Changelog:
v5:
* Separate first patch into its own series.
(suggested by Andrew Morton)
* Expose filemap_cachestat() to non-syscall usage
(patch 2) (suggested by Brian Foster).
* Fix some build errors from last version.
(patch 2)
* Explain eviction and recent eviction in the draft man page and
documentation (suggested by Andrew Morton).
(patch 2)
v4:
* Refactor cachestat and move it to mm/filemap.c (patch 3)
(suggested by Brian Foster)
* Remove redundant checks (!folio, access_ok)
(patch 3) (suggested by Matthew Wilcox and Al Viro)
* Fix a bug in handling multipages folio.
(patch 3) (suggested by Matthew Wilcox)
* Add a selftest for shmem files, which can be used to test huge
pages (patch 4) (suggested by Johannes Weiner)
v3:
* Fix some minor formatting issues and build errors.
* Add the new syscall entry to missing architecture syscall tables.
(patch 3).
* Add flags argument for the syscall. (patch 3).
* Clean up the recency refactoring (patch 2) (suggested by Yu Zhao)
* Add the new Kconfig (CONFIG_CACHESTAT) to disable the syscall.
(patch 3) (suggested by Josh Triplett)
v2:
* len == 0 means query to EOF. len < 0 is invalid.
(patch 3) (suggested by Brian Foster)
* Make cachestat extensible by adding the `cstat_size` argument in the
syscall (patch 3)
There is currently no good way to query the page cache state of large
file sets and directory trees. There is mincore(), but it scales poorly:
the kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to
aggregate, when the user really doesn not care about per-page information
in that case. The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes
along, which can be quite slow as well.
This series of patches introduces a new system call, cachestat, that
summarizes the page cache statistics (number of cached pages, dirty
pages, pages marked for writeback, evicted pages etc.) of a file, in a
specified range of bytes. It also include a selftest suite that tests some
typical usage
This interface is inspired by past discussion and concerns with fincore,
which has a similar design (and as a result, issues) as mincore.
Relevant links:
https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/04207.html
https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/04209.html
For comparison with mincore, I ran both syscalls on a 2TB sparse file:
Using mincore:
real 0m37.510s
user 0m2.934s
sys 0m34.558s
Using cachestat:
real 0m0.009s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.009s
This series should be applied on top of:
workingset: fix confusion around eviction vs refault container
https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/1/4/1066
This series consist of 3 patches:
Nhat Pham (3):
workingset: refactor LRU refault to expose refault recency check
cachestat: implement cachestat syscall
selftests: Add selftests for cachestat
MAINTAINERS | 7 +
arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 +
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
include/linux/fs.h | 3 +
include/linux/swap.h | 1 +
include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 +
include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 5 +-
include/uapi/linux/mman.h | 9 +
init/Kconfig | 10 +
kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 +
mm/filemap.c | 143 ++++++++++
mm/workingset.c | 129 ++++++---
tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile | 8 +
.../selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++++
27 files changed, 555 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
base-commit: 1440f576022887004f719883acb094e7e0dd4944
prerequisite-patch-id: 171a43d333e1b267ce14188a5beaea2f313787fb
--
2.30.2
In preparation for computing recently evicted pages in cachestat,
refactor workingset_refault and lru_gen_refault to expose a helper
function that would test if an evicted page is recently evicted.
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 1 +
mm/workingset.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
2 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index a18cf4b7c724..dae6f6f955eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ static inline void folio_set_swap_entry(struct folio *folio, swp_entry_t entry)
}
/* linux/mm/workingset.c */
+bool workingset_test_recent(void *shadow, bool file, bool *workingset);
void workingset_age_nonresident(struct lruvec *lruvec, unsigned long nr_pages);
void *workingset_eviction(struct folio *folio, struct mem_cgroup *target_memcg);
void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow);
diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index 79585d55c45d..006482c4e0bd 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -244,6 +244,33 @@ static void *lru_gen_eviction(struct folio *folio)
return pack_shadow(mem_cgroup_id(memcg), pgdat, token, refs);
}
+/*
+ * Test if the folio is recently evicted.
