* [PATCH v12 1/3] lib: Introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters
2026-01-11 15:02 [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Mathieu Desnoyers
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2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 2/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Mathieu Desnoyers
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From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2026-01-11 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-kernel, Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt,
Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Martin Liu, David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt,
SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport,
Suren Baghdasaryan, Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang,
David Hildenbrand, Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm,
linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao, Roman Gushchin, Mateusz Guzik,
Matthew Wilcox, Baolin Wang, Aboorva Devarajan
* Motivation
The purpose of this hierarchical split-counter scheme is to:
- Minimize contention when incrementing and decrementing counters,
- Provide fast access to a sum approximation,
- Provide a sum approximation with an acceptable accuracy level when
scaling to many-core systems.
- Provide approximate and precise comparison of two counters, and
between a counter and a value.
It aims at fixing the per-mm RSS tracking which has become too
inaccurate for OOM killer purposes on large many-core systems [1].
* Design
The hierarchical per-CPU counters propagate a sum approximation through
a N-way tree. When reaching the batch size, the carry is propagated
through a binary tree which consists of logN(nr_cpu_ids) levels. The
batch size for each level is twice the batch size of the prior level.
Example propagation diagram with 8 cpus through a binary tree:
Level 0: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
| / | / | / | /
| / | / | / | /
| / | / | / | /
Level 1: 0 1 2 3
| / | /
| / | /
| / | /
Level 2: 0 1
| /
| /
| /
Level 3: 0
For a binary tree, the maximum inaccuracy is bound by:
batch_size * log2(nr_cpus) * nr_cpus
which evolves with O(n*log(n)) as the number of CPUs increases.
For a N-way tree, the maximum inaccuracy can be pre-calculated
based on the the N-arity of each level and the batch size.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250331223516.7810-2-sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me/ # [1]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: christian.koenig@amd.com
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Liam R . Howlett" <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
---
Changes since v11:
- Reduce level0 per-cpu memory allocation to the size required by those
percpu counters.
- Use unsigned long type rather than unsigned int.
- Introduce functions to return the min/max range of possible
precise sums.
Changes since v10:
- Fold "mm: Take into account hierarchical percpu tree items for static
mm_struct definitions".
Changes since v9:
- Introduce kerneldoc documentation.
- Document structure fields.
- Remove inline from percpu_counter_tree_add().
- Reject batch_size==1 which makes no sense.
- Fix copy-paste bug in percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare()
(wrong inequality comparison).
- Rename "inaccuracy" to "accuracy", which makes it easier to
document.
- Track accuracy limits more precisely. In two's complement
signed integers, the range before a n-bit underflow is one
unit larger than the range before a n-bit overflow. This sums
for all the counters within the tree. Therefore the "under"
vs "over" accuracy is not symmetrical.
Changes since v8:
- Remove migrate guard from the fast path. It does not
matter through which path the carry is propagated up
the tree.
- Rebase on top of v6.18-rc6.
- Introduce percpu_counter_tree_init_many and
percpu_counter_tree_destroy_many APIs.
- Move tree items allocation to the caller.
- Introduce percpu_counter_tree_items_size().
- Move percpu_counter_tree_subsystem_init() call before mm_core_init()
so percpu_counter_tree_items_size() is initialized before it is used.
Changes since v7:
- Explicitly initialize the subsystem from start_kernel() right
after mm_core_init() so it is up and running before the creation of
the first mm at boot.
- Remove the module.h include which is not needed with the explicit
initialization.
- Only consider levels>0 items for order={0,1} nr_items. No
functional change except to allocate only the amount of memory
which is strictly needed.
- Introduce positive precise sum API to handle a scenario where an
unlucky precise sum iteration would hit negative counter values
concurrently with counter updates.
Changes since v5:
- Introduce percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum_positive.
- Introduce !CONFIG_SMP static inlines for UP build.
- Remove percpu_counter_tree_set_bias from the public API and make it
static.
Changes since v3:
- Add gfp flags to init function.
Changes since v2:
- Introduce N-way tree to reduce tree depth on larger systems.
Changes since v1:
- Remove percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_unbiased from public header,
make this function static,
- Introduce precise and approximate comparisons between two counters,
- Reorder the struct percpu_counter_tree fields,
- Introduce approx_sum field, which points to the approximate sum
for the percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum() fast path.
---
include/linux/mm_types.h | 6 +-
include/linux/percpu_counter_tree.h | 344 ++++++++++++++
init/main.c | 2 +
lib/Makefile | 1 +
lib/percpu_counter_tree.c | 702 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 1052 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/percpu_counter_tree.h
create mode 100644 lib/percpu_counter_tree.c
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index aa4639888f89..9f861ceabe61 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -1366,9 +1366,9 @@ static inline void __mm_flags_set_mask_bits_word(struct mm_struct *mm,
MT_FLAGS_USE_RCU)
extern struct mm_struct init_mm;
-#define MM_STRUCT_FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_INIT \
-{ \
- [0 ... sizeof(cpumask_t) + MM_CID_STATIC_SIZE - 1] = 0 \
+#define MM_STRUCT_FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_INIT \
+{ \
+ [0 ... sizeof(cpumask_t) + MM_CID_STATIC_SIZE + PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_ITEMS_STATIC_SIZE - 1] = 0 \
}
/* Pointer magic because the dynamic array size confuses some compilers. */
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu_counter_tree.h b/include/linux/percpu_counter_tree.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2fa5f2c12ca6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/percpu_counter_tree.h
@@ -0,0 +1,344 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ OR MIT */
+/* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> */
+
+#ifndef _PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_H
+#define _PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_H
+
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+
+#if NR_CPUS == (1U << 0)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 0
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 1)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 1
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 2)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 3
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 3)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 7
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 4)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 7
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 5)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 11
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 6)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 21
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 7)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 21
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 8)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 37
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 9)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 73
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 10)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 149
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 11)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 293
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 12)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 585
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 13)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 1173
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 14)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 2341
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 15)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 4681
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 16)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 4681
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 17)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 8777
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 18)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 17481
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 19)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 34953
+#elif NR_CPUS <= (1U << 20)
+# define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS 69905
+#else
+# error "Unsupported number of CPUs."
+#endif
+
+struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item {
+ atomic_long_t count; /*
+ * Count the number of carry for this tree item.
+ * The carry counter is kept at the order of the
+ * carry accounted for at this tree level.
+ */
+} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+
+#define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_ITEMS_STATIC_SIZE \
+ (PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_STATIC_NR_ITEMS * sizeof(struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item))
+
+struct percpu_counter_tree {
+ /* Fast-path fields. */
+ unsigned long __percpu *level0; /* Pointer to per-CPU split counters (tree level 0). */
+ unsigned long level0_bit_mask; /* Bit mask to apply to detect carry propagation from tree level 0. */
+ union {
+ unsigned long *i; /* Approximate sum for single-CPU topology. */
+ atomic_long_t *a; /* Approximate sum for SMP topology. */
+ } approx_sum;
+ long bias; /* Bias to apply to counter precise and approximate values. */
+
+ /* Slow-path fields. */
+ struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *items; /* Array of tree items for levels 1 to N. */
+ unsigned long batch_size; /*
+ * The batch size is the increment step at level 0 which
+ * triggers a carry propagation. The batch size is required
+ * to be greater than 1, and a power of 2.
+ */
+ /*
+ * The tree approximate sum is guaranteed to be within this accuracy range:
+ * (precise_sum - approx_accuracy_range.under) <= approx_sum <= (precise_sum + approx_accuracy_range.over).
+ * This accuracy is derived from the hardware topology and the tree batch_size.
+ * The "under" accuracy is larger than the "over" accuracy because the negative range of a
+ * two's complement signed integer is one unit larger than the positive range. This delta
+ * is summed for each tree item, which leads to a significantly larger "under" accuracy range
+ * compared to the "over" accuracy range.
+ */
+ struct {
+ unsigned long under;
+ unsigned long over;
+ } approx_accuracy_range;
+};
+
+size_t percpu_counter_tree_items_size(void);
+int percpu_counter_tree_init_many(struct percpu_counter_tree *counters, struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *items,
+ unsigned int nr_counters, unsigned long batch_size, gfp_t gfp_flags);
+int percpu_counter_tree_init(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *items,
+ unsigned long batch_size, gfp_t gfp_flags);
+void percpu_counter_tree_destroy_many(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, unsigned int nr_counters);
+void percpu_counter_tree_destroy(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter);
+void percpu_counter_tree_add(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long inc);
+long percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter);
+int percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare(struct percpu_counter_tree *a, struct percpu_counter_tree *b);
+int percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare_value(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v);
+int percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare(struct percpu_counter_tree *a, struct percpu_counter_tree *b);
+int percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v);
+void percpu_counter_tree_set(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v);
+void percpu_counter_tree_approximate_accuracy_range(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter,
+ unsigned long *under, unsigned long *over);
+int percpu_counter_tree_subsystem_init(void);
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum() - Return approximate counter sum.
+ * @counter: The counter to sum.
+ *
+ * Querying the approximate sum is fast, but it is only accurate within
+ * the bounds delimited by percpu_counter_tree_approximate_accuracy_range().
+ * This is meant to be used when speed is preferred over accuracy.
+ *
+ * Return: The current approximate counter sum.
+ */
+static inline
+long percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+ unsigned long v;
+
+ if (!counter->level0_bit_mask)
+ v = READ_ONCE(*counter->approx_sum.i);
+ else
+ v = atomic_long_read(counter->approx_sum.a);
+ return (long) (v + (unsigned long)READ_ONCE(counter->bias));
+}
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_SMP */
+
+#define PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_ITEMS_STATIC_SIZE 0
+
+struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item;
+
+struct percpu_counter_tree {
+ atomic_long_t count;
+};
+
+static inline
+size_t percpu_counter_tree_items_size(void)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline
+int percpu_counter_tree_init_many(struct percpu_counter_tree *counters, struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *items,
+ unsigned int nr_counters, unsigned long batch_size, gfp_t gfp_flags)
+{
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nr_counters; i++)
+ atomic_long_set(&counters[i].count, 0);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline
+int percpu_counter_tree_init(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *items,
+ unsigned long batch_size, gfp_t gfp_flags)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_tree_init_many(counter, items, 1, batch_size, gfp_flags);
+}
+
+static inline
+void percpu_counter_tree_destroy_many(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, unsigned int nr_counters)
+{
+}
+
+static inline
+void percpu_counter_tree_destroy(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+}
+
+static inline
+int percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+ return atomic_long_read(&counter->count);
+}
+
+static inline
+int percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare(struct percpu_counter_tree *a, struct percpu_counter_tree *b)
+{
+ long count_a = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(a),
+ count_b = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(b);
+
+ if (count_a == count_b)
+ return 0;
+ if (count_a < count_b)
+ return -1;
+ return 1;
+}
+
+static inline
+int percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v)
+{
+ long count = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(counter);
+
+ if (count == v)
+ return 0;
+ if (count < v)
+ return -1;
+ return 1;
+}
+
+static inline
+int percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare(struct percpu_counter_tree *a, struct percpu_counter_tree *b)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare(a, b);
+}
+
+static inline
+int percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare_value(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value(counter, v);
+}
+
+static inline
+void percpu_counter_tree_set(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v)
+{
+ atomic_set(&counter->count, v);
+}
+
+static inline
+void percpu_counter_tree_approximate_accuracy_range(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter,
+ unsigned long *under, unsigned long *over)
+{
+ *under = 0;
+ *over = 0;
+}
+
+static inline
+void percpu_counter_tree_add(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long inc)
+{
+ atomic_long_add(inc, &counter->count);
+}
+
+static inline
+long percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(counter);
+}
+
+static inline
+int percpu_counter_tree_subsystem_init(void)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum_positive() - Return a positive approximate counter sum.
