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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.rst b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9d200762114f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.rst @@ -0,0 +1,595 @@ +.. _hugetlbfs_reserve: + +===================== +Hugetlbfs Reservation +===================== + +Overview +======== + +Huge pages as described at :ref:`hugetlbpage` are typically +preallocated for application use. These huge pages are instantiated in a +task's address space at page fault time if the VMA indicates huge pages are +to be used. If no huge page exists at page fault time, the task is sent +a SIGBUS and often dies an unhappy death. Shortly after huge page support +was added, it was determined that it would be better to detect a shortage +of huge pages at mmap() time. The idea is that if there were not enough +huge pages to cover the mapping, the mmap() would fail. This was first +done with a simple check in the code at mmap() time to determine if there +were enough free huge pages to cover the mapping. Like most things in the +kernel, the code has evolved over time. However, the basic idea was to +'reserve' huge pages at mmap() time to ensure that huge pages would be +available for page faults in that mapping. The description below attempts to +describe how huge page reserve processing is done in the v4.10 kernel. + + +Audience +======== +This description is primarily targeted at kernel developers who are modifying +hugetlbfs code. + + +The Data Structures +=================== + +resv_huge_pages + This is a global (per-hstate) count of reserved huge pages. Reserved + huge pages are only available to the task which reserved them. + Therefore, the number of huge pages generally available is computed + as (``free_huge_pages - resv_huge_pages``). +Reserve Map + A reserve map is described by the structure:: + + struct resv_map { + struct kref refs; + spinlock_t lock; + struct list_head regions; + long adds_in_progress; + struct list_head region_cache; + long region_cache_count; + }; + + There is one reserve map for each huge page mapping in the system. + The regions list within the resv_map describes the regions within + the mapping. A region is described as:: + + struct file_region { + struct list_head link; + long from; + long to; + }; + + The 'from' and 'to' fields of the file region structure are huge page + indices into the mapping. Depending on the type of mapping, a + region in the reserv_map may indicate reservations exist for the + range, or reservations do not exist. +Flags for MAP_PRIVATE Reservations + These are stored in the bottom bits of the reservation map pointer. + + ``#define HPAGE_RESV_OWNER (1UL << 0)`` + Indicates this task is the owner of the reservations + associated with the mapping. + ``#define HPAGE_RESV_UNMAPPED (1UL << 1)`` + Indicates task originally mapping this range (and creating + reserves) has unmapped a page from this task (the child) + due to a failed COW. +Page Flags + The PagePrivate page flag is used to indicate that a huge page + reservation must be restored when the huge page is freed. More + details will be discussed in the "Freeing huge pages" section. + + +Reservation Map Location (Private or Shared) +============================================ + +A huge page mapping or segment is either private or shared. If private, +it is typically only available to a single address space (task). If shared, +it can be mapped into multiple address spaces (tasks). The location and +semantics of the reservation map is significantly different for two types +of mappings. Location differences are: + +- For private mappings, the reservation map hangs off the the VMA structure. + Specifically, vma->vm_private_data. This reserve map is created at the + time the mapping (mmap(MAP_PRIVATE)) is created. +- For shared mappings, the reservation map hangs off the inode. Specifically, + inode->i_mapping->private_data. Since shared mappings are always backed + by files in the hugetlbfs filesystem, the hugetlbfs code ensures each inode + contains a reservation map. As a result, the reservation map is allocated + when the inode is created. + + +Creating Reservations +===================== +Reservations are created when a huge page backed shared memory segment is +created (shmget(SHM_HUGETLB)) or a mapping is created via mmap(MAP_HUGETLB). +These operations result in a call to the routine hugetlb_reserve_pages():: + + int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, + long from, long to, + struct vm_area_struct *vma, + vm_flags_t vm_flags) + +The first thing hugetlb_reserve_pages() does is check for the NORESERVE +flag was specified in either the shmget() or mmap() call. If NORESERVE +was specified, then this routine returns immediately as no reservation +are desired. + +The arguments 'from' and 'to' are huge page indices into the mapping or +underlying file. For shmget(), 'from' is always 0 and 'to' corresponds to +the length of the