mm: report per-page metadata information

Today, we do not have any observability of per-page metadata and how much
it takes away from the machine capacity.  Thus, we want to describe the
amount of memory that is going towards per-page metadata, which can vary
depending on build configuration, machine architecture, and system use.

This patch adds 2 fields to /proc/vmstat that can used as shown below:

Accounting per-page metadata allocated by boot-allocator:
	/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot * PAGE_SIZE

Accounting per-page metadata allocated by buddy-allocator:
	/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap * PAGE_SIZE

Accounting total Perpage metadata allocated on the machine:
	(/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot +
	 /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap) * PAGE_SIZE

Utility for userspace:

Observability: Describe the amount of memory overhead that is going to
per-page metadata on the system at any given time since this overhead is
not currently observable.

Debugging: Tracking the changes or absolute value in struct pages can help
detect anomalies as they can be correlated with other metrics in the
machine (e.g., memtotal, number of huge pages, etc).

page_ext overheads: Some kernel features such as page_owner
page_table_check that use page_ext can be optionally enabled via kernel
parameters.  Having the total per-page metadata information helps users
precisely measure impact.  Furthermore, page-metadata metrics will reflect
the amount of struct pages reliquished (or overhead reduced) when
hugetlbfs pages are reserved which will vary depending on whether hugetlb
vmemmap optimization is enabled or not.

For background and results see:
lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Linxuan <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Babrou <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tomas Mudrunka <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

Author: Sourav Panda

include/linux/mmzone.h

@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ enum node_stat_item {
 	PGDEMOTE_KSWAPD,
 	PGDEMOTE_DIRECT,
 	PGDEMOTE_KHUGEPAGED,
+	NR_MEMMAP, /* page metadata allocated through buddy allocator */
+	NR_MEMMAP_BOOT, /* page metadata allocated through boot allocator */
 	NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS
 };
 

include/linux/vmstat.h

@@ -624,4 +624,8 @@ static inline void lruvec_stat_sub_folio(struct folio *folio,
 {
 	lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, idx, -folio_nr_pages(folio));
 }
+
+void __meminit mod_node_early_perpage_metadata(int nid, long delta);
+void __meminit store_early_perpage_metadata(void);
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_VMSTAT_H */

mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c

@@ -184,10 +184,13 @@ static int vmemmap_remap_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
  */
 static inline void free_vmemmap_page(struct page *page)
 {
-	if (PageReserved(page))
+	if (PageReserved(page)) {
 		free_bootmem_page(page);
-	else
+		mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_MEMMAP_BOOT, -1);
+	} else {
 		__free_page(page);
+		mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_MEMMAP, -1);
+	}
 }
 
 /* Free a list of the vmemmap pages */
@@ -338,6 +341,7 @@ static int vmemmap_remap_free(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		copy_page(page_to_virt(walk.reuse_page),
 			  (void *)walk.reuse_addr);
 		list_add(&walk.reuse_page->lru, vmemmap_pages);
+		mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP, 1);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -384,14 +388,19 @@ static int alloc_vmemmap_page_list(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 	unsigned long nr_pages = (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	int nid = page_to_nid((struct page *)start);
 	struct page *page, *next;
+	int i;
 
-	while (nr_pages--) {
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		page = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, 0);
-		if (!page)
+		if (!page) {
+			mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP, i);
 			goto out;
+		}
 		list_add(&page->lru, list);
 	}
 
+	mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP, nr_pages);
+
 	return 0;
 out:
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru)

mm/mm_init.c

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/cma.h>
 #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 #include <linux/execmem.h>
+#include <linux/vmstat.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 #include "slab.h"
 #include "shuffle.h"
@@ -1618,6 +1619,8 @@ static void __init alloc_node_mem_map(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 		panic("Failed to allocate %ld bytes for node %d memory map\n",
 		      size, pgdat->node_id);
 	pgdat->node_mem_map = map + offset;
+	mod_node_early_perpage_metadata(pgdat->node_id,
+					DIV_ROUND_UP(size, PAGE_SIZE));
 	pr_debug("%s: node %d, pgdat %08lx, node_mem_map %08lx\n",
 		 __func__, pgdat->node_id, (unsigned long)pgdat,
 		 (unsigned long)pgdat->node_mem_map);

mm/page_alloc.c

@@ -5738,6 +5738,7 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_pageset(void)
 	for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat)
 		pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats =
 			alloc_percpu(struct per_cpu_nodestat);
+	store_early_perpage_metadata();
 }
 