+ * @counter: The counter to sum.
+ *
+ * Return an approximate counter sum which is guaranteed to be greater
+ * or equal to 0.
+ *
+ * Return: The current positive approximate counter sum.
+ */
+static inline
+long percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum_positive(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+ long v = percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(counter);
+ return v > 0 ? v : 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_positive() - Return a positive precise counter sum.
+ * @counter: The counter to sum.
+ *
+ * Return a precise counter sum which is guaranteed to be greater
+ * or equal to 0.
+ *
+ * Return: The current positive precise counter sum.
+ */
+static inline
+long percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_positive(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+ long v = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(counter);
+ return v > 0 ? v : 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_min_max_range() - Return the approximation min and max precise values.
+ * @approx_sum: Approximated sum.
+ * @under: Tree accuracy range (under).
+ * @over: Tree accuracy range (over).
+ * @precise_min: Minimum possible value for precise sum (output).
+ * @precise_max: Maximum possible value for precise sum (output).
+ *
+ * Calculate the minimum and maximum precise values for a given
+ * approximation and (under, over) accuracy range.
+ *
+ * The range of the approximation as a function of the precise sum is expressed as:
+ *
+ * approx_sum >= precise_sum - approx_accuracy_range.under
+ * approx_sum <= precise_sum + approx_accuracy_range.over
+ *
+ * Therefore, the range of the precise sum as a function of the approximation is expressed as:
+ *
+ * precise_sum <= approx_sum + approx_accuracy_range.under
+ * precise_sum >= approx_sum - approx_accuracy_range.over
+ */
+static inline
+void percpu_counter_tree_approximate_min_max_range(long approx_sum, unsigned long under, unsigned long over,
+ long *precise_min, long *precise_max)
+{
+ *precise_min = approx_sum - over;
+ *precise_max = approx_sum + under;
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_min_max() - Return the tree approximation, min and max possible precise values.
+ * @counter: The counter to sum.
+ * @approx_sum: Approximate sum (output).
+ * @precise_min: Minimum possible value for precise sum (output).
+ * @precise_max: Maximum possible value for precise sum (output).
+ *
+ * Return the approximate sum, minimum and maximum precise values for
+ * a counter.
+ */
+static inline
+void percpu_counter_tree_approximate_min_max(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter,
+ long *approx_sum, long *precise_min, long *precise_max)
+{
+ unsigned long under, over;
+ long v = percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(counter);
+
+ percpu_counter_tree_approximate_accuracy_range(counter, &under, &over);
+ percpu_counter_tree_approximate_min_max_range(v, under, over, precise_min, precise_max);
+ *approx_sum = v;
+}
+
+#endif /* _PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_H */
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index b84818ad9685..85bcc7c1ccd0 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
#include <linux/pidfs.h>
#include <linux/ptdump.h>
#include <linux/time_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/percpu_counter_tree.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
@@ -1063,6 +1064,7 @@ void start_kernel(void)
vfs_caches_init_early();
sort_main_extable();
trap_init();
+ percpu_counter_tree_subsystem_init();
mm_core_init();
maple_tree_init();
poking_init();
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index aaf677cf4527..bff117556424 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_KMP) += ts_kmp.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_BM) += ts_bm.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_FSM) += ts_fsm.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += percpu_counter.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += percpu_counter_tree.o
obj-$(CONFIG_AUDIT_GENERIC) += audit.o
obj-$(CONFIG_AUDIT_COMPAT_GENERIC) += compat_audit.o
diff --git a/lib/percpu_counter_tree.c b/lib/percpu_counter_tree.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cf8feffe06f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/percpu_counter_tree.c
@@ -0,0 +1,702 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ OR MIT
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
+
+/*
+ * Split Counters With Tree Approximation Propagation
+ *
+ * * Propagation diagram when reaching batch size thresholds (± batch size):
+ *
+ * Example diagram for 8 CPUs:
+ *
+ * log2(8) = 3 levels
+ *
+ * At each level, each pair propagates its values to the next level when
+ * reaching the batch size thresholds.
+ *
+ * Counters at levels 0, 1, 2 can be kept on a single byte ([-128 .. +127] range),
+ * although it may be relevant to keep them on 64-bit counters for
+ * simplicity. (complexity vs memory footprint tradeoff)
+ *
+ * Counter at level 3 can be kept on a 32-bit counter.
+ *
+ * Level 0: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+ * | / | / | / | /
+ * | / | / | / | /
+ * | / | / | / | /
+ * Level 1: 0 1 2 3
+ * | / | /
+ * | / | /
+ * | / | /
+ * Level 2: 0 1
+ * | /
+ * | /
+ * | /
+ * Level 3: 0
+ *
+ * * Approximation accuracy:
+ *
+ * BATCH(level N): Level N batch size.
+ *
+ * Example for BATCH(level 0) = 32.
+ *
+ * BATCH(level 0) = 32
+ * BATCH(level 1) = 64
+ * BATCH(level 2) = 128
+ * BATCH(level N) = BATCH(level 0) * 2^N
+ *
+ * per-counter global
+ * accuracy accuracy
+ * Level 0: [ -32 .. +31] ±256 (8 * 32)
+ * Level 1: [ -64 .. +63] ±256 (4 * 64)
+ * Level 2: [-128 .. +127] ±256 (2 * 128)
+ * Total: ------ ±768 (log2(nr_cpu_ids) * BATCH(level 0) * nr_cpu_ids)
+ *
+ * Note that the global accuracy can be calculated more precisely
+ * by taking into account that the positive accuracy range is
+ * 31 rather than 32.
+ *
+ * -----
+ *
+ * Approximate Sum Carry Propagation
+ *
+ * Let's define a number of counter bits for each level, e.g.:
+ *
+ * log2(BATCH(level 0)) = log2(32) = 5
+ *
+ * nr_bit value_mask range
+ * Level 0: 5 bits v 0 .. +31
+ * Level 1: 1 bit (v & ~((1UL << 5) - 1)) 0 .. +63
+ * Level 2: 1 bit (v & ~((1UL << 6) - 1)) 0 .. +127
+ * Level 3: 25 bits (v & ~((1UL << 7) - 1)) 0 .. 2^32-1
+ *
+ * Note: Use a full 64-bit per-cpu counter at level 0 to allow precise sum.
+ *
+ * Note: Use cacheline aligned counters at levels above 0 to prevent false sharing.
+ * If memory footprint is an issue, a specialized allocator could be used
+ * to eliminate padding.
+ *
+ * Example with expanded values:
+ *
+ * counter_add(counter, inc):
+ *
+ * if (!inc)
+ * return;
+ *
+ * res = percpu_add_return(counter @ Level 0, inc);
+ * orig = res - inc;
+ * if (inc < 0) {
+ * inc = -(-inc & ~0b00011111); // Clear used bits
+ * // xor bit 5: underflow
+ * if ((inc ^ orig ^ res) & 0b00100000)
+ * inc -= 0b00100000;
+ * } else {
+ * inc &= ~0b00011111; // Clear used bits
+ * // xor bit 5: overflow
+ * if ((inc ^ orig ^ res) & 0b00100000)
+ * inc += 0b00100000;
+ * }
+ * if (!inc)
+ * return;
+ *
+ * res = atomic_long_add_return(counter @ Level 1, inc);
+ * orig = res - inc;
+ * if (inc < 0) {
+ * inc = -(-inc & ~0b00111111); // Clear used bits
+ * // xor bit 6: underflow
+ * if ((inc ^ orig ^ res) & 0b01000000)
+ * inc -= 0b01000000;
+ * } else {
+ * inc &= ~0b00111111; // Clear used bits
+ * // xor bit 6: overflow
+ * if ((inc ^ orig ^ res) & 0b01000000)
+ * inc += 0b01000000;
+ * }
+ * if (!inc)
+ * return;
+ *
+ * res = atomic_long_add_return(counter @ Level 2, inc);
+ * orig = res - inc;
+ * if (inc < 0) {
+ * inc = -(-inc & ~0b01111111); // Clear used bits
+ * // xor bit 7: underflow
+ * if ((inc ^ orig ^ res) & 0b10000000)
+ * inc -= 0b10000000;
+ * } else {
+ * inc &= ~0b01111111; // Clear used bits
+ * // xor bit 7: overflow
+ * if ((inc ^ orig ^ res) & 0b10000000)
+ * inc += 0b10000000;
+ * }
+ * if (!inc)
+ * return;
+ *
+ * atomic_long_add(counter @ Level 3, inc);
+ */
+
+#include <linux/percpu_counter_tree.h>
+#include <linux/cpumask.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/math.h>
+
+#define MAX_NR_LEVELS 5
+
+/*
+ * The counter configuration is selected at boot time based on the
+ * hardware topology.
+ */
+struct counter_config {
+ unsigned int nr_items; /*
+ * nr_items is the number of items in the tree for levels 1
+ * up to and including the final level (approximate sum).
+ * It excludes the level 0 per-CPU counters.
+ */
+ unsigned char nr_levels; /*
+ * nr_levels is the number of hierarchical counter tree levels.
+ * It excludes the final level (approximate sum).
+ */
+ unsigned char n_arity_order[MAX_NR_LEVELS]; /*
+ * n-arity of tree nodes for each level from
+ * 0 to (nr_levels - 1).