segment/mapping. For mmap(), the offset argument could +be used to specify the offset into the underlying file. In such a case +the 'from' and 'to' arguments have been adjusted by this offset. + +One of the big differences between PRIVATE and SHARED mappings is the way +in which reservations are represented in the reservation map. + +- For shared mappings, an entry in the reservation map indicates a reservation + exists or did exist for the corresponding page. As reservations are + consumed, the reservation map is not modified. +- For private mappings, the lack of an entry in the reservation map indicates + a reservation exists for the corresponding page. As reservations are + consumed, entries are added to the reservation map. Therefore, the + reservation map can also be used to determine which reservations have + been consumed. + +For private mappings, hugetlb_reserve_pages() creates the reservation map and +hangs it off the VMA structure. In addition, the HPAGE_RESV_OWNER flag is set +to indicate this VMA owns the reservations. + +The reservation map is consulted to determine how many huge page reservations +are needed for the current mapping/segment. For private mappings, this is +always the value (to - from). However, for shared mappings it is possible that some reservations may already exist within the range (to - from). See the +section :ref:`Reservation Map Modifications <resv_map_modifications>` +for details on how this is accomplished. + +The mapping may be associated with a subpool. If so, the subpool is consulted +to ensure there is sufficient space for the mapping. It is possible that the +subpool has set aside reservations that can be used for the mapping. See the +section :ref:`Subpool Reservations <sub_pool_resv>` for more details. + +After consulting the reservation map and subpool, the number of needed new +reservations is known. The routine hugetlb_acct_memory() is called to check +for and take the requested number of reservations. hugetlb_acct_memory() +calls into routines that potentially allocate and adjust surplus page counts. +However, within those routines the code is simply checking to ensure there +are enough free huge pages to accommodate the reservation. If there are, +the global reservation count resv_huge_pages is adjusted something like the +following:: + + if (resv_needed <= (resv_huge_pages - free_huge_pages)) + resv_huge_pages += resv_needed; + +Note that the global lock hugetlb_lock is held when checking and adjusting +these counters. + +If there were enough free huge pages and the global count resv_huge_pages +was adjusted, then the reservation map associated with the mapping is +modified to reflect the reservations. In the case of a shared mapping, a +file_region will exist that includes the range 'from' 'to'. For private +mappings, no modifications are made to the reservation map as lack of an +entry indicates a reservation exists. + +If hugetlb_reserve_pages() was successful, the global reservation count and +reservation map associated with the mapping will be modified as required to +ensure reservations exist for the range 'from' - 'to'. + +.. _consume_resv: + +Consuming Reservations/Allocating a Huge Page +============================================= + +Reservations are consumed when huge pages associated with the reservations +are allocated and instantiated in the corresponding mapping. The allocation +is performed within the routine alloc_huge_page():: + + struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr, int avoid_reserve) + +alloc_huge_page is passed a VMA pointer and a virtual address, so it can +consult the reservation map to determine if a reservation exists. In addition, +alloc_huge_page takes the argument avoid_reserve which indicates reserves +should not be used even if it appears they have been set aside for the +specified address. The avoid_reserve argument is most often used in the case +of Copy on Write and Page Migration where additional copies of an existing +page are being allocated. + +The helper routine vma_needs_reservation() is called to determine if a +reservation exists for the address within the mapping(vma). See the section +:ref:`Reservation Map Helper Routines <resv_map_helpers>` for detailed +information on what this routine does. +The value returned from vma_needs_reservation() is generally +0 or 1. 