Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/page_idle: Add support for per-pid page_idle using virtual indexing

[Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:06:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
[snip] 
> > +	*end = *start + count * BITS_PER_BYTE;
> > +	if (*end > max_frame)
> > +		*end = max_frame;
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> >
> > ...
> >
> > +static void add_page_idle_list(struct page *page,
> > +			       unsigned long addr, struct mm_walk *walk)
> > +{
> > +	struct page *page_get;
> > +	struct page_node *pn;
> > +	int bit;
> > +	unsigned long frames;
> > +	struct page_idle_proc_priv *priv = walk->private;
> > +	u64 *chunk = (u64 *)priv->buffer;
> > +
> > +	if (priv->write) {
> > +		/* Find whether this page was asked to be marked */
> > +		frames = (addr - priv->start_addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +		bit = frames % BITMAP_CHUNK_BITS;
> > +		chunk = &chunk[frames / BITMAP_CHUNK_BITS];
> > +		if (((*chunk >> bit) & 1) == 0)
> > +			return;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	page_get = page_idle_get_page(page);
> > +	if (!page_get)
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	pn = kmalloc(sizeof(*pn), GFP_ATOMIC);
> 
> I'm not liking this GFP_ATOMIC.  If I'm reading the code correctly,
> userspace can ask for an arbitrarily large number of GFP_ATOMIC
> allocations by doing a large read.  This can potentially exhaust page
> reserves which things like networking Rx interrupts need and can make
> this whole feature less reliable.

For the revision, I will pre-allocate the page nodes in advance so it does
not need to do this. Diff on top of this patch is below. Let me know any
comments, thanks.

Btw, I also dropped the idle_page_list_lock by putting the idle_page_list
list_head on the stack instead of heap.
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From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/page_idle: Avoid need for GFP_ATOMIC

GFP_ATOMIC can harm allocations does by other allocations that are in
need of reserves and the like. Pre-allocate the nodes list so that
spinlocked region can just use it.

Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
---
 mm/page_idle.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_idle.c b/mm/page_idle.c
index 874a60c41fef..b9c790721f16 100644
--- a/mm/page_idle.c
+++ b/mm/page_idle.c
@@ -266,6 +266,10 @@ struct page_idle_proc_priv {
 	unsigned long start_addr;
 	char *buffer;
 	int write;
+
+	/* Pre-allocate and provide nodes to add_page_idle_list() */
+	struct page_node *page_nodes;
+	int cur_page_node;
 };
 
 static void add_page_idle_list(struct page *page,
@@ -291,10 +295,7 @@ static void add_page_idle_list(struct page *page,
 	if (!page_get)
 		return;
 
-	pn = kmalloc(sizeof(*pn), GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (!pn)
-		return;
-
+	pn = &(priv->page_nodes[priv->cur_page_node++]);
 	pn->page = page_get;
 	pn->addr = addr;
 	list_add(&pn->list, &idle_page_list);
@@ -379,6 +380,15 @@ ssize_t page_idle_proc_generic(struct file *file, char __user *ubuff,
 	priv.buffer = buffer;
 	priv.start_addr = start_addr;
 	priv.write = write;
+
+	priv.cur_page_node = 0;
+	priv.page_nodes = kzalloc(sizeof(struct page_node) * (end_frame - start_frame),
+				  GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!priv.page_nodes) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	walk.private = &priv;
 	walk.mm = mm;
 
@@ -425,6 +435,7 @@ ssize_t page_idle_proc_generic(struct file *file, char __user *ubuff,
 		ret = copy_to_user(ubuff, buffer, count);
 
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	kfree(priv.page_nodes);
 out:
 	kfree(buffer);
 out_mmput:
-- 
2.22.0.657.g960e92d24f-goog