RE: [PATCH v9 6/7] mm: zswap: Support large folios in zswap_store().

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2024 4:09 PM
> To: Sridhar, Kanchana P <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 6/7] mm: zswap: Support large folios in zswap_store().
> 
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 3:12 PM Kanchana P Sridhar
> <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > zswap_store() will store large folios by compressing them page by page.
> >
> > This patch provides a sequential implementation of storing a large folio
> > in zswap_store() by iterating through each page in the folio to compress
> > and store it in the zswap zpool.
> >
> > zswap_store() calls the newly added zswap_store_page() function for each
> > page in the folio. zswap_store_page() handles compressing and storing each
> > page.
> >
> > We check the global and per-cgroup limits once at the beginning of
> > zswap_store(), and only check that the limit is not reached yet. This is
> > racy and inaccurate, but it should be sufficient for now. We also obtain
> > initial references to the relevant objcg and pool to guarantee that
> > subsequent references can be acquired by zswap_store_page(). A new
> function
> > zswap_pool_get() is added to facilitate this.
> >
> > If these one-time checks pass, we compress the pages of the folio, while
> > maintaining a running count of compressed bytes for all the folio's pages.
> > If all pages are successfully compressed and stored, we do the cgroup
> > zswap charging with the total compressed bytes, and batch update the
> > zswap_stored_pages atomic/zswpout event stats with folio_nr_pages()
> once,
> > before returning from zswap_store().
> >
> > If an error is encountered during the store of any page in the folio,
> > all pages in that folio currently stored in zswap will be invalidated.
> > Thus, a folio is either entirely stored in zswap, or entirely not stored
> > in zswap.
> >
> > The most important value provided by this patch is it enables swapping out
> > large folios to zswap without splitting them. Furthermore, it batches some
> > operations while doing so (cgroup charging, stats updates).
> >
> > This patch also forms the basis for building compress batching of pages in
> > a large folio in zswap_store() by compressing up to say, 8 pages of the
> > folio in parallel in hardware using the Intel In-Memory Analytics
> > Accelerator (Intel IAA).
> >
> > This change reuses and adapts the functionality in Ryan Roberts' RFC
> > patch [1]:
> >
> >   "[RFC,v1] mm: zswap: Store large folios without splitting"
> >
> >   [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231019110543.3284654-1-
> ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx/T/#u
> >
> > Also, addressed some of the RFC comments from the discussion in [1].
> >
> > Co-developed-by: Ryan Roberts
> > Signed-off-by:
> 
> We haven't been able to get a signoff from Ryan. Andrew, what's the policy
> here?
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  mm/zswap.c | 220 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> -----
> >  1 file changed, 153 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> > index 2b8da50f6322..b74c8de99646 100644
> > --- a/mm/zswap.c
> > +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> > @@ -411,6 +411,12 @@ static int __must_check zswap_pool_tryget(struct
> zswap_pool *pool)
> >         return percpu_ref_tryget(&pool->ref);
> >  }
> >
> > +/* The caller must already have a reference. */
> > +static void zswap_pool_get(struct zswap_pool *pool)
> > +{
> > +       percpu_ref_get(&pool->ref);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static void zswap_pool_put(struct zswap_pool *pool)
> >  {
> >         percpu_ref_put(&pool->ref);
> > @@ -1402,68 +1408,52 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct
> *w)
> >  /*********************************
> >  * main API
> >  **********************************/
> > -bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Stores the page at specified "index" in a folio.
> > + *
> > + * @page:  The page to store in zswap.
> > + * @objcg: The folio's objcg. Caller has a reference.
> > + * @pool:  The zswap_pool to store the compressed data for the page.
> > + *         The caller should have obtained a reference to a valid
> > + *         zswap_pool by calling zswap_pool_tryget(), to pass as this
> > + *         argument.
> > + * @tree:  The xarray for the @page's folio's swap.
> > + * @compressed_bytes: The compressed entry->length value is added
> > + *                    to this, so that the caller can get the total
> > + *                    compressed lengths of all sub-pages in a folio.
> > + */
> > +static bool zswap_store_page(struct page *page,
> > +                            struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
> > +                            struct zswap_pool *pool,
> > +                            struct xarray *tree,
> > +                            size_t *compressed_bytes)
> >  {
> > -       swp_entry_t swp = folio->swap;
> > -       pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(swp);
> > -       struct xarray *tree = swap_zswap_tree(swp);
> >         struct zswap_entry *entry, *old;
> > -       struct obj_cgroup *objcg = NULL;
> > -       struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
> > -
> > -       VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_locked(folio));
> > -       VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_swapcache(folio));
> > -
> > -       /* Large folios aren't supported */
> > -       if (folio_test_large(folio))
> > -               return false;
> > -
> > -       if (!zswap_enabled)
> > -               goto check_old;
> > -
> > -       /* Check cgroup limits */
> > -       objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio);
> > -       if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) {
> > -               memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
> > -               if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) {
> > -                       mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> > -                       goto reject;
> > -               }
> > -               mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> > -       }
> > -
> > -       if (zswap_check_limits())
> > -               goto reject;
> >
> >         /* allocate entry */
> > -       entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, folio_nid(folio));
> > +       entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL,
> folio_nid(page_folio(page)));
> 
> Can we just use page_to_nid() here? I think the node info exists even
> for tail pages, right?