+ */
+};
+
+static const struct counter_config per_nr_cpu_order_config[] = {
+ [0] = { .nr_items = 0, .nr_levels = 0, .n_arity_order = { 0 } },
+ [1] = { .nr_items = 1, .nr_levels = 1, .n_arity_order = { 1 } },
+ [2] = { .nr_items = 3, .nr_levels = 2, .n_arity_order = { 1, 1 } },
+ [3] = { .nr_items = 7, .nr_levels = 3, .n_arity_order = { 1, 1, 1 } },
+ [4] = { .nr_items = 7, .nr_levels = 3, .n_arity_order = { 2, 1, 1 } },
+ [5] = { .nr_items = 11, .nr_levels = 3, .n_arity_order = { 2, 2, 1 } },
+ [6] = { .nr_items = 21, .nr_levels = 3, .n_arity_order = { 2, 2, 2 } },
+ [7] = { .nr_items = 21, .nr_levels = 3, .n_arity_order = { 3, 2, 2 } },
+ [8] = { .nr_items = 37, .nr_levels = 3, .n_arity_order = { 3, 3, 2 } },
+ [9] = { .nr_items = 73, .nr_levels = 3, .n_arity_order = { 3, 3, 3 } },
+ [10] = { .nr_items = 149, .nr_levels = 4, .n_arity_order = { 3, 3, 2, 2 } },
+ [11] = { .nr_items = 293, .nr_levels = 4, .n_arity_order = { 3, 3, 3, 2 } },
+ [12] = { .nr_items = 585, .nr_levels = 4, .n_arity_order = { 3, 3, 3, 3 } },
+ [13] = { .nr_items = 1173, .nr_levels = 5, .n_arity_order = { 3, 3, 3, 2, 2 } },
+ [14] = { .nr_items = 2341, .nr_levels = 5, .n_arity_order = { 3, 3, 3, 3, 2 } },
+ [15] = { .nr_items = 4681, .nr_levels = 5, .n_arity_order = { 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 } },
+ [16] = { .nr_items = 4681, .nr_levels = 5, .n_arity_order = { 4, 3, 3, 3, 3 } },
+ [17] = { .nr_items = 8777, .nr_levels = 5, .n_arity_order = { 4, 4, 3, 3, 3 } },
+ [18] = { .nr_items = 17481, .nr_levels = 5, .n_arity_order = { 4, 4, 4, 3, 3 } },
+ [19] = { .nr_items = 34953, .nr_levels = 5, .n_arity_order = { 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 } },
+ [20] = { .nr_items = 69905, .nr_levels = 5, .n_arity_order = { 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 } },
+};
+
+static const struct counter_config *counter_config; /* Hierarchical counter configuration for the hardware topology. */
+static unsigned int nr_cpus_order; /* Order of nr_cpu_ids. */
+static unsigned long accuracy_multiplier; /* Calculate accuracy for a given batch size (multiplication factor). */
+
+static
+int __percpu_counter_tree_init(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter,
+ unsigned long batch_size, gfp_t gfp_flags,
+ unsigned long __percpu *level0,
+ struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *items)
+{
+ /* Batch size must be greater than 1, and a power of 2. */
+ if (WARN_ON(batch_size <= 1 || (batch_size & (batch_size - 1))))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ counter->batch_size = batch_size;
+ counter->bias = 0;
+ counter->level0 = level0;
+ counter->items = items;
+ if (!nr_cpus_order) {
+ counter->approx_sum.i = per_cpu_ptr(counter->level0, 0);
+ counter->level0_bit_mask = 0;
+ } else {
+ counter->approx_sum.a = &counter->items[counter_config->nr_items - 1].count;
+ counter->level0_bit_mask = 1UL << get_count_order(batch_size);
+ }
+ /*
+ * Each tree item signed integer has a negative range which is
+ * one unit greater than the positive range.
+ */
+ counter->approx_accuracy_range.under = batch_size * accuracy_multiplier;
+ counter->approx_accuracy_range.over = (batch_size - 1) * accuracy_multiplier;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_init_many() - Initialize many per-CPU counter trees.
+ * @counters: An array of @nr_counters counters to initialize.
+ * Their memory is provided by the caller.
+ * @items: Pointer to memory area where to store tree items.
+ * This memory is provided by the caller.
+ * Its size needs to be at least @nr_counters * percpu_counter_tree_items_size().
+ * @nr_counters: The number of counter trees to initialize
+ * @batch_size: The batch size is the increment step at level 0 which triggers a
+ * carry propagation.
+ * The batch size is required to be greater than 1, and a power of 2.
+ * @gfp_flags: gfp flags to pass to the per-CPU allocator.
+ *
+ * Initialize many per-CPU counter trees using a single per-CPU
+ * allocator invocation for @nr_counters counters.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * %0: Success
+ * * %-EINVAL: - Invalid @batch_size argument
+ * * %-ENOMEM: - Out of memory
+ */
+int percpu_counter_tree_init_many(struct percpu_counter_tree *counters, struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *items,
+ unsigned int nr_counters, unsigned long batch_size, gfp_t gfp_flags)
+{
+ void __percpu *level0, *level0_iter;
+ size_t counter_size = sizeof(*counters->level0),
+ items_size = percpu_counter_tree_items_size();
+ void *items_iter;
+ unsigned int i;
+ int ret;
+
+ memset(items, 0, items_size * nr_counters);
+ level0 = __alloc_percpu_gfp(nr_counters * counter_size,
+ __alignof__(*counters->level0), gfp_flags);
+ if (!level0)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ level0_iter = level0;
+ items_iter = items;
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_counters; i++) {
+ ret = __percpu_counter_tree_init(&counters[i], batch_size, gfp_flags, level0_iter, items_iter);
+ if (ret)
+ goto free_level0;
+ level0_iter += counter_size;
+ items_iter += items_size;
+ }
+ return 0;
+
+free_level0:
+ free_percpu(level0);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_init() - Initialize one per-CPU counter tree.
+ * @counter: Counter to initialize.
+ * Its memory is provided by the caller.
+ * @items: Pointer to memory area where to store tree items.
+ * This memory is provided by the caller.
+ * Its size needs to be at least percpu_counter_tree_items_size().
+ * @batch_size: The batch size is the increment step at level 0 which triggers a
+ * carry propagation.
+ * The batch size is required to be greater than 1, and a power of 2.
+ * @gfp_flags: gfp flags to pass to the per-CPU allocator.
+ *
+ * Initialize one per-CPU counter tree.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * %0: Success
+ * * %-EINVAL: - Invalid @batch_size argument
+ * * %-ENOMEM: - Out of memory
+ */
+int percpu_counter_tree_init(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *items,
+ unsigned long batch_size, gfp_t gfp_flags)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_tree_init_many(counter, items, 1, batch_size, gfp_flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_destroy_many() - Destroy many per-CPU counter trees.
+ * @counters: Array of counters trees to destroy.
+ * @nr_counters: The number of counter trees to destroy.
+ *
+ * Release internal resources allocated for @nr_counters per-CPU counter trees.
+ */
+
+void percpu_counter_tree_destroy_many(struct percpu_counter_tree *counters, unsigned int nr_counters)
+{
+ free_percpu(counters->level0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_destroy() - Destroy one per-CPU counter tree.
+ * @counter: Counter to destroy.
+ *
+ * Release internal resources allocated for one per-CPU counter tree.
+ */
+void percpu_counter_tree_destroy(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_tree_destroy_many(counter, 1);
+}
+
+static
+long percpu_counter_tree_carry(long orig, long res, long inc, unsigned long bit_mask)
+{
+ if (inc < 0) {
+ inc = -(-inc & ~(bit_mask - 1));
+ /*
+ * xor bit_mask: underflow.
+ *
+ * If inc has bit set, decrement an additional bit if
+ * there is _no_ bit transition between orig and res.
+ * Else, inc has bit cleared, decrement an additional
+ * bit if there is a bit transition between orig and
+ * res.
+ */
+ if ((inc ^ orig ^ res) & bit_mask)
+ inc -= bit_mask;
+ } else {
+ inc &= ~(bit_mask - 1);
+ /*
+ * xor bit_mask: overflow.
+ *
+ * If inc has bit set, increment an additional bit if
+ * there is _no_ bit transition between orig and res.
+ * Else, inc has bit cleared, increment an additional
+ * bit if there is a bit transition between orig and
+ * res.
+ */
+ if ((inc ^ orig ^ res) & bit_mask)
+ inc += bit_mask;
+ }
+ return inc;
+}
+
+/*
+ * It does not matter through which path the carry propagates up the
+ * tree, therefore there is no need to disable preemption because the
+ * cpu number is only used to favor cache locality.
+ */
+static
+void percpu_counter_tree_add_slowpath(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long inc)
+{
+ unsigned int level_items, nr_levels = counter_config->nr_levels,
+ level, n_arity_order;
+ unsigned long bit_mask;
+ struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *item = counter->items;
+ unsigned int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!nr_cpus_order); /* Should never be called for 1 cpu. */
+
+ n_arity_order = counter_config->n_arity_order[0];
+ bit_mask = counter->level0_bit_mask << n_arity_order;
+ level_items = 1U << (nr_cpus_order - n_arity_order);
+
+ for (level = 1; level < nr_levels; level++) {
+ atomic_long_t *count = &item[cpu & (level_items - 1)].count;
+ unsigned long orig, res;
+
+ res = atomic_long_add_return_relaxed(inc, count);
+ orig = res - inc;
+ inc = percpu_counter_tree_carry(orig, res, inc, bit_mask);
+ if (likely(!inc))
+ return;
+ item += level_items;
+ n_arity_order = counter_config->n_arity_order[level];
+ level_items >>= n_arity_order;
+ bit_mask <<= n_arity_order;
+ }
+ atomic_long_add(inc, counter->approx_sum.a);
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_add() - Add to a per-CPU counter tree.
+ * @counter: Counter added to.
+ * @inc: Increment value (either positive or negative).
+ *
+ * Add @inc to a per-CPU counter tree. This is a fast-path which will
+ * typically increment per-CPU counters as long as there is no carry
+ * greater or equal to the counter tree batch size.
+ */
+void percpu_counter_tree_add(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long inc)
+{
+ unsigned long bit_mask = counter->level0_bit_mask, orig, res;
+
+ res = this_cpu_add_return(*counter->level0, inc);
+ orig = res - inc;
+ inc = percpu_counter_tree_carry(orig, res, inc, bit_mask);
+ if (likely(!inc))
+ return;
+ percpu_counter_tree_add_slowpath(counter, inc);
+}
+
+
+static
+long percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_unbiased(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+ unsigned long sum = 0;
+ int cpu;
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+ sum += *per_cpu_ptr(counter->level0, cpu);
+ return (long) sum;
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum() - Return precise counter sum.
+ * @counter: The counter to sum.
+ *
+ * Querying the precise sum is relatively expensive because it needs to
+ * iterate over all CPUs.
+ * This is meant to be used when accuracy is preferred over speed.
+ *
+ * Return: The current precise counter sum.
+ */
+long percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter)
+{
+ return percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_unbiased(counter) + READ_ONCE(counter->bias);
+}
+
+static
+int compare_delta(long delta, unsigned long accuracy_neg, unsigned long accuracy_pos)
+{
+ if (delta >= 0) {
+ if (delta <= accuracy_pos)
+ return 0;
+ else
+ return 1;
+ } else {
+ if (-delta <= accuracy_neg)
+ return 0;
+ else
+ return -1;
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare - Approximated comparison of two counter trees.
+ * @a: First counter to compare.
+ * @b: Second counter to compare.
+ *
+ * Evaluate an approximate comparison of two counter trees.
+ * This approximation comparison is fast, and provides an accurate
+ * answer if the counters are found to be either less than or greater
+ * than the other. However, if the approximated comparison returns
+ * 0, the counters respective sums are found to be within the two
+ * counters accuracy range.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * %0 - Counters @a and @b do not differ by more than the sum of their respective
+ * accuracy ranges.
+ * * %-1 - Counter @a less than counter @b.
+ * * %1 - Counter @a is greater than counter @b.
+ */
+int percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare(struct percpu_counter_tree *a, struct percpu_counter_tree *b)
+{
+ return compare_delta(percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(a) - percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(b),
+ a->approx_accuracy_range.over + b->approx_accuracy_range.under,
+ a->approx_accuracy_range.under + b->approx_accuracy_range.over);
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare_value - Approximated comparison of a counter tree against a given value.
+ * @counter: Counter to compare.
+ * @v: Value to compare.
+ *
+ * Evaluate an approximate comparison of a counter tree against a given value.
