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# 2b132903 11-May-2022 Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>

tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate

Fixes following sparse warnings:

CHECK mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmscan.c: note: in included file (through
include/trace/trace_events.h, inc

tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate

Fixes following sparse warnings:

CHECK mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmscan.c: note: in included file (through
include/trace/trace_events.h, include/trace/define_trace.h,
include/trace/events/vmscan.h):
./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning:
cast to restricted isolate_mode_t
./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning:
restricted isolate_mode_t degrades to integer

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e85d7ff2-fd10-53f8-c24e-ba0458439c1b@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# fe573327 12-May-2022 Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>

tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion

Fixes the following sparse warnings:

include/trace/events/*: sparse: cast to restricted gfp_t
include/trace/events/*: sparse: restricted gfp_t degrades to intege

tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion

Fixes the following sparse warnings:

include/trace/events/*: sparse: cast to restricted gfp_t
include/trace/events/*: sparse: restricted gfp_t degrades to integer

gfp_t type is bitwise and requires __force attributes for any casts.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/331d88fe-f4f7-657c-02a2-d977f15fbff6@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.15.38, v5.15.37, v5.15.36, v5.15.35, v5.15.34, v5.15.33, v5.15.32, v5.15.31, v5.17, v5.15.30, v5.15.29, v5.15.28, v5.15.27, v5.15.26, v5.15.25, v5.15.24, v5.15.23, v5.15.22, v5.15.21, v5.15.20, v5.15.19, v5.15.18, v5.15.17, v5.4.173, v5.15.16
# e0cd5e7f 17-Jan-2022 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

mm/vmscan: Convert pageout() to take a folio

We always write out an entire folio at once. This conversion removes
a few calls to compound_head() and gets the NR_VMSCAN_WRITE statistic
right when wr

mm/vmscan: Convert pageout() to take a folio

We always write out an entire folio at once. This conversion removes
a few calls to compound_head() and gets the NR_VMSCAN_WRITE statistic
right when writing out a large folio.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

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Revision tags: v5.15.15, v5.16, v5.15.10, v5.15.9, v5.15.8, v5.15.7
# 1b4e3f26 02-Dec-2021 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress

Mike Galbraith, Alexey Avramov and Darrick Wong all reported similar
problems due to reclaim throttling for excessive lengths of time.

mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress

Mike Galbraith, Alexey Avramov and Darrick Wong all reported similar
problems due to reclaim throttling for excessive lengths of time. In
Alexey's case, a memory hog that should go OOM quickly stalls for
several minutes before stalling. In Mike and Darrick's cases, a small
memcg environment stalled excessively even though the system had enough
memory overall.

Commit 69392a403f49 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is
being made") introduced the problem although commit a19594ca4a8b
("mm/vmscan: increase the timeout if page reclaim is not making
progress") made it worse. Systems at or near an OOM state that cannot
be recovered must reach OOM quickly and memcg should kill tasks if a
memcg is near OOM.

To address this, only stall for the first zone in the zonelist, reduce
the timeout to 1 tick for VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS and only stall if
the scan control nr_reclaimed is 0, kswapd is still active and there
were excessive pages pending for writeback. If kswapd has stopped
reclaiming due to excessive failures, do not stall at all so that OOM
triggers relatively quickly. Similarly, if an LRU is simply congested,
only lightly throttle similar to NOPROGRESS.

Alexey's original case was the most straight forward

for i in {1..3}; do tail /dev/zero; done

On vanilla 5.16-rc1, this test stalled heavily, after the patch the test
completes in a few seconds similar to 5.15.

Alexey's second test case added watching a youtube video while tail runs
10 times. On 5.15, playback only jitters slightly, 5.16-rc1 stalls a
lot with lots of frames missing and numerous audio glitches. With this
patch applies, the video plays similarly to 5.15.

[lkp@intel.com: Fix W=1 build warning]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/99e779783d6c7fce96448a3402061b9dc1b3b602.camel@gmx.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202150614.22440-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv/
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Avramov <hakavlad@inbox.lv>
Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tracked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Fixes: 69392a403f49 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.15.6, v5.15.5, v5.15.4, v5.15.3, v5.15.2, v5.15.1
# 69392a40 05-Nov-2021 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made

Memcg reclaim throttles on congestion if no reclaim progress is made.
This makes little sense, it might be due to writeback or a host of ot

mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made

Memcg reclaim throttles on congestion if no reclaim progress is made.
This makes little sense, it might be due to writeback or a host of other
factors.

For !memcg reclaim, it's messy. Direct reclaim primarily is throttled
in the page allocator if it is failing to make progress. Kswapd
throttles if too many pages are under writeback and marked for immediate
reclaim.

This patch explicitly throttles if reclaim is failing to make progress.

[vbabka@suse.cz: Remove redundant code]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# d818fca1 05-Nov-2021 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated

Page reclaim throttles on congestion if too many parallel reclaim
instances have isolated too many pages. This makes no se

mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated

Page reclaim throttles on congestion if too many parallel reclaim
instances have isolated too many pages. This makes no sense, excessive
parallelisation has nothing to do with writeback or congestion.