I wasn't sure about this, and figured it would be safer to use folio_nid()
which always get the node id from the head page. We would need
Johannes/Matthew to give their recommendations.

> 
> >         if (!entry) {
> >                 zswap_reject_kmemcache_fail++;
> >                 goto reject;
> >         }
> >
> > -       /* if entry is successfully added, it keeps the reference */
> > -       entry->pool = zswap_pool_current_get();
> > -       if (!entry->pool)
> > -               goto freepage;
> > +       /* zswap_store() already holds a ref on 'objcg' and 'pool' */
> > +       if (objcg)
> > +               obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
> > +       zswap_pool_get(pool);
> >
> > -       if (objcg) {
> > -               memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
> > -               if (memcg_list_lru_alloc(memcg, &zswap_list_lru, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> > -                       mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> > -                       goto put_pool;
> > -               }
> > -               mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> > -       }
> > +       /* if entry is successfully added, it keeps the reference */
> > +       entry->pool = pool;
> >
> > -       if (!zswap_compress(&folio->page, entry))
> > -               goto put_pool;
> > +       if (!zswap_compress(page, entry))
> > +               goto put_pool_objcg;
> >
> > -       entry->swpentry = swp;
> > +       entry->swpentry = page_swap_entry(page);
> >         entry->objcg = objcg;
> >         entry->referenced = true;
> >
> > -       old = xa_store(tree, offset, entry, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +       old = xa_store(tree, swp_offset(entry->swpentry), entry, GFP_KERNEL);
> >         if (xa_is_err(old)) {
> >                 int err = xa_err(old);
> >
> > @@ -1480,11 +1470,6 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
> >         if (old)
> >                 zswap_entry_free(old);
> >
> > -       if (objcg) {
> > -               obj_cgroup_charge_zswap(objcg, entry->length);
> > -               count_objcg_events(objcg, ZSWPOUT, 1);
> > -       }
> > -
> >         /*
> >          * We finish initializing the entry while it's already in xarray.
> >          * This is safe because:
> > @@ -1496,36 +1481,137 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
> >          *    an incoherent entry.
> >          */
> >         if (entry->length) {
> > +               *compressed_bytes += entry->length;
> >                 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->lru);
> >                 zswap_lru_add(&zswap_list_lru, entry);
> >         }
> >
> > -       /* update stats */
> > -       atomic_long_inc(&zswap_stored_pages);
> > -       count_vm_event(ZSWPOUT);
> > -
> > +       /*
> > +        * We shouldn't have any possibility of failure after the entry is
> > +        * added in the xarray. The pool/objcg refs obtained here will only
> > +        * be dropped if/when zswap_entry_free() gets called.
> > +        */
> >         return true;
> >
> >  store_failed:
> >         zpool_free(entry->pool->zpool, entry->handle);
> > -put_pool:
> > -       zswap_pool_put(entry->pool);
> > -freepage:
> > +put_pool_objcg:
> > +       zswap_pool_put(pool);
> > +       obj_cgroup_put(objcg);
> 
> I think if we reorder the function we can drop these calls, make the
> comments positioned a bit better, and centralize the entry
> initializations. I am also not a fan of passing a semi-initialized
> entry to zswap_compress() to get the pool pointer.
> 
> Does the following diff improve things or did I miss something?

