[PATCH v4] makedumpfile: Exclude unnecessary hugepages.

bhe at redhat.com bhe at redhat.com
Thu Sep 11 02:24:06 PDT 2014


On 09/11/14 at 08:52am, Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
> >Hi Atsushi,
> >
> >Since huge pages are included in user pages, I can't think of a way to
> >make test cases for huge page exclusion. Could you give some suggestions
> >on this or how did you test it?
> 
> Before I posted this patch, I tested as below. 
> This idea came from the fact that old makedumpfile can't exclude
> huge pages except the first page(PG_head).
> 
>    1. Get the number of hugepages from /proc/meminfo
>    2. Calculate the number of PG_tail pages
>    3. Capture the dumpfile without filtering
>    4. Run makedumpfile and compare the report message between v1.5.6
>       and v1.5.7(rc) to get how many user pages become excludable with
>       this patch.
>    5. The result of Step2's and Step4's must be same, confirm it.
> 
> The way above is for THP but you can apply it also for hugetlbfs
> if you take care of the things that old makedumpfile can't exclude
> *any* hugetlbfs pages.

But THP is also Anonymous pages, doesn't it do the same for THP between
1.5.6 and 1.5.7?

> 
> I recommend to separate the two cases completely by enabling either
> THP or hugetlbfs explicitly since it's easier to confirm the results.

For hugeTlbfs, this works, I will try this.

> 
> 
> Thanks
> Atsushi Kumagai
> 
> >
> >Thanks
> >Baoquan
> >
> >
> >On 08/20/14 at 07:27am, Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
> >> There are 2 types of hugepages in the kernel, the both should be
> >> excluded as user pages.
> >>
> >> 1. Transparent huge pages (THP)
> >> All the pages are anonymous pages (at least for now), so we should
> >> just get how many pages are in the corresponding hugepage.
> >> It can be gotten from the page->lru.prev of the second page in the
> >> hugepage.
> >>
> >> 2. Hugetlbfs pages
> >> The pages aren't anonymous pages but kind of user pages, we should
> >> exclude also these pages in any way.
> >> Luckily, it's possible to detect these pages by looking the
> >> page->lru.next of the second page in the hugepage. This idea came
> >> from the kernel's PageHuge().
> >> The number of pages can be gotten in the same way as THP.
> >>
> >> Changelog:
> >> v4:
> >>   - Cleaned up according to Petr's and Baoquan's comments.
> >> v3:
> >>   - Cleaned up according to Petr's comments.
> >>   - Fix misdetection of hugetlb pages.
> >> v2:
> >>   - Rebased to "Generic multi-page exclusion".
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi at mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
> >> ---
> >>  makedumpfile.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> >>  makedumpfile.h |  7 +++++
> >>  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c
> >> index 11cd473..b4b6eca 100644
> >> --- a/makedumpfile.c
> >> +++ b/makedumpfile.c
> >> @@ -1180,6 +1180,7 @@ get_symbol_info(void)
> >>  	SYMBOL_INIT(vmemmap_list, "vmemmap_list");
> >>  	SYMBOL_INIT(mmu_psize_defs, "mmu_psize_defs");
> >>  	SYMBOL_INIT(mmu_vmemmap_psize, "mmu_vmemmap_psize");
> >> +	SYMBOL_INIT(free_huge_page, "free_huge_page");