This patch creates an additional workqueue to sleep on when too many
pages are isolated. The throttled tasks are woken when the number of
isolated pages is reduced or a timeout occurs. There may be some false
positive wakeups for GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS callers but the tasks will
throttle again if necessary.

[shy828301@gmail.com: Wake up from compaction context]
[vbabka@suse.cz: Account number of throttled tasks only for writeback]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 8cd7c588 05-Nov-2021 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested

Patch series "Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/", v5.

This series that removes all calls to congestion_wait in mm/

mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested

Patch series "Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/", v5.

This series that removes all calls to congestion_wait in mm/ and deletes
wait_iff_congested. It's not a clever implementation but
congestion_wait has been broken for a long time [1].

Even if congestion throttling worked, it was never a great idea. While
excessive dirty/writeback pages at the tail of the LRU is one
possibility that reclaim may be slow, there is also the problem of too
many pages being isolated and reclaim failing for other reasons
(elevated references, too many pages isolated, excessive LRU contention
etc).

This series replaces the "congestion" throttling with 3 different types.

- If there are too many dirty/writeback pages, sleep until a timeout or
enough pages get cleaned

- If too many pages are isolated, sleep until enough isolated pages are
either reclaimed or put back on the LRU

- If no progress is being made, direct reclaim tasks sleep until
another task makes progress with acceptable efficiency.

This was initially tested with a mix of workloads that used to trigger
corner cases that no longer work. A new test case was created called
"stutterp" (pagereclaim-stutterp-noreaders in mmtests) using a freshly
created XFS filesystem. Note that it may be necessary to increase the
timeout of ssh if executing remotely as ssh itself can get throttled and
the connection may timeout.

stutterp varies the number of "worker" processes from 4 up to NR_CPUS*4
to check the impact as the number of direct reclaimers increase. It has
four types of worker.

- One "anon latency" worker creates small mappings with mmap() and
times how long it takes to fault the mapping reading it 4K at a time

- X file writers which is fio randomly writing X files where the total
size of the files add up to the allowed dirty_ratio. fio is allowed
to run for a warmup period to allow some file-backed pages to
accumulate. The duration of the warmup is based on the best-case
linear write speed of the storage.

- Y file readers which is fio randomly reading small files

- Z anon memory hogs which continually map (100-dirty_ratio)% of memory

- Total estimated WSS = (100+dirty_ration) percentage of memory

X+Y+Z+1 == NR_WORKERS varying from 4 up to NR_CPUS*4

The intent is to maximise the total WSS with a mix of file and anon
memory where some anonymous memory must be swapped and there is a high
likelihood of dirty/writeback pages reaching the end of the LRU.

The test can be configured to have no background readers to stress
dirty/writeback pages. The results below are based on having zero
readers.

The short summary of the results is that the series works and stalls
until some event occurs but the timeouts may need adjustment.

The test results are not broken down by patch as the series should be
treated as one block that replaces a broken throttling mechanism with a
working one.

Finally, three machines were tested but I'm reporting the worst set of
results. The other two machines had much better latencies for example.

First the results of the "anon latency" latency

stutterp
5.15.0-rc1 5.15.0-rc1
vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r4
Amean mmap-4 31.4003 ( 0.00%) 2661.0198 (-8374.52%)
Amean mmap-7 38.1641 ( 0.00%) 149.2891 (-291.18%)
Amean mmap-12 60.0981 ( 0.00%) 187.8105 (-212.51%)
Amean mmap-21 161.2699 ( 0.00%) 213.9107 ( -32.64%)
Amean mmap-30 174.5589 ( 0.00%) 377.7548 (-116.41%)
Amean mmap-48 8106.8160 ( 0.00%) 1070.5616 ( 86.79%)
Stddev mmap-4 41.3455 ( 0.00%) 27573.9676 (-66591.66%)
Stddev mmap-7 53.5556 ( 0.00%) 4608.5860 (-8505.23%)
Stddev mmap-12 171.3897 ( 0.00%) 5559.4542 (-3143.75%)
Stddev mmap-21 1506.6752 ( 0.00%) 5746.2507 (-281.39%)
Stddev mmap-30 557.5806 ( 0.00%) 7678.1624 (-1277.05%)
Stddev mmap-48 61681.5718 ( 0.00%) 14507.2830 ( 76.48%)
Max-90 mmap-4 31.4243 ( 0.00%) 83.1457 (-164.59%)
Max-90 mmap-7 41.0410 ( 0.00%) 41.0720 ( -0.08%)
Max-90 mmap-12 66.5255 ( 0.00%) 53.9073 ( 18.97%)
Max-90 mmap-21 146.7479 ( 0.00%) 105.9540 ( 27.80%)
Max-90 mmap-30 193.9513 ( 0.00%) 64.3067 ( 66.84%)
Max-90 mmap-48 277.9137 ( 0.00%) 591.0594 (-112.68%)
Max mmap-4 1913.8009 ( 0.00%) 299623.9695 (-15555.96%)
Max mmap-7 2423.9665 ( 0.00%) 204453.1708 (-8334.65%)
Max mmap-12 6845.6573 ( 0.00%) 221090.3366 (-3129.64%)
Max mmap-21 56278.6508 ( 0.00%) 213877.3496 (-280.03%)
Max mmap-30 19716.2990 ( 0.00%) 216287.6229 (-997.00%)
Max mmap-48 477923.9400 ( 0.00%) 245414.8238 ( 48.65%)

