[PATCH] mm: update_hiwaters just in time update_mem_hiwater has attracted various criticisms, in particular from those concerned with mm scalability. Originally it was called whenever rss or total_vm got raised. Then many of those callsites were replaced by a timer tick call from account_system_time. Now Frank van Maarseveen reports that to be found inadequate. How about this? Works for Frank. Replace update_mem_hiwater, a poor combination of two unrelated ops, by macros update_hiwater_rss and update_hiwater_vm. Don't attempt to keep mm->hiwater_rss up to date at timer tick, nor every time we raise rss (usually by 1): those are hot paths. Do the opposite, update only when about to lower rss (usually by many), or just before final accounting in do_exit. Handle mm->hiwater_vm in the same way, though it's much less of an issue. Demand that whoever collects these hiwater statistics do the work of taking the maximum with rss or total_vm. And there has been no collector of these hiwater statistics in the tree. The new convention needs an example, so match Frank's usage by adding a VmPeak line above VmSize to /proc/<pid>/status, and also a VmHWM line above VmRSS (High-Water-Mark or High-Water-Memory). There was a particular anomaly during mremap move, that hiwater_vm might be captured too high. A fleeting such anomaly remains, but it's quickly corrected now, whereas before it would stick. What locking? None: if the app is racy then these statistics will be racy, it's not worth any overhead to make them exact. But whenever it suits, hiwater_vm is updated under exclusive mmap_sem, and hiwater_rss under page_table_lock (for now) or with preemption disabled (later on): without going to any trouble, minimize the time between reading current values and updating, to minimize those occasions when a racing thread bumps a count up and back down in between. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c index a719e15..8e71cdb 100644 --- a/fs/compat.c +++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1490,7 +1490,6 @@ /* execve success */ security_bprm_free(bprm); acct_update_integrals(current); - update_mem_hiwater(current); kfree(bprm); return retval; }
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index cefadf5..9bb55c8 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1207,7 +1207,6 @@ /* execve success */ security_bprm_free(bprm); acct_update_integrals(current); - update_mem_hiwater(current); kfree(bprm); return retval; }
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c index bccee7c..7c89b45 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -14,22 +14,41 @@ char *task_mem(struct mm_struct *mm, char *buffer) { unsigned long data, text, lib; + unsigned long hiwater_vm, total_vm, hiwater_rss, total_rss; + + /* + * Note: to minimize their overhead, mm maintains hiwater_vm and + * hiwater_rss only when about to *lower* total_vm or rss. Any + * collector of these hiwater stats must therefore get total_vm + * and rss too, which will usually be the higher. Barriers? not + * worth the effort, such snapshots can always be inconsistent. + */ + hiwater_vm = total_vm = mm->total_vm; + if (hiwater_vm < mm->hiwater_vm) + hiwater_vm = mm->hiwater_vm; + hiwater_rss = total_rss = get_mm_rss(mm); + if (hiwater_rss < mm->hiwater_rss) + hiwater_rss = mm->hiwater_rss; data = mm->total_vm - mm->shared_vm - mm->stack_vm; text = (PAGE_ALIGN(mm->end_code) - (mm->start_code & PAGE_MASK)) >> 10; lib = (mm->exec_vm << (PAGE_SHIFT-10)) - text; buffer += sprintf(buffer, + "VmPeak:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmSize:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmLck:\t%8lu kB\n" + "VmHWM:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmRSS:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmData:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmStk:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmExe:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmLib:\t%8lu kB\n" "VmPTE:\t%8lu kB\n", - (mm->total_vm - mm->reserved_vm) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), + hiwater_vm << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), + (total_vm - mm->reserved_vm) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), mm->locked_vm << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), - get_mm_rss(mm) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), + hiwater_rss << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), + total_rss << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), data << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), mm->stack_vm << (PAGE_SHIFT-10), text, lib, (PTRS_PER_PTE*sizeof(pte_t)*mm->nr_ptes) >> 10);
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index da42093..7d4552f 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -938,9 +938,6 @@ } #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ -/* update per process rss and vm hiwater data */ -extern void update_mem_hiwater(struct task_struct *tsk); - #ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC static inline void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index afcaac6..a9c0b7d 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -256,6 +256,16 @@ #define dec_mm_counter(mm, member) (mm)->_##member-- #define get_mm_rss(mm) ((mm)->_file_rss + (mm)->_anon_rss) +#define update_hiwater_rss(mm) do { \ + unsigned long _rss = get_mm_rss(mm); \ + if ((mm)->hiwater_rss < _rss) \ + (mm)->hiwater_rss = _rss; \ +} while (0) +#define update_hiwater_vm(mm) do { \ + if ((mm)->hiwater_vm < (mm)->total_vm) \ + (mm)->hiwater_vm = (mm)->total_vm; \ +} while (0) + typedef unsigned long mm_counter_t; struct mm_struct {
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 3b25b18..79f52b8 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -839,7 +839,10 @@ preempt_count()); acct_update_integrals(tsk); - update_mem_hiwater(tsk); + if (tsk->mm) { + update_hiwater_rss(tsk->mm); + update_hiwater_vm(tsk->mm); + } group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live); if (group_dead) { del_timer_sync(&tsk->signal->real_timer);