0 if a reservation exists for the address, 1 if no reservation exists. +If a reservation does not exist, and there is a subpool associated with the +mapping the subpool is consulted to determine if it contains reservations. +If the subpool contains reservations, one can be used for this allocation. +However, in every case the avoid_reserve argument overrides the use of +a reservation for the allocation. After determining whether a reservation +exists and can be used for the allocation, the routine dequeue_huge_page_vma() +is called. This routine takes two arguments related to reservations: + +- avoid_reserve, this is the same value/argument passed to alloc_huge_page() +- chg, even though this argument is of type long only the values 0 or 1 are + passed to dequeue_huge_page_vma. If the value is 0, it indicates a + reservation exists (see the section "Memory Policy and Reservations" for + possible issues). If the value is 1, it indicates a reservation does not + exist and the page must be taken from the global free pool if possible. + +The free lists associated with the memory policy of the VMA are searched for +a free page. If a page is found, the value free_huge_pages is decremented +when the page is removed from the free list. If there was a reservation +associated with the page, the following adjustments are made:: + + SetPagePrivate(page); /* Indicates allocating this page consumed + * a reservation, and if an error is + * encountered such that the page must be + * freed, the reservation will be restored. */ + resv_huge_pages--; /* Decrement the global reservation count */ + +Note, if no huge page can be found that satisfies the VMA's memory policy +an attempt will be made to allocate one using the buddy allocator. This +brings up the issue of surplus huge pages and overcommit which is beyond +the scope reservations. Even if a surplus page is allocated, the same +reservation based adjustments as above will be made: SetPagePrivate(page) and +resv_huge_pages--. + +After obtaining a new huge page, (page)->private is set to the value of +the subpool associated with the page if it exists. This will be used for +subpool accounting when the page is freed. + +The routine vma_commit_reservation() is then called to adjust the reserve +map based on the consumption of the reservation. In general, this involves +ensuring the page is represented within a file_region structure of the region +map. For shared mappings where the the reservation was present, an entry +in the reserve map already existed so no change is made. However, if there +was no reservation in a shared mapping or this was a private mapping a new +entry must be created. + +It is possible that the reserve map could have been changed between the call +to vma_needs_reservation() at the beginning of alloc_huge_page() and the +call to vma_commit_reservation() after the page was allocated. This would +be possible if hugetlb_reserve_pages was called for the same page in a shared +mapping. In such cases, the reservation count and subpool free page count +will be off by one. This rare condition can be identified by comparing the +return value from vma_needs_reservation and vma_commit_reservation. If such +a race is detected, the subpool and global reserve counts are adjusted to +compensate. See the section +:ref:`Reservation Map Helper Routines <resv_map_helpers>` for more +information on these routines. + + +Instantiate Huge Pages +====================== + +After huge page allocation, the page is typically added to the page tables +of the allocating task. Before this, pages in a shared mapping are added +to the page cache and pages in private mappings are added to an anonymous +reverse mapping. In both cases, the PagePrivate flag is cleared. Therefore, +when a huge page that has been instantiated is freed no adjustment is made +to the global reservation count (resv_huge_pages). + + +Freeing Huge Pages +================== + +Huge page freeing is performed by the routine free_huge_page(). This routine +is the destructor for hugetlbfs compound pages. As a result, it is only +passed a pointer to the page struct. When a huge page is freed, reservation +accounting may need to be performed. This would be the case if the page was +associated with a subpool that contained reserves, or the page is being freed +on an error path where a global reserve count must be restored. + +The page->private field points to any subpool associated with the page. +If the PagePrivate flag is set, it indicates the global reserve count should +be adjusted (see the section +:ref:`Consuming Reservations/Allocating a Huge Page <consume_resv>` +for information on how these are set). + +The routine first calls hugepage_subpool_put_pages() for the page. If this +routine returns a value of 0 (which does not equal the value passed 1) it +indicates reserves are associated with the subpool, and this newly free page +must be used to keep the number of subpool reserves above the minimum size. +Therefore, the global resv_huge_pages counter is incremented in this case. + +If the PagePrivate flag was set in the page, the global resv_huge_pages counter +will always be incremented. + +.. _sub_pool_resv: + +Subpool Reservations +==================== + +There is a struct hstate associated with each huge page size. The hstate +tracks all huge pages of the specified size. A subpool represents a subset +of pages within a hstate that is associated with a mounted hugetlbfs +filesystem. + +When a hugetlbfs filesystem is mounted a min_size option can be specified +which indicates the minimum number of huge pages required by the filesystem. +If this option is specified, the