For most thread counts, the time to mmap() is unfortunately increased.
In earlier versions of the series, this was lower but a large number of
throttling events were reaching their timeout increasing the amount of
inefficient scanning of the LRU. There is no prioritisation of reclaim
tasks making progress based on each tasks rate of page allocation versus
progress of reclaim. The variance is also impacted for high worker
counts but in all cases, the differences in latency are not
statistically significant due to very large maximum outliers. Max-90
shows that 90% of the stalls are comparable but the Max results show the
massive outliers which are increased to to stalling.

It is expected that this will be very machine dependant. Due to the
test design, reclaim is difficult so allocations stall and there are
variances depending on whether THPs can be allocated or not. The amount
of memory will affect exactly how bad the corner cases are and how often
they trigger. The warmup period calculation is not ideal as it's based
on linear writes where as fio is randomly writing multiple files from
multiple tasks so the start state of the test is variable. For example,
these are the latencies on a single-socket machine that had more memory

Amean mmap-4 42.2287 ( 0.00%) 49.6838 * -17.65%*
Amean mmap-7 216.4326 ( 0.00%) 47.4451 * 78.08%*
Amean mmap-12 2412.0588 ( 0.00%) 51.7497 ( 97.85%)
Amean mmap-21 5546.2548 ( 0.00%) 51.8862 ( 99.06%)
Amean mmap-30 1085.3121 ( 0.00%) 72.1004 ( 93.36%)

The overall system CPU usage and elapsed time is as follows

5.15.0-rc3 5.15.0-rc3
vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r4
Duration User 6989.03 983.42
Duration System 7308.12 799.68
Duration Elapsed 2277.67 2092.98

The patches reduce system CPU usage by 89% as the vanilla kernel is rarely
stalling.

The high-level /proc/vmstats show

5.15.0-rc1 5.15.0-rc1
vanilla mm-reclaimcongest-v5r2
Ops Direct pages scanned 1056608451.00 503594991.00
Ops Kswapd pages scanned 109795048.00 147289810.00
Ops Kswapd pages reclaimed 63269243.00 31036005.00
Ops Direct pages reclaimed 10803973.00 6328887.00
Ops Kswapd efficiency % 57.62 21.07
Ops Kswapd velocity 48204.98 57572.86
Ops Direct efficiency % 1.02 1.26
Ops Direct velocity 463898.83 196845.97

Kswapd scanned less pages but the detailed pattern is different. The
vanilla kernel scans slowly over time where as the patches exhibits
burst patterns of scan activity. Direct reclaim scanning is reduced by
52% due to stalling.

The pattern for stealing pages is also slightly different. Both kernels
exhibit spikes but the vanilla kernel when reclaiming shows pages being
reclaimed over a period of time where as the patches tend to reclaim in
spikes. The difference is that vanilla is not throttling and instead
scanning constantly finding some pages over time where as the patched
kernel throttles and reclaims in spikes.

Ops Percentage direct scans 90.59 77.37

For direct reclaim, vanilla scanned 90.59% of pages where as with the
patches, 77.37% were direct reclaim due to throttling

Ops Page writes by reclaim 2613590.00 1687131.00

Page writes from reclaim context are reduced.

Ops Page writes anon 2932752.00 1917048.00

And there is less swapping.

Ops Page reclaim immediate 996248528.00 107664764.00

The number of pages encountered at the tail of the LRU tagged for
immediate reclaim but still dirty/writeback is reduced by 89%.

Ops Slabs scanned 164284.00 153608.00

Slab scan activity is similar.

ftrace was used to gather stall activity

Vanilla
-------
1 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=16000
2 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=12000
8 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=8000
29 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=4000
82394 writeback_wait_iff_congested: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=0

The fast majority of wait_iff_congested calls do not stall at all. What
is likely happening is that cond_resched() reschedules the task for a
short period when the BDI is not registering congestion (which it never
will in this test setup).

1 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=120000
2 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=132000
4 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=112000
380 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=108000
778 writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=104000

congestion_wait if called always exceeds the timeout as there is no
trigger to wake it up.

Bottom line: Vanilla will throttle but it's not effective.

Patch series
------------

Kswapd throttle activity was always due to scanning pages tagged for
immediate reclaim at the tail of the LRU

1 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
4 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
6 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
94 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
112 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The majority of events did not stall or stalled for a short period.
Roughly 16% of stalls reached the timeout before expiry. For direct
reclaim, the number of times stalled for each reason were

6624 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
93246 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
96934 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The most common reason to stall was due to excessive pages tagged for
immediate reclaim at the tail of the LRU followed by a failure to make
forward. A relatively small number were due to too many pages isolated
from the LRU by parallel threads

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, the breakdown of delays was

9 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
12 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
83 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED
6520 usec_timeout=20000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED

Most did not stall at all. A small number reached the timeout.

