** Background **
Currently, OVS supports several packet sampling mechanisms (sFlow,
per-bridge IPFIX, per-flow IPFIX). These end up being translated into a
userspace action that needs to be handled by ovs-vswitchd's handler
threads only to be forwarded to some third party application that
will somehow process the sample and provide observability on the
datapath.
A particularly interesting use-case is controller-driven
per-flow IPFIX sampling where the OpenFlow controller can add metadata
to samples (via two 32bit integers) and this metadata is then available
to the sample-collecting system for correlation.
** Problem **
The fact that sampled traffic share netlink sockets and handler thread
time with upcalls, apart from being a performance bottleneck in the
sample extraction itself, can severely compromise the datapath,
yielding this solution unfit for highly loaded production systems.
Users are left with little options other than guessing what sampling
rate will be OK for their traffic pattern and system load and dealing
with the lost accuracy.
Looking at available infrastructure, an obvious candidated would be
to use psample. However, it's current state does not help with the
use-case at stake because sampled packets do not contain user-defined
metadata.
** Proposal **
This series is an attempt to fix this situation by extending the
existing psample infrastructure to carry a variable length
user-defined cookie.
The main existing user of psample is tc's act_sample. It is also
extended to forward the action's cookie to psample.
Finally, a new OVS action (OVS_SAMPLE_ATTR_PSAMPLE) is created.
It accepts a group and an optional cookie and uses psample to
multicast the packet and the metadata.
--
v6 -> v7:
- Rebased
- Fixed typo in comment.
v5 -> v6:
- Renamed emit_sample -> psample
- Addressed unused variable and conditionally compilation of function.
v4 -> v5:
- Rebased.
- Removed lefover enum value and wrapped some long lines in selftests.
v3 -> v4:
- Rebased.
- Addressed Jakub's comment on private and unused nla attributes.
v2 -> v3:
- Addressed comments from Simon, Aaron and Ilya.
- Dropped probability propagation in nested sample actions.
- Dropped patch v2's 7/9 in favor of a userspace implementation and
consume skb if emit_sample is the last action, same as we do with
userspace.
- Split ovs-dpctl.py features in independent patches.
v1 -> v2:
- Create a new action ("emit_sample") rather than reuse existing
"sample" one.
- Add probability semantics to psample's sampling rate.
- Store sampling probability in skb's cb area and use it in emit_sample.
- Test combining "emit_sample" with "trunc"
- Drop group_id filtering and tracepoint in psample.
rfc_v2 -> v1:
- Accommodate Ilya's comments.
- Split OVS's attribute in two attributes and simplify internal
handling of psample arguments.
- Extend psample and tc with a user-defined cookie.
- Add a tracepoint to psample to facilitate troubleshooting.
rfc_v1 -> rfc_v2:
- Use psample instead of a new OVS-only multicast group.
- Extend psample and tc with a user-defined cookie.
Adrian Moreno (10):
net: psample: add user cookie
net: sched: act_sample: add action cookie to sample
net: psample: skip packet copy if no listeners
net: psample: allow using rate as probability
net: openvswitch: add psample action
net: openvswitch: store sampling probability in cb.
selftests: openvswitch: add psample action
selftests: openvswitch: add userspace parsing
selftests: openvswitch: parse trunc action
selftests: openvswitch: add psample test
Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_flow.yaml | 17 ++
include/net/psample.h | 5 +-
include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h | 31 +-
include/uapi/linux/psample.h | 11 +-
net/openvswitch/Kconfig | 1 +
net/openvswitch/actions.c | 65 ++++-
net/openvswitch/datapath.h | 3 +
net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 32 ++-
net/openvswitch/vport.c | 1 +
net/psample/psample.c | 16 +-
net/sched/act_sample.c | 12 +
.../selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh | 115 +++++++-
.../selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py | 272 +++++++++++++++++-
13 files changed, 565 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
--
2.45.2
Adrian Moreno (10):
net: psample: add user cookie
net: sched: act_sample: add action cookie to sample
net: psample: skip packet copy if no listeners
net: psample: allow using rate as probability
net: openvswitch: add psample action
net: openvswitch: store sampling probability in cb.
selftests: openvswitch: add psample action
selftests: openvswitch: add userspace parsing
selftests: openvswitch: parse trunc action
selftests: openvswitch: add psample test
Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_flow.yaml | 17 ++
include/net/psample.h | 5 +-
include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h | 31 +-
include/uapi/linux/psample.h | 11 +-
net/openvswitch/Kconfig | 1 +
net/openvswitch/actions.c | 65 ++++-
net/openvswitch/datapath.h | 3 +
net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 32 ++-
net/openvswitch/vport.c | 1 +
net/psample/psample.c | 16 +-
net/sched/act_sample.c | 12 +
.../selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh | 115 +++++++-
.../selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py | 272 +++++++++++++++++-
13 files changed, 565 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
--
2.45.2
From: Quan Zhou <zhouquan(a)iscas.ac.cn>
Due to the path that modifies a0 in syscall_enter_from_user_mode before the
actual execution of syscall_handler [1], the kernel currently saves a0 to
orig_a0 at the entry point of do_trap_ecall_u as an original copy of a0.