+ *
+ * As a side effect, also populates the references with
+ * values unpacked from the shadow of the evicted folio.
+ */
+static bool lru_gen_test_recent(void *shadow, bool file, bool *workingset)
+{
+ struct mem_cgroup *eviction_memcg;
+ struct lruvec *lruvec;
+ struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen;
+ unsigned long min_seq;
+
+ int memcgid;
+ struct pglist_data *pgdat;
+ unsigned long token;
+
+ unpack_shadow(shadow, &memcgid, &pgdat, &token, workingset);
+ eviction_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(memcgid);
+
+ lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(eviction_memcg, pgdat);
+ lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+
+ min_seq = READ_ONCE(lrugen->min_seq[file]);
+ return !((token >> LRU_REFS_WIDTH) != (min_seq & (EVICTION_MASK >> LRU_REFS_WIDTH)));
+}
+
static void lru_gen_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
{
int hist, tier, refs;
@@ -306,6 +333,11 @@ static void *lru_gen_eviction(struct folio *folio)
return NULL;
}
+static bool lru_gen_test_recent(void *shadow, bool file, bool *workingset)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
static void lru_gen_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
{
}
@@ -373,40 +405,31 @@ void *workingset_eviction(struct folio *folio, struct mem_cgroup *target_memcg)
folio_test_workingset(folio));
}
-/**
- * workingset_refault - Evaluate the refault of a previously evicted folio.
- * @folio: The freshly allocated replacement folio.
- * @shadow: Shadow entry of the evicted folio.
+/*
+ * Test if the folio is recently evicted by checking if
+ * refault distance of shadow exceeds workingset size.
*
- * Calculates and evaluates the refault distance of the previously
- * evicted folio in the context of the node and the memcg whose memory
- * pressure caused the eviction.
+ * As a side effect, populate workingset with the value
+ * unpacked from shadow.
*/
-void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
+bool workingset_test_recent(void *shadow, bool file, bool *workingset)
{
- bool file = folio_is_file_lru(folio);
struct mem_cgroup *eviction_memcg;
struct lruvec *eviction_lruvec;
unsigned long refault_distance;
unsigned long workingset_size;
- struct pglist_data *pgdat;
- struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
- unsigned long eviction;
- struct lruvec *lruvec;
unsigned long refault;
- bool workingset;
+
int memcgid;
- long nr;
+ struct pglist_data *pgdat;
+ unsigned long eviction;
- if (lru_gen_enabled()) {
- lru_gen_refault(folio, shadow);
- return;
- }
+ if (lru_gen_enabled())
+ return lru_gen_test_recent(shadow, file, workingset);
- unpack_shadow(shadow, &memcgid, &pgdat, &eviction, &workingset);
+ unpack_shadow(shadow, &memcgid, &pgdat, &eviction, workingset);
eviction <<= bucket_order;
- rcu_read_lock();
/*
* Look up the memcg associated with the stored ID. It might
* have been deleted since the folio's eviction.
@@ -425,7 +448,8 @@ void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
*/
eviction_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(memcgid);
if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !eviction_memcg)
- goto out;
+ return false;
+
eviction_lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(eviction_memcg, pgdat);
refault = atomic_long_read(&eviction_lruvec->nonresident_age);
@@ -447,21 +471,6 @@ void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
*/
refault_distance = (refault - eviction) & EVICTION_MASK;
- /*
- * The activation decision for this folio is made at the level
- * where the eviction occurred, as that is where the LRU order
- * during folio reclaim is being determined.
- *
- * However, the cgroup that will own the folio is the one that
- * is actually experiencing the refault event.
- */
- nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
- memcg = folio_memcg(folio);
- pgdat = folio_pgdat(folio);
- lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
-
- mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_REFAULT_BASE + file, nr);
-
mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed();
/*
* Compare the distance to the existing workingset size. We
@@ -483,8 +492,51 @@ void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
}
}
- if (refault_distance > workingset_size)
+
+ return refault_distance <= workingset_size;
+}
+
+/**
+ * workingset_refault - Evaluate the refault of a previously evicted folio.