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS, the breakdown of stalls were all over
the map

1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=324000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=332000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=348000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
1 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=360000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=228000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=260000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=340000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=364000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=372000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=428000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=460000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=464000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=244000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=252000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
3 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=272000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=188000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=268000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=328000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=380000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=392000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
4 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=432000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=204000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=220000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=412000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
5 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=436000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
6 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=488000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=212000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=300000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=316000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=472000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=248000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=356000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
8 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=456000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=124000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=376000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
9 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=484000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=172000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=420000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
10 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=452000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
11 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=256000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=112000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=116000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=144000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=152000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=264000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=384000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=424000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
12 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=492000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
13 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=184000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
13 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=444000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=308000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=440000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
14 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=476000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
16 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=140000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=232000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=240000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
17 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=280000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
18 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=404000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=148000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=216000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
20 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=468000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
21 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=448000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
23 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=168000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
23 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=296000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
25 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=132000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
25 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=352000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
26 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=180000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
27 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=284000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
28 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=164000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
29 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=136000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
30 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=200000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
30 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=400000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
31 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=196000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
32 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=156000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
33 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=224000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
35 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=128000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
35 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=176000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
36 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=368000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
36 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=496000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
37 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=312000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
38 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=304000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
40 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=288000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
43 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=408000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
55 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=416000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
56 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=76000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
58 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=120000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
59 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=208000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
61 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=68000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
71 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=192000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
71 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=480000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
79 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=60000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
82 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=320000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
82 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=92000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
85 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=64000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
85 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=80000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
88 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=84000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
90 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=160000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
90 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=292000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
94 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=56000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
118 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=88000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
119 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
126 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=108000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
146 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=52000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
148 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=36000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
148 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=48000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
159 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=28000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
178 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=44000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
183 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=40000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
237 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
266 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=32000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
313 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=24000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
347 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=96000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
470 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
559 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
964 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2001 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=104000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
2447 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
7888 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
22727 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
51305 usec_timeout=500000 usect_delayed=500000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS

The full timeout is often hit but a large number also do not stall at
all. The remainder slept a little allowing other reclaim tasks to make
progress.

While this timeout could be further increased, it could also negatively
impact worst-case behaviour when there is no prioritisation of what task
should make progress.

For VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK, the breakdown was

1 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=44000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
2 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=76000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
3 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=80000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=48000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
5 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=84000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
6 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=72000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
7 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=88000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
11 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=56000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
12 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=64000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
16 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=92000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
24 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=68000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
28 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=32000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
30 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=60000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
30 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=96000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
32 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=52000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
42 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=40000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
77 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=28000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
99 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=36000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
137 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=24000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
190 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=20000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
339 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=16000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
518 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=12000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
852 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=8000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
3359 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=4000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
7147 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=0 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK
83962 usec_timeout=100000 usect_delayed=100000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK

The majority hit the timeout in direct reclaim context although a
sizable number did not stall at all. This is very different to kswapd
where only a tiny percentage of stalls due to writeback reached the
timeout.

Bottom line, the throttling appears to work and the wakeup events may
limit worst case stalls. There might be some grounds for adjusting
timeouts but it's likely futile as the worst-case scenarios depend on
the workload, memory size and the speed of the storage. A better
approach to improve the series further would be to prioritise tasks
based on their rate of allocation with the caveat that it may be very
expensive to track.

This patch (of 5):

Page reclaim throttles on wait_iff_congested under the following
conditions:

- kswapd is encountering pages under writeback and marked for immediate
reclaim implying that pages are cycling through the LRU faster than
pages can be cleaned.

- Direct reclaim will stall if all dirty pages are backed by congested
inodes.

wait_iff_congested is almost completely broken with few exceptions.
This patch adds a new node-based workqueue and tracks the number of
throttled tasks and pages written back since throttling started. If
enough pages belonging to the node are written back then the throttled
tasks will wake early. If not, the throttled tasks sleeps until the
timeout expires.

[neilb@suse.de: Uninterruptible sleep and simpler wakeups]
[hdanton@sina.com: Avoid race when reclaim starts]
[vbabka@suse.cz: vmstat irq-safe api, clarifications]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/45d8b7a6-8548-65f5-cccf-9f451d4ae3d4@kernel.dk/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 5eed36dc 11-May-2022 Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>

tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate

[ Upstream commit 2b132903de7124dd9a758be0c27562e91a510848 ]

Fixes following sparse warnings:

CHECK mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmscan.c: not

tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate

[ Upstream commit 2b132903de7124dd9a758be0c27562e91a510848 ]

Fixes following sparse warnings:

CHECK mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmscan.c: note: in included file (through
include/trace/trace_events.h, include/trace/define_trace.h,
include/trace/events/vmscan.h):
./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning:
cast to restricted isolate_mode_t
./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning:
restricted isolate_mode_t degrades to integer