> >>
> >>  	SYMBOL_INIT(cpu_pgd, "cpu_pgd");
> >>  	SYMBOL_INIT(demote_segment_4k, "demote_segment_4k");
> >> @@ -1296,6 +1297,15 @@ get_structure_info(void)
> >>  	ENUM_NUMBER_INIT(PG_slab, "PG_slab");
> >>  	ENUM_NUMBER_INIT(PG_hwpoison, "PG_hwpoison");
> >>
> >> +	ENUM_NUMBER_INIT(PG_head_mask, "PG_head_mask");
> >> +	if (NUMBER(PG_head_mask) == NOT_FOUND_NUMBER) {
> >> +		ENUM_NUMBER_INIT(PG_head, "PG_head");
> >> +		if (NUMBER(PG_head) == NOT_FOUND_NUMBER)
> >> +			ENUM_NUMBER_INIT(PG_head, "PG_compound");
> >> +		if (NUMBER(PG_head) != NOT_FOUND_NUMBER)
> >> +			NUMBER(PG_head_mask) = 1UL << NUMBER(PG_head);
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >>  	ENUM_TYPE_SIZE_INIT(pageflags, "pageflags");
> >>
> >>  	TYPEDEF_SIZE_INIT(nodemask_t, "nodemask_t");
> >> @@ -1530,6 +1540,9 @@ get_value_for_old_linux(void)
> >>  		NUMBER(PG_swapcache) = PG_swapcache_ORIGINAL;
> >>  	if (NUMBER(PG_slab) == NOT_FOUND_NUMBER)
> >>  		NUMBER(PG_slab) = PG_slab_ORIGINAL;
> >> +	if (NUMBER(PG_head_mask) == NOT_FOUND_NUMBER)
> >> +		NUMBER(PG_head_mask) = 1L << PG_compound_ORIGINAL;
> >> +
> >>  	/*
> >>  	 * The values from here are for free page filtering based on
> >>  	 * mem_map array. These are minimum effort to cover old
> >> @@ -1699,6 +1712,7 @@ write_vmcoreinfo_data(void)
> >>  	WRITE_SYMBOL("mmu_vmemmap_psize", mmu_vmemmap_psize);
> >>  	WRITE_SYMBOL("cpu_pgd", cpu_pgd);
> >>  	WRITE_SYMBOL("demote_segment_4k", demote_segment_4k);
> >> +	WRITE_SYMBOL("free_huge_page", free_huge_page);
> >>
> >>  	/*
> >>  	 * write the structure size of 1st kernel
> >> @@ -1788,6 +1802,7 @@ write_vmcoreinfo_data(void)
> >>
> >>  	WRITE_NUMBER("PG_lru", PG_lru);
> >>  	WRITE_NUMBER("PG_private", PG_private);
> >> +	WRITE_NUMBER("PG_head_mask", PG_head_mask);
> >>  	WRITE_NUMBER("PG_swapcache", PG_swapcache);
> >>  	WRITE_NUMBER("PG_buddy", PG_buddy);
> >>  	WRITE_NUMBER("PG_slab", PG_slab);
> >> @@ -2040,6 +2055,7 @@ read_vmcoreinfo(void)
> >>  	READ_SYMBOL("mmu_vmemmap_psize", mmu_vmemmap_psize);
> >>  	READ_SYMBOL("cpu_pgd", cpu_pgd);
> >>  	READ_SYMBOL("demote_segment_4k", demote_segment_4k);
> >> +	READ_SYMBOL("free_huge_page", free_huge_page);
> >>
> >>  	READ_STRUCTURE_SIZE("page", page);
> >>  	READ_STRUCTURE_SIZE("mem_section", mem_section);
> >> @@ -2116,6 +2132,7 @@ read_vmcoreinfo(void)
> >>
> >>  	READ_NUMBER("PG_lru", PG_lru);
> >>  	READ_NUMBER("PG_private", PG_private);
> >> +	READ_NUMBER("PG_head_mask", PG_head_mask);
> >>  	READ_NUMBER("PG_swapcache", PG_swapcache);
> >>  	READ_NUMBER("PG_slab", PG_slab);
> >>  	READ_NUMBER("PG_buddy", PG_buddy);
> >> @@ -4643,13 +4660,16 @@ __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map,
> >>      mdf_pfn_t pfn_start, mdf_pfn_t pfn_end, struct cycle *cycle)
> >>  {
> >>  	mdf_pfn_t pfn;
> >> +	mdf_pfn_t *pfn_counter;
> >> +	mdf_pfn_t nr_pages;
> >>  	unsigned long index_pg, pfn_mm;
> >>  	unsigned long long maddr;
> >>  	mdf_pfn_t pfn_read_start, pfn_read_end;
> >>  	unsigned char page_cache[SIZE(page) * PGMM_CACHED];
> >>  	unsigned char *pcache;
> >> -	unsigned int _count, _mapcount = 0;
> >> +	unsigned int _count, _mapcount = 0, compound_order = 0;
