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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 225 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst index 338f2c7d7a1c..0fa724d82abb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst @@ -29,12 +29,14 @@ Brief summary of control files:: hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB usage limit + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.numa_stat # show the numa information of the hugetlb memory charged to this cgroup For a system supporting three hugepage sizes (64k, 32M and 1G), the control files include:: hugetlb.1GB.limit_in_bytes hugetlb.1GB.max_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.1GB.numa_stat hugetlb.1GB.usage_in_bytes hugetlb.1GB.failcnt hugetlb.1GB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes @@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ files include:: hugetlb.1GB.rsvd.failcnt hugetlb.64KB.limit_in_bytes hugetlb.64KB.max_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.64KB.numa_stat hugetlb.64KB.usage_in_bytes hugetlb.64KB.failcnt hugetlb.64KB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes @@ -51,6 +54,7 @@ files include:: hugetlb.64KB.rsvd.failcnt hugetlb.32MB.limit_in_bytes hugetlb.32MB.max_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.32MB.numa_stat hugetlb.32MB.usage_in_bytes hugetlb.32MB.failcnt hugetlb.32MB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index 2aeb7ae8b393..5aa368d165da 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1268,6 +1268,9 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back. The number of processes belonging to this cgroup killed by any kind of OOM killer. + oom_group_kill + The number of times a group OOM has occurred. + memory.events.local Similar to memory.events but the fields in the file are local to the cgroup i.e. not hierarchical. The file modified event @@ -1311,6 +1314,9 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back. sock (npn) Amount of memory used in network transmission buffers + vmalloc (npn) + Amount of memory used for vmap backed memory. + shmem Amount of cached filesystem data that is swap-backed, such as tmpfs, shm segments, shared anonymous mmap()s @@ -2260,6 +2266,11 @@ HugeTLB Interface Files are local to the cgroup i.e. not hierarchical. The file modified event generated on this file reflects only the local events. + hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.numa_stat + Similar to memory.numa_stat, it shows the numa information of the + hugetlb pages of <hugepagesize> in this cgroup. Only active in + use hugetlb pages are included. The per-node values are in bytes. + Misc ---- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst index fb9def3a7355..0af51a9705b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst @@ -208,6 +208,31 @@ PID of the DAMON thread. If DAMON_RECLAIM is enabled, this becomes the PID of the worker thread. Else, -1. +nr_reclaim_tried_regions +------------------------ + +Number of memory regions that tried to be reclaimed by DAMON_RECLAIM. + +bytes_reclaim_tried_regions +--------------------------- + +Total bytes of memory regions that tried to be reclaimed by DAMON_RECLAIM. + +nr_reclaimed_regions +-------------------- + +Number of memory regions that successfully be reclaimed by DAMON_RECLAIM. + +bytes_reclaimed_regions +----------------------- + +Total bytes of memory regions that successfully be reclaimed by DAMON_RECLAIM. + +nr_quota_exceeds +---------------- + +Number of times that the time/space quota limits have exceeded. + Example ======= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index ed96bbf0daff..59b84904a854 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -7,37 +7,40 @@ Detailed Usages DAMON provides below three interfaces for different users. - *DAMON user space tool.* - This is for privileged people such as system administrators who want a - just-working human-friendly interface. Using this, users can use the DAMON’s - major features in a human-friendly way. It may not be highly tuned for - special cases, though. It supports both virtual and physical address spaces - monitoring. + `This <https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is for privileged people such as + system administrators who want a just-working human-friendly interface. + Using this, users can use the DAMON’s major features in a human-friendly way. + It may not be highly tuned for special cases, though. It supports both + virtual and physical address spaces monitoring. For more detail, please + refer to its `usage document + <https://github.com/awslabs/damo/blob/next/USAGE.md>`_. - *debugfs interface.* - This is for privileged user space programmers who want more optimized use of - DAMON. Using this, users can use DAMON’s major features by reading - from and writing to special debugfs files. Therefore, you can write and use - your personalized DAMON debugfs wrapper programs that reads/writes the - debugfs files instead of you. The DAMON user space tool is also a reference - implementation of such programs. It supports both virtual and physical - address spaces monitoring. + :ref:`This <debugfs_interface>` is for privileged user space programmers who + want more optimized use of DAMON. Using this, users can use DAMON’s major + features by reading from and writing to special debugfs files. Therefore, + you can write and use your personalized DAMON debugfs wrapper programs that + reads/writes the debugfs files instead of you. The `DAMON user space tool + <https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is one example of such programs. It + supports both virtual and physical address spaces monitoring. Note that this + interface provides only simple :ref:`statistics <damos_stats>` for the + monitoring results. For detailed monitoring results, DAMON provides a + :ref:`tracepoint <tracepoint>`. - *Kernel Space Programming Interface.