This series provides an asynchronous means of reporting to a hypervisor that a guest page is no longer in use and can have the data associated with it dropped. To do this I have implemented functionality that allows for what I am referring to as unused page reporting The functionality for this is fairly simple. When enabled it will allocate statistics to track the number of reported pages in a given free area. When the number of free pages exceeds this value plus a high water value, currently 32, it will begin performing page reporting which consists of pulling pages off of free list and placing them into a scatter list. The scatterlist is then given to the page reporting device and it will perform the required action to make the pages "reported", in the case of virtio-balloon this results in the pages being madvised as MADV_DONTNEED and as such they are forced out of the guest. After this they are placed back on the free list, and an additional bit is added if they are not merged indicating that they are a reported buddy page instead of a standard buddy page. The cycle then repeats with additional non-reported pages being pulled until the free areas all consist of reported pages. I am leaving a number of things hard-coded such as limiting the lowest order processed to PAGEBLOCK_ORDER, and have left it up to the guest to determine what the limit is on how many pages it wants to allocate to process the hints. The upper limit for this is based on the size of the queue used to store the scattergather list. My primary testing has just been to verify the memory is being freed after allocation by running memhog 40g on a 40g guest and watching the total free memory via /proc/meminfo on the host. With this I have verified most of the memory is freed after each iteration. As far as performance I have been mainly focusing on the will-it-scale/page_fault1 test running with 16 vcpus. I have modified it to use Transparent Huge Pages. With this I see almost no difference, -0.08%, with the patches applied and the feature disabled. I see a regression of -0.86% with the feature enabled, but the madvise disabled in the hypervisor due to a device being assigned. With the feature fully enabled I see a regression of -3.27% versus the baseline without these patches applied. In my testing I found that most of the overhead was due to the page zeroing that comes as a result of the pages having to be faulted back into the guest. One side effect of these patches is that the guest becomes much more resilient in terms of NUMA locality. With the pages being freed and then reallocated when used it allows for the pages to be much closer to the active thread, and as a result there can be situations where this patch set will out-perform the stock kernel when the guest memory is not local to the guest vCPUs. To avoid that in my testing I set the affinity of all the vCPUs and QEMU instance to the same node. Changes from the RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190530215223.13974.22445.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ Moved aeration requested flag out of aerator and into zone->flags. Moved boundary out of free_area and into local variables for aeration. Moved aeration cycle out of interrupt and into workqueue. Left nr_free as total pages instead of splitting it between raw and aerated. Combined size and physical address values in virtio ring into one 64b value. Changes from v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190619222922.1231.27432.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ Dropped "waste page treatment" in favor of "page hinting" Renamed files and functions from "aeration" to "page_hinting" Moved from page->lru list to scatterlist Replaced wait on refcnt in shutdown with RCU and cancel_delayed_work_sync Virtio now uses scatterlist directly instead of intermediate array Moved stats out of free_area, now in separate area and pointed to from zone Merged patch 5 into patch 4 to improve review-ability Updated various code comments throughout Changes from v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190724165158.6685.87228.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ Dropped "page hinting" in favor of "page reporting" Renamed files from "hinting" to "reporting" Replaced "Hinted" page type with "Reported" page flag Added support for page poisoning while hinting is active Add QEMU patch that implements PAGE_POISON feature Changes from v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190801222158.22190.96964.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ Added mutex lock around page reporting startup and shutdown Fixed reference to "page aeration" in patch 2 Split page reporting function bit out into separate QEMU patch Limited capacity of scatterlist to vq size - 1 instead of vq size Added exception handling for case of virtio descriptor allocation failure Changes from v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190807224037.6891.53512.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ Replaced spin_(un)lock with spin_(un)lock_irq in page_reporting_cycle() Dropped if/continue for ternary operator in page_reporting_process() Added checks for isolate and cma types to for_each_reporting_migratetype_order Added virtio-dev, Michal Hocko, and Oscar Salvador to to:/cc: Rebased on latest linux-next and QEMU git trees --- Alexander Duyck (6): mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing mm: Move set/get_pcppage_migratetype to mmzone.h mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators mm: Introduce Reported pages virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting virtio-balloon: Add support for providing unused page reports to host drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 1 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 84 +++++++++- include/linux/mmzone.h | 116 ++++++++----- include/linux/page-flags.h | 11 + include/linux/page_reporting.h | 138 ++++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 1 mm/Kconfig | 5 + mm/Makefile | 1 mm/internal.h | 18 ++ mm/memory_hotplug.c | 1 mm/page_alloc.c | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++------- mm/page_reporting.c | 308 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/shuffle.c | 24 --- mm/shuffle.h | 32 ++++ 14 files changed, 839 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/page_reporting.h create mode 100644 mm/page_reporting.c --