+ * This approximation comparison is fast, and provides an accurate
+ * answer if the counter is found to be either less than or greater
+ * than the value. However, if the approximated comparison returns
+ * 0, the value is within the counter accuracy range.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * %0 - The value @v is within the accuracy range of the counter.
+ * * %-1 - The value @v is less than the counter.
+ * * %1 - The value @v is greater than the counter.
+ */
+int percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare_value(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v)
+{
+ return compare_delta(v - percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(counter),
+ counter->approx_accuracy_range.under,
+ counter->approx_accuracy_range.over);
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare - Precise comparison of two counter trees.
+ * @a: First counter to compare.
+ * @b: Second counter to compare.
+ *
+ * Evaluate a precise comparison of two counter trees.
+ * As an optimization, it uses the approximate counter comparison
+ * to quickly compare counters which are far apart. Only cases where
+ * counter sums are within the accuracy range require precise counter
+ * sums.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * %0 - Counters are equal.
+ * * %-1 - Counter @a less than counter @b.
+ * * %1 - Counter @a is greater than counter @b.
+ */
+int percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare(struct percpu_counter_tree *a, struct percpu_counter_tree *b)
+{
+ long count_a = percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(a),
+ count_b = percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(b);
+ unsigned long accuracy_a, accuracy_b;
+ long delta = count_a - count_b;
+ int res;
+
+ res = compare_delta(delta,
+ a->approx_accuracy_range.over + b->approx_accuracy_range.under,
+ a->approx_accuracy_range.under + b->approx_accuracy_range.over);
+ /* The values are distanced enough for an accurate approximated comparison. */
+ if (res)
+ return res;
+
+ /*
+ * The approximated comparison is within the accuracy range, therefore at least one
+ * precise sum is needed. Sum the counter which has the largest accuracy first.
+ */
+ if (delta >= 0) {
+ accuracy_a = a->approx_accuracy_range.under;
+ accuracy_b = b->approx_accuracy_range.over;
+ } else {
+ accuracy_a = a->approx_accuracy_range.over;
+ accuracy_b = b->approx_accuracy_range.under;
+ }
+ if (accuracy_b < accuracy_a) {
+ count_a = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(a);
+ res = compare_delta(count_a - count_b,
+ b->approx_accuracy_range.under,
+ b->approx_accuracy_range.over);
+ if (res)
+ return res;
+ /* Precise sum of second counter is required. */
+ count_b = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(b);
+ } else {
+ count_b = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(b);
+ res = compare_delta(count_a - count_b,
+ a->approx_accuracy_range.over,
+ a->approx_accuracy_range.under);
+ if (res)
+ return res;
+ /* Precise sum of second counter is required. */
+ count_a = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(a);
+ }
+ if (count_a - count_b < 0)
+ return -1;
+ if (count_a - count_b > 0)
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value - Precise comparison of a counter tree against a given value.
+ * @counter: Counter to compare.
+ * @v: Value to compare.
+ *
+ * Evaluate a precise comparison of a counter tree against a given value.
+ * As an optimization, it uses the approximate counter comparison
+ * to quickly identify whether the counter and value are far apart.
+ * Only cases where the value is within the counter accuracy range
+ * require a precise counter sum.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * %0 - The value @v is equal to the counter.
+ * * %-1 - The value @v is less than the counter.
+ * * %1 - The value @v is greater than the counter.
+ */
+int percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v)
+{
+ long count = percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum(counter);
+ int res;
+
+ res = compare_delta(v - count,
+ counter->approx_accuracy_range.under,
+ counter->approx_accuracy_range.over);
+ /* The values are distanced enough for an accurate approximated comparison. */
+ if (res)
+ return res;
+
+ /* Precise sum is required. */
+ count = percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(counter);
+ if (v - count < 0)
+ return -1;
+ if (v - count > 0)
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static
+void percpu_counter_tree_set_bias(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long bias)
+{
+ WRITE_ONCE(counter->bias, bias);
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_set - Set the counter tree sum to a given value.
+ * @counter: Counter to set.
+ * @v: Value to set.
+ *
+ * Set the counter sum to a given value. It can be useful for instance
+ * to reset the counter sum to 0. Note that even after setting the
+ * counter sum to a given value, the counter sum approximation can
+ * return any value within the accuracy range around that value.
+ */
+void percpu_counter_tree_set(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v)
+{
+ percpu_counter_tree_set_bias(counter,
+ v - percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_unbiased(counter));
+}
+
+/**
+ * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_accuracy_range - Query the accuracy range for a counter tree.
+ * @counter: Counter to query.
+ * @under: Pointer where to store the to the accuracy range below the approximation.
+ * @over: Pointer where to store the to the accuracy range above the approximation.
+ *
+ * Query the accuracy range limits for the counter.
+ * Because of two's complement binary representation, the "under" range is typically
+ * slightly larger than the "over" range.
+ * Those values are derived from the hardware topology and the counter tree batch size.
+ * They are invariant for a given counter tree.
+ * Using this function should not be typically required, see the following functions instead:
+ * * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare(),
+ * * percpu_counter_tree_approximate_compare_value(),
+ * * percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare(),
+ * * percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value().
+ */
+void percpu_counter_tree_approximate_accuracy_range(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter,
+ unsigned long *under, unsigned long *over)
+{
+ *under = counter->approx_accuracy_range.under;
+ *over = counter->approx_accuracy_range.over;
+}
+
+/*
+ * percpu_counter_tree_items_size - Query the size required for counter tree items.
+ *
+ * Query the size of the memory area required to hold the counter tree
+ * items. This depends on the hardware topology and is invariant after
+ * boot.
+ *
+ * Return: Size required to hold tree items.
+ */
+size_t percpu_counter_tree_items_size(void)
+{
+ if (!nr_cpus_order)
+ return 0;
+ return counter_config->nr_items * sizeof(struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item);
+}
+
+static void __init calculate_accuracy_topology(void)
+{
+ unsigned int nr_levels = counter_config->nr_levels, level;
+ unsigned int level_items = 1U << nr_cpus_order;
+ unsigned long batch_size = 1;
+
+ for (level = 0; level < nr_levels; level++) {
+ unsigned int n_arity_order = counter_config->n_arity_order[level];
+
+ /*
+ * The accuracy multiplier is derived from a batch size of 1
+ * to speed up calculating the accuracy at tree initialization.
+ */
+ accuracy_multiplier += batch_size * level_items;
+ batch_size <<= n_arity_order;
+ level_items >>= n_arity_order;
+ }
+}
+
+int __init percpu_counter_tree_subsystem_init(void)
+{
+ nr_cpus_order = get_count_order(nr_cpu_ids);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nr_cpus_order >= ARRAY_SIZE(per_nr_cpu_order_config))) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "Unsupported number of CPUs (%u)\n", nr_cpu_ids);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ counter_config = &per_nr_cpu_order_config[nr_cpus_order];
+ calculate_accuracy_topology();
+ return 0;
+}
--
2.39.5
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2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 1/3] lib: Introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters Mathieu Desnoyers
@ 2026-01-11 18:36 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-11 19:25 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: kernel test robot @ 2026-01-11 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mathieu Desnoyers, Andrew Morton
Cc: oe-kbuild-all, Linux Memory Management List, linux-kernel,
Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt,
Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Martin Liu, David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt,
SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport,
Suren Baghdasaryan, Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang,
David Hildenbrand, Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-trace-kernel,
Yu Zhao
Hi Mathieu,
kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:
[auto build test ERROR on next-20260109]
[cannot apply to akpm-mm/mm-everything kees/for-next/execve tip/sched/core linus/master v6.19-rc4 v6.19-rc3 v6.19-rc2 v6.19-rc4]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]
url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Mathieu-Desnoyers/lib-Introduce-hierarchical-per-cpu-counters/20260111-231206
base: next-20260109
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260111150249.1222944-2-mathieu.desnoyers%40efficios.com
patch subject: [PATCH v12 1/3] lib: Introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters
config: x86_64-randconfig-161-20260112 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260112/202601120245.v2Trbgck-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
smatch version: v0.5.0-8985-g2614ff1a
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260112/202601120245.v2Trbgck-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)
If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202601120245.v2Trbgck-lkp@intel.com/
All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
In file included from init/main.c:107:
>> include/linux/percpu_counter_tree.h:230:13: error: incompatible pointer types passing 'atomic_long_t *' (aka 'atomic64_t *') to parameter of type 'atomic_t *' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
230 | atomic_set(&counter->count, v);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:65:22: note: passing argument to parameter 'v' here
65 | atomic_set(atomic_t *v, int i)
| ^
1 error generated.
vim +230 include/linux/percpu_counter_tree.h
226
227 static inline
228 void percpu_counter_tree_set(struct percpu_counter_tree *counter, long v)
229 {
> 230 atomic_set(&counter->count, v);
231 }
232
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https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests/wiki
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2026-01-11 18:36 ` kernel test robot
@ 2026-01-11 19:25 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2026-01-11 19:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernel test robot, Andrew Morton
Cc: oe-kbuild-all, Linux Memory Management List, linux-kernel,
Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou,
Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter, Martin Liu, David Rientjes,
christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt, SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko,
Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy, Lorenzo Stoakes,
Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport, Suren Baghdasaryan,
Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang, David Hildenbrand,
Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao
On 2026-01-11 13:36, kernel test robot wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:
>
> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
>
> In file included from init/main.c:107:
>>> include/linux/percpu_counter_tree.h:230:13: error: incompatible pointer types passing 'atomic_long_t *' (aka 'atomic64_t *') to parameter of type 'atomic_t *' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
> 230 | atomic_set(&counter->count, v);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:65:22: note: passing argument to parameter 'v' here
> 65 | atomic_set(atomic_t *v, int i)
> |
Will fix and send a v13.
Thanks,
Mathieu
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com
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* [PATCH v12 2/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems
2026-01-11 15:02 [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 1/3] lib: Introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters Mathieu Desnoyers
@ 2026-01-11 15:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-11 17:48 ` [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Andrew Morton
3 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2026-01-11 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-kernel, Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt,
Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Martin Liu, David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt,
SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport,
Suren Baghdasaryan, Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang,
David Hildenbrand, Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm,
linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao, Roman Gushchin, Mateusz Guzik,
Matthew Wilcox, Baolin Wang, Aboorva Devarajan
Use hierarchical per-cpu counters for rss tracking to fix the per-mm RSS
tracking which has become too inaccurate for OOM killer purposes on
large many-core systems.
The following rss tracking issues were noted by Sweet Tea Dorminy [1],
which lead to picking wrong tasks as OOM kill target:
Recently, several internal services had an RSS usage regression as part of a
kernel upgrade. Previously, they were on a pre-6.2 kernel and were able to
read RSS statistics in a backup watchdog process to monitor and decide if
they'd overrun their memory budget. Now, however, a representative service
with five threads, expected to use about a hundred MB of memory, on a 250-cpu
machine had memory usage tens of megabytes different from the expected amount
-- this constituted a significant percentage of inaccuracy, causing the
watchdog to act.
This was a result of commit f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats
into percpu_counter") [1]. Previously, the memory error was bounded by
64*nr_threads pages, a very livable megabyte. Now, however, as a result of
scheduler decisions moving the threads around the CPUs, the memory error could
be as large as a gigabyte.