* - This is for kernel space programmers. Using this, users can utilize every - feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by writing kernel space - DAMON application programs for you. You can even extend DAMON for various - address spaces. + :doc:`This </vm/damon/api>` is for kernel space programmers. Using this, + users can utilize every feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by + writing kernel space DAMON application programs for you. You can even extend + DAMON for various address spaces. For detail, please refer to the interface + :doc:`document </vm/damon/api>`. -Nevertheless, you could write your own user space tool using the debugfs -interface. A reference implementation is available at -https://github.com/awslabs/damo. If you are a kernel programmer, you could -refer to :doc:`/vm/damon/api` for the kernel space programming interface. For -the reason, this document describes only the debugfs interface + +.. _debugfs_interface: debugfs Interface ================= -DAMON exports five files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, ``init_regions``, -``schemes`` and ``monitor_on`` under its debugfs directory, -``<debugfs>/damon/``. +DAMON exports eight files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, ``init_regions``, +``schemes``, ``monitor_on``, ``kdamond_pid``, ``mk_contexts`` and +``rm_contexts`` under its debugfs directory, ``<debugfs>/damon/``. Attributes @@ -131,24 +134,38 @@ Schemes For usual DAMON-based data access aware memory management optimizations, users would simply want the system to apply a memory management action to a memory -region of a specific size having a specific access frequency for a specific -time. DAMON receives such formalized operation schemes from the user and -applies those to the target processes. It also counts the total number and -size of regions that each scheme is applied. This statistics can be used for -online analysis or tuning of the schemes. +region of a specific access pattern. DAMON receives such formalized operation +schemes from the user and applies those to the target processes. Users can get and set the schemes by reading from and writing to ``schemes`` debugfs file. Reading the file also shows the statistics of each scheme. To -the file, each of the schemes should be represented in each line in below form: +the file, each of the schemes should be represented in each line in below +form:: + + <target access pattern> <action> <quota> <watermarks> + +You can disable schemes by simply writing an empty string to the file. + +Target Access Pattern +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The ``<target access pattern>`` is constructed with three ranges in below +form:: + + min-size max-size min-acc max-acc min-age max-age - min-size max-size min-acc max-acc min-age max-age action +Specifically, bytes for the size of regions (``min-size`` and ``max-size``), +number of monitored accesses per aggregate interval for access frequency +(``min-acc`` and ``max-acc``), number of aggregate intervals for the age of +regions (``min-age`` and ``max-age``) are specified. Note that the ranges are +closed interval. -Note that the ranges are closed interval. Bytes for the size of regions -(``min-size`` and ``max-size``), number of monitored accesses per aggregate -interval for access frequency (``min-acc`` and ``max-acc``), number of -aggregate intervals for the age of regions (``min-age`` and ``max-age``), and a -predefined integer for memory management actions should be used. The supported -numbers and their meanings are as below. +Action +~~~~~~ + +The ``<action>`` is a predefined integer for memory management actions, which +DAMON will apply to the regions having the target access pattern. The +supported numbers and their meanings are as below. - 0: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED`` - 1: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD`` @@ -157,20 +174,82 @@ numbers and their meanings are as below. - 4: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE`` - 5: Do nothing but count the statistics -You can disable schemes by simply writing an empty string to the file. For -example, below commands applies a scheme saying "If a memory region of size in -[4KiB, 8KiB] is showing accesses per aggregate interval in [0, 5] for aggregate -interval in [10, 20], page out the region", check the entered scheme again, and -finally remove the scheme. :: +Quota +~~~~~ - # cd <debugfs>/damon - # echo "4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2" > schemes - # cat schemes - 4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2 0 0 - # echo > schemes +Optimal ``target access pattern`` for each ``action`` is workload dependent, so +not easy to find. Worse yet, setting a scheme of some action too aggressive +can cause severe overhead. To avoid such overhead, users can limit time and +size quota for the scheme via the ``<quota>`` in below form:: + + <ms> <sz> <reset interval> <priority weights> + +This makes DAMON to try to use only up to ``<ms>`` milliseconds for applying +the action to memory regions of the ``target access pattern`` within the +``<reset interval>`` milliseconds, and to apply the action to only up to +``<sz>`` bytes of memory regions within the ``<reset interval>``. Setting both +``<ms>`` and ``<sz>`` zero disables the quota limits. + +When the quota limit is expected to be exceeded, DAMON prioritizes found memory +regions of the ``target access pattern`` based on their size, access frequency, +and age. For personalized prioritization, users can set the weights for the +three properties in ``<priority weights>`` in below form:: + + <size weight> <access frequency weight> <age weight> + +Watermarks +~~~~~~~~~~ + +Some schemes would need to run based on