Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] mm: report per-page metadata information

[Wei Xu]

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 4:08 PM Sourav Panda <souravpanda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Adds a new per-node PageMetadata field to
> /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/meminfo
> and a global PageMetadata field to /proc/meminfo. This information can
> be used by users to see how much memory is being used by per-page
> metadata, which can vary depending on build configuration, machine
> architecture, and system use.
>
> Per-page metadata is the amount of memory that Linux needs in order to
> manage memory at the page granularity. The majority of such memory is
> used by "struct page" and "page_ext" data structures. In contrast to
> most other memory consumption statistics, per-page metadata might not
> be included in MemTotal. For example, MemTotal does not include memblock
> allocations but includes buddy allocations. While on the other hand,
> per-page metadata would include both memblock and buddy allocations.

I expect that the new PageMetadata field in meminfo should help break
down the memory usage of a system (MemUsed, or MemTotal - MemFree),
similar to the other fields in meminfo.

However, given that PageMetadata includes per-page metadata allocated
from not only the buddy allocator, but also the memblock allocations,
and MemTotal doesn't include memory reserved by memblock allocations,
I wonder how a user can actually use this new PageMetadata to break
down the system memory usage.  BTW, it is not robust to assume that
all memblock allocations are for per-page metadata.

Here are some ideas to address this problem:

- Only report the buddy allocations for per-page medata in PageMetadata, or
- Report per-page metadata in two separate fields in meminfo, one for
buddy allocations and another for memblock allocations, or
- Change MemTotal/MemUsed to include the memblock reserved memory as well.