This is a really tremendous inaccuracy for any few-threaded program on a
large machine and impedes monitoring significantly. These stat counters are
also used to make OOM killing decisions, so this additional inaccuracy could
make a big difference in OOM situations -- either resulting in the wrong
process being killed, or in less memory being returned from an OOM-kill than
expected.
Here is a (possibly incomplete) list of the prior approaches that were
used or proposed, along with their downside:
1) Per-thread rss tracking: large error on many-thread processes.
2) Per-CPU counters: up to 12% slower for short-lived processes and 9%
increased system time in make test workloads [1]. Moreover, the
inaccuracy increases with O(n^2) with the number of CPUs.
3) Per-NUMA-node counters: requires atomics on fast-path (overhead),
error is high with systems that have lots of NUMA nodes (32 times
the number of NUMA nodes).
The approach proposed here is to replace this by the hierarchical
per-cpu counters, which bounds the inaccuracy based on the system
topology with O(N*logN).
commit 82241a83cd15 ("mm: fix the inaccurate memory statistics issue for
users") introduced get_mm_counter_sum() for precise /proc memory status
queries. Implement it with percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum() since it
is not a fast path and precision is preferred over speed.
* Testing results:
Test hardware: 2 sockets AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core Processor (384 logical CPUs total)
Methodology:
Comparing the current upstream implementation with the hierarchical
counters is done by keeping both implementations wired up in parallel,
and running a single-process, single-threaded program which hops
randomly across CPUs in the system, calling mmap(2) and munmap(2) on
random CPUs, keeping track of an array of allocated mappings, randomly
choosing entries to either map or unmap.
get_mm_counter() is instrumented to compare the upstream counter
approximation to the precise value, and print the delta when going over
a given threshold. The delta of the hierarchical counter approximation
to the precise value is also printed for comparison.
After a few minutes running this test, the upstream implementation
counter approximation reaches a 1GB delta from the
precise value, compared to 80MB delta with the hierarchical counter.
The hierarchical counter provides a guaranteed maximum approximation
inaccuracy of 192MB on that hardware topology.
* Fast path implementation comparison
The new inline percpu_counter_tree_add() uses a this_cpu_add_return()
for the fast path (under a certain allocation size threshold). Above
that, it calls a slow path which "trickles up" the carry to upper level
counters with atomic_add_return.
In comparison, the upstream counters implementation calls
percpu_counter_add_batch which uses this_cpu_try_cmpxchg() on the fast
path, and does a raw_spin_lock_irqsave above a certain threshold.
The hierarchical implementation is therefore expected to have less
contention on mid-sized allocations than the upstream counters because
the atomic counters tracking those bits are only shared across nearby
CPUs. In comparison, the upstream counters immediately use a global
spinlock when reaching the threshold.
* Benchmarks
Using will-it-scale page_fault1 benchmarks to compare the upstream
counters to the hierarchical counters. This is done with hyperthreading
disabled. The speedup is within the standard deviation of the upstream
runs, so the overhead is not significant.
upstream hierarchical speedup
page_fault1_processes -s 100 -t 1 614783 615558 +0.1%
page_fault1_threads -s 100 -t 1 612788 612447 -0.1%
page_fault1_processes -s 100 -t 96 37994977 37932035 -0.2%
page_fault1_threads -s 100 -t 96 2484130 2504860 +0.8%
page_fault1_processes -s 100 -t 192 71262917 71118830 -0.2%
page_fault1_threads -s 100 -t 192 2446437 2469296 +0.1%
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250331223516.7810-2-sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me/ # [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250704150226.47980-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: christian.koenig@amd.com
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Liam R . Howlett" <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
---
Changes since v10:
- Rebase on top of mm_struct static init fixes.
- Change the alignment of mm_struct flexible array to the alignment of
the rss counters items (which are cacheline aligned on SMP).
- Move the rss counters items to first position within the flexible
array at the end of the mm_struct to place content in decreasing
alignment requirement order.
Changes since v8:
- Use percpu_counter_tree_init_many and
percpu_counter_tree_destroy_many APIs.
- Remove percpu tree items allocation. Extend mm_struct size to include
rss items. Those are handled through the new helpers
get_rss_stat_items() and get_rss_stat_items_size() and passed
as parameter to percpu_counter_tree_init_many().
Changes since v7:
- Use precise sum positive API to handle a scenario where an unlucky
precise sum iteration would observe negative counter values due to
concurrent updates.
Changes since v6:
- Rebased on v6.18-rc3.
- Implement get_mm_counter_sum as percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum for
/proc virtual files memory state queries.
Changes since v5:
- Use percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum_positive.
Change since v4:
- get_mm_counter needs to return 0 or a positive value.
---
include/linux/mm.h | 19 ++++++++++----
include/linux/mm_types.h | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
include/trace/events/kmem.h | 2 +-
kernel/fork.c | 24 ++++++++++--------
4 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 6f959d8ca4b4..6d938b3e3709 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2843,38 +2843,47 @@ static inline bool get_user_page_fast_only(unsigned long addr,
{
return get_user_pages_fast_only(addr, 1, gup_flags, pagep) == 1;
}
+
+static inline struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *get_rss_stat_items(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ unsigned long ptr = (unsigned long)mm;
+
+ ptr += offsetof(struct mm_struct, flexible_array);
+ return (struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *)ptr;
+}
+
/*
* per-process(per-mm_struct) statistics.
*/
static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
{
- return percpu_counter_read_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
+ return percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
}
static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter_sum(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
{
- return percpu_counter_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
+ return percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
}
void mm_trace_rss_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, int member);
static inline void add_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member, long value)
{
- percpu_counter_add(&mm->rss_stat[member], value);
+ percpu_counter_tree_add(&mm->rss_stat[member], value);
mm_trace_rss_stat(mm, member);
}
static inline void inc_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
{
- percpu_counter_inc(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
+ percpu_counter_tree_add(&mm->rss_stat[member], 1);
mm_trace_rss_stat(mm, member);
}
static inline void dec_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
{
- percpu_counter_dec(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
+ percpu_counter_tree_add(&mm->rss_stat[member], -1);
mm_trace_rss_stat(mm, member);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 9f861ceabe61..c3e8f0ce3112 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/page-flags-layout.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/seqlock.h>
-#include <linux/percpu_counter.h>
+#include <linux/percpu_counter_tree.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/rseq_types.h>
#include <linux/bitmap.h>
@@ -1070,6 +1070,19 @@ typedef struct {
DECLARE_BITMAP(__mm_flags, NUM_MM_FLAG_BITS);
} __private mm_flags_t;
+/*
+ * The alignment of the mm_struct flexible array is based on the largest
+ * alignment of its content:
+ * __alignof__(struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item) provides a
+ * cacheline aligned alignment on SMP systems, else alignment on
+ * unsigned long on UP systems.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+# define __mm_struct_flexible_array_aligned __aligned(__alignof__(struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item))
+#else
+# define __mm_struct_flexible_array_aligned __aligned(__alignof__(unsigned long))
+#endif
+
struct kioctx_table;
struct iommu_mm_data;
struct mm_struct {
@@ -1215,7 +1228,7 @@ struct mm_struct {
unsigned long saved_e_flags;
#endif
- struct percpu_counter rss_stat[NR_MM_COUNTERS];
+ struct percpu_counter_tree rss_stat[NR_MM_COUNTERS];
struct linux_binfmt *binfmt;
@@ -1326,10 +1339,13 @@ struct mm_struct {
} __randomize_layout;
/*
- * The mm_cpumask needs to be at the end of mm_struct, because it
- * is dynamically sized based on nr_cpu_ids.
+ * The rss hierarchical counter items, mm_cpumask, and mm_cid
+ * masks need to be at the end of mm_struct, because they are
+ * dynamically sized based on nr_cpu_ids.
+ * The content of the flexible array needs to be placed in
+ * decreasing alignment requirement order.
*/
- char flexible_array[] __aligned(__alignof__(unsigned long));
+ char flexible_array[] __mm_struct_flexible_array_aligned;
};
/* Copy value to the first system word of mm flags, non-atomically. */
@@ -1368,22 +1384,28 @@ extern struct mm_struct init_mm;
#define MM_STRUCT_FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_INIT \
{ \
- [0 ... sizeof(cpumask_t) + MM_CID_STATIC_SIZE + PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_ITEMS_STATIC_SIZE - 1] = 0 \
+ [0 ... PERCPU_COUNTER_TREE_ITEMS_STATIC_SIZE + sizeof(cpumask_t) + MM_CID_STATIC_SIZE - 1] = 0 \
}
-/* Pointer magic because the dynamic array size confuses some compilers. */
-static inline void mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm)
+static inline size_t get_rss_stat_items_size(void)
{
- unsigned long cpu_bitmap = (unsigned long)mm;
-
- cpu_bitmap += offsetof(struct mm_struct, flexible_array);
- cpumask_clear((struct cpumask *)cpu_bitmap);
+ return percpu_counter_tree_items_size() * NR_MM_COUNTERS;
}
/* Future-safe accessor for struct mm_struct's cpu_vm_mask. */
static inline cpumask_t *mm_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- return (struct cpumask *)&mm->flexible_array;
+ unsigned long ptr = (unsigned long)mm;
+
+ ptr += offsetof(struct mm_struct, flexible_array);
+ /* Skip RSS stats counters. */
+ ptr += get_rss_stat_items_size();
+ return (struct cpumask *)ptr;
+}
+
+static inline void mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ cpumask_clear((struct cpumask *)mm_cpumask(mm));
}
#ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN
@@ -1475,6 +1497,8 @@ static inline cpumask_t *mm_cpus_allowed(struct mm_struct *mm)
unsigned long bitmap = (unsigned long)mm;
bitmap += offsetof(struct mm_struct, flexible_array);
+ /* Skip RSS stats counters. */
+ bitmap += get_rss_stat_items_size();
/* Skip cpu_bitmap */
bitmap += cpumask_size();
return (struct cpumask *)bitmap;
diff --git a/include/trace/events/kmem.h b/include/trace/events/kmem.h
index 7f93e754da5c..91c81c44f884 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/kmem.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/kmem.h
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(rss_stat,
__entry->mm_id = mm_ptr_to_hash(mm);
__entry->curr = !!(current->mm == mm);
__entry->member = member;
- __entry->size = (percpu_counter_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member])
+ __entry->size = (percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member])
<< PAGE_SHIFT);
),
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index b1f3915d5f8e..949ac019a7b1 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@
*/
#define MAX_THREADS FUTEX_TID_MASK
+/*
+ * Batch size of rss stat approximation
+ */
+#define RSS_STAT_BATCH_SIZE 32
+
/*
* Protected counters by write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock)
*/
@@ -626,14 +631,12 @@ static void check_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
"Please make sure 'struct resident_page_types[]' is updated as well");
for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) {
- long x = percpu_counter_sum(&mm->rss_stat[i]);
-
- if (unlikely(x)) {
- pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
- mm, resident_page_types[i], x,
+ if (unlikely(percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value(&mm->rss_stat[i], 0) != 0))
+ pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%d Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
+ mm, resident_page_types[i],
+ percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(&mm->rss_stat[i]),
current->comm,
task_pid_nr(current));
- }
}
if (mm_pgtables_bytes(mm))
@@ -731,7 +734,7 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
put_user_ns(mm->user_ns);
mm_pasid_drop(mm);
mm_destroy_cid(mm);
- percpu_counter_destroy_many(mm->rss_stat, NR_MM_COUNTERS);
+ percpu_counter_tree_destroy_many(mm->rss_stat, NR_MM_COUNTERS);
free_mm(mm);
}
@@ -1123,8 +1126,9 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
if (mm_alloc_cid(mm, p))
goto fail_cid;
- if (percpu_counter_init_many(mm->rss_stat, 0, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT,
- NR_MM_COUNTERS))
+ if (percpu_counter_tree_init_many(mm->rss_stat, get_rss_stat_items(mm),
+ NR_MM_COUNTERS, RSS_STAT_BATCH_SIZE,
+ GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT))
goto fail_pcpu;
mm->user_ns = get_user_ns(user_ns);
@@ -3006,7 +3010,7 @@ void __init mm_cache_init(void)
* dynamically sized based on the maximum CPU number this system
* can have, taking hotplug into account (nr_cpu_ids).