number of huge pages corresponding to +min_size are reserved for use by the filesystem. This number is tracked in +the min_hpages field of a struct hugepage_subpool. At mount time, +hugetlb_acct_memory(min_hpages) is called to reserve the specified number of +huge pages. If they can not be reserved, the mount fails. + +The routines hugepage_subpool_get/put_pages() are called when pages are +obtained from or released back to a subpool. They perform all subpool +accounting, and track any reservations associated with the subpool. +hugepage_subpool_get/put_pages are passed the number of huge pages by which +to adjust the subpool 'used page' count (down for get, up for put). Normally, +they return the same value that was passed or an error if not enough pages +exist in the subpool. + +However, if reserves are associated with the subpool a return value less +than the passed value may be returned. This return value indicates the +number of additional global pool adjustments which must be made. For example, +suppose a subpool contains 3 reserved huge pages and someone asks for 5. +The 3 reserved pages associated with the subpool can be used to satisfy part +of the request. But, 2 pages must be obtained from the global pools. To +relay this information to the caller, the value 2 is returned. The caller +is then responsible for attempting to obtain the additional two pages from +the global pools. + + +COW and Reservations +==================== + +Since shared mappings all point to and use the same underlying pages, the +biggest reservation concern for COW is private mappings. In this case, +two tasks can be pointing at the same previously allocated page. One task +attempts to write to the page, so a new page must be allocated so that each +task points to its own page. + +When the page was originally allocated, the reservation for that page was +consumed. When an attempt to allocate a new page is made as a result of +COW, it is possible that no free huge pages are free and the allocation +will fail. + +When the private mapping was originally created, the owner of the mapping +was noted by setting the HPAGE_RESV_OWNER bit in the pointer to the reservation +map of the owner. Since the owner created the mapping, the owner owns all +the reservations associated with the mapping. Therefore, when a write fault +occurs and there is no page available, different action is taken for the owner +and non-owner of the reservation. + +In the case where the faulting task is not the owner, the fault will fail and +the task will typically receive a SIGBUS. + +If the owner is the faulting task, we want it to succeed since it owned the +original reservation. To accomplish this, the page is unmapped from the +non-owning task. In this way, the only reference is from the owning task. +In addition, the HPAGE_RESV_UNMAPPED bit is set in the reservation map pointer +of the non-owning task. The non-owning task may receive a SIGBUS if it later +faults on a non-present page. But, the original owner of the +mapping/reservation will behave as expected. + + +.. _resv_map_modifications: + +Reservation Map Modifications +============================= + +The following low level routines are used to make modifications to a +reservation map. Typically, these routines are not called directly. Rather, +a reservation map helper routine is called which calls one of these low level +routines. These low level routines are fairly well documented in the source +code (mm/hugetlb.c). These routines are:: + + long region_chg(struct resv_map *resv, long f, long t); + long region_add(struct resv_map *resv, long f, long t); + void region_abort(struct resv_map *resv, long f, long t); + long region_count(struct resv_map *resv, long f, long t); + +Operations on the reservation map typically involve two operations: + +1) region_chg() is called to examine the reserve map and determine how + many pages in the specified range [f, t) are NOT currently represented. + + The calling code performs global checks and allocations to determine if + there are enough huge pages for the operation to succeed. + +2) + a) If the operation can succeed, region_add() is called to actually modify + the reservation map for the same range [f, t) previously passed to + region_chg(). + b) If the operation can not succeed, region_abort is called for the same + range [f, t) to abort the operation. + +Note that this is a two step process where region_add() and region_abort() +are guaranteed to succeed after a prior call to region_chg() for the same +range. region_chg() is responsible for pre-allocating any data structures +necessary to ensure the subsequent operations (specifically region_add())) +will succeed. + +As mentioned above, region_chg() determines the number of pages in the range +which are NOT currently represented in the map. This number is returned to +the caller. region_add() returns the number of pages in the range added to +the map. In most cases, the return value of region_add() is the same as