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e85d7ff2-fd10-53f8-c24e-ba0458439c1b@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# 5eed36dc 11-May-2022 Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>

tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate

[ Upstream commit 2b132903de7124dd9a758be0c27562e91a510848 ]

Fixes following sparse warnings:

CHECK mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmscan.c: not

tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate

[ Upstream commit 2b132903de7124dd9a758be0c27562e91a510848 ]

Fixes following sparse warnings:

CHECK mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmscan.c: note: in included file (through
include/trace/trace_events.h, include/trace/define_trace.h,
include/trace/events/vmscan.h):
./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning:
cast to restricted isolate_mode_t
./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning:
restricted isolate_mode_t degrades to integer

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e85d7ff2-fd10-53f8-c24e-ba0458439c1b@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v5.15, v5.14.14, v5.14.13, v5.14.12, v5.14.11, v5.14.10, v5.14.9, v5.14.8, v5.14.7, v5.14.6, v5.10.67, v5.10.66, v5.14.5, v5.14.4, v5.10.65, v5.14.3, v5.10.64, v5.14.2, v5.10.63, v5.14.1, v5.10.62, v5.14, v5.10.61, v5.10.60, v5.10.53, v5.10.52, v5.10.51, v5.10.50, v5.10.49
# 764c04a9 30-Jun-2021 Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>

include/trace/events/vmscan.h: remove mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low

mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low has no users after commit b91ac374346b
("mm: vmscan: enforce inactive:active ratio at the reclaim

include/trace/events/vmscan.h: remove mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low

mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low has no users after commit b91ac374346b
("mm: vmscan: enforce inactive:active ratio at the reclaim root").

Remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614194554.2683395-1-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 53d884a6 28-Jun-2021 Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>

mm, tracing: unify PFN format strings

Some trace event formats print PFNs as hex while others print them as
decimal. This is rather annoying when attempting to grep through traces
to understand wha

mm, tracing: unify PFN format strings

Some trace event formats print PFNs as hex while others print them as
decimal. This is rather annoying when attempting to grep through traces
to understand what's going on with a particular page.

$ git grep -ho 'pfn=[0x%lu]\+' include/trace/events/ | sort | uniq -c
11 pfn=0x%lx
12 pfn=%lu
2 pfn=%lx

Printing as hex is in the majority in the trace events, and all the normal
printks in mm/ also print PFNs as hex, so change all the PFN formats in
the trace events to use 0x%lx.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210602092608.1493-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 97a225e6 03-Jun-2020 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

mm/page_alloc: integrate classzone_idx and high_zoneidx

classzone_idx is just different name for high_zoneidx now. So, integrate
them and add some comment to struct alloc_context in order to reduce

mm/page_alloc: integrate classzone_idx and high_zoneidx

classzone_idx is just different name for high_zoneidx now. So, integrate
them and add some comment to struct alloc_context in order to reduce
future confusion about the meaning of this variable.

The accessor, ac_classzone_idx() is also removed since it isn't needed
after integration.

In addition to integration, this patch also renames high_zoneidx to
highest_zoneidx since it represents more precise meaning.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587095923-7515-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.4.44, v5.7, v5.4.43, v5.4.42, v5.4.41, v5.4.40, v5.4.39, v5.4.38, v5.4.37, v5.4.36, v5.4.35, v5.4.34, v5.4.33, v5.4.32, v5.4.31
# 9de4f22a 06-Apr-2020 Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>

mm: code cleanup for MADV_FREE

Some comments for MADV_FREE is revised and added to help people understand
the MADV_FREE code, especially the page flag, PG_swapbacked. This makes
page_is_file_cache(

mm: code cleanup for MADV_FREE

Some comments for MADV_FREE is revised and added to help people understand
the MADV_FREE code, especially the page flag, PG_swapbacked. This makes
page_is_file_cache() isn't consistent with its comments. So the function
is renamed to page_is_file_lru() to make them consistent again. All these
are put in one patch as one logical change.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317100342.2730705-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.4.30, v5.4.29, v5.6, v5.4.28, v5.4.27, v5.4.26, v5.4.25, v5.4.24, v5.4.23, v5.4.22, v5.4.21, v5.4.20, v5.4.19, v5.4.18, v5.4.17, v5.4.16, v5.5, v5.4.15, v5.4.14, v5.4.13, v5.4.12, v5.4.11, v5.4.10, v5.4.9, v5.4.8, v5.4.7, v5.4.6, v5.4.5, v5.4.4, v5.4.3, v5.3.15, v5.4.2, v5.4.1, v5.3.14, v5.4, v5.3.13, v5.3.12, v5.3.11, v5.3.10, v5.3.9, v5.3.8, v5.3.7, v5.3.6, v5.3.5, v5.3.4, v5.3.3, v5.3.2, v5.3.1, v5.3, v5.2.14, v5.3-rc8, v5.2.13, v5.2.12, v5.2.11, v5.2.10, v5.2.9, v5.2.8, v5.2.7, v5.2.6, v5.2.5, v5.2.4, v5.2.3, v5.2.2, v5.2.1, v5.2, v5.1.16, v5.1.15, v5.1.14, v5.1.13, v5.1.12, v5.1.11, v5.1.10, v5.1.9, v5.1.8, v5.1.7, v5.1.6, v5.1.5, v5.1.4, v5.1.3, v5.1.2
# 60b62ff7 13-May-2019 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

