Currently, zsmalloc, zswap's and zram's backend memory allocator, does not
enforce any policy for the allocation of memory for the compressed data,
instead just adopting the memory policy of the task entering reclaim, or
the default policy (prefer local node) if no such policy is specified.
This can lead to several pathological behaviors in multi-node NUMA
systems:
1. Systems with CXL-based memory tiering can encounter the following
inversion with zswap/zram: the coldest pages demoted to the CXL tier
can return to the high tier when they are reclaimed to compressed swap,
creating memory pressure on the high tier.
2. Consider a direct reclaimer scanning nodes in order of allocation
preference. If it ventures into remote nodes, the memory it compresses
there should stay there. Trying to shift those contents over to the
reclaiming thread's preferred node further *increases* its local
pressure, and provoking more spills. The remote node is also the most
likely to refault this data again. This undesirable behavior was
pointed out by Johannes Weiner in [1].
3. For zswap writeback, the zswap entries are organized in
node-specific LRUs, based on the node placement of the original pages,
allowing for targeted zswap writeback for specific nodes.
However, the compressed data of a zswap entry can be placed on a
different node from the LRU it is placed on. This means that reclaim
targeted at one node might not free up memory used for zswap entries in
that node, but instead reclaiming memory in a different node.
All of these issues will be resolved if the compressed data go to the same
node as the original page. This patch encourages this behavior by having
zswap and zram pass the node of the original page to zsmalloc, and have
zsmalloc prefer the specified node if we need to allocate new (zs)pages
for the compressed data.
Note that we are not strictly binding the allocation to the preferred
node. We still allow the allocation to fall back to other nodes when the
preferred node is full, or if we have zspages with slots available on a
different node. This is OK, and still a strict improvement over the
status quo:
1. On a system with demotion enabled, we will generally prefer
demotions over compressed swapping, and only swap when pages have
already gone to the lowest tier. This patch should achieve the desired
effect for the most part.
2. If the preferred node is out of memory, letting the compressed data
going to other nodes can be better than the alternative (OOMs, keeping
cold memory unreclaimed, disk swapping, etc.).
3. If the allocation go to a separate node because we have a zspage
with slots available, at least we're not creating extra immediate
memory pressure (since the space is already allocated).
3. While there can be mixings, we generally reclaim pages in same-node
batches, which encourage zspage grouping that is more likely to go to
the right node.
4. A strict binding would require partitioning zsmalloc by node, which
is more complicated, and more prone to regression, since it reduces the
storage density of zsmalloc. We need to evaluate the tradeoff and
benchmark carefully before adopting such an involved solution.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250331165306.GC2110528@cmpxchg.org/
[senozhatsky@chromium.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/mnvexa7kseswglcqbhlot4zg3b3la2ypv2rimdl5mh5glbmhvz@wi6bgqn47hge
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402204416.3435994-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> [zram, zsmalloc]
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> [zswap/zsmalloc]
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
There is a lot of provision for flexibility that isn't actually needed or
used. Zswap (the only zpool user) always passes zpool_ops with an .evict
method set. The backends who reclaim only do so for zswap, so they can
also directly call zpool_ops without indirection or checks.
Finally, there is no need to check the retries parameters and bail with
-EINVAL in the reclaim function, when that's called just a few lines below
with a hard-coded 8. There is no need to duplicate the evictable and
sleep_mapped attrs from the driver in zpool_ops.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221128191616.1261026-3-nphamcs@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:
- Have no license information of any form
- Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial
scan/conversion to ignore the file
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Make the return type of zpool_get_type const; the string belongs to the
zpool driver and should not be modified. Remove the redundant type field
in the struct zpool; it is private to zpool.c and isn't needed since
->driver->type can be used directly. Add comments indicating strings must
be null-terminated.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This series makes creation of the zpool and compressor dynamic, so that
they can be changed at runtime. This makes using/configuring zswap
easier, as before this zswap had to be configured at boot time, using boot
params.
This uses a single list to track both the zpool and compressor together,
although Seth had mentioned an alternative which is to track the zpools
and compressors using separate lists. In the most common case, only a
single zpool and single compressor, using one list is slightly simpler
than using two lists, and for the uncommon case of multiple zpools and/or
compressors, using one list is slightly less simple (and uses slightly
more memory, probably) than using two lists.
This patch (of 4):
Add zpool_has_pool() function, indicating if the specified type of zpool
is available (i.e. zsmalloc or zbud). This allows checking if a pool is
available, without actually trying to allocate it, similar to
crypto_has_alg().
This is used by a following patch to zswap that enables the dynamic
runtime creation of zswap zpools.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove zpool_evict() helper function. As zbud is currently the only
zpool implementation that supports eviction, add zpool and zpool_ops
references to struct zbud_pool and directly call zpool_ops->evict(zpool,
handle) on eviction.
Currently zpool provides the zpool_evict helper which locks the zpool
list lock and searches through all pools to find the specific one
matching the caller, and call the corresponding zpool_ops->evict
function. However, this is unnecessary, as the zbud pool can simply
keep a reference to the zpool that created it, as well as the zpool_ops,
and directly call the zpool_ops->evict function, when it needs to evict
a page. This avoids a spinlock and list search in zpool for each
eviction.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently the underlay of zpool: zsmalloc/zbud, do not know who creates
them. There is not a method to let zsmalloc/zbud find which caller they
belong to.
Now we want to add statistics collection in zsmalloc. We need to name the
debugfs dir for each pool created. The way suggested by Minchan Kim is to
use a name passed by caller(such as zram) to create the zsmalloc pool.
/sys/kernel/debug/zsmalloc/zram0
This patch adds an argument `name' to zs_create_pool() and other related
functions.
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To avoid potential format string expansion via module parameters, do not
use the zpool type directly in request_module() without a format string.
Additionally, to avoid arbitrary modules being loaded via zpool API
(e.g. via the zswap_zpool_type module parameter) add a "zpool-" prefix
to the requested module, as well as module aliases for the existing
zpool types (zbud and zsmalloc).
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add zpool api.
zpool provides an interface for memory storage, typically of compressed
memory. Users can select what backend to use; currently the only
implementations are zbud, a low density implementation with up to two
compressed pages per storage page, and zsmalloc, a higher density
implementation with multiple compressed pages per storage page.
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Tested-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
