[PATCH v2 0/1] mm/madvise: add cond_resched() in madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range()

[Jiexun Wang <wangjiexun@tinylab.org>]

I conducted real-time testing and observed that
madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() causes significant 
latency under memory pressure, which can be effectively
reduced by adding cond_resched() within the loop.

I tested on the LicheePi 4A board using Cylictest for latency
testing and Ftrace for latency tracing. The board uses TH1520
processor and has a memory size of 8GB. The kernel version is 6.5.0
with the PREEMPT_RT patch applied.

The script I tested is as follows:

echo wakeup_rt > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_on
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_max_latency
stress-ng --vm 8 --vm-bytes 2G &
cyclictest --mlockall --smp --priority=99 --distance=0 --duration=30m
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_on
cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace 

The tracing results before modification are as follows:

# tracer: wakeup_rt
#
# wakeup_rt latency trace v1.1.5 on 6.5.0-rt6-r1208-00003-g999d221864bf
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# latency: 2552 us, #6/6, CPU#3 | (M:preempt_rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
#    -----------------
#    | task: cyclictest-196 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
#    -----------------
#
#                    _--------=> CPU#
#                   / _-------=> irqs-off/BH-disabled
#                  | / _------=> need-resched
#                  || / _-----=> need-resched-lazy
#                  ||| / _----=> hardirq/softirq
#                  |||| / _---=> preempt-depth
#                  ||||| / _--=> preempt-lazy-depth
#                  |||||| / _-=> migrate-disable
#                  ||||||| /     delay
#  cmd     pid     |||||||| time  |   caller
#     \   /        ||||||||  \    |    /
stress-n-206       3dn.h512    2us :      206:120:R   + [003]     196:  0:R cyclictest
stress-n-206       3dn.h512    7us : <stack trace>
 => __ftrace_trace_stack
 => __trace_stack
 => probe_wakeup
 => ttwu_do_activate
 => try_to_wake_up
 => wake_up_process
 => hrtimer_wakeup
 => __hrtimer_run_queues
 => hrtimer_interrupt
 => riscv_timer_interrupt
 => handle_percpu_devid_irq
 => generic_handle_domain_irq
 => riscv_intc_irq
 => handle_riscv_irq
 => do_irq
stress-n-206       3dn.h512    9us#: 0
stress-n-206       3d...3.. 2544us : __schedule
stress-n-206       3d...3.. 2545us :      206:120:R ==> [003]     196:  0:R cyclictest
stress-n-206       3d...3.. 2551us : <stack trace>
 => __ftrace_trace_stack
 => __trace_stack
 => probe_wakeup_sched_switch
 => __schedule
 => preempt_schedule
 => migrate_enable
 => rt_spin_unlock
 => madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range
 => walk_pgd_range
 => __walk_page_range
 => walk_page_range
 => madvise_pageout
 => madvise_vma_behavior
 => do_madvise
 => sys_madvise
 => do_trap_ecall_u
 => ret_from_exception

The tracing results after modification are as follows:

# tracer: wakeup_rt
#
# wakeup_rt latency trace v1.1.5 on 6.5.0-rt6-r1208-00004-gca3876fc69a6-dirty
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# latency: 1689 us, #6/6, CPU#0 | (M:preempt_rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
#    -----------------
#    | task: cyclictest-217 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
#    -----------------
#
#                    _--------=> CPU#
#                   / _-------=> irqs-off/BH-disabled
#                  | / _------=> need-resched
#                  || / _-----=> need-resched-lazy
#                  ||| / _----=> hardirq/softirq
#                  |||| / _---=> preempt-depth
#                  ||||| / _--=> preempt-lazy-depth
#                  |||||| / _-=> migrate-disable
#                  ||||||| /     delay
#  cmd     pid     |||||||| time  |   caller
#     \   /        ||||||||  \    |    /
stress-n-232       0dn.h413    1us+:      232:120:R   + [000]     217:  0:R cyclictest
stress-n-232       0dn.h413   12us : <stack trace>
 => __ftrace_trace_stack
 => __trace_stack
 => probe_wakeup
 => ttwu_do_activate
 => try_to_wake_up
 => wake_up_process
 => hrtimer_wakeup
 => __hrtimer_run_queues
 => hrtimer_interrupt
 => riscv_timer_interrupt
 => handle_percpu_devid_irq
 => generic_handle_domain_irq
 => riscv_intc_irq
 => handle_riscv_irq
 => do_irq
stress-n-232       0dn.h413   19us#: 0
stress-n-232       0d...3.. 1671us : __schedule
stress-n-232       0d...3.. 1676us+:      232:120:R ==> [000]     217:  0:R cyclictest
stress-n-232       0d...3.. 1687us : <stack trace>
 => __ftrace_trace_stack
 => __trace_stack
 => probe_wakeup_sched_switch
 => __schedule
 => preempt_schedule
 => migrate_enable
 => free_unref_page_list
 => release_pages
 => free_pages_and_swap_cache
 => tlb_batch_pages_flush
 => tlb_flush_mmu
 => unmap_page_range
 => unmap_vmas
 => unmap_region
 => do_vmi_align_munmap.constprop.0
 => do_vmi_munmap
 => __vm_munmap
 => sys_munmap
 => do_trap_ecall_u
 => ret_from_exception

After the modification, the cause of maximum latency is no longer
madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(), so this modification can 
reduce the latency caused by madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range().

Changes in v2:
- re-enter the loop after the cond_resched() method

Jiexun Wang (1):
  mm/madvise: add cond_resched() in madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range()

 mm/madvise.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

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