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Message-ID: <CAJuCfpFdFjf7CCu_=PkUJdxbMH9+zE4wsifaqXiQakhBBiFW8A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 20:00:35 -0700
From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>, 
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1 2/3] mm/codetag: fix pgalloc_tag_split()

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 2:36 PM Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Only tag the new head pages when splitting one large folio to multiple
> ones of a lower order. Tagging tail pages can cause imbalanced "calls"
> counters, since only head pages are untagged by pgalloc_tag_sub() and
> reference counts on tail pages are leaked, e.g.,
>   # echo 2048kB >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/demote_size
>   # echo 700 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
>   # time echo 700 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/demote
>   # grep alloc_gigantic_folio /proc/allocinfo
>
> Before this patch:
>   0  549427200  mm/hugetlb.c:1549 func:alloc_gigantic_folio
>
>   real  0m2.057s
>   user  0m0.000s
>   sys   0m2.051s
>
> After this patch:
>   0          0  mm/hugetlb.c:1549 func:alloc_gigantic_folio
>
>   real  0m1.711s
>   user  0m0.000s
>   sys   0m1.704s
>
> Not tagging tail pages also improves the splitting time, e.g., by
> about 15% when demoting 1GB hugeTLB folios to 2MB ones, as shown
> above.
>
> Fixes: be25d1d4e822 ("mm: create new codetag references during page splitting")
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h          | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/pgalloc_tag.h | 31 -------------------------------
>  mm/huge_memory.c            |  2 +-
>  mm/hugetlb.c                |  2 +-
>  mm/page_alloc.c             |  4 ++--
>  5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index b31d4bdd65ad..a07e93adb8ad 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -4137,4 +4137,34 @@ void vma_pgtable_walk_end(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
>
>  int reserve_mem_find_by_name(const char *name, phys_addr_t *start, phys_addr_t *size);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING
> +static inline void pgalloc_tag_split(struct folio *folio, int old_order, int new_order)
> +{
> +       int i;
> +       struct alloc_tag *tag;
> +       unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << new_order;
> +
> +       if (!mem_alloc_profiling_enabled())
> +               return;
> +
> +       tag = pgalloc_tag_get(&folio->page);
> +       if (!tag)
> +               return;
> +
> +       for (i = nr_pages; i < (1 << old_order); i += nr_pages) {
> +               union codetag_ref *ref = get_page_tag_ref(folio_page(folio, i));
> +
> +               if (ref) {
> +                       /* Set new reference to point to the original tag */
> +                       alloc_tag_ref_set(ref, tag);
> +                       put_page_tag_ref(ref);
> +               }
> +       }
> +}
> +#else /* !CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING */
> +static inline void pgalloc_tag_split(struct folio *folio, int old_order, int new_order)
> +{
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING */
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/pgalloc_tag.h b/include/linux/pgalloc_tag.h
> index 207f0c83c8e9..59a3deb792a8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pgalloc_tag.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pgalloc_tag.h
> @@ -80,36 +80,6 @@ static inline void pgalloc_tag_sub(struct page *page, unsigned int nr)
>         }
>  }
>
> -static inline void pgalloc_tag_split(struct page *page, unsigned int nr)
> -{
> -       int i;
> -       struct page_ext *first_page_ext;
> -       struct page_ext *page_ext;
> -       union codetag_ref *ref;
> -       struct alloc_tag *tag;
> -
> -       if (!mem_alloc_profiling_enabled())
> -               return;
> -
> -       first_page_ext = page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
> -       if (unlikely(!page_ext))
> -               return;
> -
> -       ref = codetag_ref_from_page_ext(page_ext);
> -       if (!ref->ct)
> -               goto out;
> -
> -       tag = ct_to_alloc_tag(ref->ct);
> -       page_ext = page_ext_next(page_ext);
> -       for (i = 1; i < nr; i++) {
> -               /* Set new reference to point to the original tag */
> -               alloc_tag_ref_set(codetag_ref_from_page_ext(page_ext), tag);
> -               page_ext = page_ext_next(page_ext);
> -       }
> -out:
> -       page_ext_put(first_page_ext);
> -}
> -
>  static inline struct alloc_tag *pgalloc_tag_get(struct page *page)
>  {
>         struct alloc_tag *tag = NULL;
> @@ -142,7 +112,6 @@ static inline void clear_page_tag_ref(struct page *page) {}
>  static inline void pgalloc_tag_add(struct page *page, struct task_struct *task,
>                                    unsigned int nr) {}
>  static inline void pgalloc_tag_sub(struct page *page, unsigned int nr) {}
> -static inline void pgalloc_tag_split(struct page *page, unsigned int nr) {}
>  static inline struct alloc_tag *pgalloc_tag_get(struct page *page) { return NULL; }
>  static inline void pgalloc_tag_sub_pages(struct alloc_tag *tag, unsigned int nr) {}
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 0993dfe9ae94..aa8a4c938ba9 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -3244,7 +3244,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
>         /* Caller disabled irqs, so they are still disabled here */
>
>         split_page_owner(head, order, new_order);
> -       pgalloc_tag_split(head, 1 << order);
> +       pgalloc_tag_split(folio, order, new_order);

Looks like here and in the next diff you are fixing an additional bug.
I was assuming that we are always splitting into order-0 pages, which
is not the case anymore. It's worth mentioning that in the changelog.
With that added:

Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>

>
>         /* See comment in __split_huge_page_tail() */
>         if (folio_test_anon(folio)) {
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 3faf5aad142d..a8624c07d8bf 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -3778,7 +3778,7 @@ static long demote_free_hugetlb_folios(struct hstate *src, struct hstate *dst,
>                 list_del(&folio->lru);
>
>                 split_page_owner(&folio->page, huge_page_order(src), huge_page_order(dst));
> -               pgalloc_tag_split(&folio->page, 1 <<  huge_page_order(src));
> +               pgalloc_tag_split(folio, huge_page_order(src), huge_page_order(dst));
>
>                 for (i = 0; i < pages_per_huge_page(src); i += pages_per_huge_page(dst)) {
>                         struct page *page = folio_page(folio, i);
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index c242d61fc4fd..13ce8e8899ed 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2822,7 +2822,7 @@ void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>         for (i = 1; i < (1 << order); i++)
>                 set_page_refcounted(page + i);
>         split_page_owner(page, order, 0);
> -       pgalloc_tag_split(page, 1 << order);
> +       pgalloc_tag_split(page_folio(page), order, 0);
>         split_page_memcg(page, order, 0);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(split_page);
> @@ -5020,7 +5020,7 @@ static void *make_alloc_exact(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order,
>                 struct page *last = page + nr;
>
>                 split_page_owner(page, order, 0);
> -               pgalloc_tag_split(page, 1 << order);
> +               pgalloc_tag_split(page_folio(page), order, 0);
>                 split_page_memcg(page, order, 0);
>                 while (page < --last)
>                         set_page_refcounted(last);
> --
> 2.46.0.469.g59c65b2a67-goog
>

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