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authorJiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>2023-01-20 04:46:20 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-03 07:33:28 +0100
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parentmm: multi-gen LRU: simplify lru_gen_look_around() (diff)
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mm: memory-failure: add memory failure stats to sysfs
Patch series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error statistics", v2. Background ========== In the RFC for Kernel Support of Memory Error Detection [1], one advantage of software-based scanning over hardware patrol scrubber is the ability to make statistics visible to system administrators. The statistics include 2 categories: * Memory error statistics, for example, how many memory error are encountered, how many of them are recovered by the kernel. Note these memory errors are non-fatal to kernel: during the machine check exception (MCE) handling kernel already classified MCE's severity to be unnecessary to panic (but either action required or optional). * Scanner statistics, for example how many times the scanner have fully scanned a NUMA node, how many errors are first detected by the scanner. The memory error statistics are useful to userspace and actually not specific to scanner detected memory errors, and are the focus of this patchset. Motivation ========== Memory error stats are important to userspace but insufficient in kernel today. Datacenter administrators can better monitor a machine's memory health with the visible stats. For example, while memory errors are inevitable on servers with 10+ TB memory, starting server maintenance when there are only 1~2 recovered memory errors could be overreacting; in cloud production environment maintenance usually means live migrate all the workload running on the server and this usually causes nontrivial disruption to the customer. Providing insight into the scope of memory errors on a system helps to determine the appropriate follow-up action. In addition, the kernel's existing memory error stats need to be standardized so that userspace can reliably count on their usefulness. Today kernel provides following memory error info to userspace, but they are not sufficient or have disadvantages: * HardwareCorrupted in /proc/meminfo: number of bytes poisoned in total, not per NUMA node stats though * ras:memory_failure_event: only available after explicitly enabled * /dev/mcelog provides many useful info about the MCEs, but doesn't capture how memory_failure recovered memory MCEs * kernel logs: userspace needs to process log text Exposing memory error stats is also a good start for the in-kernel memory error detector. Today the data source of memory error stats are either direct memory error consumption, or hardware patrol scrubber detection (either signaled as UCNA or SRAO). Once in-kernel memory scanner is implemented, it will be the main source as it is usually configured to scan memory DIMMs constantly and faster than hardware patrol scrubber. How Implemented =============== As Naoya pointed out [2], exposing memory error statistics to userspace is useful independent of software or hardware scanner. Therefore we implement the memory error statistics independent of the in-kernel memory error detector. It exposes the following per NUMA node memory error counters: /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/total /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/recovered /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/ignored /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/failed /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/delayed These counters describe how many raw pages are poisoned and after the attempted recoveries by the kernel, their resolutions: how many are recovered, ignored, failed, or delayed respectively. This approach can be easier to extend for future use cases than /proc/meminfo, trace event, and log. The following math holds for the statistics: * total = recovered + ignored + failed + delayed These memory error stats are reset during machine boot. The 1st commit introduces these sysfs entries. The 2nd commit populates memory error stats every time memory_failure attempts memory error recovery. The 3rd commit adds documentations for introduced stats. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/7E670362-C29E-4626-B546-26530D54F937@gmail.com/T/#mc22959244f5388891c523882e61163c6e4d703af [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/7E670362-C29E-4626-B546-26530D54F937@gmail.com/T/#m52d8d7a333d8536bd7ce74253298858b1c0c0ac6 This patch (of 3): Today kernel provides following memory error info to userspace, but each has its own disadvantage * HardwareCorrupted in /proc/meminfo: number of bytes poisoned in total, not per NUMA node stats though * ras:memory_failure_event: only available after explicitly enabled * /dev/mcelog provides many useful info about the MCEs, but doesn't capture how memory_failure recovered memory MCEs * kernel logs: userspace needs to process log text Exposes per NUMA node memory error stats as sysfs entries: /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/total /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/recovered /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/ignored /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/failed /sys/devices/system/node/node${X}/memory_failure/delayed These counters describe how many raw pages are poisoned and after the attempted recoveries by the kernel, their resolutions: how many are recovered, ignored, failed, or delayed respectively. The following math holds for the statistics: * total = recovered + ignored + failed + delayed Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230120034622.2698268-1-jiaqiyan@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230120034622.2698268-2-jiaqiyan@google.com Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/node.c')
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diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
index faf3597a96da..b46db17124f3 100644
--- a/drivers/base/node.c
+++ b/drivers/base/node.c
@@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ static const struct attribute_group *node_dev_groups[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_NODE_DEV_GROUP
&arch_node_dev_group,
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
+ &memory_failure_attr_group,
+#endif
NULL
};