mm/vmscan: simplify trace_reclaim_flags and trace_shrink_flags

trace_reclaim_flags and trace_shrink_flags are almost the same.
We can simplify them to avoid redundant code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel

mm/vmscan: simplify trace_reclaim_flags and trace_shrink_flags

trace_reclaim_flags and trace_shrink_flags are almost the same.
We can simplify them to avoid redundant code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556169203-5858-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 3481c37f 13-May-2019 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

mm/vmscan: drop may_writepage and classzone_idx from direct reclaim begin template

There are three tracepoints using this template, which are
mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin,
mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_

mm/vmscan: drop may_writepage and classzone_idx from direct reclaim begin template

There are three tracepoints using this template, which are
mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin,
mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin,
mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin.

Regarding mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin,
sc.may_writepage is !laptop_mode, that's a static setting, and
reclaim_idx is derived from gfp_mask which is already show in this
tracepoint.

Regarding mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin,
may_writepage is !laptop_mode too, and reclaim_idx is (MAX_NR_ZONES-1),
which are both static value.

mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin is the same with
mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin.

So we can drop them all.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553736322-32235-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 132bb8cf 13-May-2019 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

mm/vmscan: add tracepoints for node reclaim

The page alloc fast path it may perform node reclaim, which may cause a
latency spike. We should add tracepoint for this event, and also measure
the late

mm/vmscan: add tracepoints for node reclaim

The page alloc fast path it may perform node reclaim, which may cause a
latency spike. We should add tracepoint for this event, and also measure
the latency it causes.

So bellow two tracepoints are introduced,
mm_vmscan_node_reclaim_begin
mm_vmscan_node_reclaim_end

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551421452-5385-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: <shaoyafang@didiglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 886cf190 13-May-2019 Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>

mm: move recent_rotated pages calculation to shrink_inactive_list()

Patch series "mm: Generalize putback functions"]

putback_inactive_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru() are almost
similar, so t

mm: move recent_rotated pages calculation to shrink_inactive_list()

Patch series "mm: Generalize putback functions"]

putback_inactive_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru() are almost
similar, so this patchset merges them ina single function.

This patch (of 4):

The patch moves the calculation from putback_inactive_pages() to
shrink_inactive_list(). This makes putback_inactive_pages() looking more
similar to move_active_pages_to_lru().

To do that, we account activated pages in reclaim_stat::nr_activate.
Since a page may change its LRU type from anon to file cache inside
shrink_page_list() (see ClearPageSwapBacked()), we have to account pages
for the both types. So, nr_activate becomes an array.

Previously we used nr_activate to account PGACTIVATE events, but now we
account them into pgactivate variable (since they are about number of
pages in general, not about sum of hpage_nr_pages).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155290127956.31489.3393586616054413298.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 3b775998 13-May-2019 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>

include/trace/events/vmscan.h: drop zone id from kswapd tracepoints

It is not clear how the zone id is useful in kswapd tracepoints and the id
itself is not really easy to process because it depends

include/trace/events/vmscan.h: drop zone id from kswapd tracepoints

It is not clear how the zone id is useful in kswapd tracepoints and the id
itself is not really easy to process because it depends on the
configuration (available zones). Let's drop the id for now. If somebody
really needs that information then the zone name should be used instead.

[mhocko@suse.com: new changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1552451813-10833-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.1.1, v5.0.14, v5.1, v5.0.13, v5.0.12, v5.0.11, v5.0.10, v5.0.9, v5.0.8, v5.0.7, v5.0.6, v5.0.5
# d75f773c 25-Mar-2019 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively

%pF and %pf are functionally equivalent to %pS and %ps conversion
specifiers. The former are deprecated, therefore switch

treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively

%pF and %pf are functionally equivalent to %pS and %ps conversion
specifiers. The former are deprecated, therefore switch the current users
to use the preferred variant.

The changes have been produced by the following command:

git grep -l '%p[fF]' | grep -v '^\(tools\|Documentation\)/' | \
while read i; do perl -i -pe 's/%pf/%ps/g; s/%pF/%pS/g;' $i; done

And verifying the result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325193229.23390-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> (for btrfs)
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> (for mm/memblock.c)
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> (for drivers/pci)
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

