linux-kernel - [patch] mm, thp: track fallbacks due to failed memcg charges separately

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Date:   Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:41:40 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jeremy Cline <jcline@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [patch] mm, thp: track fallbacks due to failed memcg charges
 separately

The thp_fault_fallback stat in either /proc/vmstat is incremented if 
either the hugepage allocation fails through the page allocator or the 
hugepage charge fails through mem cgroup.

This patch leaves this field untouched but adds a new field,
thp_fault_fallback_charge, which is incremented only when the mem cgroup
charge fails.

This distinguishes between faults that want to be backed by hugepages but
fail due to fragmentation (or low memory conditions) and those that fail
due to mem cgroup limits.  That can be used to determine the impact of 
fragmentation on the system by excluding faults that failed due to memcg 
usage.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 5 +++++
 include/linux/vm_event_item.h              | 1 +
 mm/huge_memory.c                           | 2 ++
 mm/vmstat.c                                | 1 +
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -310,6 +310,11 @@ thp_fault_fallback
 	is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate
 	a huge page and instead falls back to using small pages.
 
+thp_fault_fallback_charge
+	is incremented if a page fault fails to charge a huge page and
+	instead falls back to using small pages even through the
+	allocation was successful.
+
 thp_collapse_alloc_failed
 	is incremented if khugepaged found a range
 	of pages that should be collapsed into one huge page but failed
diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
--- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
+++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 		THP_FAULT_ALLOC,
 		THP_FAULT_FALLBACK,
+		THP_FAULT_FALLBACK_CHARGE,
 		THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC,
 		THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED,
 		THP_FILE_ALLOC,
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -597,6 +597,7 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	if (mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay(page, vma->vm_mm, gfp, &memcg, true)) {
 		put_page(page);
 		count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK);
+		count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK_CHARGE);
 		return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
 	}
 
@@ -1406,6 +1407,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_wp_page(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t orig_pmd)
 			put_page(page);
 		ret |= VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
 		count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK);
+		count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK_CHARGE);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1254,6 +1254,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 	"thp_fault_alloc",
 	"thp_fault_fallback",
+	"thp_fault_fallback_charge",
 	"thp_collapse_alloc",
 	"thp_collapse_alloc_failed",
 	"thp_file_alloc",