+ * @folio: The freshly allocated replacement folio.
+ * @shadow: Shadow entry of the evicted folio.
+ *
+ * Calculates and evaluates the refault distance of the previously
+ * evicted folio in the context of the node and the memcg whose memory
+ * pressure caused the eviction.
+ */
+void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
+{
+ bool file = folio_is_file_lru(folio);
+ struct pglist_data *pgdat;
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+ struct lruvec *lruvec;
+ bool workingset;
+ long nr;
+
+ if (lru_gen_enabled()) {
+ lru_gen_refault(folio, shadow);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
+ nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
+ memcg = folio_memcg(folio);
+ pgdat = folio_pgdat(folio);
+ lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
+
+ if (!workingset_test_recent(shadow, file, &workingset)) {
+ /*
+ * The activation decision for this folio is made at the level
+ * where the eviction occurred, as that is where the LRU order
+ * during folio reclaim is being determined.
+ *
+ * However, the cgroup that will own the folio is the one that
+ * is actually experiencing the refault event.
+ */
goto out;
+ }
folio_set_active(folio);
workingset_age_nonresident(lruvec, nr);
@@ -498,6 +550,7 @@ void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_RESTORE_BASE + file, nr);
}
out:
+ mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_REFAULT_BASE + file, nr);
rcu_read_unlock();
}
--
2.30.2
Test cachestat on a newly created file, /dev/ files, and /proc/ files.
Also test on a shmem file (which can also be tested with huge pages
since tmpfs supports huge pages).
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 7 +
tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile | 8 +
.../selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 277 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a198da986146..792a866353ec 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4552,6 +4552,13 @@ S: Supported
F: Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst
F: fs/cachefiles/
+CACHESTAT: PAGE CACHE STATS FOR A FILE
+M: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
+M: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
+L: [email protected]
+S: Maintained
+F: tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
+
CADENCE MIPI-CSI2 BRIDGES
M: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
index 0464b2c6c1e4..3cad0b38c5c2 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ TARGETS += amd-pstate
TARGETS += arm64
TARGETS += bpf
TARGETS += breakpoints
+TARGETS += cachestat
TARGETS += capabilities
TARGETS += cgroup
TARGETS += clone3
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d6c30b43a4bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+test_cachestat
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fca73aaa7d14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+TEST_GEN_PROGS := test_cachestat
+
+CFLAGS += $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
+CFLAGS += -Wall
+CFLAGS += -lrt
+
+include ../lib.mk
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3f5cd5695c51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
@@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/mman.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/shm.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#include "../kselftest.h"
+
+static const char * const dev_files[] = {
+ "/dev/zero", "/dev/null", "/dev/urandom",
+ "/proc/version", "/proc"
+};
+static const int cachestat_nr = 451;
+
+void print_cachestat(struct cachestat *cs)
+{
+ ksft_print_msg(
+ "Using cachestat: Cached: %lu, Dirty: %lu, Writeback: %lu, Evicted: %lu, Recently Evicted: %lu\n",
+ cs->nr_cache, cs->nr_dirty, cs->nr_writeback,
+ cs->nr_evicted, cs->nr_recently_evicted);
+}
+
+bool write_exactly(int fd, size_t filesize)
+{
+ char data[filesize];
+ bool ret = true;
+ int random_fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+
+ if (random_fd < 0) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Unable to access urandom.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto out;
+ } else {
+ int remained = filesize;
+ char *cursor = data;
+
+ while (remained) {
+ ssize_t read_len = read(random_fd, cursor, remained);
+
+ if (read_len <= 0) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Unable to read from urandom.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto close_random_fd;
+ }
+
+ remained -= read_len;
+ cursor += read_len;
+ }
+
+ /* write random data to fd */
+ remained = filesize;
+ cursor = data;
+ while (remained) {
+ ssize_t write_len = write(fd, cursor, remained);
+
+ if (write_len <= 0) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Unable write random data to file.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto close_random_fd;
+ }
+
+ remained -= write_len;
+ cursor += write_len;
+ }
+ }
+
+close_random_fd:
+ close(random_fd);
+out:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Open/create the file at filename, (optionally) write random data to it
+ * (exactly num_pages), then test the cachestat syscall on this file.