> >>  	unsigned long flags, mapping, private = 0;
> >> +	unsigned long compound_dtor;
> >>
> >>  	/*
> >>  	 * If a multi-page exclusion is pending, do it first
> >> @@ -4715,11 +4735,36 @@ __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map,
> >>  		flags   = ULONG(pcache + OFFSET(page.flags));
> >>  		_count  = UINT(pcache + OFFSET(page._count));
> >>  		mapping = ULONG(pcache + OFFSET(page.mapping));
> >> +
> >> +		if ((index_pg < PGMM_CACHED - 1) &&
> >> +		    isCompoundHead(flags)) {
> >> +			compound_order = ULONG(pcache + SIZE(page) + OFFSET(page.lru)
> >> +					       + OFFSET(list_head.prev));
> >> +			compound_dtor = ULONG(pcache + SIZE(page) + OFFSET(page.lru)
> >> +					     + OFFSET(list_head.next));
> >> +
> >> +			if ((compound_order >= sizeof(unsigned long) * 8)
> >> +			    || ((pfn & ((1UL << compound_order) - 1)) != 0)) {
> >> +				/* Invalid order */
> >> +				compound_order = 0;
> >> +			}
> >> +		} else {
> >> +			/*
> >> +			 * The last pfn of the mem_map cache must not be compound page
> >> +			 * since all compound pages are aligned to its page order and
> >> +			 * PGMM_CACHED is a power of 2.
> >> +			 */
> >> +			compound_order = 0;
> >> +			compound_dtor = 0;
> >> +		}
> >> +
> >>  		if (OFFSET(page._mapcount) != NOT_FOUND_STRUCTURE)
> >>  			_mapcount = UINT(pcache + OFFSET(page._mapcount));
> >>  		if (OFFSET(page.private) != NOT_FOUND_STRUCTURE)
> >>  			private = ULONG(pcache + OFFSET(page.private));
> >>
> >> +		nr_pages = 1 << compound_order;
> >> +		pfn_counter = NULL;
> >>  		/*
> >>  		 * Exclude the free page managed by a buddy
> >>  		 * Use buddy identification of free pages whether cyclic or not.
> >> @@ -4727,12 +4772,8 @@ __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map,
> >>  		if ((info->dump_level & DL_EXCLUDE_FREE)
> >>  		    && info->page_is_buddy
> >>  		    && info->page_is_buddy(flags, _mapcount, private, _count)) {
> >> -			int nr_pages = 1 << private;
> >> -
> >> -			exclude_range(&pfn_free, pfn, pfn + nr_pages, cycle);
> >> -
> >> -			pfn += nr_pages - 1;
> >> -			mem_map += (nr_pages - 1) * SIZE(page);
> >> +			nr_pages = 1 << private;
> >> +			pfn_counter = &pfn_free;
> >>  		}
> >>  		/*
> >>  		 * Exclude the cache page without the private page.
> >> @@ -4740,8 +4781,7 @@ __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map,
> >>  		else if ((info->dump_level & DL_EXCLUDE_CACHE)
> >>  		    && (isLRU(flags) || isSwapCache(flags))
> >>  		    && !isPrivate(flags) && !isAnon(mapping)) {
> >> -			if (clear_bit_on_2nd_bitmap_for_kernel(pfn, cycle))
> >> -				pfn_cache++;
> >> +			pfn_counter = &pfn_cache;
> >>  		}
> >>  		/*
> >>  		 * Exclude the cache page with the private page.
> >> @@ -4749,23 +4789,39 @@ __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map,
> >>  		else if ((info->dump_level & DL_EXCLUDE_CACHE_PRI)
> >>  		    && (isLRU(flags) || isSwapCache(flags))
> >>  		    && !isAnon(mapping)) {
> >> -			if (clear_bit_on_2nd_bitmap_for_kernel(pfn, cycle))
> >> -				pfn_cache_private++;
> >> +			pfn_counter = &pfn_cache_private;
> >>  		}
> >>  		/*
> >>  		 * Exclude the data page of the user process.