 __meminit void zone_pcp_init(struct zone *zone)

mm/page_ext.c

@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ static int __init alloc_node_page_ext(int nid)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	NODE_DATA(nid)->node_page_ext = base;
 	total_usage += table_size;
+	mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP_BOOT,
+			    DIV_ROUND_UP(table_size, PAGE_SIZE));
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -268,12 +270,15 @@ static void *__meminit alloc_page_ext(size_t size, int nid)
 	void *addr = NULL;
 
 	addr = alloc_pages_exact_nid(nid, size, flags);
-	if (addr) {
+	if (addr)
 		kmemleak_alloc(addr, size, 1, flags);
-		return addr;
-	}
+	else
+		addr = vzalloc_node(size, nid);
 
-	addr = vzalloc_node(size, nid);
+	if (addr) {
+		mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP,
+				    DIV_ROUND_UP(size, PAGE_SIZE));
+	}
 
 	return addr;
 }
@@ -316,18 +321,27 @@ static int __meminit init_section_page_ext(unsigned long pfn, int nid)
 
 static void free_page_ext(void *addr)
 {
+	size_t table_size;
+	struct page *page;
+	struct pglist_data *pgdat;
+
+	table_size = page_ext_size * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
+
 	if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) {
+		page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
+		pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
 		vfree(addr);
 	} else {
-		struct page *page = virt_to_page(addr);
-		size_t table_size;
-
-		table_size = page_ext_size * PAGES_PER_SECTION;
-
+		page = virt_to_page(addr);
+		pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
 		BUG_ON(PageReserved(page));
 		kmemleak_free(addr);
 		free_pages_exact(addr, table_size);
 	}
+
+	mod_node_page_state(pgdat, NR_MEMMAP,
+			    -1L * (DIV_ROUND_UP(table_size, PAGE_SIZE)));
+
 }
 
 static void __free_page_ext(unsigned long pfn)

mm/sparse-vmemmap.c

@@ -469,5 +469,13 @@ struct page * __meminit __populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
 	if (r < 0)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING) {
+		mod_node_early_perpage_metadata(nid, DIV_ROUND_UP(end - start,
+								  PAGE_SIZE));
+	} else {
+		mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP,
+				    DIV_ROUND_UP(end - start, PAGE_SIZE));
+	}
+
 	return pfn_to_page(pfn);
 }

mm/sparse.c

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/swapops.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem_info.h>
-
+#include <linux/vmstat.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 #include <asm/dma.h>
 
@@ -465,6 +465,9 @@ static void __init sparse_buffer_init(unsigned long size, int nid)
 	 */
 	sparsemap_buf = memmap_alloc(size, section_map_size(), addr, nid, true);
 	sparsemap_buf_end = sparsemap_buf + size;
+#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+	mod_node_early_perpage_metadata(nid, DIV_ROUND_UP(size, PAGE_SIZE));
+#endif
 }
 
 static void __init sparse_buffer_fini(void)
@@ -643,6 +646,8 @@ static void depopulate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 	unsigned long start = (unsigned long) pfn_to_page(pfn);
 	unsigned long end = start + nr_pages * sizeof(struct page);
 
+	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(pfn_to_page(pfn)), NR_MEMMAP,
+			    -1L * (DIV_ROUND_UP(end - start, PAGE_SIZE)));
 	vmemmap_free(start, end, altmap);
 }
 static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)

mm/vmstat.c

@@ -1255,7 +1255,8 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 	"pgdemote_kswapd",
 	"pgdemote_direct",
 	"pgdemote_khugepaged",
-
+	"nr_memmap",
+	"nr_memmap_boot",
 	/* enum writeback_stat_item counters */
 	"nr_dirty_threshold",
 	"nr_dirty_background_threshold",
@@ -2282,4 +2283,27 @@ static int __init extfrag_debug_init(void)
 }
 
 module_init(extfrag_debug_init);
+
 #endif
+
+/*
+ * Page metadata size (struct page and page_ext) in pages
+ */
+static unsigned long early_perpage_metadata[MAX_NUMNODES] __meminitdata;
+
+void __meminit mod_node_early_perpage_metadata(int nid, long delta)
+{
+	early_perpage_metadata[nid] += delta;
+}
+
+void __meminit store_early_perpage_metadata(void)
+{
+	int nid;
+	struct pglist_data *pgdat;
+
+	for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
+		nid = pgdat->node_id;
+		mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP_BOOT,
+				    early_perpage_metadata[nid]);
+	}
+}