*/
- mm_size = sizeof(struct mm_struct) + cpumask_size() + mm_cid_size();
+ mm_size = sizeof(struct mm_struct) + cpumask_size() + mm_cid_size() + get_rss_stat_items_size();
mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("mm_struct",
mm_size, ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
--
2.39.5
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2026-01-11 15:02 [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 1/3] lib: Introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 2/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Mathieu Desnoyers
@ 2026-01-11 15:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-11 17:50 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-11 18:03 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-11 17:48 ` [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Andrew Morton
3 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2026-01-11 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-kernel, Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt,
Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Martin Liu, David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt,
SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport,
Suren Baghdasaryan, Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang,
David Hildenbrand, Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm,
linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao, Roman Gushchin, Mateusz Guzik,
Matthew Wilcox, Baolin Wang, Aboorva Devarajan
Use the hierarchical tree counter approximation to implement the OOM
killer task selection with a 2-pass algorithm. The first pass selects
the process that has the highest badness points approximation, and the
second pass compares each process using the current max badness points
approximation.
The second pass uses an approximate comparison to eliminate all processes
which are below the current max badness points approximation accuracy
range.
Summing the per-CPU counters to calculate the precise badness of tasks
is only required for tasks with an approximate badness within the
accuracy range of the current max points value.
Limit to 16 the maximum number of badness sums allowed for an OOM killer
task selection before falling back to the approximated comparison. This
ensures bounded execution time for scenarios where many tasks have
badness within the accuracy of the maximum badness approximation.
Tested with the following script:
#!/bin/sh
for a in $(seq 1 10); do (tail /dev/zero &); done
sleep 5
for a in $(seq 1 10); do (tail /dev/zero &); done
sleep 2
for a in $(seq 1 10); do (tail /dev/zero &); done
echo "Waiting for tasks to finish"
wait
Results: OOM kill order on a 128GB memory system
================================================
* systemd and sd-pam are chosen first due to their oom_score_ajd:100:
Out of memory: Killed process 3502 (systemd) total-vm:20096kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:72kB oom_score_adj:100
Out of memory: Killed process 3503 ((sd-pam)) total-vm:21432kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:76kB oom_score_adj:100
* The first batch of 10 processes are gradually killed, consecutively
picking the one that uses the most memory. The fact that we are
freeing memory from the previous processes increases the threshold
at which the remaining processes of that group are killed. Processes
from the second and third batches of 10 processes have time to start
before we complete killing the first 10 processes:
Out of memory: Killed process 3703 (tail) total-vm:6591280kB, anon-rss:6578176kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:12936kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3705 (tail) total-vm:6731716kB, anon-rss:6709248kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:13212kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3707 (tail) total-vm:6977216kB, anon-rss:6946816kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:13692kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3699 (tail) total-vm:7205640kB, anon-rss:7184384kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:14136kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3713 (tail) total-vm:7463204kB, anon-rss:7438336kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:14644kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3701 (tail) total-vm:7739204kB, anon-rss:7716864kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:15180kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3709 (tail) total-vm:8050176kB, anon-rss:8028160kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:15792kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3711 (tail) total-vm:8362236kB, anon-rss:8339456kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:16404kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3715 (tail) total-vm:8649360kB, anon-rss:8634368kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:16972kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3697 (tail) total-vm:8951788kB, anon-rss:8929280kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:17560kB oom_score_adj:0
* Even though there is a 2 seconds delay between the 2nd and 3rd batches
those appear to execute in mixed order. Therefore, let's consider them
as a single batch of 20 processes. We are hitting oom at a lower
memory threshold because at this point the 20 remaining proceses are
running rather than the previous 10. The process with highest memory
usage is selected for oom, thus making room for the remaining
processes so they can use more memory before they fill the available
memory, thus explaining why the memory use for selected processes
gradually increases, until all system memory is used by the last one:
Out of memory: Killed process 3731 (tail) total-vm:7089868kB, anon-rss:7077888kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:13912kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3721 (tail) total-vm:7417248kB, anon-rss:7405568kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:14556kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3729 (tail) total-vm:7795864kB, anon-rss:7766016kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:15300kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3723 (tail) total-vm:8259620kB, anon-rss:8224768kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:16208kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3737 (tail) total-vm:8695984kB, anon-rss:8667136kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:17060kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3735 (tail) total-vm:9295980kB, anon-rss:9265152kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:18240kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3727 (tail) total-vm:9907900kB, anon-rss:9895936kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:19428kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3719 (tail) total-vm:10631248kB, anon-rss:10600448kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:20844kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3733 (tail) total-vm:11341720kB, anon-rss:11321344kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:22232kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3725 (tail) total-vm:12348124kB, anon-rss:12320768kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:24204kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3759 (tail) total-vm:12978888kB, anon-rss:12967936kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:25440kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3751 (tail) total-vm:14386412kB, anon-rss:14352384kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:28196kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3741 (tail) total-vm:16153168kB, anon-rss:16130048kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:31652kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3753 (tail) total-vm:18414856kB, anon-rss:18391040kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:36076kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3745 (tail) total-vm:21389456kB, anon-rss:21356544kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:41904kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3747 (tail) total-vm:25659348kB, anon-rss:25632768kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:50260kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3755 (tail) total-vm:32030820kB, anon-rss:32006144kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:62720kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3743 (tail) total-vm:42648456kB, anon-rss:42614784kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:83504kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3757 (tail) total-vm:63971028kB, anon-rss:63938560kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:125228kB oom_score_adj:0
Out of memory: Killed process 3749 (tail) total-vm:127799660kB, anon-rss:127778816kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:250140kB oom_score_adj:0
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: christian.koenig@amd.com
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Liam R . Howlett" <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
---
Changes since v11:
- get_mm_counter_sum() returns a precise sum.
- Use unsigned long type rather than unsigned int for accuracy.
- Use precise sum min/max calculation to compare the chosen vs
current points.
- The first pass finds the maximum task's min points. The
second pass eliminates all tasks for which the max points
are below the currently chosen min points, and uses a precise
sum to validate the candidates which are possibly in range.
---
fs/proc/base.c | 2 +-
include/linux/mm.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++---
include/linux/oom.h | 11 +++++-
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
mm/oom_kill.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
5 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 4eec684baca9..d75d0ce97032 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ static int proc_oom_score(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
unsigned long points = 0;
long badness;
- badness = oom_badness(task, totalpages);
+ badness = oom_badness(task, totalpages, false, NULL, NULL);
/*
* Special case OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN for all others scale the
* badness value into [0, 2000] range which we have been
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 6d938b3e3709..680f2811702e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2855,14 +2855,32 @@ static inline struct percpu_counter_tree_level_item *get_rss_stat_items(struct m
/*
* per-process(per-mm_struct) statistics.
*/
+static inline unsigned long __get_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member, bool approximate,
+ unsigned long *accuracy_under, unsigned long *accuracy_over)
+{
+ if (approximate) {
+ if (accuracy_under && accuracy_over) {
+ unsigned long under, over;
+
+ percpu_counter_tree_approximate_accuracy_range(&mm->rss_stat[member], &under, &over);
+ *accuracy_under += under;
+ *accuracy_over += over;
+ }
+ return percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
+ } else {
+ return percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
+ }
+}
+
static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
{
- return percpu_counter_tree_approximate_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
+ return __get_mm_counter(mm, member, true, NULL, NULL);
}
+
static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter_sum(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
{
- return percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member]);
+ return __get_mm_counter(mm, member, false, NULL, NULL);
}
void mm_trace_rss_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, int member);
@@ -2903,11 +2921,17 @@ static inline int mm_counter(struct folio *folio)
return mm_counter_file(folio);
}
+static inline unsigned long __get_mm_rss(struct mm_struct *mm, bool approximate,
+ unsigned long *accuracy_under, unsigned long *accuracy_over)
+{
+ return __get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES, approximate, accuracy_under, accuracy_over) +
+ __get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES, approximate, accuracy_under, accuracy_over) +
+ __get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES, approximate, accuracy_under, accuracy_over);
+}
+
static inline unsigned long get_mm_rss(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- return get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES) +
- get_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES) +
- get_mm_counter(mm, MM_SHMEMPAGES);
+ return __get_mm_rss(mm, true, NULL, NULL);
}
static inline unsigned long get_mm_hiwater_rss(struct mm_struct *mm)
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
index 7b02bc1d0a7e..f8e5bfaf7b39 100644
--- a/include/linux/oom.h
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ struct oom_control {
unsigned long totalpages;
struct task_struct *chosen;
long chosen_points;
+ bool approximate;
+ /*
+ * Number of precise badness points sums performed by this task
+ * selection.
+ */
+ int nr_precise;
/* Used to print the constraint info. */
enum oom_constraint constraint;
@@ -97,7 +103,10 @@ static inline vm_fault_t check_stable_address_space(struct mm_struct *mm)
}
long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p,
- unsigned long totalpages);
+ unsigned long totalpages,
+ bool approximate,
+ unsigned long *accuracy_under,
+ unsigned long *accuracy_over);
extern bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 949ac019a7b1..8b56d81af734 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ static void check_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) {
if (unlikely(percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value(&mm->rss_stat[i], 0) != 0))
- pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%d Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
+ pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
mm, resident_page_types[i],
percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(&mm->rss_stat[i]),
current->comm,
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 5eb11fbba704..740891be3267 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/oom.h>
+/*
+ * Maximum number of badness sums allowed before using an approximated
+ * comparison. This ensures bounded execution time for scenarios where
+ * many tasks have badness within the accuracy of the maximum badness
+ * approximation.
+ */
+static int max_precise_badness_sums = 16;
+
static int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
static int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
static int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks = 1;
@@ -194,12 +202,16 @@ static bool should_dump_unreclaim_slab(void)
* oom_badness - heuristic function to determine which candidate task to kill
* @p: task struct of which task we should calculate
* @totalpages: total present RAM allowed for page allocation
+ * @approximate: whether the value can be approximated
+ * @accuracy_under: accuracy of the badness value approximation (under value)
+ * @accuracy_over: accuracy of the badness value approximation (over value)
*
* The heuristic for determining which task to kill is made to be as simple and
* predictable as possible. The goal is to return the highest value for the
* task consuming the most memory to avoid subsequent oom failures.
