mm,thp,shmem: limit shmem THP alloc gfp_mask

Patch series "mm,thp,shm: limit shmem THP alloc gfp_mask", v6. The allocation flags of anonymous transparent huge pages can be controlled through the files in /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag, which can help the system from getting bogged down in the page reclaim and compaction code when many THPs are getting allocated simultaneously. However, the gfp_mask for shmem THP allocations were not limited by those configuration settings, and some workloads ended up with all CPUs stuck on the LRU lock in the page reclaim code, trying to allocate dozens of THPs simultaneously. This patch applies the same configurated limitation of THPs to shmem hugepage allocations, to prevent that from happening. This way a THP defrag setting of "never" or "defer+madvise" will result in quick allocation failures without direct reclaim when no 2MB free pages are available. With this patch applied, THP allocations for tmpfs will be a little more aggressive than today for files mmapped with MADV_HUGEPAGE, and a little less aggressive for files that are not mmapped or mapped without that flag. This patch (of 4): The allocation flags of anonymous transparent huge pages can be controlled through the files in /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag, which can help the system from getting bogged down in the page reclaim and compaction code when many THPs are getting allocated simultaneously. However, the gfp_mask for shmem THP allocations were not limited by those configuration settings, and some workloads ended up with all CPUs stuck on the LRU lock in the page reclaim code, trying to allocate dozens of THPs simultaneously. This patch applies the same configurated limitation of THPs to shmem hugepage allocations, to prevent that from happening. Controlling the gfp_mask of THP allocations through the knobs in sysfs allows users to determine the balance between how aggressively the system tries to allocate THPs at fault time, and how much the application may end up stalling attempting those allocations. This way a THP defrag setting of "never" or "defer+madvise" will result in quick allocation failures without direct reclaim when no 2MB free pages are available. With this patch applied, THP allocations for tmpfs will be a little more aggressive than today for files mmapped with MADV_HUGEPAGE, and a little less aggressive for files that are not mmapped or mapped without that flag. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201124194925.623931-1-riel@surriel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201124194925.623931-2-riel@surriel.com Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
DX37 · Feb 26, 2021 · 164cc4f · 164cc4f
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diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -634,6 +634,8 @@ bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask);
 extern void pm_restrict_gfp_mask(void);
 extern void pm_restore_gfp_mask(void);
 
+extern gfp_t vma_thp_gfp_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
 extern bool pm_suspended_storage(void);
 #else

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -668,9 +668,9 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf,
  *	    available
  * never: never stall for any thp allocation
  */
-static inline gfp_t alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+gfp_t vma_thp_gfp_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
-	const bool vma_madvised = !!(vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGEPAGE);
+	const bool vma_madvised = vma && (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGEPAGE);
 
 	/* Always do synchronous compaction */
 	if (test_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags))
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 		}
 		return ret;
 	}
-	gfp = alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(vma);
+	gfp = vma_thp_gfp_mask(vma);
 	page = alloc_hugepage_vma(gfp, vma, haddr, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
 	if (unlikely(!page)) {
 		count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK);

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1519,8 +1519,8 @@ static struct page *shmem_alloc_hugepage(gfp_t gfp,
 		return NULL;
 
 	shmem_pseudo_vma_init(&pvma, info, hindex);
-	page = alloc_pages_vma(gfp | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN,
-			HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, &pvma, 0, numa_node_id(), true);
+	page = alloc_pages_vma(gfp, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, &pvma, 0, numa_node_id(),
+			       true);
 	shmem_pseudo_vma_destroy(&pvma);
 	if (page)
 		prep_transhuge_page(page);
@@ -1776,6 +1776,7 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 	struct page *page;
 	enum sgp_type sgp_huge = sgp;
 	pgoff_t hindex = index;
+	gfp_t huge_gfp;
 	int error;
 	int once = 0;
 	int alloced = 0;
@@ -1862,7 +1863,8 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 	}
 
 alloc_huge:
-	page = shmem_alloc_and_acct_page(gfp, inode, index, true);
+	huge_gfp = vma_thp_gfp_mask(vma);
+	page = shmem_alloc_and_acct_page(huge_gfp, inode, index, true);
 	if (IS_ERR(page)) {
 alloc_nohuge:
 		page = shmem_alloc_and_acct_page(gfp, inode,