From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mina Almasry Subject: [PATCH v9 8/8] hugetlb_cgroup: Add hugetlb_cgroup reservation docs Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:16:15 -0800 Message-ID: <20191217231615.164161-8-almasrymina@google.com> References: <20191217231615.164161-1-almasrymina@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20161025; h=date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references:subject:from:to :cc; bh=FDkTMVipAVEM2oYEaIDiMHcnRsGkEprqH/g1uso18v0=; b=Szx8SvtgGW397p6ntWPEc3OpmOTatK0fqb2QBbHtnTpfv1rzEt8maIi1s/Hfuw1VRm ZtB3AhgTUT9EmC5yHHgg3NsKkKJdxbchH2E/862SdXfeMDO+QiwWshasmmHEjTGL4+/3 rs+5Zpvg8cvQ/FW/2eNZ+bZl/QTVa8lsxcloMPCa6BMVmxDi5i85hIlpvxflSLJ2+DEV /h8lRdRwV/AuW+qiL06i0BvmgS7fYwgBcbfhX2AzHDGGV2Ox5huBqBira7KXoqG4Mx3C dHYx+JcGqZlUoldeOLyLVmFcLErBHFdRWY4ExU18KYOu0wxfTuo3VfuJg7wMexqMktda 4M5g== In-Reply-To: <20191217231615.164161-1-almasrymina@google.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: shuah@kernel.org, almasrymina@google.com, rientjes@google.com, shakeelb@google.com, gthelen@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mkoutny@suse.com, Hillf Danton Add docs for how to use hugetlb_cgroup reservations, and their behavior. Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Acked-by: Hillf Danton --- Changes in v6: - Updated docs to reflect the new design based on a new counter that tracks both reservations and faults. --- .../admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst | 64 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst index a3902aa253a96..efb94e4db9d5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst @@ -2,13 +2,6 @@ HugeTLB Controller ================== -The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and -enforces the controller limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't -support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that, -the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages -beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how much -HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. - HugeTLB controller can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem. # mount -t cgroup -o hugetlb none /sys/fs/cgroup @@ -28,10 +21,14 @@ process (bash) into it. Brief summary of control files:: - hugetlb..limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage - hugetlb..max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded - hugetlb..usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb - hugetlb..failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit + hugetlb..reservation_limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb reservations + hugetlb..reservation_max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb reservations and no-reserve faults. + hugetlb..reservation_usage_in_bytes # show current reservations and no-reserve faults for "hugepagesize" hugetlb + hugetlb..reservation_failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB reservation limit + hugetlb..limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb faults + hugetlb..max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded + hugetlb..usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb + hugetlb..failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB usage limit For a system supporting three hugepage sizes (64k, 32M and 1G), the control files include:: @@ -40,11 +37,56 @@ files include:: hugetlb.1GB.max_usage_in_bytes hugetlb.1GB.usage_in_bytes hugetlb.1GB.failcnt + hugetlb.1GB.reservation_limit_in_bytes + hugetlb.1GB.reservation_max_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.1GB.reservation_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.1GB.reservation_failcnt hugetlb.64KB.limit_in_bytes hugetlb.64KB.max_usage_in_bytes hugetlb.64KB.usage_in_bytes hugetlb.64KB.failcnt + hugetlb.64KB.reservation_limit_in_bytes + hugetlb.64KB.reservation_max_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.64KB.reservation_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.64KB.reservation_failcnt hugetlb.32MB.limit_in_bytes hugetlb.32MB.max_usage_in_bytes hugetlb.32MB.usage_in_bytes hugetlb.32MB.failcnt + hugetlb.32MB.reservation_limit_in_bytes + hugetlb.32MB.reservation_max_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.32MB.reservation_usage_in_bytes + hugetlb.32MB.reservation_failcnt + + +1. Reservation limits + +The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB reservations per control +group and enforces the controller limit at reservation time and at the fault of +hugetlb memory for which no reservation exists. Reservation limits +are superior to Page fault limits (see section 2), since Reservation limits are +enforced at reservation time (on mmap or shget), and never causes the +application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved before hand. For +MAP_NORESERVE allocations, the reservation limit behaves the same as the fault +limit, enforcing memory usage at fault time and causing the application to +receive a SIGBUS if it's crossing its limit. + +2. Page fault limits + +The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage (page fault) per +control group and enforces the controller limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB +doesn't support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies +that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB +pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how +much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. + + +3. Caveats with shared memory + +For shared hugetlb memory, both hugetlb reservation and page faults are charged +to the first task that causes the memory to be reserved or faulted, and all +subsequent uses of this reserved or faulted memory is done without charging. + +Shared hugetlb memory is only uncharged when it is unreserved or deallocated. +This is usually when the hugetlbfs file is deleted, and not when the task that +caused the reservation or fault has exited. -- 2.24.1.735.g03f4e72817-goog