current value of the system's specific +metrics like free memory ratio. For such cases, users can specify watermarks +for the condition.:: + + <metric> <check interval> <high mark> <middle mark> <low mark> + +``<metric>`` is a predefined integer for the metric to be checked. The +supported numbers and their meanings are as below. + + - 0: Ignore the watermarks + - 1: System's free memory rate (per thousand) + +The value of the metric is checked every ``<check interval>`` microseconds. + +If the value is higher than ``<high mark>`` or lower than ``<low mark>``, the +scheme is deactivated. If the value is lower than ``<mid mark>``, the scheme +is activated. + +.. _damos_stats: + +Statistics +~~~~~~~~~~ + +It also counts the total number and bytes of regions that each scheme is tried +to be applied, the two numbers for the regions that each scheme is successfully +applied, and the total number of the quota limit exceeds. This statistics can +be used for online analysis or tuning of the schemes. + +The statistics can be shown by reading the ``schemes`` file. Reading the file +will show each scheme you entered in each line, and the five numbers for the +statistics will be added at the end of each line. -The last two integers in the 4th line of above example is the total number and -the total size of the regions that the scheme is applied. +Example +~~~~~~~ + +Below commands applies a scheme saying "If a memory region of size in [4KiB, +8KiB] is showing accesses per aggregate interval in [0, 5] for aggregate +interval in [10, 20], page out the region. For the paging out, use only up to +10ms per second, and also don't page out more than 1GiB per second. Under the +limitation, page out memory regions having longer age first. Also, check the +free memory rate of the system every 5 seconds, start the monitoring and paging +out when the free memory rate becomes lower than 50%, but stop it if the free +memory rate becomes larger than 60%, or lower than 30%".:: + + # cd <debugfs>/damon + # scheme="4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2" # target access pattern and action + # scheme+=" 10 $((1024*1024*1024)) 1000" # quotas + # scheme+=" 0 0 100" # prioritization weights + # scheme+=" 1 5000000 600 500 300" # watermarks + # echo "$scheme" > schemes Turning On/Off @@ -195,6 +274,54 @@ the monitoring is turned on. If you write to the files while DAMON is running, an error code such as ``-EBUSY`` will be returned. +Monitoring Thread PID +--------------------- + +DAMON does requested monitoring with a kernel thread called ``kdamond``. You +can get the pid of the thread by reading the ``kdamond_pid`` file. When the +monitoring is turned off, reading the file returns ``none``. :: + + # cd <debugfs>/damon + # cat monitor_on + off + # cat kdamond_pid + none + # echo on > monitor_on + # cat kdamond_pid + 18594 + + +Using Multiple Monitoring Threads +--------------------------------- + +One ``kdamond`` thread is created for each monitoring context. You can create +and remove monitoring contexts for multiple ``kdamond`` required use case using +the ``mk_contexts`` and ``rm_contexts`` files. + +Writing the name of the new context to the ``mk_contexts`` file creates a +directory of the name on the DAMON debugfs directory. The directory will have +DAMON debugfs files for the context. :: + + # cd <debugfs>/damon + # ls foo + # ls: cannot access 'foo': No such file or directory + # echo foo > mk_contexts + # ls foo + # attrs init_regions kdamond_pid schemes target_ids + +If the context is not needed anymore, you can remove it and the corresponding +directory by putting the name of the context to the ``rm_contexts`` file. :: + + # echo foo > rm_contexts + # ls foo + # ls: cannot access 'foo': No such file or directory + +Note that ``mk_contexts``, ``rm_contexts``, and ``monitor_on`` files are in the +root directory only. + + +.. _tracepoint: + Tracepoint for Monitoring Results ================================= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst index 64fd0ba0d057..5a6afecbb0d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ follows: Memory Policy APIs ================== -Linux supports 3 system calls for controlling memory policy. These APIS +Linux supports 4 system calls for controlling memory policy. These APIS always affect only the calling task, the calling task's address space, or some shared object mapped into the calling task's address space. @@ -460,6 +460,20 @@ requested via the 'flags' argument. See the mbind(2) man page for more details. +Set home node for a Range of Task's Address Spacec:: + + long sys_set_mempolicy_home_node(unsigned long start, unsigned long len, + unsigned long home_node, + unsigned long flags); + +sys_set_mempolicy_home_node set the home node for a VMA policy present in the +task's address range. The system call updates the home node only for the existing +mempolicy range. Other address ranges are ignored. A home node is the NUMA node +closest to which page allocation will come from. Specifying the home node override +the default allocation policy to allocate memory close to the local node for an +executing CPU. + + Memory Policy Command Line Interface ==================================== diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index 5e795202111f..f4804ce37c58 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ how much memory needs to be free before kswapd goes back to sleep. The unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 10 means the distances between watermarks are 0.1% of the available memory in the -node/system. The maximum value is 1000, or 10% of memory. +node/system. The maximum value is 3000, or 30% of memory. A high rate of threads entering direct reclaim (allocstall) or kswapd going to sleep prematurely (kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly) can indicate |