188
 189        entry >>= RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_SHIFT;
 190        nid = entry & ((1UL << NODES_SHIFT) - 1);
 191        entry >>= NODES_SHIFT;
 192        memcgid = entry & ((1UL << MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT) - 1);
 193        entry >>= MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT;
 194
 195        *memcgidp = memcgid;
 196        *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
 197        *evictionp = entry << bucket_order;
 198}
 199
 200/**
 201 * workingset_eviction - note the eviction of a page from memory
 202 * @mapping: address space the page was backing
 203 * @page: the page being evicted
 204 *
 205 * Returns a shadow entry to be stored in @mapping->i_pages in place
 206 * of the evicted @page so that a later refault can be detected.
 207 */
 208void *workingset_eviction(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
 209{
 210        struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page_memcg(page);
 211        struct pglist_data *pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
 212        int memcgid = mem_cgroup_id(memcg);
 213        unsigned long eviction;
 214        struct lruvec *lruvec;
 215
 216        /* Page is fully exclusive and pins page->mem_cgroup */
 217        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
 218        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page);
 219        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
 220
 221        lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, memcg);
 222        eviction = atomic_long_inc_return(&lruvec->inactive_age);
 223        return pack_shadow(memcgid, pgdat, eviction);
 224}
 225
 226/**
 227 * workingset_refault - evaluate the refault of a previously evicted page
 228 * @shadow: shadow entry of the evicted page
 229 *
 230 * Calculates and evaluates the refault distance of the previously
 231 * evicted page in the context of the node it was allocated in.
 232 *
 233 * Returns %true if the page should be activated, %false otherwise.
 234 */
 235bool workingset_refault(void *shadow)
 236{
 237        unsigned long refault_distance;
 238        unsigned long active_file;
 239        struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 240        unsigned long eviction;
 241        struct lruvec *lruvec;
 242        unsigned long refault;
 243        struct pglist_data *pgdat;
 244        int memcgid;
 245
 246        unpack_shadow(shadow, &memcgid, &pgdat, &eviction);
 247
 248        rcu_read_lock();
 249        /*
 250         * Look up the memcg associated with the stored ID. It might
 251         * have been deleted since the page's eviction.
 252         *
 253         * Note that in rare events the ID could have been recycled
 254         * for a new cgroup that refaults a shared page. This is
 255         * impossible to tell from the available data. However, this
 256         * should be a rare and limited disturbance, and activations
 257         * are always speculative anyway. Ultimately, it's the aging
 258         * algorithm's job to shake out the minimum access frequency
 259         * for the active cache.
 260         *
 261         * XXX: On !CONFIG_MEMCG, this will always return NULL; it
 262         * would be better if the root_mem_cgroup existed in all
 263         * configurations instead.
 264         */
 265        memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(memcgid);
 266        if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !memcg) {
 267                rcu_read_unlock();
 268                return false;
 269        }
 270        lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, memcg);
 271        refault = atomic_long_read(&lruvec->inactive_age);
 272        active_file = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE, MAX_NR_ZONES);
 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_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_REFAULT);
 293
 294        if (refault_distance <= active_file) {
 295                inc_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE);
 296                rcu_read_unlock();
 297                return true;
 298        }
 299        rcu_read_unlock();
 300        return false;
 301}
 302
 303/**
 304 * workingset_activation - note a page activation
 305 * @page: page that is being activated
 306 */
 307void workingset_activation(struct page *page)
 308{
 309        struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 310        struct lruvec *lruvec;
 311
 312        rcu_read_lock();
 313        /*
 314         * Filter non-memcg pages here, e.g. unmap can call
 315         * mark_page_accessed() on VDSO pages.
 316         *
 317         * XXX: See workingset_refault() - this should return
 318         * root_mem_cgroup even for !CONFIG_MEMCG.