the +return value of region_chg(). However, in the case of shared mappings it is +possible for changes to the reservation map to be made between the calls to +region_chg() and region_add(). In this case, the return value of region_add() +will not match the return value of region_chg(). It is likely that in such +cases global counts and subpool accounting will be incorrect and in need of +adjustment. It is the responsibility of the caller to check for this condition +and make the appropriate adjustments. + +The routine region_del() is called to remove regions from a reservation map. +It is typically called in the following situations: + +- When a file in the hugetlbfs filesystem is being removed, the inode will + be released and the reservation map freed. Before freeing the reservation + map, all the individual file_region structures must be freed. In this case + region_del is passed the range [0, LONG_MAX). +- When a hugetlbfs file is being truncated. In this case, all allocated pages + after the new file size must be freed. In addition, any file_region entries + in the reservation map past the new end of file must be deleted. In this + case, region_del is passed the range [new_end_of_file, LONG_MAX). +- When a hole is being punched in a hugetlbfs file. In this case, huge pages + are removed from the middle of the file one at a time. As the pages are + removed, region_del() is called to remove the corresponding entry from the + reservation map. In this case, region_del is passed the range + [page_idx, page_idx + 1). + +In every case, region_del() will return the number of pages removed from the +reservation map. In VERY rare cases, region_del() can fail. This can only +happen in the hole punch case where it has to split an existing file_region +entry and can not allocate a new structure. In this error case, region_del() +will return -ENOMEM. The problem here is that the reservation map will +indicate that there is a reservation for the page. However, the subpool and +global reservation counts will not reflect the reservation. To handle this +situation, the routine hugetlb_fix_reserve_counts() is called to adjust the +counters so that they correspond with the reservation map entry that could +not be deleted. + +region_count() is called when unmapping a private huge page mapping. In +private mappings, the lack of a entry in the reservation map indicates that +a reservation exists. Therefore, by counting the number of entries in the +reservation map we know how many reservations were consumed and how many are +outstanding (outstanding = (end - start) - region_count(resv, start, end)). +Since the mapping is going away, the subpool and global reservation counts +are decremented by the number of outstanding reservations. + +.. _resv_map_helpers: + +Reservation Map Helper Routines +=============================== + +Several helper routines exist to query and modify the reservation maps. +These routines are only interested with reservations for a specific huge +page, so they just pass in an address instead of a range. In addition, +they pass in the associated VMA. From the VMA, the type of mapping (private +or shared) and the location of the reservation map (inode or VMA) can be +determined. These routines simply call the underlying routines described +in the section "Reservation Map Modifications". However, they do take into +account the 'opposite' meaning of reservation map entries for private and +shared mappings and hide this detail from the caller:: + + long vma_needs_reservation(struct hstate *h, + struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr) + +This routine calls region_chg() for the specified page. If no reservation +exists, 1 is returned. If a reservation exists, 0 is returned:: + + long vma_commit_reservation(struct hstate *h, + struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr) + +This calls region_add() for the specified page. As in the case of region_chg +and region_add, this routine is to be called after a previous call to +vma_needs_reservation. It will add a reservation entry for the page. It +returns 1 if the reservation was added and 0 if not. The return value should +be compared with the return value of the previous call to +vma_needs_reservation. An unexpected difference indicates the reservation +map was modified between calls:: + + void vma_end_reservation(struct hstate *h, + struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr) + +This calls region_abort() for the specified page. As in the case of region_chg +and region_abort, this routine is to be called after a previous call to +vma_needs_reservation. It will abort/end the in progress reservation add +operation:: + + long vma_add_reservation(struct hstate *h, + struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr) + +This is a special wrapper routine to help facilitate reservation cleanup +on error paths. It is only called from the routine restore_reserve_on_error(). +This routine is used in conjunction with