We shouldn’t be adding the entry to the xarray before initializing its pool
and objcg, right? Please let me know if I am misunderstanding what you're
proposing in the diff.

> 
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index b74c8de996468..eac1f846886a6 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -881,7 +881,8 @@ static int zswap_cpu_comp_dead(unsigned int cpu,
> struct hlist_node *node)
>         return 0;
>  }
> 
> -static bool zswap_compress(struct page *page, struct zswap_entry *entry)
> +static bool zswap_compress(struct page *page, struct zswap_entry *entry,
> +                          struct zswap_pool *pool)
>  {
>         struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx;
>         struct scatterlist input, output;
> @@ -893,7 +894,7 @@ static bool zswap_compress(struct page *page,
> struct zswap_entry *entry)
>         gfp_t gfp;
>         u8 *dst;
> 
> -       acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(entry->pool->acomp_ctx);
> +       acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(pool->acomp_ctx);
> 
>         mutex_lock(&acomp_ctx->mutex);
> 
> @@ -926,7 +927,7 @@ static bool zswap_compress(struct page *page,
> struct zswap_entry *entry)
>         if (comp_ret)
>                 goto unlock;
> 
> -       zpool = entry->pool->zpool;
> +       zpool = pool->zpool;
>         gfp = __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM;
>         if (zpool_malloc_support_movable(zpool))
>                 gfp |= __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_MOVABLE;
> @@ -1435,23 +1436,11 @@ static bool zswap_store_page(struct page
> *page,
>         entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL,
> folio_nid(page_folio(page)));
>         if (!entry) {
>                 zswap_reject_kmemcache_fail++;
> -               goto reject;
> +               return false;
>         }
> 
> -       /* zswap_store() already holds a ref on 'objcg' and 'pool' */
> -       if (objcg)
> -               obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
> -       zswap_pool_get(pool);
> -
> -       /* if entry is successfully added, it keeps the reference */
> -       entry->pool = pool;
> -
> -       if (!zswap_compress(page, entry))
> -               goto put_pool_objcg;
> -
> -       entry->swpentry = page_swap_entry(page);
> -       entry->objcg = objcg;
> -       entry->referenced = true;
> +       if (!zswap_compress(page, entry, pool))
> +               goto compress_failed;
> 
>         old = xa_store(tree, swp_offset(entry->swpentry), entry, GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (xa_is_err(old)) {
> @@ -1470,6 +1459,16 @@ static bool zswap_store_page(struct page *page,
>         if (old)
>                 zswap_entry_free(old);
> 
> +       /*
> +        * The entry is successfully compressed and stored in the tree, there is
> +        * no further possibility of failure. Grab refs to the pool and objcg.
> +        * These refs will be dropped by zswap_entry_free() when the entry is
> +        * removed from the tree.
> +        */
> +       zswap_pool_get(pool);
> +       if (objcg)
> +               obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
> +
>         /*
>          * We finish initializing the entry while it's already in xarray.
>          * This is safe because:
> @@ -1480,26 +1479,22 @@ static bool zswap_store_page(struct page
> *page,
>          *    The publishing order matters to prevent writeback from seeing
>          *    an incoherent entry.
>          */
> +       entry->pool = pool;
> +       entry->swpentry = page_swap_entry(page);
> +       entry->objcg = objcg;
> +       entry->referenced = true;
>         if (entry->length) {
>                 *compressed_bytes += entry->length;
>                 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->lru);
>                 zswap_lru_add(&zswap_list_lru, entry);
>         }
> 
> -       /*
> -        * We shouldn't have any possibility of failure after the entry is
> -        * added in the xarray. The pool/objcg refs obtained here will only
> -        * be dropped if/when zswap_entry_free() gets called.
> -        */
>         return true;
> 
>  store_failed:
> -       zpool_free(entry->pool->zpool, entry->handle);
> -put_pool_objcg:
> -       zswap_pool_put(pool);
> -       obj_cgroup_put(objcg);
> +       zpool_free(pool->zpool, entry->handle);
> +compress_failed:
>         zswap_entry_cache_free(entry);
> -reject:
>         return false;
>  }
> 
> 
> >         zswap_entry_cache_free(entry);
> >  reject:
> > +       return false;
> > +}
> > +
> > +bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
> > +{
> > +       long nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
> > +       swp_entry_t swp = folio->swap;
> > +       struct xarray *tree = swap_zswap_tree(swp);
> > +       struct obj_cgroup *objcg = NULL;
> > +       struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
> > +       struct zswap_pool *pool;
> > +       size_t compressed_bytes = 0;
> > +       bool ret = false;
> > +       long index;
> > +
> > +       VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_locked(folio));
> > +       VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_swapcache(folio));
> > +
> > +       if (!zswap_enabled)
> > +               goto check_old;
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * Check cgroup zswap limits:
> > +        *
> > +        * The cgroup zswap limit check is done once at the beginning of
> > +        * zswap_store(). The cgroup charging is done once, at the end
> > +        * of a successful folio store. What this means is, if the cgroup
> > +        * was within the zswap_max limit at the beginning of a large folio
> > +        * store, it could go over the limit by at most (HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1)
> > +        * pages due to this store.
> > +        */
> > +       objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio);
> > +       if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) {
> > +               memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
> > +               if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) {
> > +                       mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> > +                       goto put_objcg;
> > +               }
> > +               mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * Check zpool utilization against zswap limits:
> > +        *
> > +        * The zswap zpool utilization is also checked against the limits
> > +        * just once, at the start of zswap_store(). If the check passes,
> > +        * any breaches of the limits set by zswap_max_pages() or
> > +        * zswap_accept_thr_pages() that may happen while storing this
> > +        * folio, will only be detected during the next call to
> > +        * zswap_store() by any process.
> > +        */
> 
> This is essentially a rephrased repetition of the last comment, just
> refer to it instead. Something like:
> 
>          /*
>            * Check zpool utilization against zswap limits. The possibility of
>            * going overlimit is the same as the cgroup limit check.
>            */