Once the syscall is interrupted and later resumed, the restarted syscall
will use orig_a0 to continue execution.
The above rules generally apply except for ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET,),
where the kernel will ignore the tracer's setting of tracee/a0 and
will restart with the tracee/orig_a0. For the current kernel implementation
of ptrace, projects like CRIU/Proot will encounter issues where the a0
setting becomes ineffective when performing ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET,).
Here is a suggested solution, expose orig_a0 to userspace so that ptrace
can choose whether to set orig_a0 based on the actual scenario. In fact,
x86/orig_eax and loongArch/orig_a0 have adopted similar solutions.
[1] link:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230403-crisping-animosity-04ed8a45c625@spud/…
---
Changes from RFC->v1:
- Rebased on Linux 6.10-rc5.
- Updated the patch description.
- Adjust MAX_REG_OFFSET to match the new bottom of pt_regs (Charlie).
- Simplify selftest to verify if a0 can be set (Charlie).
- Fix .gitignore error (Charlie).
---
RFC link:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1718693532.git.zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn/
Quan Zhou (2):
riscv: Expose orig_a0 in the user_regs_struct structure
riscv: selftests: Add a ptrace test to verify syscall parameter
modification
arch/riscv/include/asm/ptrace.h | 7 +-
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/Makefile | 12 ++
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/ptrace.c | 124 +++++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/.gitignore
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/abi/ptrace.c
base-commit: f2661062f16b2de5d7b6a5c42a9a5c96326b8454
--
2.34.1
Centralizes the definition of _GNU_SOURCE into lib.mk and addresses all
resulting macro redefinition warnings.
The initial attempt at this patch was abandoned because it affected
lines in many source files and caused a large amount of churn. However,
from earlier discussions, centralizing _GNU_SOURCE is still desireable.
This attempt limits the changes to 1 source file and 14 Makefiles.
This is condensed into a single commit to avoid redefinition warnings
from partial merges.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20240430235057.1351993-1-edliaw@goo…
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20240507214254.2787305-1-edliaw@goo…
- Add -D_GNU_SOURCE to KHDR_INCLUDES so that it is in a single
location.
- Remove #define _GNU_SOURCE from source code to resolve redefinition
warnings.
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20240509200022.253089-1-edliaw@goog…
- Rebase onto linux-next 20240508.
- Split patches by directory.
- Add -D_GNU_SOURCE directly to CFLAGS in lib.mk.
- Delete additional _GNU_SOURCE definitions from source code in
linux-next.
- Delete additional -D_GNU_SOURCE flags from Makefiles.
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20240510000842.410729-1-edliaw@goog…
- Rebase onto linux-next 20240509.
- Remove Fixes tag from patches that drop _GNU_SOURCE definition.
- Restore space between comment and includes for selftests/damon.
v5: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20240522005913.3540131-1-edliaw@goo…
- Rebase onto linux-next 20240521
- Drop initial patches that modify KHDR_INCLUDES.
- Incorporate Mark Brown's patch to replace static_assert with warning.
- Don't drop #define _GNU_SOURCE from nolibc and wireguard.
- Change Makefiles for x86 and vDSO to append to CFLAGS.
v6: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20240624232718.1154427-1-edliaw@goo…
- Rewrite patch to use -D_GNU_SOURCE= form in lib.mk.
- Reduce the amount of churn significantly by allowing definition to
coexist with source code macro defines.
v7:
- Squash patch into a single commit.
Edward Liaw (1):
selftests: Centralize -D_GNU_SOURCE= to CFLAGS in lib.mk
tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile | 1 -
tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/intel_pstate/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/iommu/Makefile | 2 --
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 3 +++
tools/testing/selftests/mm/thuge-gen.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/tcp_ao/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/proc/Makefile | 1 -
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/ring-buffer/Makefile | 1 -
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/sgx/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/tmpfs/Makefile | 1 -
15 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
--
2.45.2.803.g4e1b14247a-goog
Correctable memory errors are very common on servers with large
amount of memory, and are corrected by ECC, but with two
pain points to users:
1. Correction usually happens on the fly and adds latency overhead
2. Not-fully-proved theory states excessive correctable memory
errors can develop into uncorrectable memory error.