vma_needs_reservation in an attempt +to add a reservation to the reservation map. It takes into account the +different reservation map semantics for private and shared mappings. Hence, +region_add is called for shared mappings (as an entry present in the map +indicates a reservation), and region_del is called for private mappings (as +the absence of an entry in the map indicates a reservation). See the section +"Reservation cleanup in error paths" for more information on what needs to +be done on error paths. + + +Reservation Cleanup in Error Paths +================================== + +As mentioned in the section +:ref:`Reservation Map Helper Routines <resv_map_helpers>`, reservation +map modifications are performed in two steps. First vma_needs_reservation +is called before a page is allocated. If the allocation is successful, +then vma_commit_reservation is called. If not, vma_end_reservation is called. +Global and subpool reservation counts are adjusted based on success or failure +of the operation and all is well. + +Additionally, after a huge page is instantiated the PagePrivate flag is +cleared so that accounting when the page is ultimately freed is correct. + +However, there are several instances where errors are encountered after a huge +page is allocated but before it is instantiated. In this case, the page +allocation has consumed the reservation and made the appropriate subpool, +reservation map and global count adjustments. If the page is freed at this +time (before instantiation and clearing of PagePrivate), then free_huge_page +will increment the global reservation count. However, the reservation map +indicates the reservation was consumed. This resulting inconsistent state +will cause the 'leak' of a reserved huge page. The global reserve count will +be higher than it should and prevent allocation of a pre-allocated page. + +The routine restore_reserve_on_error() attempts to handle this situation. It +is fairly well documented. The intention of this routine is to restore +the reservation map to the way it was before the page allocation. In this +way, the state of the reservation map will correspond to the global reservation +count after the page is freed. + +The routine restore_reserve_on_error itself may encounter errors while +attempting to restore the reservation map entry. In this case, it will +simply clear the PagePrivate flag of the page. In this way, the global +reserve count will not be incremented when the page is freed. However, the +reservation map will continue to look as though the reservation was consumed. +A page can still be allocated for the address, but it will not use a reserved +page as originally intended. + +There is some code (most notably userfaultfd) which can not call +restore_reserve_on_error. In this case, it simply modifies the PagePrivate +so that a reservation will not be leaked when the huge page is freed. + + +Reservations and Memory Policy +============================== +Per-node huge page lists existed in struct hstate when git was first used +to manage Linux code. The concept of reservations was added some time later. +When reservations were added, no attempt was made to take memory policy +into account. While cpusets are not exactly the same as memory policy, this +comment in hugetlb_acct_memory sums up the interaction between reservations +and cpusets/memory policy:: + + /* + * When cpuset is configured, it breaks the strict hugetlb page + * reservation as the accounting is done on a global variable. Such + * reservation is completely rubbish in the presence of cpuset because + * the reservation is not checked against page availability for the + * current cpuset. Application can still potentially OOM'ed by kernel + * with lack of free htlb page in cpuset that the task is in. + * Attempt to enforce strict accounting with cpuset is almost + * impossible (or too ugly) because cpuset is too fluid that + * task or memory node can be dynamically moved between cpusets. + * + * The change of semantics for shared hugetlb mapping with cpuset is + * undesirable. However, in order to preserve some of the semantics, + * we fall back to check against current free page availability as + * a best attempt and hopefully to minimize the impact of changing + * semantics that cpuset has. + */ + +Huge page reservations were added to prevent unexpected page allocation +failures (OOM) at page fault time. However, if an application makes use +of cpusets or memory policy there is no guarantee that huge pages will be +available on the required nodes. This is true even if there are a sufficient +number of global reservations. + +Hugetlbfs regression testing +============================ + +The most complete set of hugetlb tests are in the libhugetlbfs repository. +If you modify any hugetlb related code, use the libhugetlbfs test suite +to check for regressions. In addition, if you add any new hugetlb +functionality, please add appropriate tests to libhugetlbfs. + +-- +Mike Kravetz, 7 April 2017 |