+ *
+ * If test_fsync == true, fsync the file, then check the number of dirty
+ * pages.
+ */
+bool test_cachestat(const char *filename, bool write_random, bool create,
+ bool test_fsync, unsigned long num_pages, int open_flags,
+ mode_t open_mode)
+{
+ size_t PS = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+ int filesize = num_pages * PS;
+ bool ret = true;
+ long syscall_ret;
+ struct cachestat cs;
+
+ int fd = open(filename, open_flags, open_mode);
+
+ if (fd == -1) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Unable to create/open file.\n");
+ goto out;
+ } else {
+ ksft_print_msg("Create/open %s\n", filename);
+ }
+
+ if (write_random) {
+ if (!write_exactly(fd, filesize)) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Unable to access urandom.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto out1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ syscall_ret = syscall(cachestat_nr, fd, 0, filesize,
+ sizeof(struct cachestat), &cs, 0);
+
+ ksft_print_msg("Cachestat call returned %ld\n", syscall_ret);
+
+ if (syscall_ret) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Cachestat returned non-zero.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto out1;
+
+ } else {
+ print_cachestat(&cs);
+
+ if (write_random) {
+ if (cs.nr_cache + cs.nr_evicted != num_pages) {
+ ksft_print_msg(
+ "Total number of cached and evicted pages is off.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (test_fsync) {
+ if (fsync(fd)) {
+ ksft_print_msg("fsync fails.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ } else {
+ syscall_ret = syscall(cachestat_nr, fd, 0, filesize,
+ sizeof(struct cachestat), &cs, 0);
+
+ ksft_print_msg("Cachestat call (after fsync) returned %ld\n",
+ syscall_ret);
+
+ if (!syscall_ret) {
+ print_cachestat(&cs);
+
+ if (cs.nr_dirty) {
+ ret = false;
+ ksft_print_msg(
+ "Number of dirty should be zero after fsync.\n");
+ }
+ } else {
+ ksft_print_msg("Cachestat (after fsync) returned non-zero.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto out1;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+out1:
+ close(fd);
+
+ if (create)
+ remove(filename);
+out:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+bool test_cachestat_shmem(void)
+{
+ size_t PS = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+ size_t filesize = PS * 512 * 2; /* 2 2MB huge pages */
+ int syscall_ret;
+ off_t off = PS;
+ size_t compute_len = PS * 512;
+ char *filename = "tmpshmcstat";
+ struct cachestat cs;
+ bool ret = true;
+ unsigned long num_pages = compute_len / PS;
+ int fd = shm_open(filename, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0600);
+
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Unable to create shmem file.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ if (ftruncate(fd, filesize)) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Unable to trucate shmem file.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto close_fd;
+ }
+
+ if (!write_exactly(fd, filesize)) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Unable to write to shmem file.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto close_fd;
+ }
+
+ syscall_ret = syscall(cachestat_nr, fd, off, compute_len,
+ sizeof(struct cachestat), &cs, 0);
+
+ if (syscall_ret) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Cachestat returned non-zero.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ goto close_fd;
+ } else {
+ print_cachestat(&cs);
+ if (cs.nr_cache + cs.nr_evicted != num_pages) {
+ ksft_print_msg(
+ "Total number of cached and evicted pages is off.\n");
+ ret = false;
+ }
+ }
+
+close_fd:
+ shm_unlink(filename);
+out:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+ const char *dev_filename = dev_files[i];
+
+ if (test_cachestat(dev_filename, false, false, false,
+ 4, O_RDONLY, 0400))
+ ksft_test_result_pass("cachestat works with %s\n", dev_filename);
+ else {
+ ksft_test_result_fail("cachestat fails with %s\n", dev_filename);
+ ret = 1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (test_cachestat("tmpfilecachestat", true, true,
+ true, 4, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0400 | 0600))
+ ksft_test_result_pass("cachestat works with a normal file\n");
+ else {
+ ksft_test_result_fail("cachestat fails with normal file\n");
+ ret = 1;
+ }
+
+ if (test_cachestat_shmem())
+ ksft_test_result_pass("cachestat works with a shmem file\n");
+ else {
+ ksft_test_result_fail("cachestat fails with a shmem file\n");
+ ret = 1;
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
--
2.30.2
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:11 PM Nhat Pham <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Changelog:
> v5:
> * Separate first patch into its own series.