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Revision tags: v5.0.4, v5.0.3, v4.19.29, v5.0.2, v4.19.28, v5.0.1, v4.19.27, v5.0, v4.19.26, v4.19.25, v4.19.24, v4.19.23, v4.19.22, v4.19.21, v4.19.20, v4.19.19, v4.19.18, v4.19.17, v4.19.16, v4.19.15, v4.19.14, v4.19.13, v4.19.12, v4.19.11, v4.19.10, v4.19.9, v4.19.8, v4.19.7, v4.19.6, v4.19.5, v4.19.4, v4.18.20, v4.19.3, v4.18.19, v4.19.2, v4.18.18, v4.18.17, v4.19.1, v4.19, v4.18.16, v4.18.15, v4.18.14, v4.18.13, v4.18.12, v4.18.11, v4.18.10, v4.18.9, v4.18.7, v4.18.6, v4.18.5, v4.17.18, v4.18.4, v4.18.3, v4.17.17, v4.18.2, v4.17.16, v4.17.15, v4.18.1, v4.18, v4.17.14, v4.17.13, v4.17.12, v4.17.11, v4.17.10, v4.17.9, v4.17.8, v4.17.7, v4.17.6, v4.17.5, v4.17.4, v4.17.3, v4.17.2, v4.17.1, v4.17
# d51d1e64 10-Apr-2018 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

mm, vmscan, tracing: use pointer to reclaim_stat struct in trace event

The trace event trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive() currently has 12
parameters! Seven of them are from the reclaim_stat stru

mm, vmscan, tracing: use pointer to reclaim_stat struct in trace event

The trace event trace_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive() currently has 12
parameters! Seven of them are from the reclaim_stat structure. This
structure is currently local to mm/vmscan.c. By moving it to the global
vmstat.h header, we can also reference it from the vmscan tracepoints.
In moving it, it brings down the overhead of passing so many arguments
to the trace event. In the future, we may limit the number of arguments
that a trace event may pass (ideally just 6, but more realistically it
may be 8).

Before this patch, the code to call the trace event is this:

0f 83 aa fe ff ff jae ffffffff811e6261 <shrink_inactive_list+0x1e1>
48 8b 45 a0 mov -0x60(%rbp),%rax
45 8b 64 24 20 mov 0x20(%r12),%r12d
44 8b 6d d4 mov -0x2c(%rbp),%r13d
8b 4d d0 mov -0x30(%rbp),%ecx
44 8b 75 cc mov -0x34(%rbp),%r14d
44 8b 7d c8 mov -0x38(%rbp),%r15d
48 89 45 90 mov %rax,-0x70(%rbp)
8b 83 b8 fe ff ff mov -0x148(%rbx),%eax
8b 55 c0 mov -0x40(%rbp),%edx
8b 7d c4 mov -0x3c(%rbp),%edi
8b 75 b8 mov -0x48(%rbp),%esi
89 45 80 mov %eax,-0x80(%rbp)
65 ff 05 e4 f7 e2 7e incl %gs:0x7ee2f7e4(%rip) # 15bd0 <__preempt_count>
48 8b 05 75 5b 13 01 mov 0x1135b75(%rip),%rax # ffffffff8231bf68 <__tracepoint_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive+0x28>
48 85 c0 test %rax,%rax
74 72 je ffffffff811e646a <shrink_inactive_list+0x3ea>
48 89 c3 mov %rax,%rbx
4c 8b 10 mov (%rax),%r10
89 f8 mov %edi,%eax
48 89 85 68 ff ff ff mov %rax,-0x98(%rbp)
89 f0 mov %esi,%eax
48 89 85 60 ff ff ff mov %rax,-0xa0(%rbp)
89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
48 89 85 78 ff ff ff mov %rax,-0x88(%rbp)
89 d0 mov %edx,%eax
48 89 85 70 ff ff ff mov %rax,-0x90(%rbp)
8b 45 8c mov -0x74(%rbp),%eax
48 8b 7b 08 mov 0x8(%rbx),%rdi
48 83 c3 18 add $0x18,%rbx
50 push %rax
41 54 push %r12
41 55 push %r13
ff b5 78 ff ff ff pushq -0x88(%rbp)
41 56 push %r14
41 57 push %r15
ff b5 70 ff ff ff pushq -0x90(%rbp)
4c 8b 8d 68 ff ff ff mov -0x98(%rbp),%r9
4c 8b 85 60 ff ff ff mov -0xa0(%rbp),%r8
48 8b 4d 98 mov -0x68(%rbp),%rcx
48 8b 55 90 mov -0x70(%rbp),%rdx
8b 75 80 mov -0x80(%rbp),%esi
41 ff d2 callq *%r10

After the patch:

0f 83 a8 fe ff ff jae ffffffff811e626d <shrink_inactive_list+0x1cd>
8b 9b b8 fe ff ff mov -0x148(%rbx),%ebx
45 8b 64 24 20 mov 0x20(%r12),%r12d
4c 8b 6d a0 mov -0x60(%rbp),%r13
65 ff 05 f5 f7 e2 7e incl %gs:0x7ee2f7f5(%rip) # 15bd0 <__preempt_count>
4c 8b 35 86 5b 13 01 mov 0x1135b86(%rip),%r14 # ffffffff8231bf68 <__tracepoint_mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive+0x28>
4d 85 f6 test %r14,%r14
74 2a je ffffffff811e6411 <shrink_inactive_list+0x371>
49 8b 06 mov (%r14),%rax
8b 4d 8c mov -0x74(%rbp),%ecx
49 8b 7e 08 mov 0x8(%r14),%rdi
49 83 c6 18 add $0x18,%r14
4c 89 ea mov %r13,%rdx
45 89 e1 mov %r12d,%r9d
4c 8d 45 b8 lea -0x48(%rbp),%r8
89 de mov %ebx,%esi
51 push %rcx
48 8b 4d 98 mov -0x68(%rbp),%rcx
ff d0 callq *%rax