*/
-long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long totalpages)
+long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long totalpages, bool approximate,
+ unsigned long *accuracy_under, unsigned long *accuracy_over)
{
long points;
long adj;
@@ -228,7 +240,8 @@ long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long totalpages)
* The baseline for the badness score is the proportion of RAM that each
* task's rss, pagetable and swap space use.
*/
- points = get_mm_rss(p->mm) + get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS) +
+ points = __get_mm_rss(p->mm, approximate, accuracy_under, accuracy_over) +
+ __get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS, approximate, accuracy_under, accuracy_over) +
mm_pgtables_bytes(p->mm) / PAGE_SIZE;
task_unlock(p);
@@ -309,7 +322,8 @@ static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct oom_control *oc)
static int oom_evaluate_task(struct task_struct *task, void *arg)
{
struct oom_control *oc = arg;
- long points;
+ unsigned long accuracy_under = 0, accuracy_over = 0;
+ long points, points_min, points_max;
if (oom_unkillable_task(task))
goto next;
@@ -339,16 +353,43 @@ static int oom_evaluate_task(struct task_struct *task, void *arg)
goto select;
}
- points = oom_badness(task, oc->totalpages);
- if (points == LONG_MIN || points < oc->chosen_points)
- goto next;
+ points = oom_badness(task, oc->totalpages, true, &accuracy_under, &accuracy_over);
+ if (points != LONG_MIN) {
+ percpu_counter_tree_approximate_min_max_range(points,
+ accuracy_under, accuracy_over,
+ &points_min, &points_max);
+ }
+ if (oc->approximate) {
+ /*
+ * Keep the process which has the highest minimum
+ * possible points value based on approximation.
+ */
+ if (points == LONG_MIN || points_min < oc->chosen_points)
+ goto next;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * Eliminate processes which are certainly below the
+ * chosen points minimum possible value with an
+ * approximation.
+ */
+ if (points == LONG_MIN || (long)(points_max - oc->chosen_points) < 0)
+ goto next;
+
+ if (oc->nr_precise < max_precise_badness_sums) {
+ oc->nr_precise++;
+ /* Precise evaluation. */
+ points_min = points_max = points = oom_badness(task, oc->totalpages, false, NULL, NULL);
+ if (points == LONG_MIN || (long)(points - oc->chosen_points) < 0)
+ goto next;
+ }
+ }
select:
if (oc->chosen)
put_task_struct(oc->chosen);
get_task_struct(task);
oc->chosen = task;
- oc->chosen_points = points;
+ oc->chosen_points = points_min;
next:
return 0;
abort:
@@ -358,14 +399,8 @@ static int oom_evaluate_task(struct task_struct *task, void *arg)
return 1;
}
-/*
- * Simple selection loop. We choose the process with the highest number of
- * 'points'. In case scan was aborted, oc->chosen is set to -1.
- */
-static void select_bad_process(struct oom_control *oc)
+static void select_bad_process_iter(struct oom_control *oc)
{
- oc->chosen_points = LONG_MIN;
-
if (is_memcg_oom(oc))
mem_cgroup_scan_tasks(oc->memcg, oom_evaluate_task, oc);
else {
@@ -379,6 +414,25 @@ static void select_bad_process(struct oom_control *oc)
}
}
+/*
+ * Simple selection loop. We choose the process with the highest number of
+ * 'points'. In case scan was aborted, oc->chosen is set to -1.
+ */
+static void select_bad_process(struct oom_control *oc)
+{
+ oc->chosen_points = LONG_MIN;
+ oc->nr_precise = 0;
+
+ /* Approximate scan. */
+ oc->approximate = true;
+ select_bad_process_iter(oc);
+ if (oc->chosen == (void *)-1UL)
+ return;
+ /* Precise scan. */
+ oc->approximate = false;
+ select_bad_process_iter(oc);
+}
+
static int dump_task(struct task_struct *p, void *arg)
{
struct oom_control *oc = arg;
--
2.39.5
^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread* Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection
2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection Mathieu Desnoyers
@ 2026-01-11 17:50 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-11 19:30 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-11 18:03 ` kernel test robot
1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: kernel test robot @ 2026-01-11 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mathieu Desnoyers, Andrew Morton
Cc: oe-kbuild-all, Linux Memory Management List, linux-kernel,
Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt,
Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Martin Liu, David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt,
SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport,
Suren Baghdasaryan, Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang,
David Hildenbrand, Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-trace-kernel,
Yu Zhao
Hi Mathieu,
kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:
[auto build test WARNING on next-20260109]
[cannot apply to akpm-mm/mm-everything kees/for-next/execve tip/sched/core linus/master v6.19-rc4 v6.19-rc3 v6.19-rc2 v6.19-rc4]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]
url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Mathieu-Desnoyers/lib-Introduce-hierarchical-per-cpu-counters/20260111-231206
base: next-20260109
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260111150249.1222944-4-mathieu.desnoyers%40efficios.com
patch subject: [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection
config: arc-randconfig-002-20260112 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260112/202601120122.xSlEJ1AJ-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: arc-linux-gcc (GCC) 8.5.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260112/202601120122.xSlEJ1AJ-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)
If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202601120122.xSlEJ1AJ-lkp@intel.com/
All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
In file included from include/asm-generic/bug.h:31,
from arch/arc/include/asm/bug.h:30,
from include/linux/bug.h:5,
from include/linux/slab.h:15,
from kernel/fork.c:16:
kernel/fork.c: In function 'check_mm':
>> include/linux/kern_levels.h:5:18: warning: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 4 has type 'int' [-Wformat=]
#define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */
^~~~~~
include/linux/printk.h:483:11: note: in definition of macro 'printk_index_wrap'
_p_func(_fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
^~~~
include/linux/printk.h:534:2: note: in expansion of macro 'printk'
printk(KERN_ALERT pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~
include/linux/kern_levels.h:9:20: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_SOH'
#define KERN_ALERT KERN_SOH "1" /* action must be taken immediately */
^~~~~~~~
include/linux/printk.h:534:9: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_ALERT'
printk(KERN_ALERT pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~
kernel/fork.c:635:4: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_alert'
pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
^~~~~~~~
kernel/fork.c:635:61: note: format string is defined here
pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
~~^
%d
vim +5 include/linux/kern_levels.h
314ba3520e513a Joe Perches 2012-07-30 4
04d2c8c83d0e3a Joe Perches 2012-07-30 @5 #define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */
04d2c8c83d0e3a Joe Perches 2012-07-30 6 #define KERN_SOH_ASCII '\001'
04d2c8c83d0e3a Joe Perches 2012-07-30 7
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread* Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection
2026-01-11 17:50 ` kernel test robot
@ 2026-01-11 19:30 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2026-01-11 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernel test robot, Andrew Morton
Cc: oe-kbuild-all, Linux Memory Management List, linux-kernel,
Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou,
Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter, Martin Liu, David Rientjes,
christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt, SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko,
Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy, Lorenzo Stoakes,
Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport, Suren Baghdasaryan,
Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang, David Hildenbrand,
Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao
On 2026-01-11 12:50, kernel test robot wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:
>
[...]> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>
> In file included from include/asm-generic/bug.h:31,
> from arch/arc/include/asm/bug.h:30,
> from include/linux/bug.h:5,
> from include/linux/slab.h:15,
> from kernel/fork.c:16:
> kernel/fork.c: In function 'check_mm':
>>> include/linux/kern_levels.h:5:18: warning: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 4 has type 'int' [-Wformat=]
> #define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */
> ^~~~~~
> include/linux/printk.h:483:11: note: in definition of macro 'printk_index_wrap'
> _p_func(_fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> ^~~~
> include/linux/printk.h:534:2: note: in expansion of macro 'printk'
> printk(KERN_ALERT pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> ^~~~~~
> include/linux/kern_levels.h:9:20: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_SOH'
> #define KERN_ALERT KERN_SOH "1" /* action must be taken immediately */
> ^~~~~~~~
> include/linux/printk.h:534:9: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_ALERT'
> printk(KERN_ALERT pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> ^~~~~~~~~~
> kernel/fork.c:635:4: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_alert'
> pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
> ^~~~~~~~
> kernel/fork.c:635:61: note: format string is defined here
> pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
> ~~^
> %d
percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum() needs to return a long, not int.
Will fix for v13.
Thanks,
Mathieu
--
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EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection
2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-11 17:50 ` kernel test robot
@ 2026-01-11 18:03 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-11 19:35 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: kernel test robot @ 2026-01-11 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mathieu Desnoyers, Andrew Morton
Cc: llvm, oe-kbuild-all, Linux Memory Management List, linux-kernel,
Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt,
Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Martin Liu, David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt,
SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport,
Suren Baghdasaryan, Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang,
David Hildenbrand, Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-trace-kernel,
Yu Zhao
Hi Mathieu,
kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:
[auto build test WARNING on next-20260109]
[cannot apply to akpm-mm/mm-everything kees/for-next/execve tip/sched/core linus/master v6.19-rc4 v6.19-rc3 v6.19-rc2 v6.19-rc4]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]
url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Mathieu-Desnoyers/lib-Introduce-hierarchical-per-cpu-counters/20260111-231206
base: next-20260109
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260111150249.1222944-4-mathieu.desnoyers%40efficios.com
patch subject: [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection
config: arm-randconfig-001-20260112 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260112/202601120124.RK3AWOwu-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: clang version 22.0.0git (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 9b8addffa70cee5b2acc5454712d9cf78ce45710)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260112/202601120124.RK3AWOwu-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)
If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202601120124.RK3AWOwu-lkp@intel.com/
All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>> kernel/fork.c:637:6: warning: format specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
635 | pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
| ~~~
| %d
636 | mm, resident_page_types[i],
637 | percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(&mm->rss_stat[i]),
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/printk.h:534:35: note: expanded from macro 'pr_alert'
534 | printk(KERN_ALERT pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
| ~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/printk.h:511:60: note: expanded from macro 'printk'
511 | #define printk(fmt, ...) printk_index_wrap(_printk, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
| ~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/printk.h:483:19: note: expanded from macro 'printk_index_wrap'
483 | _p_func(_fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
| ~~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~
1 warning generated.