> (suggested by Andrew Morton)
> * Expose filemap_cachestat() to non-syscall usage
> (patch 2) (suggested by Brian Foster).
> * Fix some build errors from last version.
> (patch 2)
> * Explain eviction and recent eviction in the draft man page and
> documentation (suggested by Andrew Morton).
> (patch 2)
> v4:
> * Refactor cachestat and move it to mm/filemap.c (patch 3)
> (suggested by Brian Foster)
> * Remove redundant checks (!folio, access_ok)
> (patch 3) (suggested by Matthew Wilcox and Al Viro)
> * Fix a bug in handling multipages folio.
> (patch 3) (suggested by Matthew Wilcox)
> * Add a selftest for shmem files, which can be used to test huge
> pages (patch 4) (suggested by Johannes Weiner)
> v3:
> * Fix some minor formatting issues and build errors.
> * Add the new syscall entry to missing architecture syscall tables.
> (patch 3).
> * Add flags argument for the syscall. (patch 3).
> * Clean up the recency refactoring (patch 2) (suggested by Yu Zhao)
> * Add the new Kconfig (CONFIG_CACHESTAT) to disable the syscall.
> (patch 3) (suggested by Josh Triplett)
> v2:
> * len == 0 means query to EOF. len < 0 is invalid.
> (patch 3) (suggested by Brian Foster)
> * Make cachestat extensible by adding the `cstat_size` argument in the
> syscall (patch 3)
>
> There is currently no good way to query the page cache state of large
> file sets and directory trees. There is mincore(), but it scales poorly:
> the kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to
> aggregate, when the user really doesn not care about per-page information
> in that case. The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes
> along, which can be quite slow as well.
>
> This series of patches introduces a new system call, cachestat, that
> summarizes the page cache statistics (number of cached pages, dirty
> pages, pages marked for writeback, evicted pages etc.) of a file, in a
> specified range of bytes. It also include a selftest suite that tests some
> typical usage
>
> This interface is inspired by past discussion and concerns with fincore,
> which has a similar design (and as a result, issues) as mincore.
> Relevant links:
>
> https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/04207.html
> https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/04209.html
>
> For comparison with mincore, I ran both syscalls on a 2TB sparse file:
>
> Using mincore:
> real 0m37.510s
> user 0m2.934s
> sys 0m34.558s
>
> Using cachestat:
> real 0m0.009s
> user 0m0.000s
> sys 0m0.009s
>
> This series should be applied on top of:
>
> workingset: fix confusion around eviction vs refault container
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/1/4/1066
>
> This series consist of 3 patches:
>
> Nhat Pham (3):
> workingset: refactor LRU refault to expose refault recency check
> cachestat: implement cachestat syscall
> selftests: Add selftests for cachestat
>
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +
> arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 +
> arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
> arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +
> include/linux/fs.h | 3 +
> include/linux/swap.h | 1 +
> include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 +
> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 5 +-
> include/uapi/linux/mman.h | 9 +
> init/Kconfig | 10 +
> kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 +
> mm/filemap.c | 143 ++++++++++
> mm/workingset.c | 129 ++++++---
> tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 +
> tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore | 2 +
> tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile | 8 +
> .../selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++++
> 27 files changed, 555 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
>
>
> base-commit: 1440f576022887004f719883acb094e7e0dd4944
> prerequisite-patch-id: 171a43d333e1b267ce14188a5beaea2f313787fb
> --
> 2.30.2
Oops, I think I accidentally sent out v5 twice :(
Please ignore the first set of emails and review this one only,
LKML link for convenience:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/1/4/1095