 319         */
 320        memcg = page_memcg_rcu(page);
 321        if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !memcg)
 322                goto out;
 323        lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(page_pgdat(page), memcg);
 324        atomic_long_inc(&lruvec->inactive_age);
 325out:
 326        rcu_read_unlock();
 327}
 328
 329/*
 330 * Shadow entries reflect the share of the working set that does not
 331 * fit into memory, so their number depends on the access pattern of
 332 * the workload.  In most cases, they will refault or get reclaimed
 333 * along with the inode, but a (malicious) workload that streams
 334 * through files with a total size several times that of available
 335 * memory, while preventing the inodes from being reclaimed, can
 336 * create excessive amounts of shadow nodes.  To keep a lid on this,
 337 * track shadow nodes and reclaim them when they grow way past the
 338 * point where they would still be useful.
 339 */
 340
 341static struct list_lru shadow_nodes;
 342
 343void workingset_update_node(struct radix_tree_node *node)
 344{
 345        /*
 346         * Track non-empty nodes that contain only shadow entries;
 347         * unlink those that contain pages or are being freed.
 348         *
 349         * Avoid acquiring the list_lru lock when the nodes are
 350         * already where they should be. The list_empty() test is safe
 351         * as node->private_list is protected by the i_pages lock.
 352         */
 353        if (node->count && node->count == node->exceptional) {
 354                if (list_empty(&node->private_list))
 355                        list_lru_add(&shadow_nodes, &node->private_list);
 356        } else {
 357                if (!list_empty(&node->private_list))
 358                        list_lru_del(&shadow_nodes, &node->private_list);
 359        }
 360}
 361
 362static unsigned long count_shadow_nodes(struct shrinker *shrinker,
 363                                        struct shrink_control *sc)
 364{
 365        unsigned long max_nodes;
 366        unsigned long nodes;
 367        unsigned long cache;
 368
 369        nodes = list_lru_shrink_count(&shadow_nodes, sc);
 370
 371        /*
 372         * Approximate a reasonable limit for the radix tree nodes
 373         * containing shadow entries. We don't need to keep more
 374         * shadow entries than possible pages on the active list,
 375         * since refault distances bigger than that are dismissed.
 376         *
 377         * The size of the active list converges toward 100% of
 378         * overall page cache as memory grows, with only a tiny
 379         * inactive list. Assume the total cache size for that.
 380         *
 381         * Nodes might be sparsely populated, with only one shadow
 382         * entry in the extreme case. Obviously, we cannot keep one
 383         * node for every eligible shadow entry, so compromise on a
 384         * worst-case density of 1/8th. Below that, not all eligible
 385         * refaults can be detected anymore.
 386         *
 387         * On 64-bit with 7 radix_tree_nodes per page and 64 slots
 388         * each, this will reclaim shadow entries when they consume
 389         * ~1.8% of available memory:
 390         *
 391         * PAGE_SIZE / radix_tree_nodes / node_entries * 8 / PAGE_SIZE
 392         */
 393        if (sc->memcg) {
 394                cache = mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages(sc->memcg, sc->nid,
 395                                                     LRU_ALL_FILE);
 396        } else {
 397                cache = node_page_state(NODE_DATA(sc->nid), NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
 398                        node_page_state(NODE_DATA(sc->nid), NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
 399        }
 400        max_nodes = cache >> (RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT - 3);
 401
 402        if (!nodes)
 403                return SHRINK_EMPTY;
 404
 405        if (nodes <= max_nodes)
 406                return 0;
 407        return nodes - max_nodes;
 408}
 409
 410static enum lru_status shadow_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item,
 411                                          struct list_lru_one *lru,
 412                                          spinlock_t *lru_lock,
 413                                          void *arg)
 414{
 415        struct address_space *mapping;
 416        struct radix_tree_node *node;
 417        unsigned int i;
 418        int ret;
 419
 420        /*
 421         * Page cache insertions and deletions synchroneously maintain
 422         * the shadow node LRU under the i_pages lock and the
 423         * lru_lock.  Because the page cache tree is emptied before
 424         * the inode can be destroyed, holding the lru_lock pins any
 425         * address_space that has radix tree nodes on the LRU.
 426         *
 427         * We can then safely transition to the i_pages lock to
 428         * pin only the address_space of the particular node we want
 429         * to reclaim, take the node off-LRU, and drop the lru_lock.
