From: Yulei Zhang <yuleixzhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In current system each physical memory page is assocaited with
a page structure which is used to track the usage of this page.
But due to the memory usage rapidly growing in cloud environment,
we find the resource consuming for page structure storage becomes
more and more remarkable. So is it possible that we could reclaim
such memory and make it reusable?
This patchset introduces an idea about how to save the extra
memory through a new virtual filesystem -- dmemfs.
Dmemfs (Direct Memory filesystem) is device memory or reserved
memory based filesystem. This kind of memory is special as it
is not managed by kernel and most important it is without 'struct page'.
Therefore we can leverage the extra memory from the host system
to support more tenants in our cloud service.
As the belowing figure shows, we uses a kernel boot parameter 'dmem='
to reserve the system memory when the host system boots up, the
remaining system memory is still managed by system memory management
which is associated with "struct page", the reserved memory
will be managed by dmem and assigned to guest system, the details
can be checked in /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.
+------------------+--------------------------------------+
| system memory | memory for guest system |
+------------------+--------------------------------------+
| |
v |
struct page |
| |
v v
system mem management dmem
And during the usage, the dmemfs will handle the memory request to
allocate and free the reserved memory on each NUMA node, the user
space application could leverage the mmap interface to access the
memory, and kernel module such as kvm and vfio would be able to pin
the memory thongh follow_pfn() and get_user_page() in different given
page size granularities.
+-----------+ +-----------+
| QEMU | | dpdk etc.| user
+-----+-----+ +-----------+
+-----------|------\------------------------------+
| | v kernel |
| | +-------+ +-------+ |
| | | KVM | | vfio | |
| | +-------+ +-------+ |
| | | | |
| +----v---------v----------v------+ |
| | | |
| | Dmemfs | |
| | | |
| +--------------------------------+ |
+-----------/-----------------------\-------------+
/ \
+------v-----+ +----v-------+
| node 0 | | node 1 |
+------------+ +------------+
Theoretically for each 4k physical page it can save 64 bytes if
we drop the 'struct page', so for guest memory with 320G it can
save about 5G physical memory totally.
Detailed usage of dmemfs is included in
/Documentation/filesystem/dmemfs.rst.
V1->V2:
* Rebase the code the kernel version 5.10.0-rc3.
* Introudce dregion->memmap for dmem to add _refcount for each
dmem page.
* Enable record_steal_time for dmem before entering guest system.
* Adjust page walking for dmem.
Yulei Zhang (37):
fs: introduce dmemfs module
mm: support direct memory reservation
dmem: implement dmem memory management
dmem: let pat recognize dmem
dmemfs: support mmap for dmemfs
dmemfs: support truncating inode down
dmem: trace core functions
dmem: show some statistic in debugfs
dmemfs: support remote access
dmemfs: introduce max_alloc_try_dpages parameter
mm: export mempolicy interfaces to serve dmem allocator
dmem: introduce mempolicy support
mm, dmem: introduce PFN_DMEM and pfn_t_dmem
mm, dmem: differentiate dmem-pmd and thp-pmd
mm: add pmd_special() check for pmd_trans_huge_lock()
dmemfs: introduce ->split() to dmemfs_vm_ops
mm, dmemfs: support unmap_page_range() for dmemfs pmd
mm: follow_pmd_mask() for dmem huge pmd
mm: gup_huge_pmd() for dmem huge pmd
mm: support dmem huge pmd for vmf_insert_pfn_pmd()
mm: support dmem huge pmd for follow_pfn()
kvm, x86: Distinguish dmemfs page from mmio page
kvm, x86: introduce VM_DMEM for syscall support usage
dmemfs: support hugepage for dmemfs
mm, x86, dmem: fix estimation of reserved page for vaddr_get_pfn()
mm, dmem: introduce pud_special() for dmem huge pud support
mm: add pud_special() check to support dmem huge pud
mm, dmemfs: support huge_fault() for dmemfs
mm: add follow_pte_pud() to support huge pud look up
dmem: introduce dmem_bitmap_alloc() and dmem_bitmap_free()
dmem: introduce mce handler
mm, dmemfs: register and handle the dmem mce
kvm, x86: enable record_steal_time for dmem
dmem: add dmem unit tests
mm, dmem: introduce dregion->memmap for dmem
vfio: support dmempage refcount for vfio
Add documentation for dmemfs
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 38 +
Documentation/filesystems/dmemfs.rst | 58 ++
Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 1 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 32 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 13 +-
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 3 +
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 1 +
arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c | 21 +
drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 13 +-
fs/Kconfig | 1 +
fs/Makefile | 1 +
fs/dmemfs/Kconfig | 16 +
fs/dmemfs/Makefile | 8 +
fs/dmemfs/inode.c | 1060 ++++++++++++++++++++
fs/dmemfs/trace.h | 54 +
fs/inode.c | 6 +
include/linux/dmem.h | 54 +
include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 5 +-
include/linux/mempolicy.h | 3 +
include/linux/mm.h | 9 +
include/linux/pfn_t.h | 17 +-
include/linux/pgtable.h | 22 +
include/trace/events/dmem.h | 85 ++
include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 +
mm/Kconfig | 19 +
mm/Makefile | 1 +
mm/dmem.c | 1196 +++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/dmem_reserve.c | 303 ++++++
mm/gup.c | 101 +-
mm/huge_memory.c | 19 +-
mm/memory-failure.c | 70 +-
mm/memory.c | 74 +-
mm/mempolicy.c | 4 +-
mm/mincore.c | 8 +-
mm/mprotect.c | 7 +-
mm/mremap.c | 3 +
mm/pagewalk.c | 4 +-
tools/testing/dmem/Kbuild | 1 +
tools/testing/dmem/Makefile | 10 +
tools/testing/dmem/dmem-test.c | 184 ++++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 13 +-
43 files changed, 3483 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/dmemfs.rst
create mode 100644 fs/dmemfs/Kconfig
create mode 100644 fs/dmemfs/Makefile
create mode 100644 fs/dmemfs/inode.c
create mode 100644 fs/dmemfs/trace.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/dmem.h
create mode 100644 include/trace/events/dmem.h
create mode 100644 mm/dmem.c
create mode 100644 mm/dmem_reserve.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/dmem/Kbuild
create mode 100644 tools/testing/dmem/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/testing/dmem/dmem-test.c
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