For CMA allocation, it's really critical to migrate a page but sometimes it fails. One of the reasons is some driver holds a page refcount for a long time so VM couldn't migrate the page at that time. The concern here is there is no way to find the who hold the refcount of the page effectively. This patch introduces feature to keep tracking page's pinner. All get_page sites are vulnerable to pin a page for a long time but the cost to keep track it would be significat since get_page is the most frequent kernel operation. Furthermore, the page could be not user page but kernel page which is not related to the page migration failure. So, this patch keeps tracking only get_user_pages/follow_page with (FOLL_GET|PIN friends because they are the very common APIs to pin user pages which could cause migration failure and the less frequent than get_page so runtime cost wouldn't be that big but could cover many cases effectively. This patch also introduces put_user_page API. It aims for attributing "the pinner releases the page from now on" while it release the page refcount. Thus, any user of get_user_pages/follow_page(FOLL_GET) must use put_user_page as pair of those functions. Otherwise, page_pinner will treat them long term pinner as false postive but nothing should affect stability. * $debugfs/page_pinner/threshold It indicates threshold(microsecond) to flag long term pinning. It's configurable(Default is 300000us). Once you write new value to the threshold, old data will clear. * $debugfs/page_pinner/longterm_pinner It shows call sites where the duration of pinning was greater than the threshold. Internally, it uses a static array to keep 4096 elements and overwrites old ones once overflow happens. Therefore, you could lose some information. example) Page pinned ts 76953865787 us count 1 PFN 9856945 Block 9625 type Movable Flags 0x8000000000080014(uptodate|lru|swapbacked) __set_page_pinner+0x34/0xcc try_grab_page+0x19c/0x1a0 follow_page_pte+0x1c0/0x33c follow_page_mask+0xc0/0xc8 __get_user_pages+0x178/0x414 __gup_longterm_locked+0x80/0x148 internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x140/0x174 pin_user_pages_fast+0x24/0x40 CCC BBB AAA __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x94/0xd0 el0_svc_common+0xa4/0x180 do_el0_svc+0x28/0x88 el0_svc+0x14/0x24 note: page_pinner doesn't guarantee attributing/unattributing are atomic if they happen at the same time. It's just best effort so false-positive could happen. Bug: 183414571 Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Change-Id: Ife37ec360eef993d390b9c131732218a4dfd2f04 |
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README.md |
How do I submit patches to Android Common Kernels
-
BEST: Make all of your changes to upstream Linux. If appropriate, backport to the stable releases. These patches will be merged automatically in the corresponding common kernels. If the patch is already in upstream Linux, post a backport of the patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.
- Do not send patches upstream that contain only symbol exports. To be considered for upstream Linux,
additions of
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
require an in-tree modular driver that uses the symbol -- so include the new driver or changes to an existing driver in the same patchset as the export. - When sending patches upstream, the commit message must contain a clear case for why the patch is needed and beneficial to the community. Enabling out-of-tree drivers or functionality is not not a persuasive case.
- Do not send patches upstream that contain only symbol exports. To be considered for upstream Linux,
additions of
-
LESS GOOD: Develop your patches out-of-tree (from an upstream Linux point-of-view). Unless these are fixing an Android-specific bug, these are very unlikely to be accepted unless they have been coordinated with kernel-team@android.com. If you want to proceed, post a patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.
Common Kernel patch requirements
- All patches must conform to the Linux kernel coding standards and pass
script/checkpatch.pl
- Patches shall not break gki_defconfig or allmodconfig builds for arm, arm64, x86, x86_64 architectures (see https://source.android.com/setup/build/building-kernels)
- If the patch is not merged from an upstream branch, the subject must be tagged with the type of patch:
UPSTREAM:
,BACKPORT:
,FROMGIT:
,FROMLIST:
, orANDROID:
. - All patches must have a
Change-Id:
tag (see https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-changeid.html) - If an Android bug has been assigned, there must be a
Bug:
tag. - All patches must have a
Signed-off-by:
tag by the author and the submitter
Additional requirements are listed below based on patch type
Requirements for backports from mainline Linux: UPSTREAM:
, BACKPORT:
- If the patch is a cherry-pick from Linux mainline with no changes at all
- tag the patch subject with
UPSTREAM:
. - add upstream commit information with a
(cherry picked from commit ...)
line - Example:
- if the upstream commit message is
- tag the patch subject with
important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
- then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
UPSTREAM: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
Bug: 135791357
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
(cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
- If the patch requires any changes from the upstream version, tag the patch with
BACKPORT:
instead ofUPSTREAM:
.- use the same tags as
UPSTREAM:
- add comments about the changes under the
(cherry picked from commit ...)
line - Example:
- use the same tags as
BACKPORT: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
Bug: 135791357
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
(cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
[joe: Resolved minor conflict in drivers/foo/bar.c ]
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
Requirements for other backports: FROMGIT:
, FROMLIST:
,
- If the patch has been merged into an upstream maintainer tree, but has not yet
been merged into Linux mainline
- tag the patch subject with
FROMGIT:
- add info on where the patch came from as
(cherry picked from commit <sha1> <repo> <branch>)
. This must be a stable maintainer branch (not rebased, so don't uselinux-next
for example). - if changes were required, use
BACKPORT: FROMGIT:
- Example:
- if the commit message in the maintainer tree is
- tag the patch subject with
important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
- then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
FROMGIT: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
Bug: 135791357
(cherry picked from commit 878a2fd9de10b03d11d2f622250285c7e63deace
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/foo/bar.git test-branch)
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
- If the patch has been submitted to LKML, but not accepted into any maintainer tree
- tag the patch subject with
FROMLIST:
- add a
Link:
tag with a link to the submittal on lore.kernel.org - add a
Bug:
tag with the Android bug (required for patches not accepted into a maintainer tree) - if changes were required, use
BACKPORT: FROMLIST:
- Example:
- tag the patch subject with
FROMLIST: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
Bug: 135791357
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190619171517.GA17557@someone.com/
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
Requirements for Android-specific patches: ANDROID:
- If the patch is fixing a bug to Android-specific code
- tag the patch subject with
ANDROID:
- add a
Fixes:
tag that cites the patch with the bug - Example:
- tag the patch subject with
ANDROID: fix android-specific bug in foobar.c
This is the detailed description of the important fix
Fixes: 1234abcd2468 ("foobar: add cool feature")
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
- If the patch is a new feature
- tag the patch subject with
ANDROID:
- add a
Bug:
tag with the Android bug (required for android-specific features)
- tag the patch subject with