Wei Xu

> This memory depends on build configurations, machine architectures, and
> the way system is used:
>
> Build configuration may include extra fields into "struct page",
> and enable / disable "page_ext"
> Machine architecture defines base page sizes. For example 4K x86,
> 8K SPARC, 64K ARM64 (optionally), etc. The per-page metadata
> overhead is smaller on machines with larger page sizes.
> System use can change per-page overhead by using vmemmap
> optimizations with hugetlb pages, and emulated pmem devdax pages.
> Also, boot parameters can determine whether page_ext is needed
> to be allocated. This memory can be part of MemTotal or be outside
> MemTotal depending on whether the memory was hot-plugged, booted with,
> or hugetlb memory was returned back to the system.
>
> Suggested-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst |  3 +++
>  drivers/base/node.c                |  2 ++
>  fs/proc/meminfo.c                  |  7 +++++++
>  include/linux/mmzone.h             |  3 +++
>  include/linux/vmstat.h             |  4 ++++
>  mm/hugetlb.c                       | 11 ++++++++--
>  mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c               | 12 +++++++++--
>  mm/mm_init.c                       |  3 +++
>  mm/page_alloc.c                    |  1 +
>  mm/page_ext.c                      | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  mm/sparse-vmemmap.c                |  3 +++
>  mm/sparse.c                        |  7 ++++++-
>  mm/vmstat.c                        | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  13 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> index 2b59cff8be17..c121f2ef9432 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> @@ -987,6 +987,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of these fields.
>      AnonPages:       4654780 kB
>      Mapped:           266244 kB
>      Shmem:              9976 kB
> +    PageMetadata:     513419 kB
>      KReclaimable:     517708 kB
>      Slab:             660044 kB
>      SReclaimable:     517708 kB
> @@ -1089,6 +1090,8 @@ Mapped
>                files which have been mmapped, such as libraries
>  Shmem
>                Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs
> +PageMetadata
> +              Memory used for per-page metadata
>  KReclaimable
>                Kernel allocations that the kernel will attempt to reclaim
>                under memory pressure. Includes SReclaimable (below), and other
> diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
> index 493d533f8375..da728542265f 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/node.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
> @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct device *dev,
>                              "Node %d Mapped:         %8lu kB\n"
>                              "Node %d AnonPages:      %8lu kB\n"
>                              "Node %d Shmem:          %8lu kB\n"
> +                            "Node %d PageMetadata:   %8lu kB\n"
>                              "Node %d KernelStack:    %8lu kB\n"
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
>                              "Node %d ShadowCallStack:%8lu kB\n"
> @@ -458,6 +459,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct device *dev,
>                              nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_FILE_MAPPED)),
>                              nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ANON_MAPPED)),
>                              nid, K(i.sharedram),
> +                            nid, K(node_page_state(pgdat, NR_PAGE_METADATA)),
>                              nid, node_page_state(pgdat, NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB),
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
>                              nid, node_page_state(pgdat, NR_KERNEL_SCS_KB),
> diff --git a/fs/proc/meminfo.c b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
> index 45af9a989d40..f141bb2a550d 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>         long available;
>         unsigned long pages[NR_LRU_LISTS];
>         unsigned long sreclaimable, sunreclaim;
> +       unsigned long nr_page_metadata;
>         int lru;
> +       int nid;
>
>         si_meminfo(&i);
>         si_swapinfo(&i);
> @@ -57,6 +59,10 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>         sreclaimable = global_node_page_state_pages(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B);
>         sunreclaim = global_node_page_state_pages(NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B);
>
> +       nr_page_metadata = 0;
> +       for_each_online_node(nid)
> +               nr_page_metadata += node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_PAGE_METADATA);
> +
>         show_val_kb(m, "MemTotal:       ", i.totalram);
>         show_val_kb(m, "MemFree:        ", i.freeram);
>         show_val_kb(m, "MemAvailable:   ", available);
> @@ -104,6 +110,7 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>         show_val_kb(m, "Mapped:         ",
>                     global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED));
>         show_val_kb(m, "Shmem:          ", i.sharedram);
> +       show_val_kb(m, "PageMetadata:   ", nr_page_metadata);
>         show_val_kb(m, "KReclaimable:   ", sreclaimable +
>                     global_node_page_state(NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE));
>         show_val_kb(m, "Slab:           ", sreclaimable + sunreclaim);
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index 4106fbc5b4b3..dda1ad522324 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -207,6 +207,9 @@ enum node_stat_item {
>         PGPROMOTE_SUCCESS,      /* promote successfully */
>         PGPROMOTE_CANDIDATE,    /* candidate pages to promote */
>  #endif
> +       NR_PAGE_METADATA,       /* Page metadata size (struct page and page_ext)
> +                                * in pages
> +                                */
>         NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS
>  };
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
> index fed855bae6d8..af096a881f03 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
> @@ -656,4 +656,8 @@ static inline void lruvec_stat_sub_folio(struct folio *folio,
>  {
>         lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, idx, -folio_nr_pages(folio));
>  }
> +
> +void __init mod_node_early_perpage_metadata(int nid, long delta);
> +void __init store_early_perpage_metadata(void);
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_VMSTAT_H */
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 1301ba7b2c9a..1778e02ed583 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1790,6 +1790,9 @@ static void __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
>                 destroy_compound_gigantic_folio(folio, huge_page_order(h));
>                 free_gigantic_folio(folio, huge_page_order(h));
>         } else {
> +#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> +               __node_stat_sub_folio(folio, NR_PAGE_METADATA);
> +#endif
>                 __free_pages(&folio->page, huge_page_order(h));
>         }
>  }
> @@ -2125,6 +2128,7 @@ static struct folio *alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
>         struct page *page;
>         bool alloc_try_hard = true;
>         bool retry = true;
> +       struct folio *folio;
>
>         /*
>          * By default we always try hard to allocate the page with
> @@ -2175,9 +2179,12 @@ static struct folio *alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio(struct hstate *h,
>                 __count_vm_event(HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC_FAIL);
>                 return NULL;
>         }
> -
> +       folio = page_folio(page);
> +#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> +       __node_stat_add_folio(folio, NR_PAGE_METADATA);
> +#endif
>         __count_vm_event(HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC);
> -       return page_folio(page);
> +       return folio;
>  }
>
>  /*
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> index 4b9734777f69..f7ca5d4dd583 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> @@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ static inline void free_vmemmap_page(struct page *page)
>                 free_bootmem_page(page);
>         else
>                 __free_page(page);
> +       __mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_PAGE_METADATA, -1);
>  }
>
>  /* Free a list of the vmemmap pages */
> @@ -335,6 +336,7 @@ 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_PAGE_METADATA, 1);
>         }
>
>         /*
> @@ -384,14 +386,20 @@ 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_PAGE_METADATA,
> +                                             i);
>                         goto out;
> +               }
>                 list_add_tail(&page->lru, list);
>         }
>
> +       __mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_PAGE_METADATA, nr_pages);
> +
>         return 0;
>  out:
>         list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru)
> diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
> index 50f2f34745af..6997bf00945b 100644
> --- a/mm/mm_init.c
> +++ b/mm/mm_init.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>  #include <linux/pgtable.h>
>  #include <linux/swap.h>
>  #include <linux/cma.h>
> +#include <linux/vmstat.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
>  #include "slab.h"
>  #include "shuffle.h"
> @@ -1656,6 +1657,8 @@ 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,
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 85741403948f..522dc0c52610 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5443,6 +5443,7 @@ 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)
> diff --git a/mm/page_ext.c b/mm/page_ext.c
> index 4548fcc66d74..d8d6db9c3d75 100644
> --- a/mm/page_ext.c
> +++ b/mm/page_ext.c
> @@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ 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_PAGE_METADATA,
> +                             DIV_ROUND_UP(table_size, PAGE_SIZE));
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> @@ -255,12 +257,15 @@ 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_PAGE_METADATA,
> +                                   DIV_ROUND_UP(size, PAGE_SIZE));
> +       }
>
>         return addr;
>  }
> @@ -303,18 +308,27 @@ 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_PAGE_METADATA,
> +                             -1L * (DIV_ROUND_UP(table_size, PAGE_SIZE)));
> +
>  }
>
>  static void __free_page_ext(unsigned long pfn)
> diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> index a2cbe44c48e1..2bc67b2c2aa2 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> @@ -469,5 +469,8 @@ struct page * __meminit __populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
>         if (r < 0)
>                 return NULL;
>
> +       __mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_PAGE_METADATA,
> +                             DIV_ROUND_UP(end - start, PAGE_SIZE));
> +
>         return pfn_to_page(pfn);
>  }
> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index 77d91e565045..7f67b5486cd1 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/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)
> @@ -641,6 +644,8 @@ 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_PAGE_METADATA,
> +                             -1L * (DIV_ROUND_UP(end - start, PAGE_SIZE)));
>         vmemmap_free(start, end, altmap);
>  }
>  static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)
> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> index 00e81e99c6ee..070d2b3d2bcc 100644
> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -1245,6 +1245,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
>         "pgpromote_success",
>         "pgpromote_candidate",
>  #endif
> +       "nr_page_metadata",
>
>         /* enum writeback_stat_item counters */
>         "nr_dirty_threshold",
> @@ -2274,4 +2275,27 @@ 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] __initdata;
> +
> +void __init mod_node_early_perpage_metadata(int nid, long delta)
> +{
> +       early_perpage_metadata[nid] += delta;
> +}
> +
> +void __init 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_PAGE_METADATA,
> +                                     early_perpage_metadata[nid]);
> +       }
> +}
> --
> 2.42.0.820.g83a721a137-goog
>