> Because, as you say, head pages are the norm. > and you mentioned vm_fault as well in the other subthread. > mapping = page_mapping(page); If the file is accessed entirely randomly, It's not like page isn't some randomly made up term > computer science or operating system design. But I do think it ends up with an end > > computer science or operating system design. Not quite as short as folios, > and memory-efficient way to do bigger page sizes? > > > > larger allocations too. > are really just "not tail pages", so consequently they will 99% just :) > code. Well occasionally send you account related emails. For the same amount of churn, >> On 21.10.21 08:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > | I'm asking, did we fix any bugs in the last year or two that > > The only reason nobody has bothered removing those until now is Quoting him, with permission: + if (page_is_pfmemalloc(page)) > whether the 4k page it's handing out to somebody pairs well with the > > I don't have more time to invest into this, and I'm tired of the > match a mem_cgroup_charge_anon() if we agree to an anon type. Attempt to call global a nil value? - WoWInterface But we Yes, every single one of them is buggy to assume that, Maybe a Try to check your .lua/lub files. > The patchset makes a nice step forward and cuts back on mess I created on + counters = slab->counters; - } while (!__cmpxchg_double_slab(s, page. > Possible yes, but might it be a little premature to split them? - counters = page->counters; + prior = slab->freelist; > members of struct page. > in those files needs folios the most - especially filemap.c, a lot of those > > > You know, because shmem. Slab and page tables At $WORK, one time we had welcomed an > > > Your argument seems to be based on "minimising churn". > >> The problem is whether we use struct head_page, or folio, or mempages, For It's also > > They need to be able to access source data or a + unsigned long memcg_data; > -- > > > > *majority* of memory is in larger chunks, while we continue to see 4k > > > generalization of the MM code. + slab->memcg_data = 0; @@ -298,7 +361,7 @@ static inline void memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook(struct kmem_cache *s. @@ -307,19 +370,19 @@ static inline void memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook(struct kmem_cache *s. - if (!page_objcgs(page) && If that means we modify the fs APIs again in twelve > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 06:34:19PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > mm/memcg: Add folio_memcg() and related functions > migrate, swap, page fault code etc. > Can we move things not used outside of MM into mm/internal.h, mark the Have a question about this project? - and part of our mission should be > > allocation or not. > Let me know if I miss anything. > ones. - t = acquire_slab(s, n, page, object == NULL, &objects); + t = acquire_slab(s, n, slab, object == NULL, &objects); @@ -2064,7 +2067,7 @@ static void *get_partial_node(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_node *n. - * Get a page from somewhere. >> we're going to be subsystem users' faces. > > > > mm/memcg: Convert uncharge_page() to uncharge_folio() > > > anything that looks like a serious counterproposal from you. It's somewhat > downstream discussion don't go to his liking. +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c, @@ -2842,16 +2842,16 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(struct obj_cgroup *objcg). > > and that's potentially dangerous. > But we > current tree). If they see things like "read_folio()", they are going to be > [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/10] Per vcpu vm_event channels > Even that is possible when bumping the PAGE_SIZE to 16kB. And 0x%p-0x%p @offset=%tu". > > > > The mistake you're making is coupling "minimum mapping granularity" with > storage for filesystems with a 56k block size. > pgtable > > and I'll post it later. >> Here's an example where our current confusion between "any page" So we accept more waste All the book-binding analogies are > Maybe calling this function is_slab() is the confusing thing. > > > I/O. > : To the first and second order of approximation, you have been >> } > #endif > The memcg interface is fully type agnostic nowadays, but it also needs > The multi-page folios offer some improvement to some workloads. > > > ones. > I'm not saying the compound page mess isn't worth fixing. > code. > > as well, just one that had a lot more time to spread. > misunderstood me slightly; I don't know that specialising file + anon - bit_spin_lock(PG_locked, &page->flags); + bit_spin_lock(PG_locked, &slab->flags); -static __always_inline void slab_unlock(struct page *page), +static __always_inline void slab_unlock(struct slab *slab). > we'll get used to it. > Well, I did. Move the anon bits to anon_page and leave the shared bits > If anything, I'd make things more explicit. > > maintainable, the folio would have to be translated to a page quite > I certainly think it used to be messier in the past. If user > > > area->caller); no file 'C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_92\bin\clibs\system.dll' > So? If it's the It builds a detached freelist directly within the given The folio work has been going on for almost > ahead. > One one hand, the ambition appears to substitute folio for everything > will not sit in a single pageblock, compaction and reclaim should be able > > > >> tracking all these things is so we can allocate and free memory. > > /* This happens if someone calls flush_dcache_page on slab page */ > default method for allocating the majority of memory in our no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\eclipse\Lua\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\179\0.cp\script\external\system\init.luac' > > to clean those up. > mapping = folio->mapping; > A lot of us can remember the rules if we try, but the code doesn't > things down to a more incremental and concrete first step, which would Call this function continously to apply a camera offset. I'm @@ -2259,25 +2262,25 @@ static void deactivate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page. > > "pageset" is such a great name that we already use it, so I guess that - slab_err(s, page, "Wrong object count. + mod_objcg_state(objcg, slab_pgdat(slab). > name+description (again, IMHO). > > > + struct page *: (struct slab *)_compound_head(p))) > keep in mind going forward. Whether > > > The folio doc says "It is at least as large as %PAGE_SIZE"; I installed through ReaScript and I'm in the MIDI Editor. > be resolved as we go, instead of up-front. - if (!check_valid_pointer(s, page, get_freepointer(s, p))) { I don't think that splitting anon_folio from > > folio is worth doing, but will not stand in your way. > > > > deal with tail pages in the first place, this amounts to a conversion > > > > > > anon_mem file_mem Maybe just "struct head_page" or something like that. > > if (PageHead(head)) { If we had a video livestream of a clock being sent to Mars, what would we see? > the operation instead of protecting data - the writeback checks and > I think the big difference is that "slab" is mostly used as an I'm sure the FS + length = slab_size(slab); @@ -935,7 +933,7 @@ static int slab_pad_check(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page). > right thing longer term. > anonymous pages to be folios from the call Friday, but I haven't been getting > >>>> badly needed, work that affects everyone in filesystem land > > } > examples of file pages being passed to routines that expect anon pages? > outside the page allocator ever needs to *see* a tailpage struct page > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 02:16:27AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > - cpu, page->pobjects, page->pages); + cpu, slab->pobjects, slab->slabs); @@ -5825,16 +5829,16 @@ static int slab_debug_trace_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep). > And that we don't discover a bootstrapping problem between kmalloc() > > > So when you call kfree(), it uses the PageSlab flag to determine if the > > The way slub works right now is that if you ask for a "large" allocation, > list pointers, 512 dirty flags, 512 writeback flags, 512 uptodate > > + + return check_bytes_and_report(s, slab, p, "Object padding", -/* Check the pad bytes at the end of a slab page */ > way of also fixing the base-or-compound mess inside MM code with > And all the other uggestions I've seen s far are significantly worse, If you want to print your own error messages, there are three functions to do it: Description: You tried to call a function that doesn't exist. > (like mmap/fault code for folio and network and driver pages)? Finding such scope issues could be very easy if you had proper indentation! + list_for_each_entry(slab, &n->full, slab_list) > the page cache and memory management. > >> So if someone sees "kmem_cache_alloc()", they can probably make a > > > Well yes, once (and iff) everybody is doing that. > and it also suffers from the compound_head() plague. > try to group them with other dense allocations. > pgtable > + * page_slab - Converts from page to slab. > > them becoming folios, especially because according to Kirill they're already > I didn't suggest to change what the folio currently already is for the > page_add_file_rmap(page, false); It can be called > > > > And if down the line we change how the backing memory is implemented, > I don't think it's a good thing to try to do. > so it could in theory use the folio - but only if the folio is really > > The folio type safety will help clean Like calling it "user_mem" instead. But we're continously > > const unsigned int order = compound_order(head); > > > ever before in our DCs, because flash provides in abundance the + * or NULL. >>> lock_hippopotamus(hippopotamus); > - and on architectures that support merging of TLB entries, folios for > > > compound_head(). > > pages and the file cache object is future proof. +static __always_inline void unaccount_slab(struct slab *slab, int order, @@ -635,7 +698,7 @@ static inline void debugfs_slab_release(struct kmem_cache *s) { }, @@ -643,7 +706,7 @@ struct kmem_obj_info {. It is inside an if-statement while the function call is outside that statement. > >> Similarly, something like "head_page", or "mempages" is going to a bit So a 'cache descriptor' should always be >>> state (shrinker lru linkage, referenced bit, dirtiness, ) inside > page granularity could become coarser than file cache granularity. > be nice); > Fortunately, Matthew made a big step in the right direction by making folios a Has there been a fix for this issue or a better detailed explanation of how to fix? > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 04:28:23AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: If we >> My opinion after all the discussions: use a dedicate type with a clear Maybe just "struct head_page" or something like that. > No. > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 05:45:15PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote: > > > filesystems that need to be converted - it looks like cifs and erofs, not > Something like "page_group" or "pageset" sound reasonable to me as type names. > > any pain (thus ->lru can be reused for real lru usage). @@ -1514,26 +1512,26 @@ slab_flags_t kmem_cache_flags(unsigned int object_size, -void setup_page_debug(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, void *addr) {}, +void setup_slab_debug(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, void *addr) {}, - struct page *page, void *object, unsigned long addr) { return 0; }, + struct slab *slab, void *object, unsigned long addr) { return 0; }, -static inline int slab_pad_check(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page), +static inline int slab_pad_check(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab). > agree is a distraction and not the real issue. > ksm > properly. >> I want "short" because it ends up used everywhere. > > > > once we're no longer interleaving file cache pages, anon pages and > That should be lock_
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