Sure, I will make this change.

Thanks,
Kanchana

> 
> > +       if (zswap_check_limits())
> > +               goto put_objcg;
> > +
> > +       pool = zswap_pool_current_get();
> > +       if (!pool)
> > +               goto put_objcg;
> > +
> > +       if (objcg) {
> > +               memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
> > +               if (memcg_list_lru_alloc(memcg, &zswap_list_lru, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> > +                       mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> > +                       goto put_pool;
> > +               }
> > +               mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * Store each page of the folio as a separate entry. If we fail to
> > +        * store a page, unwind by deleting all the pages for this folio
> > +        * currently in zswap.
> > +        */
> > +       for (index = 0; index < nr_pages; ++index) {
> > +               if (!zswap_store_page(folio_page(folio, index), objcg, pool, tree,
> &compressed_bytes))
> > +                       goto put_pool;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       if (objcg) {
> > +               obj_cgroup_charge_zswap(objcg, compressed_bytes);
> > +               count_objcg_events(objcg, ZSWPOUT, nr_pages);
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       atomic_long_add(nr_pages, &zswap_stored_pages);
> > +       count_vm_events(ZSWPOUT, nr_pages);
> > +
> > +       ret = true;
> > +
> > +put_pool:
> > +       zswap_pool_put(pool);
> > +put_objcg:
> >         obj_cgroup_put(objcg);
> > -       if (zswap_pool_reached_full)
> > +       if (!ret && zswap_pool_reached_full)
> >                 queue_work(shrink_wq, &zswap_shrink_work);
> >  check_old:
> >         /*
> > -        * If the zswap store fails or zswap is disabled, we must invalidate the
> > -        * possibly stale entry which was previously stored at this offset.
> > -        * Otherwise, writeback could overwrite the new data in the swapfile.
> > +        * If the zswap store fails or zswap is disabled, we must invalidate
> > +        * the possibly stale entries which were previously stored at the
> > +        * offsets corresponding to each page of the folio. Otherwise,
> > +        * writeback could overwrite the new data in the swapfile.
> >          */
> > -       entry = xa_erase(tree, offset);
> > -       if (entry)
> > -               zswap_entry_free(entry);
> > -       return false;
> > +       if (!ret) {
> > +               pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(swp);
> > +               struct zswap_entry *entry;
> > +
> > +               for (index = 0; index < nr_pages; ++index) {
> > +                       entry = xa_erase(tree, offset + index);
> > +                       if (entry)
> > +                               zswap_entry_free(entry);
> > +               }
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       return ret;
> >  }
> >
> >  bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio)
> > --
> > 2.27.0
> >




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