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 1e5cafd..4f26c54 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2511,8 +2511,6 @@ cpustat->idle = cputime64_add(cpustat->idle, tmp); /* Account for system time used */ acct_update_integrals(p); - /* Update rss highwater mark */ - update_mem_hiwater(p); } /*
diff --git a/mm/fremap.c b/mm/fremap.c index 7f08d10..49719a3 100644 --- a/mm/fremap.c +++ b/mm/fremap.c
@@ -143,8 +143,10 @@ if (!pte) goto err_unlock; - if (!pte_none(*pte) && zap_pte(mm, vma, addr, pte)) + if (!pte_none(*pte) && zap_pte(mm, vma, addr, pte)) { + update_hiwater_rss(mm); dec_mm_counter(mm, file_rss); + } set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, pgoff_to_pte(pgoff)); pte_val = *pte;
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 094455b..ac5f044 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -310,6 +310,9 @@ BUG_ON(start & ~HPAGE_MASK); BUG_ON(end & ~HPAGE_MASK); + /* Update high watermark before we lower rss */ + update_hiwater_rss(mm); + for (address = start; address < end; address += HPAGE_SIZE) { ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address); if (! ptep)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index a25ee1d..692ad81 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ lru_add_drain(); spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); tlb = tlb_gather_mmu(mm, 0); + update_hiwater_rss(mm); end = unmap_vmas(&tlb, mm, vma, address, end, &nr_accounted, details); tlb_finish_mmu(tlb, address, end); spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock); @@ -2225,22 +2226,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_to_pfn); -/* - * update_mem_hiwater - * - update per process rss and vm high water data - */ -void update_mem_hiwater(struct task_struct *tsk) -{ - if (tsk->mm) { - unsigned long rss = get_mm_rss(tsk->mm); - - if (tsk->mm->hiwater_rss < rss) - tsk->mm->hiwater_rss = rss; - if (tsk->mm->hiwater_vm < tsk->mm->total_vm) - tsk->mm->hiwater_vm = tsk->mm->total_vm; - } -} - #if !defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) #if defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR)
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 8a11179..c43b284 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1640,6 +1640,8 @@ */ static void remove_vma_list(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { + /* Update high watermark before we lower total_vm */ + update_hiwater_vm(mm); do { long nrpages = vma_pages(vma); @@ -1668,6 +1670,7 @@ lru_add_drain(); spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); tlb = tlb_gather_mmu(mm, 0); + update_hiwater_rss(mm); unmap_vmas(&tlb, mm, vma, start, end, &nr_accounted, NULL); vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted); free_pgtables(&tlb, vma, prev? prev->vm_end: FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, @@ -1953,6 +1956,7 @@ flush_cache_mm(mm); tlb = tlb_gather_mmu(mm, 1); + /* Don't update_hiwater_rss(mm) here, do_exit already did */ /* Use -1 here to ensure all VMAs in the mm are unmapped */ end = unmap_vmas(&tlb, mm, vma, 0, -1, &nr_accounted, NULL); vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted);
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c index 318eea5..ccf4564 100644 --- a/mm/mremap.c +++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ unsigned long new_pgoff; unsigned long moved_len; unsigned long excess = 0; + unsigned long hiwater_vm; int split = 0; /* @@ -205,9 +206,15 @@ } /* - * if we failed to move page tables we still do total_vm increment - * since do_munmap() will decrement it by old_len == new_len + * If we failed to move page tables we still do total_vm increment + * since do_munmap() will decrement it by old_len == new_len. + * + * Since total_vm is about to be raised artificially high for a + * moment, we need to restore high watermark afterwards: if stats + * are taken meanwhile, total_vm and hiwater_vm appear too high. + * If this were a serious issue, we'd add a flag to do_munmap(). */ + hiwater_vm = mm->hiwater_vm; mm->total_vm += new_len >> PAGE_SHIFT; vm_stat_account(mm, vma->vm_flags, vma->vm_file, new_len>>PAGE_SHIFT); @@ -216,6 +223,7 @@ vm_unacct_memory(excess >> PAGE_SHIFT); excess = 0; } + mm->hiwater_vm = hiwater_vm; /* Restore VM_ACCOUNT if one or two pieces of vma left */ if (excess) {
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c index 59992488..dfb124f 100644 --- a/mm/nommu.c +++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -931,6 +931,8 @@ realalloc -= kobjsize(vml); askedalloc -= sizeof(*vml); kfree(vml); + + update_hiwater_vm(mm); mm->total_vm -= len >> PAGE_SHIFT; #ifdef DEBUG @@ -1078,19 +1080,6 @@ { } -void update_mem_hiwater(struct task_struct *tsk) -{ - unsigned long rss; - - if (likely(tsk->mm)) { - rss = get_mm_rss(tsk->mm); - if (tsk->mm->hiwater_rss < rss) - tsk->mm->hiwater_rss = rss; - if (tsk->mm->hiwater_vm < tsk->mm->total_vm) - tsk->mm->hiwater_vm = tsk->mm->total_vm; - } -} - void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t const holebegin, loff_t const holelen, int even_cows)
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index f69d534..4c52c56 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -538,6 +538,9 @@ if (pte_dirty(pteval)) set_page_dirty(page); + /* Update high watermark before we lower rss */ + update_hiwater_rss(mm); + if (PageAnon(page)) { swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page->private }; /* @@ -628,6 +631,9 @@ if (!pmd_present(*pmd)) goto out_unlock; + /* Update high watermark before we lower rss */ + update_hiwater_rss(mm); + for (original_pte = pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address); address < end; pte++, address += PAGE_SIZE) {