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From:   Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 6 Mar 2020 20:13:59 -0800
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Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] mm, thp: track fallbacks due to failed memcg charges separately
To:     David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:22 PM David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
>
> The thp_fault_fallback and thp_file_fallback vmstats are incremented if
> either the hugepage allocation fails through the page allocator or the
> hugepage charge fails through mem cgroup.
>
> This patch leaves this field untouched but adds two new fields,
> thp_{fault,file}_fallback_charge, which is incremented only when the mem
> cgroup charge fails.
>
> This distinguishes between attempted hugepage allocations that fail due to
> fragmentation (or low memory conditions) and those that fail due to mem
> cgroup limits.  That can be used to determine the impact of fragmentation
> on the system by excluding faults that failed due to memcg usage.

Yes, it makes sense to me.

Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>

>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>  include/linux/vm_event_item.h              |  3 +++
>  mm/huge_memory.c                           |  2 ++
>  mm/shmem.c                                 |  4 +++-
>  mm/vmstat.c                                |  2 ++
>  5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
> @@ -310,6 +310,11 @@ thp_fault_fallback
>         is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate
>         a huge page and instead falls back to using small pages.
>
> +thp_fault_fallback_charge
> +       is incremented if a page fault fails to charge a huge page and
> +       instead falls back to using small pages even though the
> +       allocation was successful.
> +
>  thp_collapse_alloc_failed
>         is incremented if khugepaged found a range
>         of pages that should be collapsed into one huge page but failed
> @@ -323,6 +328,11 @@ thp_file_fallback
>         is incremented if a file huge page is attempted to be allocated
>         but fails and instead falls back to using small pages.
>
> +thp_file_fallback_charge
> +       is incremented if a file huge page cannot be charged and instead
> +       falls back to using small pages even though the allocation was
> +       successful.
> +
>  thp_file_mapped
>         is incremented every time a file huge page is mapped into
>         user address space.
> diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> --- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
> @@ -73,10 +73,12 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>                 THP_FAULT_ALLOC,
>                 THP_FAULT_FALLBACK,
> +               THP_FAULT_FALLBACK_CHARGE,
>                 THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC,
>                 THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED,
>                 THP_FILE_ALLOC,
>                 THP_FILE_FALLBACK,
> +               THP_FILE_FALLBACK_CHARGE,
>                 THP_FILE_MAPPED,
>                 THP_SPLIT_PAGE,
>                 THP_SPLIT_PAGE_FAILED,
> @@ -117,6 +119,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
>  #ifndef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  #define THP_FILE_ALLOC ({ BUILD_BUG(); 0; })
>  #define THP_FILE_FALLBACK ({ BUILD_BUG(); 0; })
> +#define THP_FILE_FALLBACK_CHARGE ({ BUILD_BUG(); 0; })
>  #define THP_FILE_MAPPED ({ BUILD_BUG(); 0; })
>  #endif
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -597,6 +597,7 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf,
>         if (mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay(page, vma->vm_mm, gfp, &memcg, true)) {
>                 put_page(page);
>                 count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK);
> +               count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK_CHARGE);
>                 return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
>         }
>
> @@ -1406,6 +1407,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_wp_page(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t orig_pmd)
>                         put_page(page);
>                 ret |= VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
>                 count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK);
> +               count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK_CHARGE);
>                 goto out;
>         }
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -1871,8 +1871,10 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
>         error = mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay(page, charge_mm, gfp, &memcg,
>                                             PageTransHuge(page));
>         if (error) {
> -               if (PageTransHuge(page))
> +               if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
>                         count_vm_event(THP_FILE_FALLBACK);
> +                       count_vm_event(THP_FILE_FALLBACK_CHARGE);
> +               }
>                 goto unacct;
>         }
>         error = shmem_add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, hindex,
> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -1254,10 +1254,12 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>         "thp_fault_alloc",
>         "thp_fault_fallback",
> +       "thp_fault_fallback_charge",
>         "thp_collapse_alloc",
>         "thp_collapse_alloc_failed",
>         "thp_file_alloc",
>         "thp_file_fallback",
> +       "thp_file_fallback_charge",
>         "thp_file_mapped",
>         "thp_split_page",
>         "thp_split_page_failed",