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Patch series "Drain remote per-cpu directly", v5. Some setups, notably NOHZ_FULL CPUs, may be running realtime or latency-sensitive applications that cannot tolerate interference due to per-cpu drain work queued by __drain_all_pages(). Introduce a new mechanism to remotely drain the per-cpu lists. It is made possible by remotely locking 'struct per_cpu_pages' new per-cpu spinlocks. This has two advantages, the time to drain is more predictable and other unrelated tasks are not interrupted. This series has the same intent as Nicolas' series "mm/page_alloc: Remote per-cpu lists drain support" -- avoid interference of a high priority task due to a workqueue item draining per-cpu page lists. While many workloads can tolerate a brief interruption, it may cause a real-time task running on a NOHZ_FULL CPU to miss a deadline and at minimum, the draining is non-deterministic. Currently an IRQ-safe local_lock protects the page allocator per-cpu lists. The local_lock on its own prevents migration and the IRQ disabling protects from corruption due to an interrupt arriving while a page allocation is in progress. This series adjusts the locking. A spinlock is added to struct per_cpu_pages to protect the list contents while local_lock_irq is ultimately replaced by just the spinlock in the final patch. This allows a remote CPU to safely. Follow-on work should allow the spin_lock_irqsave to be converted to spin_lock to avoid IRQs being disabled/enabled in most cases. The follow-on patch will be one kernel release later as it is relatively high risk and it'll make bisections more clear if there are any problems. Patch 1 is a cosmetic patch to clarify when page->lru is storing buddy pages and when it is storing per-cpu pages. Patch 2 shrinks per_cpu_pages to make room for a spin lock. Strictly speaking this is not necessary but it avoids per_cpu_pages consuming another cache line. Patch 3 is a preparation patch to avoid code duplication. Patch 4 is a minor correction. Patch 5 uses a spin_lock to protect the per_cpu_pages contents while still relying on local_lock to prevent migration, stabilise the pcp lookup and prevent IRQ reentrancy. Patch 6 remote drains per-cpu pages directly instead of using a workqueue. Patch 7 uses a normal spinlock instead of local_lock for remote draining This patch (of 7): The page allocator uses page->lru for storing pages on either buddy or PCP lists. Create page->buddy_list and page->pcp_list as a union with page->lru. This is simply to clarify what type of list a page is on in the page allocator. No functional change intended. [minchan@kernel.org: fix page lru fields in macros] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624125423.6126-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.