> >> +		 *  - anonymous pages
> >> +		 *  - hugetlbfs pages
> >>  		 */
> >>  		else if ((info->dump_level & DL_EXCLUDE_USER_DATA)
> >> -		    && isAnon(mapping)) {
> >> -			if (clear_bit_on_2nd_bitmap_for_kernel(pfn, cycle))
> >> -				pfn_user++;
> >> +			 && (isAnon(mapping) || isHugetlb(compound_dtor))) {
> >> +			pfn_counter = &pfn_user;
> >>  		}
> >>  		/*
> >>  		 * Exclude the hwpoison page.
> >>  		 */
> >>  		else if (isHWPOISON(flags)) {
> >> +			pfn_counter = &pfn_hwpoison;
> >> +		}
> >> +		/*
> >> +		 * Unexcludable page
> >> +		 */
> >> +		else
> >> +			continue;
> >> +
> >> +		/*
> >> +		 * Execute exclusion
> >> +		 */
> >> +		if (nr_pages == 1) {
> >>  			if (clear_bit_on_2nd_bitmap_for_kernel(pfn, cycle))
> >> -				pfn_hwpoison++;
> >> +				(*pfn_counter)++;
> >> +		} else {
> >> +			exclude_range(pfn_counter, pfn, pfn + nr_pages, cycle);
> >> +			pfn += nr_pages - 1;
> >> +			mem_map += (nr_pages - 1) * SIZE(page);
> >>  		}
> >>  	}
> >>  	return TRUE;
> >> diff --git a/makedumpfile.h b/makedumpfile.h
> >> index eba9798..9f90b53 100644
> >> --- a/makedumpfile.h
> >> +++ b/makedumpfile.h
> >> @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ int get_mem_type(void);
> >>  #define PG_lru_ORIGINAL	 	(5)
> >>  #define PG_slab_ORIGINAL	(7)
> >>  #define PG_private_ORIGINAL	(11)	/* Has something at ->private */
> >> +#define PG_compound_ORIGINAL	(14)	/* Is part of a compound page */
> >>  #define PG_swapcache_ORIGINAL	(15)	/* Swap page: swp_entry_t in private */
> >>
> >>  #define PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE_v2_6_38	(-2)
> >> @@ -148,6 +149,9 @@ test_bit(int nr, unsigned long addr)
> >>
> >>  #define isLRU(flags)		test_bit(NUMBER(PG_lru), flags)
> >>  #define isPrivate(flags)	test_bit(NUMBER(PG_private), flags)
> >> +#define isCompoundHead(flags)   (!!((flags) & NUMBER(PG_head_mask)))
> >> +#define isHugetlb(dtor)         ((SYMBOL(free_huge_page) != NOT_FOUND_SYMBOL) \
> >> +				 && (SYMBOL(free_huge_page) == dtor))
> >>  #define isSwapCache(flags)	test_bit(NUMBER(PG_swapcache), flags)
> >>  #define isHWPOISON(flags)	(test_bit(NUMBER(PG_hwpoison), flags) \
> >>  				&& (NUMBER(PG_hwpoison) != NOT_FOUND_NUMBER))
> >> @@ -1218,6 +1222,7 @@ struct symbol_table {
> >>  	unsigned long long	node_remap_start_vaddr;
> >>  	unsigned long long	node_remap_end_vaddr;
> >>  	unsigned long long	node_remap_start_pfn;
> >> +	unsigned long long      free_huge_page;
> >>
> >>  	/*
> >>  	 * for Xen extraction
> >> @@ -1509,6 +1514,8 @@ struct number_table {
> >>  	 */
> >>  	long	PG_lru;
> >>  	long	PG_private;
> >> +	long	PG_head;
> >> +	long	PG_head_mask;
> >>  	long	PG_swapcache;
> >>  	long	PG_buddy;
> >>  	long	PG_slab;
> >> --
> >> 1.9.0
> >>
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