--
>> mm/oom_kill.c:351:6: warning: variable 'points_min' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
351 | if (oom_task_origin(task)) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/oom_kill.c:392:22: note: uninitialized use occurs here
392 | oc->chosen_points = points_min;
| ^~~~~~~~~~
mm/oom_kill.c:351:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
351 | if (oom_task_origin(task)) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
352 | points = LONG_MAX;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
353 | goto select;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~
354 | }
| ~
mm/oom_kill.c:326:25: note: initialize the variable 'points_min' to silence this warning
326 | long points, points_min, points_max;
| ^
| = 0
1 warning generated.
vim +637 kernel/fork.c
6af8cb80d3a9a6 David Hildenbrand 2025-03-03 625
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 626 static void check_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 627 {
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 628 int i;
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 629
8495f7e6732ed2 Sai Praneeth Prakhya 2019-09-25 630 BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(ARRAY_SIZE(resident_page_types) != NR_MM_COUNTERS,
8495f7e6732ed2 Sai Praneeth Prakhya 2019-09-25 631 "Please make sure 'struct resident_page_types[]' is updated as well");
8495f7e6732ed2 Sai Praneeth Prakhya 2019-09-25 632
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 633 for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) {
25d942f31cc499 Mathieu Desnoyers 2026-01-11 634 if (unlikely(percpu_counter_tree_precise_compare_value(&mm->rss_stat[i], 0) != 0))
72456781289a6e Mathieu Desnoyers 2026-01-11 635 pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
25d942f31cc499 Mathieu Desnoyers 2026-01-11 636 mm, resident_page_types[i],
25d942f31cc499 Mathieu Desnoyers 2026-01-11 @637 percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(&mm->rss_stat[i]),
881388f3433819 Xuanye Liu 2025-07-23 638 current->comm,
881388f3433819 Xuanye Liu 2025-07-23 639 task_pid_nr(current));
881388f3433819 Xuanye Liu 2025-07-23 640 }
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 641
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 642 if (mm_pgtables_bytes(mm))
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 643 pr_alert("BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: %ld\n",
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 644 mm_pgtables_bytes(mm));
d70f2a14b72a4b Andrew Morton 2018-01-31 645
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread* Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection
2026-01-11 18:03 ` kernel test robot
@ 2026-01-11 19:35 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2026-01-11 19:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernel test robot, Andrew Morton
Cc: llvm, oe-kbuild-all, Linux Memory Management List, linux-kernel,
Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou,
Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter, Martin Liu, David Rientjes,
christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt, SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko,
Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy, Lorenzo Stoakes,
Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport, Suren Baghdasaryan,
Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang, David Hildenbrand,
Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao
On 2026-01-11 13:03, kernel test robot wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:
>
> [auto build test WARNING on next-20260109]
> [cannot apply to akpm-mm/mm-everything kees/for-next/execve tip/sched/core linus/master v6.19-rc4 v6.19-rc3 v6.19-rc2 v6.19-rc4]
> [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
> And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]
>
> url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Mathieu-Desnoyers/lib-Introduce-hierarchical-per-cpu-counters/20260111-231206
> base: next-20260109
> patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260111150249.1222944-4-mathieu.desnoyers%40efficios.com
> patch subject: [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection
> config: arm-randconfig-001-20260112 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260112/202601120124.RK3AWOwu-lkp@intel.com/config)
> compiler: clang version 22.0.0git (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 9b8addffa70cee5b2acc5454712d9cf78ce45710)
> reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260112/202601120124.RK3AWOwu-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)
>
> If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
> the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202601120124.RK3AWOwu-lkp@intel.com/
>
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>
>>> kernel/fork.c:637:6: warning: format specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
> 635 | pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld Comm:%s Pid:%d\n",
> | ~~~
> | %d
> 636 | mm, resident_page_types[i],
> 637 | percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum(&mm->rss_stat[i]),
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/printk.h:534:35: note: expanded from macro 'pr_alert'
> 534 | printk(KERN_ALERT pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> | ~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/printk.h:511:60: note: expanded from macro 'printk'
> 511 | #define printk(fmt, ...) printk_index_wrap(_printk, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> | ~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/printk.h:483:19: note: expanded from macro 'printk_index_wrap'
> 483 | _p_func(_fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> | ~~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~
> 1 warning generated.
That's percpu_counter_tree_precise_sum which needs to return a "long".
Will fix.
> --
>>> mm/oom_kill.c:351:6: warning: variable 'points_min' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> 351 | if (oom_task_origin(task)) {
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> mm/oom_kill.c:392:22: note: uninitialized use occurs here
> 392 | oc->chosen_points = points_min;
> | ^~~~~~~~~~
> mm/oom_kill.c:351:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
> 351 | if (oom_task_origin(task)) {
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 352 | points = LONG_MAX;
I need to change this to "points_min = LONG_MAX". Will fix.
Thanks,
Mathieu
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems
2026-01-11 15:02 [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Mathieu Desnoyers
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2026-01-11 15:02 ` [PATCH v12 3/3] mm: Implement precise OOM killer task selection Mathieu Desnoyers
@ 2026-01-11 17:48 ` Andrew Morton
2026-01-11 18:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
3 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-01-11 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: linux-kernel, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu,
Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter, Martin Liu,
David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt, SeongJae Park,
Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy, Lorenzo Stoakes,
Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport, Suren Baghdasaryan,
Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang, David Hildenbrand,
Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm, linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao,
Roman Gushchin, Mateusz Guzik, Matthew Wilcox, Baolin Wang,
Aboorva Devarajan, Roman Gushchin
On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:02:46 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> Introduce hierarchical per-cpu counters and use them for RSS tracking to
> fix the per-mm RSS tracking which has become too inaccurate for OOM
> killer purposes on large many-core systems.
Great, thanks.
> Notable changes for v12:
>
> - Reduce per-CPU counters memory allocation size to sizeof long
> (fixing mixup with sizeof intermediate cache line aligned items).
> - Use "long" counters types rather than "int".
> - get_mm_counter_sum() returns a precise sum.
> - Introduce and use functions to calculate the min/max possible precise
> sum values associated with an approximate sum.
May I ask, as an early adopter, what is your overall impression of
the Gemini reviewbot?
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread* Re: [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems
2026-01-11 17:48 ` [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems Andrew Morton
@ 2026-01-11 18:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-12 15:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-01-12 17:15 ` Roman Gushchin
0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2026-01-11 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-kernel, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu,
Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter, Martin Liu,
David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt, SeongJae Park,
Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy, Lorenzo Stoakes,
Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport, Suren Baghdasaryan,
Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang, David Hildenbrand,
Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm, linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao,
Roman Gushchin, Mateusz Guzik, Matthew Wilcox, Baolin Wang,
Aboorva Devarajan
On 2026-01-11 12:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:02:46 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
>
>> Notable changes for v12:
>>
>> - Reduce per-CPU counters memory allocation size to sizeof long
>> (fixing mixup with sizeof intermediate cache line aligned items).
>> - Use "long" counters types rather than "int".
>> - get_mm_counter_sum() returns a precise sum.
>> - Introduce and use functions to calculate the min/max possible precise
>> sum values associated with an approximate sum.
>
> May I ask, as an early adopter, what is your overall impression of
> the Gemini reviewbot?
The review comments were all spot-on. This is the level of review I
would expect from a good reviewer who spends a significant amount of
effort digging into the proposed change to make sure the type limits
are OK for the intended purpose stated in the commit message and that
the intent stated in comments match the code.
As a patch author, I find this feedback really useful. Is there
an easy way to get this feedback privately before sending out my
patches ?
Thanks,
Mathieu
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems
2026-01-11 18:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
@ 2026-01-12 15:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-01-12 18:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-12 17:15 ` Roman Gushchin
1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2026-01-12 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-kernel, Paul E. McKenney, Masami Hiramatsu,
Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter, Martin Liu,
David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt, SeongJae Park,
Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy, Lorenzo Stoakes,
Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport, Suren Baghdasaryan,
Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang, David Hildenbrand,
Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm, linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao,
Roman Gushchin, Mateusz Guzik, Matthew Wilcox, Baolin Wang,
Aboorva Devarajan
On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:04:59 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> As a patch author, I find this feedback really useful. Is there
> an easy way to get this feedback privately before sending out my
> patches ?
Hehe, we all want to look good don't we ;-)
For me. I let people see the good, the bad, and the ugly (probably more than I should!)
-- Steve
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems
2026-01-12 15:05 ` Steven Rostedt
@ 2026-01-12 18:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-12 19:18 ` Steven Rostedt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Desnoyers @ 2026-01-12 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-kernel, Paul E. McKenney, Masami Hiramatsu,
Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter, Martin Liu,
David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt, SeongJae Park,
Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy, Lorenzo Stoakes,
Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport, Suren Baghdasaryan,
Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang, David Hildenbrand,
Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm, linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao,
Roman Gushchin, Mateusz Guzik, Matthew Wilcox, Baolin Wang,
Aboorva Devarajan
On 2026-01-12 10:05, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:04:59 -0500
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
>
>> As a patch author, I find this feedback really useful. Is there
>> an easy way to get this feedback privately before sending out my
>> patches ?
>
> Hehe, we all want to look good don't we ;-)
>
> For me. I let people see the good, the bad, and the ugly (probably more than I should!)
I really don't mind having healthy discussions publicly, but I try
to minimize the amount of disruption my work brings on others.
That being said, I think this AI review can lead to interesting
discussions where others can pitch in, so having it in the open
is worthwhile.
Thanks,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com
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* Re: [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems
2026-01-12 18:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
@ 2026-01-12 19:18 ` Steven Rostedt
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2026-01-12 19:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-kernel, Paul E. McKenney, Masami Hiramatsu,
Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter, Martin Liu,
David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt, SeongJae Park,
Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy, Lorenzo Stoakes,
Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport, Suren Baghdasaryan,
Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang, David Hildenbrand,
Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm, linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao,
Roman Gushchin, Mateusz Guzik, Matthew Wilcox, Baolin Wang,
Aboorva Devarajan
On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:36:48 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> That being said, I think this AI review can lead to interesting
> discussions where others can pitch in, so having it in the open
> is worthwhile.
Agreed. I'm interested in seeing what AI catches.
-- Steve
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* Re: [PATCH v12 0/3] mm: Fix OOM killer inaccuracy on large many-core systems
2026-01-11 18:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2026-01-12 15:05 ` Steven Rostedt
@ 2026-01-12 17:15 ` Roman Gushchin
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From: Roman Gushchin @ 2026-01-12 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-kernel, Paul E. McKenney, Steven Rostedt,
Masami Hiramatsu, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Martin Liu, David Rientjes, christian.koenig, Shakeel Butt,
SeongJae Park, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Sweet Tea Dorminy,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Liam R . Howlett, Mike Rapoport,
Suren Baghdasaryan, Vlastimil Babka, Christian Brauner, Wei Yang,
David Hildenbrand, Miaohe Lin, Al Viro, linux-mm,
linux-trace-kernel, Yu Zhao, Mateusz Guzik, Matthew Wilcox,
Baolin Wang, Aboorva Devarajan
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> writes:
> On 2026-01-11 12:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:02:46 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Notable changes for v12:
>>>
>>> - Reduce per-CPU counters memory allocation size to sizeof long
>>> (fixing mixup with sizeof intermediate cache line aligned items).
>>> - Use "long" counters types rather than "int".
>>> - get_mm_counter_sum() returns a precise sum.
>>> - Introduce and use functions to calculate the min/max possible precise
>>> sum values associated with an approximate sum.
>> May I ask, as an early adopter, what is your overall impression of
>> the Gemini reviewbot?
>
> The review comments were all spot-on. This is the level of review I
> would expect from a good reviewer who spends a significant amount of
> effort digging into the proposed change to make sure the type limits
> are OK for the intended purpose stated in the commit message and that
> the intent stated in comments match the code.
>
> As a patch author, I find this feedback really useful. Is there
> an easy way to get this feedback privately before sending out my
> patches ?
If you need to review a limited number of patches, the easiest way to
use gemini cli/claude code or similar tools with a consumer grade
subscription (most are $20/month these days).
I maintain a pre-configured environment for Gemini:
git@github.com:rgushchin/kengp.git , but it's not hard to hack something
similar for other tools.
Thanks!
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