 430         */
 431
 432        node = container_of(item, struct radix_tree_node, private_list);
 433        mapping = container_of(node->root, struct address_space, i_pages);
 434
 435        /* Coming from the list, invert the lock order */
 436        if (!xa_trylock(&mapping->i_pages)) {
 437                spin_unlock_irq(lru_lock);
 438                ret = LRU_RETRY;
 439                goto out;
 440        }
 441
 442        list_lru_isolate(lru, item);
 443        spin_unlock(lru_lock);
 444
 445        /*
 446         * The nodes should only contain one or more shadow entries,
 447         * no pages, so we expect to be able to remove them all and
 448         * delete and free the empty node afterwards.
 449         */
 450        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!node->exceptional))
 451                goto out_invalid;
 452        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(node->count != node->exceptional))
 453                goto out_invalid;
 454        for (i = 0; i < RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE; i++) {
 455                if (node->slots[i]) {
 456                        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!radix_tree_exceptional_entry(node->slots[i])))
 457                                goto out_invalid;
 458                        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!node->exceptional))
 459                                goto out_invalid;
 460                        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mapping->nrexceptional))
 461                                goto out_invalid;
 462                        node->slots[i] = NULL;
 463                        node->exceptional--;
 464                        node->count--;
 465                        mapping->nrexceptional--;
 466                }
 467        }
 468        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(node->exceptional))
 469                goto out_invalid;
 470        inc_lruvec_page_state(virt_to_page(node), WORKINGSET_NODERECLAIM);
 471        __radix_tree_delete_node(&mapping->i_pages, node,
 472                                 workingset_lookup_update(mapping));
 473
 474out_invalid:
 475        xa_unlock_irq(&mapping->i_pages);
 476        ret = LRU_REMOVED_RETRY;
 477out:
 478        cond_resched();
 479        spin_lock_irq(lru_lock);
 480        return ret;
 481}
 482
 483static unsigned long scan_shadow_nodes(struct shrinker *shrinker,
 484                                       struct shrink_control *sc)
 485{
 486        /* list_lru lock nests inside the IRQ-safe i_pages lock */
 487        return list_lru_shrink_walk_irq(&shadow_nodes, sc, shadow_lru_isolate,
 488                                        NULL);
 489}
 490
 491static struct shrinker workingset_shadow_shrinker = {
 492        .count_objects = count_shadow_nodes,
 493        .scan_objects = scan_shadow_nodes,
 494        .seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS,
 495        .flags = SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE | SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE,
 496};
 497
 498/*
 499 * Our list_lru->lock is IRQ-safe as it nests inside the IRQ-safe
 500 * i_pages lock.
 501 */
 502static struct lock_class_key shadow_nodes_key;
 503
 504static int __init workingset_init(void)
 505{
 506        unsigned int timestamp_bits;
 507        unsigned int max_order;
 508        int ret;
 509
 510        BUILD_BUG_ON(BITS_PER_LONG < EVICTION_SHIFT);
 511        /*
 512         * Calculate the eviction bucket size to cover the longest
 513         * actionable refault distance, which is currently half of
 514         * memory (totalram_pages/2). However, memory hotplug may add
 515         * some more pages at runtime, so keep working with up to
 516         * double the initial memory by using totalram_pages as-is.
 517         */
 518        timestamp_bits = BITS_PER_LONG - EVICTION_SHIFT;
 519        max_order = fls_long(totalram_pages - 1);
 520        if (max_order > timestamp_bits)
 521                bucket_order = max_order - timestamp_bits;
 522        pr_info("workingset: timestamp_bits=%d max_order=%d bucket_order=%u\n",
 523               timestamp_bits, max_order, bucket_order);
 524
 525        ret = prealloc_shrinker(&workingset_shadow_shrinker);
 526        if (ret)
 527                goto err;
 528        ret = __list_lru_init(&shadow_nodes, true, &shadow_nodes_key,
 529                              &workingset_shadow_shrinker);
 530        if (ret)
 531                goto err_list_lru;
 532        register_shrinker_prepared(&workingset_shadow_shrinker);
 533        return 0;
 534err_list_lru:
 535        free_prealloced_shrinker(&workingset_shadow_shrinker);
 536err:
 537        return ret;
 538}
 539module_init(workingset_init);
 540