This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

kaiser: vmstat show NR_KAISERTABLE as nr_overhead

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 20:37:21 CET 2018

From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 21:27:32 -0700 Subject: kaiser: vmstat show NR_KAISERTABLE as nr_overhead

From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com

The kaiser update made an interesting choice, never to free any shadow page tables. Contention on global spinlock was worrying, particularly with it held across page table scans when freeing. Something had to be done: I was going to add refcounting; but simply never to free them is an appealing choice, minimizing contention without complicating the code (the more a page table is found already, the less the spinlock is used).

But leaking pages in this way is also a worry: can we get away with it? At the very least, we need a count to show how bad it actually gets: in principle, one might end up wasting about 1/256 of memory that way (1/512 for when direct-mapped pages have to be user-mapped, plus 1/512 for when they are user-mapped from the vmalloc area on another occasion (but we don't have vmalloc'ed stacks, so only large ldts are vmalloc'ed).

Add per-cpu stat NR_KAISERTABLE: including 256 at startup for the shared pgd entries, and 1 for each intermediate page table added thereafter for user-mapping - but leave out the 1 per mm, for its shadow pgd, because that distracts from the monotonic increase. Shown in /proc/vmstat as nr_overhead (0 if kaiser not enabled).

In practice, it doesn't look so bad so far: more like 1/12000 after nine hours of gtests below; and movable pageblock segregation should tend to cluster the kaiser tables into a subset of the address space (if not, they will be bad for compaction too). But production may tell a different story: keep an eye on this number, and bring back lighter freeing if it gets out of control (maybe a shrinker).

["nr_overhead" should of course say "nr_kaisertable", if it needs to stay; but for the moment we are being coy, preferring that when Joe Blow notices a new line in his /proc/vmstat, he does not get too curious about what this "kaiser" stuff might be.]

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 16 +++++++++++----- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++- mm/vmstat.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c @@ -121,9 +121,11 @@ static pte_t *kaiser_pagetable_walk(unsi if (!new_pmd_page) return NULL; spin_lock(&shadow_table_allocation_lock); - if (pud_none(*pud)) + if (pud_none(*pud)) { set_pud(pud, __pud(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pmd_page))); - else + __inc_zone_page_state(virt_to_page((void *) + new_pmd_page), NR_KAISERTABLE); + } else free_page(new_pmd_page); spin_unlock(&shadow_table_allocation_lock); } @@ -139,9 +141,11 @@ static pte_t *kaiser_pagetable_walk(unsi if (!new_pte_page) return NULL; spin_lock(&shadow_table_allocation_lock); - if (pmd_none(*pmd)) + if (pmd_none(*pmd)) { set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pte_page))); - else + __inc_zone_page_state(virt_to_page((void *) + new_pte_page), NR_KAISERTABLE); + } else free_page(new_pte_page); spin_unlock(&shadow_table_allocation_lock); } @@ -205,11 +209,13 @@ static void __init kaiser_init_all_pgds( pgd = native_get_shadow_pgd(pgd_offset_k((unsigned long )0)); for (i = PTRS_PER_PGD / 2; i < PTRS_PER_PGD; i++) { pgd_t new_pgd; - pud_t *pud = pud_alloc_one(&init_mm, PAGE_OFFSET + i * PGDIR_SIZE); + pud_t *pud = pud_alloc_one(&init_mm, + PAGE_OFFSET + i * PGDIR_SIZE); if (!pud) { WARN_ON(1); break; } + inc_zone_page_state(virt_to_page(pud), NR_KAISERTABLE); new_pgd = __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE |__pa(pud)); /* * Make sure not to stomp on some other pgd entry. --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -124,8 +124,9 @@ enum zone_stat_item { NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE, NR_PAGETABLE, /* used for pagetables */ NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB, /* measured in KiB */ - /* Second 128 byte cacheline */ + NR_KAISERTABLE, NR_BOUNCE, + /* Second 128 byte cacheline */ #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZSMALLOC) NR_ZSPAGES, /* allocated in zsmalloc */ #endif --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { "nr_slab_unreclaimable", "nr_page_table_pages", "nr_kernel_stack", + "nr_overhead", "nr_bounce", #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZSMALLOC) "nr_zspages",

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@google.com are

queue-4.9/kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-add-nokaiser-boot-option-using-alternative.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user-check-pcid.patch queue-4.9/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-merged-update.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-delete-kaiser_real_switch-option.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser_remove_mapping-move-along-the-pgd.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-perf-crashes.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-drop-is_atomic-arg-to-kaiser_pagetable_walk.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-load_new_mm_cr3-let-switch_user_cr3-flush-user.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-enhanced-by-kernel-and-user-pcids.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush-and-x86_cr3_pcid_user.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-align-addition-to-x86-mm-makefile.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-use-alternative-instead-of-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-stack-map-page_size-at-thread_size-page_size.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-regs-to-do_nmi-ifndef-config_kaiser.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-do-not-set-_page_nx-on-pgd_none.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-tidied-up-kaiser_add-remove_mapping-slightly.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-kernel-address-isolation.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-paranoid_entry-pass-cr3-need-to-paranoid_exit.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-kaiser-depends-on-smp.patch queue-4.9/kaiser-pcid-0-for-kernel-and-128-for-user.patch