mm/gup: /proc/vmstat: pin_user_pages (FOLL_PIN) reporting

Now that pages are "DMA-pinned" via pin_user_page*(), and unpinned via
unpin_user_pages*(), we need some visibility into whether all of this is
working correctly.

Add two new fields to /proc/vmstat:

    nr_foll_pin_acquired
    nr_foll_pin_released

These are documented in Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst.  They
represent the number of pages (since boot time) that have been pinned
("nr_foll_pin_acquired") and unpinned ("nr_foll_pin_released"), via
pin_user_pages*() and unpin_user_pages*().

In the absence of long-running DMA or RDMA operations that hold pages
pinned, the above two fields will normally be equal to each other.

Also: update Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst, to remove an
earlier (now confirmed untrue) claim about a performance problem with
/proc/vmstat.

Also: update Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst to rename the new
/proc/vmstat entries, to the names listed here.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ira Weiny <[email protected]>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst

@@ -208,12 +208,35 @@ has the following new calls to exercise the new pin*() wrapper functions:
 You can monitor how many total dma-pinned pages have been acquired and released
 since the system was booted, via two new /proc/vmstat entries: ::
 
-    /proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_requested
-    /proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_requested
+    /proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_acquired
+    /proc/vmstat/nr_foll_pin_released
 
-Those are both going to show zero, unless CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set. This is
-because there is a noticeable performance drop in unpin_user_page(), when they
-are activated.
+Under normal conditions, these two values will be equal unless there are any
+long-term [R]DMA pins in place, or during pin/unpin transitions.
+
+* nr_foll_pin_acquired: This is the number of logical pins that have been
+  acquired since the system was powered on. For huge pages, the head page is
+  pinned once for each page (head page and each tail page) within the huge page.
+  This follows the same sort of behavior that get_user_pages() uses for huge
+  pages: the head page is refcounted once for each tail or head page in the huge
+  page, when get_user_pages() is applied to a huge page.
+
+* nr_foll_pin_released: The number of logical pins that have been released since
+  the system was powered on. Note that pages are released (unpinned) on a
+  PAGE_SIZE granularity, even if the original pin was applied to a huge page.
+  Becaused of the pin count behavior described above in "nr_foll_pin_acquired",
+  the accounting balances out, so that after doing this::
+
+    pin_user_pages(huge_page);
+    for (each page in huge_page)
+        unpin_user_page(page);
+
+...the following is expected::
+
+    nr_foll_pin_released == nr_foll_pin_acquired
+
+(...unless it was already out of balance due to a long-term RDMA pin being in
+place.)
 
 References
 ==========

include/linux/mmzone.h

@@ -243,6 +243,8 @@ enum node_stat_item {
 	NR_DIRTIED,		/* page dirtyings since bootup */
 	NR_WRITTEN,		/* page writings since bootup */
 	NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE,	/* reclaimable non-slab kernel pages */
+	NR_FOLL_PIN_ACQUIRED,	/* via: pin_user_page(), gup flag: FOLL_PIN */
+	NR_FOLL_PIN_RELEASED,	/* pages returned via unpin_user_page() */
 	NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS
 };
 

mm/gup.c

@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ static __maybe_unused struct page *try_grab_compound_head(struct page *page,
 	if (flags & FOLL_GET)
 		return try_get_compound_head(page, refs);
 	else if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
+		int orig_refs = refs;
+
 		/*
 		 * When pinning a compound page of order > 1 (which is what
 		 * hpage_pincount_available() checks for), use an exact count to
@@ -104,6 +106,9 @@ static __maybe_unused struct page *try_grab_compound_head(struct page *page,
 		if (hpage_pincount_available(page))
 			hpage_pincount_add(page, refs);
 
+		mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_FOLL_PIN_ACQUIRED,
+				    orig_refs);
+
 		return page;
 	}
 
@@ -158,6 +163,8 @@ bool __must_check try_grab_page(struct page *page, unsigned int flags)
 		 * once, so that the page really is pinned.
 		 */
 		page_ref_add(page, refs);
+
+		mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_FOLL_PIN_ACQUIRED, 1);
 	}
 
 	return true;
@@ -178,6 +185,7 @@ static bool __unpin_devmap_managed_user_page(struct page *page)
 
 	count = page_ref_sub_return(page, refs);
 
+	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_FOLL_PIN_RELEASED, 1);
 	/*
 	 * devmap page refcounts are 1-based, rather than 0-based: if
 	 * refcount is 1, then the page is free and the refcount is
@@ -228,6 +236,8 @@ void unpin_user_page(struct page *page)
 
 	if (page_ref_sub_and_test(page, refs))
 		__put_page(page);
+
+	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_FOLL_PIN_RELEASED, 1);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_page);
 
@@ -2014,6 +2024,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_unlocked);
 static void put_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs, unsigned int flags)
 {
 	if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
+		mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_FOLL_PIN_RELEASED,
+				    refs);
+
 		if (hpage_pincount_available(page))
 			hpage_pincount_sub(page, refs);
 		else

mm/vmstat.c

@@ -1168,6 +1168,8 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 	"nr_dirtied",
 	"nr_written",
 	"nr_kernel_misc_reclaimable",
+	"nr_foll_pin_acquired",
+	"nr_foll_pin_released",
 
 	/* enum writeback_stat_item counters */
 	"nr_dirty_threshold",