9:49 a.m.
Hi Dave,
Thank you for your comment!
On 2/13/2018 2:33 PM, Dave Anderson wrote:
Hi Kasuhito,
I am planning on releasing crash-7.2.1 today, so this will have to be deferred
to 7.2.2.
Because of your questions about ppc64, possible backwards-compatibility issues,
or potential future changes to page.flags usage, this permanent change to the
is_page_ptr() function solely for the purposes of SLUB's count_partial() function
makes me nervous.
Sorry, my explanation was not enough. Please let me supplement a little.
As far as I know, the count_partial() is the function which could receive the
effect of this patch most. But is_page_ptr() could be called many times also
through the other functions, so this will improve them, too. Moreover, the
is_page_ptr()'s loop could loop NR_MEM_SECTIONS() times, which is 33554432
on x86_64(5level) if I understand correctly, in the worst case.
So I thought that ideally we should improve the is_page_ptr() itself if possible,
rather than find the callers which could call it many times and change them.
Also, I am willing to drop the definition of VMEMMAP_VADDR for ppc64 this time.
There is really no compelling reason that count_partial() absolutely *must* use
is_page_ptr(), and so I'm thinking that perhaps you could come up with a less
heavy-handed method for simply testing whether a page.lru entry points to another
vmemmap'd page. Something along the lines of adding this for vmemmap-enabled
kernels:
#define IN_VMEMMAP_RANGE(page) ((page >= VMEMMAP_VADDR) && (page <=
VMEMMAP_END))
and then have count_partial() replace the is_page_ptr() call with another
slub function that does something like this for vmemmap-enabled kernels:
(IN_VMMEMAP_RANGE(next) && accessible(next))
Or instead of accessible(), it could read "next" as a list_head with
RETURN_ON_ERROR,
and verify that next->prev points back to the current list_head.
Non-vmemmap-enabled kernels could still use is_page_ptr().
What do you think of doing something like that?
Given possible compatibility issues you said, I think that the way you suggested
might well be enough for now. I'll try a method like the above.
Thanks,
Kazuhito Hagio
Dave
----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
>
> The "kmem -[sS]" commands can take several minutes to complete with
> the following conditions:
> * The system has a lot of memory sections with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM.
> * The kernel uses SLUB and it has a very long partial slab list.
>
> crash> kmem -s dentry | awk '{print strftime("%T"), $0}'
> 10:18:34 CACHE NAME OBJSIZE ALLOCATED TOTAL
> SLABS SSIZE
> 10:19:41 ffff88017fc78a00 dentry 192 9038949 10045728
> 239184 8k
> crash> kmem -S dentry | bash -c 'cat >/dev/null ; echo $SECONDS'
> 334
>
> One of the causes is that is_page_ptr() in count_partial() checks if
> a given slub page address is a page struct by searching all memory
> sections linearly for the one which includes it.
>
> nr_mem_sections = NR_MEM_SECTIONS();
> for (nr = 0; nr < nr_mem_sections ; nr++) {
> if ((sec_addr = valid_section_nr(nr))) {
> ...
>
> With CONFIG_SPARSEMEM{_VMEMMAP}, we can calculate the memory section
> which includes a page struct with its page.flags, or its address and
> VMEMMAP_VADDR. With this patch doing so, the computation amount can be
> significantly reduced in that case.
>
> crash> kmem -s dentry | awk '{print strftime("%T"), $0}'
> 10:34:55 CACHE NAME OBJSIZE ALLOCATED TOTAL
> SLABS SSIZE
> 10:34:55 ffff88017fc78a00 dentry 192 9038949 10045728
> 239184 8k
> crash> kmem -S dentry | bash -c 'cat >/dev/null ; echo $SECONDS'
> 2
>
> This patch uses VMEMMAP_VADDR. It is not defined on PPC64, but it looks
> like PPC64 supports VMEMMAP flag and machdep->machspec->vmemmap_base is
> it, so this patch also defines it for PPC64. This might need some help
> from PPC folks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio(a)ab.jp.nec.com>
> ---
> defs.h | 2 ++
> memory.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/defs.h b/defs.h
> index aa17792..84e68ca 100644
> --- a/defs.h
> +++ b/defs.h
> @@ -3861,6 +3861,8 @@ struct efi_memory_desc_t {
> #define IS_VMALLOC_ADDR(X) machdep->machspec->is_vmaddr(X)
> #define KERNELBASE machdep->pageoffset
>
> +#define VMEMMAP_VADDR (machdep->machspec->vmemmap_base)
> +
> #define PGDIR_SHIFT (machdep->pageshift + (machdep->pageshift -3) +
> (machdep->pageshift - 2))
> #define PMD_SHIFT (machdep->pageshift + (machdep->pageshift - 3))
>
> diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
> index 0df8ecc..0696763 100644
> --- a/memory.c
> +++ b/memory.c
> @@ -13348,10 +13348,25 @@ is_page_ptr(ulong addr, physaddr_t *phys)
> ulong nr_mem_sections;
> ulong coded_mem_map, mem_map, end_mem_map;
> physaddr_t section_paddr;
> +#ifdef VMEMMAP_VADDR
> + ulong flags;
> +#endif
>
> if (IS_SPARSEMEM()) {
> nr_mem_sections = NR_MEM_SECTIONS();
> +#ifdef VMEMMAP_VADDR
> + nr = nr_mem_sections;
> + if (machdep->flags & VMEMMAP)
> + nr = pfn_to_section_nr((addr - VMEMMAP_VADDR) / SIZE(page));
> + else if (readmem(addr + OFFSET(page_flags), KVADDR, &flags,
> + sizeof(ulong), "page.flags", RETURN_ON_ERROR|QUIET))
> + nr = (flags >> (SIZE(page_flags)*8 - SECTIONS_SHIFT())
> + & ((1UL << SECTIONS_SHIFT()) - 1));
> +
> + if (nr < nr_mem_sections) {
> +#else
> for (nr = 0; nr < nr_mem_sections ; nr++) {
> +#endif
> if ((sec_addr = valid_section_nr(nr))) {
> coded_mem_map = section_mem_map_addr(sec_addr);
> mem_map = sparse_decode_mem_map(coded_mem_map, nr);
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
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