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2559d7cb-ec60-1200-2362-04fa34fd02bb@fb.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180322121003.4177af15@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 5ecd9d40 05-Apr-2018 David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory

Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too
many previous attempts at background reclaim have fail

mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory

Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too
many previous attempts at background reclaim have failed.

This can be true if there is a lot of free memory available. For high-
order allocations, kswapd is responsible for waking up kcompactd for
background compaction. If the zone is not below its watermarks or
reclaim has recently failed (lots of free memory, nothing left to
reclaim), kcompactd does not get woken up.

When __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is not allowed, allow kcompactd to still be
woken up even if kswapd will not reclaim. This allows high-order
allocations, such as thp, to still trigger background compaction even
when the zone has an abundance of free memory.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803111659420.209721@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v4.16
# 9092c71b 31-Jan-2018 Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>

mm: use sc->priority for slab shrink targets

Previously we were using the ratio of the number of lru pages scanned to
the number of eligible lru pages to determine the number of slab objects
to scan

mm: use sc->priority for slab shrink targets

Previously we were using the ratio of the number of lru pages scanned to
the number of eligible lru pages to determine the number of slab objects
to scan. The problem with this is that these two things have nothing to
do with each other, so in slab heavy work loads where there is little to
no page cache we can end up with the pages scanned being a very low
number. This means that we reclaim next to no slab pages and waste a
lot of time reclaiming small amounts of space.

Consider the following scenario, where we have the following values and
the rest of the memory usage is in slab

Active: 58840 kB
Inactive: 46860 kB

Every time we do a get_scan_count() we do this

scan = size >> sc->priority

where sc->priority starts at DEF_PRIORITY, which is 12. The first loop
through reclaim would result in a scan target of 2 pages to 11715 total
inactive pages, and 3 pages to 14710 total active pages. This is a
really really small target for a system that is entirely slab pages.
And this is super optimistic, this assumes we even get to scan these
pages. We don't increment sc->nr_scanned unless we 1) isolate the page,
which assumes it's not in use, and 2) can lock the page. Under pressure
these numbers could probably go down, I'm sure there's some random pages
from daemons that aren't actually in use, so the targets get even
smaller.

Instead use sc->priority in the same way we use it to determine scan
amounts for the lru's. This generally equates to pages. Consider the
following

slab_pages = (nr_objects * object_size) / PAGE_SIZE

What we would like to do is

scan = slab_pages >> sc->priority

but we don't know the number of slab pages each shrinker controls, only
the objects. However say that theoretically we knew how many pages a
shrinker controlled, we'd still have to convert this to objects, which
would look like the following

scan = shrinker_pages >> sc->priority
scan_objects = (PAGE_SIZE / object_size) * scan

or written another way

scan_objects = (shrinker_pages >> sc->priority) *
(PAGE_SIZE / object_size)

which can thus be written

scan_objects = ((shrinker_pages * PAGE_SIZE) / object_size) >>
sc->priority

which is just

scan_objects = nr_objects >> sc->priority

We don't need to know exactly how many pages each shrinker represents,
it's objects are all the information we need. Making this change allows
us to place an appropriate amount of pressure on the shrinker pools for
their relative size.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510780549-6812-1-git-send-email-josef@toxicpanda.com
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v4.15, v4.13.16, v4.14
# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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# f40a37cb 12-Oct-2017 Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use

When trace events are defined but not used they still create data
structures and functions for their use, even though nothing may be
using t

tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use

When trace events are defined but not used they still create data
structures and functions for their use, even though nothing may be
using them.

The trace events mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin,
mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin, mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end,
and mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end are not used if CONFIG_MEMCG
is not defined. Do not create these trace events unless CONFIG_MEMCG is
defined.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012184632.2bd247cd@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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Revision tags: v4.13.5, v4.13, v4.12, v4.10.17, v4.10.16, v4.10.15, v4.10.14, v4.10.13, v4.10.12, v4.10.11, v4.10.10, v4.10.9, v4.10.8, v4.10.7, v4.10.6, v4.10.5, v4.10.4, v4.10.3, v4.10.2, v4.10.1
# dcec0b60 22-Feb-2017 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

mm, vmscan: add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint

Currently we have tracepoints for both active and inactive LRU lists
reclaim but we do not have any which would tell us why we we decided to

mm, vmscan: add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint

Currently we have tracepoints for both active and inactive LRU lists
reclaim but we do not have any which would tell us why we we decided to
age the active list. Without that it is quite hard to diagnose
active/inactive lists balancing. Add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low
tracepoint to tell us this information.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-8-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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