linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 06/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:24:40 -0600
From:   Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
To:     Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Michael Larabel <Michael@...haellarabel.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Ying Huang <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        LAK <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Kernel Page Reclaim v2 <page-reclaim@...gle.com>,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>, Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>,
        Jan Alexander Steffens <heftig@...hlinux.org>,
        Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>,
        Steven Barrett <steven@...uorix.net>,
        Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
        Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@....edu>,
        Donald Carr <d@...os-reins.com>,
        Holger Hoffstätte <holger@...lied-asynchrony.com>,
        Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@...dex.ru>,
        Shuang Zhai <szhai2@...rochester.edu>,
        Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@....works>,
        Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 06/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 1:47 AM Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 4:11 PM Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:01 PM Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > +static int folio_inc_gen(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct folio *folio, bool reclaiming)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       unsigned long old_flags, new_flags;
> > > > +       int type = folio_is_file_lru(folio);
> > > > +       struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
> > > > +       int new_gen, old_gen = lru_gen_from_seq(lrugen->min_seq[type]);
> > > > +
> > > > +       do {
> > > > +               new_flags = old_flags = READ_ONCE(folio->flags);
> > > > +               VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!(new_flags & LRU_GEN_MASK), folio);
> > > > +
> > > > +               new_gen = ((new_flags & LRU_GEN_MASK) >> LRU_GEN_PGOFF) - 1;
> > > > +               new_gen = (old_gen + 1) % MAX_NR_GENS;
> > >
> > > new_gen is assigned twice, i assume you mean
> > >                old_gen = ((new_flags & LRU_GEN_MASK) >> LRU_GEN_PGOFF) - 1;
> > >                new_gen = (old_gen + 1) % MAX_NR_GENS;
> > >
> > > or do you always mean new_gen =  lru_gen_from_seq(min_seq) + 1?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your attention to details!
> >
> > The first line should be in the next patch but I overlooked during the
> > last refactoring:
>
> Thanks for the clarification. So an unmapped file-backed page which is
> accessed only by system call will always be in either min_seq or
> min_seq + 1? it has no chance to be in max_seq like a faulted-in
> mapped file page?

That's right. The rationale is documented here under the `Assumptions`
section [1]. This is also related to Aneesh's question about why MGLRU
doesn't need additional heuristics for VM_EXEC pages [2]. Unmapped
file pages weaken the protection of executable pages under heavy
buffered IO workloads like Java NIO.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220309021230.721028-15-yuzhao@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAOUHufYfpiGdLSdffvzDqaD5oYFG99oDJ2xgQd2Ph77OFR5NAA@mail.gmail.com/