If the size of the image created when hibernating is bigger than
image_size the kernel will try to reduce the size of the image. This can
slow down hibernation consistenly, so setting image_size to the total
amount of RAM by default ensures that the kernel doesn't waste time to
reduce the image, making hibernation faster.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <email address hidden>
When swapping out THP (Transparent Huge Pages), sometimes we have to
fallback to split the THP into normal pages before swapping, because no
free swap clusters are available. This can make hibernation really slow
under memory pressure, so disable transparent huge pages by default.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <email address hidden>
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"Rafael J. Wysocki" <email address hidden>
Rework mark_unsafe_pages() to use a simpler method of clearing
all bits in free_pages_map and to set the bits for the "unsafe"
pages (ie. pages that were used by the image kernel before
hibernation) with the help of duplicate_memory_bitmap().
For this purpose, move the pfn_valid() check from mark_unsafe_pages()
to unpack_orig_pfns() where the "unsafe" pages are discovered.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <email address hidden>
(cherry picked from commit 6dbecfd345a617888da370b13d5b190c9ff3df53)
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <email address hidden>
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"Rafael J. Wysocki" <email address hidden>
PM / hibernate: Recycle safe pages after image restoration
One of the memory bitmaps used by the hibernation image restoration
code is freed after the image has been loaded.
That is not quite efficient, though, because the memory pages used
for building that bitmap are known to be safe (ie. they were not
used by the image kernel before hibernation) and the arch-specific
code finalizing the image restoration may need them. In that case
it needs to allocate those pages again via the memory management
subsystem, check if they are really safe again by consulting the
other bitmaps and so on.
To avoid that, recycle those pages by putting them into the global
list of known safe pages so that they can be given to the arch code
right away when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <email address hidden>
(cherry picked from commit 307c5971c972ef2bfd541d2850b36a692c6354c9)
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <email address hidden>
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"Rafael J. Wysocki" <email address hidden>
PM / hibernate: Do not free preallocated safe pages during image restore
The core image restoration code preallocates some safe pages
(ie. pages that weren't used by the image kernel before hibernation)
for future use before allocating the bulk of memory for loading the
image data. Those safe pages are then freed so they can be allocated
again (with the memory management subsystem's help). That's done to
ensure that there will be enough safe pages for temporary data
structures needed during image restoration.
However, it is not really necessary to free those pages after they
have been allocated. They can be added to the (global) list of
safe pages right away and then picked up from there when needed
without freeing.
That reduces the overhead related to using safe pages, especially
in the arch-specific code, so modify the code accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <email address hidden>
(cherry picked from commit 9c744481c003697de453e8fc039468143ba604aa)
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <email address hidden>
throttle_vm_writeout() was introduced back in 2005 to fix OOMs caused by
excessive pageout activity during the reclaim. Too many pages could be
put under writeback therefore LRUs would be full of unreclaimable pages
until the IO completes and in turn the OOM killer could be invoked.
There have been some important changes introduced since then in the
reclaim path though. Writers are throttled by balance_dirty_pages when
initiating the buffered IO and later during the memory pressure, the
direct reclaim is throttled by wait_iff_congested if the node is
considered congested by dirty pages on LRUs and the underlying bdi is
congested by the queued IO. The kswapd is throttled as well if it
encounters pages marked for immediate reclaim or under writeback which
signals that that there are too many pages under writeback already.
Finally should_reclaim_retry does congestion_wait if the reclaim cannot
make any progress and there are too many dirty/writeback pages.
Another important aspect is that we do not issue any IO from the direct
reclaim context anymore. In a heavy parallel load this could queue a
lot of IO which would be very scattered and thus unefficient which would
just make the problem worse.
This three mechanisms should throttle and keep the amount of IO in a
steady state even under heavy IO and memory pressure so yet another
throttling point doesn't really seem helpful. Quite contrary, Mikulas
Patocka has reported that swap backed by dm-crypt doesn't work properly
because the swapout IO cannot make sufficient progress as the writeout
path depends on dm_crypt worker which has to allocate memory to perform
the encryption. In order to guarantee a forward progress it relies on
the mempool allocator. mempool_alloc(), however, prefers to use the
underlying (usually page) allocator before it grabs objects from the
pool. Such an allocation can dive into the memory reclaim and
consequently to throttle_vm_writeout. If there are too many dirty or
pages under writeback it will get throttled even though it is in fact a
flusher to clear pending pages.
Let's just drop throttle_vm_writeout altogether. It is not very much
helpful anymore.
I have tried to test a potential writeback IO runaway similar to the one
described in the original patch which has introduced that [1]. Small
virtual machine (512MB RAM, 4 CPUs, 2G of swap space and disk image on a
rather slow NFS in a sync mode on the host) with 8 parallel writers each
writing 1G worth of data. As soon as the pagecache fills up and the
direct reclaim hits then I start anon memory consumer in a loop
(allocating 300M and exiting after populating it) in the background to
make the memory pressure even stronger as well as to disrupt the steady
state for the IO. The direct reclaim is throttled because of the
congestion as well as kswapd hitting congestion_wait due to nr_immediate
but throttle_vm_writeout doesn't ever trigger the sleep throughout the
test. Dirty+writeback are close to nr_dirty_threshold with some
fluctuations caused by the anon consumer.