Soft offline is kernel's additional solution for memory pages
having (excessive) corrected memory errors. Impacted page is migrated
to healthy page if it is in use, then the original page is discarded
for any future use.
The actual policy on whether (and when) to soft offline should be
maintained by userspace, especially in case of an 1G HugeTLB page.
Soft-offline dissolves the HugeTLB page, either in-use or free, into
chunks of 4K pages, reducing HugeTLB pool capacity by 1 hugepage.
If userspace has not acknowledged such behavior, it may be surprised
when later mmap hugepages MAP_FAILED due to lack of hugepages.
In case of a transparent hugepage, it will be split into 4K pages
as well; userspace will stop enjoying the transparent performance.
In addition, discarding the entire 1G HugeTLB page only because of
corrected memory errors sounds very costly and kernel better not
doing under the hood. But today there are at least 2 such cases:
1. GHES driver sees both GHES_SEV_CORRECTED and
CPER_SEC_ERROR_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED after parsing CPER.
2. RAS Correctable Errors Collector counts correctable errors per
PFN and when the counter for a PFN reaches threshold
In both cases, userspace has no control of the soft offline performed
by kernel's memory failure recovery.
This patch series give userspace the control of softofflining any page:
kernel only soft offlines raw page / transparent hugepage / HugeTLB
hugepage if userspace has agreed to. The interface to userspace is a
new sysctl called enable_soft_offline under /proc/sys/vm. By default
enable_soft_line is 1 to preserve existing behavior in kernel.
Changelog
v6 => v7
* incorporate feedbacks from Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe(a)huawei.com> and David
Rientjes <rientjes(a)google.com>
* remove PFN value from enable_soft_offline log
* save/restore enable_soft_offline in run_vmtests.sh
* v7 is based on commit 7c89bdbd3778 ("khugepaged: simplify the
allocation of slab caches")
v5 => v6:
* incorporate feedbacks from Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe(a)huawei.com>
* add a ':' in soft offline log.
* close hugetlbfs file descriptor in selftest.
* no need to "return" after ksft_exit_fail_msg.
v4 => v5:
* incorporate feedbacks from Muhammad Usama Anjum
<usama.anjum(a)collabora.com>
* refactor selftest to use what available in kselftest.h
v3 => v4:
* incorporate feedbacks from Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe(a)huawei.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>, and
Oscar Salvador <osalvador(a)suse.de>.
* insert a refactor commit to unify soft offline's logs to follow
"Soft offline: 0x${pfn}: ${message}" format.
* some rewords in document: fail => will not perform.
* v4 is still based on commit 83a7eefedc9b ("Linux 6.10-rc3"),
akpm/mm-stable.
v2 => v3:
* incorporate feedbacks from Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe(a)huawei.com>,
Lance Yang <ioworker0(a)gmail.com>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador(a)suse.de>,
and David Rientjes <rientjes(a)google.com>.
* release potential refcount if enable_soft_offline is 0.
* soft_offline_page() returns EOPNOTSUPP if enable_soft_offline is 0.
* refactor hugetlb-soft-offline.c, for example, introduce
test_soft_offline_common to reduce repeated code.
* rewrite enable_soft_offline's documentation, adds more details about
the cost of soft-offline for transparent and hugetlb hugepages, and
components that are impacted when enable_soft_offline becomes 0.
* fix typos in commit messages.
* v3 is still based on commit 83a7eefedc9b ("Linux 6.10-rc3").
v1 => v2:
* incorporate feedbacks from both Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe(a)huawei.com> and
Jane Chu <jane.chu(a)oracle.com>.
* make the switch to control all pages, instead of HugeTLB specific.
* change the API from
/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-${size}kB/softoffline_corrected_errors
to /proc/sys/vm/enable_soft_offline.
* minor update to test code.
* update documentation of the user control API.
* v2 is based on commit 83a7eefedc9b ("Linux 6.10-rc3").
Jiaqi Yan (4):
mm/memory-failure: refactor log format in soft offline code
mm/memory-failure: userspace controls soft-offlining pages
selftest/mm: test enable_soft_offline behaviors
docs: mm: add enable_soft_offline sysctl
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 32 +++
mm/memory-failure.c | 37 ++-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile | 1 +
.../selftests/mm/hugetlb-soft-offline.c | 228 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 6 +
6 files changed, 297 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-soft-offline.c
--
2.45.2.803.g4e1b14247a-goog