openwrt/target/linux/generic/backport-6.1/020-v6.1-11-mm-multi-gen-LRU-thrashing-prevention.patch

From 73d1ff551760f0c79c47ab70faa4c2ca91413f5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 02:00:08 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 11/29] mm: multi-gen LRU: thrashing prevention
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Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms for thrashing prevention, as
requested by many desktop users [1].

When set to value N, it prevents the working set of N milliseconds from
getting evicted.  The OOM killer is triggered if this working set cannot
be kept in memory.  Based on the average human detectable lag (~100ms),
N=1000 usually eliminates intolerable lags due to thrashing.  Larger
values like N=3000 make lags less noticeable at the risk of premature OOM
kills.

Compared with the size-based approach [2], this time-based approach
has the following advantages:

1. It is easier to configure because it is agnostic to applications
   and memory sizes.
2. It is more reliable because it is directly wired to the OOM killer.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ydza%[email protected]/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Larabel <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h |  2 ++
 mm/vmscan.c            | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -399,6 +399,8 @@ struct lru_gen_struct {
 	unsigned long max_seq;
 	/* the eviction increments the oldest generation numbers */
 	unsigned long min_seq[ANON_AND_FILE];
+	/* the birth time of each generation in jiffies */
+	unsigned long timestamps[MAX_NR_GENS];
 	/* the multi-gen LRU lists, lazily sorted on eviction */
 	struct list_head lists[MAX_NR_GENS][ANON_AND_FILE][MAX_NR_ZONES];
 	/* the multi-gen LRU sizes, eventually consistent */
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4064,6 +4064,7 @@ static void inc_max_seq(struct lruvec *l
 	for (type = 0; type < ANON_AND_FILE; type++)
 		reset_ctrl_pos(lruvec, type, false);
 
+	WRITE_ONCE(lrugen->timestamps[next], jiffies);
 	/* make sure preceding modifications appear */
 	smp_store_release(&lrugen->max_seq, lrugen->max_seq + 1);
 
@@ -4193,7 +4194,7 @@ static bool should_run_aging(struct lruv
 	return false;
 }
 
-static void age_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
+static bool age_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, unsigned long min_ttl)
 {
 	bool need_aging;
 	unsigned long nr_to_scan;
@@ -4207,16 +4208,36 @@ static void age_lruvec(struct lruvec *lr
 	mem_cgroup_calculate_protection(NULL, memcg);
 
 	if (mem_cgroup_below_min(memcg))
-		return;
+		return false;
 
 	need_aging = should_run_aging(lruvec, max_seq, min_seq, sc, swappiness, &nr_to_scan);
+
+	if (min_ttl) {
+		int gen = lru_gen_from_seq(min_seq[LRU_GEN_FILE]);
+		unsigned long birth = READ_ONCE(lruvec->lrugen.timestamps[gen]);
+
+		if (time_is_after_jiffies(birth + min_ttl))
+			return false;
+
+		/* the size is likely too small to be helpful */
+		if (!nr_to_scan && sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
+			return false;
+	}
+
 	if (need_aging)
 		try_to_inc_max_seq(lruvec, max_seq, sc, swappiness);
+
+	return true;
 }
 
+/* to protect the working set of the last N jiffies */
+static unsigned long lru_gen_min_ttl __read_mostly;
+
 static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+	bool success = false;
+	unsigned long min_ttl = READ_ONCE(lru_gen_min_ttl);
 
 	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!current_is_kswapd());
 
@@ -4239,12 +4260,32 @@ static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pgli
 	do {
 		struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
 
-		age_lruvec(lruvec, sc);
+		if (age_lruvec(lruvec, sc, min_ttl))
+			success = true;
 
 		cond_resched();
 	} while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)));
 
 	clear_mm_walk();
+
+	/* check the order to exclude compaction-induced reclaim */
+	if (success || !min_ttl || sc->order)
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * The main goal is to OOM kill if every generation from all memcgs is
+	 * younger than min_ttl. However, another possibility is all memcgs are
+	 * either below min or empty.
+	 */
+	if (mutex_trylock(&oom_lock)) {
+		struct oom_control oc = {
+			.gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask,
+		};
+
+		out_of_memory(&oc);
+
+		mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
+	}
 }
 
 /*
@@ -5002,6 +5043,28 @@ unlock:
  *                          sysfs interface
  ******************************************************************************/
 
+static ssize_t show_min_ttl(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", jiffies_to_msecs(READ_ONCE(lru_gen_min_ttl)));
+}
+
+static ssize_t store_min_ttl(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
+			     const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	unsigned int msecs;
+
+	if (kstrtouint(buf, 0, &msecs))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	WRITE_ONCE(lru_gen_min_ttl, msecs_to_jiffies(msecs));
+
+	return len;
+}
+
+static struct kobj_attribute lru_gen_min_ttl_attr = __ATTR(
+	min_ttl_ms, 0644, show_min_ttl, store_min_ttl
+);
+
 static ssize_t show_enabled(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
 	unsigned int caps = 0;
@@ -5050,6 +5113,7 @@ static struct kobj_attribute lru_gen_ena
 );
 
 static struct attribute *lru_gen_attrs[] = {
+	&lru_gen_min_ttl_attr.attr,
 	&lru_gen_enabled_attr.attr,
 	NULL
 };
@@ -5065,12 +5129,16 @@ static struct attribute_group lru_gen_at
 
 void lru_gen_init_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec)
 {
+	int i;
 	int gen, type, zone;
 	struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
 
 	lrugen->max_seq = MIN_NR_GENS + 1;
 	lrugen->enabled = lru_gen_enabled();
 
+	for (i = 0; i <= MIN_NR_GENS + 1; i++)
+		lrugen->timestamps[i] = jiffies;
+
 	for_each_gen_type_zone(gen, type, zone)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lrugen->lists[gen][type][zone]);