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[PATCH v1 2/3] Allow building only trusted or untrusted PL/Perl.
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* [PATCH v1 2/3] Allow building only trusted or untrusted PL/Perl.
@ 2022-05-17 20:28 Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
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From: Nathan Bossart @ 2022-05-17 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)

Presently, when the --with-perl configuration option is used, both
trusted and untrusted PL/Perl are built.  However, some users may
only want to build one or the other.  This change introduces an
optional argument that can be used to do so.  If
--with-perl='trusted' is specified, only trusted PL/Perl is built.
If --with-perl='untrusted' is specified, only untrusted PL/Perl is
built.  If --with-perl is given without an argument, both trusted
and untrusted PL/Perl are built.
---
 configure                               | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 configure.ac                            | 32 ++++++++++++++++-
 contrib/bool_plperl/Makefile            | 24 ++++++++++---
 contrib/hstore_plperl/Makefile          | 24 ++++++++++---
 contrib/jsonb_plperl/Makefile           | 24 ++++++++++---
 doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml          | 23 +++++++++++-
 src/Makefile.global.in                  |  2 ++
 src/include/pg_config.h.in              |  6 ++++
 src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile               | 37 +++++++++++++------
 src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl_setup.out | 15 +++-----
 src/pl/plperl/expected/plperlu.out      | 27 ++++++++++++++
 src/pl/plperl/plperl.c                  | 10 ++++++
 src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl_setup.sql      | 11 +++---
 src/pl/plperl/sql/plperlu.sql           | 29 +++++++++++++++
 14 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 7dec6b7bf9..faa8b1a2e3 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -723,6 +723,8 @@ with_krb_srvnam
 krb_srvtab
 with_gssapi
 with_python
+PERL_UNTRUSTED
+PERL_TRUSTED
 with_perl
 with_tcl
 ICU_LIBS
@@ -1563,7 +1565,8 @@ Optional Packages:
   --with-icu              build with ICU support
   --with-tcl              build Tcl modules (PL/Tcl)
   --with-tclconfig=DIR    tclConfig.sh is in DIR
-  --with-perl             build Perl modules (PL/Perl)
+  --with-perl[=TRUSTWORTHINESS]
+                          build Perl modules (PL/Perl)
   --with-python           build Python modules (PL/Python)
   --with-gssapi           build with GSSAPI support
   --with-krb-srvnam=NAME  default service principal name in Kerberos (GSSAPI)
@@ -8152,26 +8155,62 @@ if test "${with_perl+set}" = set; then :
   withval=$with_perl;
   case $withval in
     yes)
-      :
+
+  PERL_TRUSTED=yes
+  PERL_UNTRUSTED=yes
+
       ;;
     no)
       :
       ;;
     *)
-      as_fn_error $? "no argument expected for --with-perl option" "$LINENO" 5
+      with_perl=yes
+
+  if test "$withval" = trusted ; then
+    PERL_TRUSTED=yes
+    PERL_UNTRUSTED=no
+  elif test "$withval" = untrusted ; then
+    PERL_TRUSTED=no
+    PERL_UNTRUSTED=yes
+  else
+    as_fn_error $? "invalid --with-perl value: argument must be omitted or specified as 'trusted' or 'untrusted'" "$LINENO" 5
+  fi
+
       ;;
   esac
 
 else
   with_perl=no
-
 fi
 
 
+
+if test "$with_perl" = yes; then
+
+  if test "$PERL_TRUSTED" = yes ; then
+
+$as_echo "#define USE_PERL 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+  fi
+  if test "$PERL_UNTRUSTED" = yes ; then
+
+$as_echo "#define USE_PERLU 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+  fi
+
+else
+
+  PERL_TRUSTED=no
+  PERL_UNTRUSTED=no
+
+fi
+
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $with_perl" >&5
 $as_echo "$with_perl" >&6; }
 
 
+
+
 #
 # Optionally build Python modules (PL/Python)
 #
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d093fb88dd..0dd440131b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -823,9 +823,39 @@ PGAC_ARG_REQ(with, tclconfig, [DIR], [tclConfig.sh is in DIR])
 # Optionally build Perl modules (PL/Perl)
 #
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether to build Perl modules])
-PGAC_ARG_BOOL(with, perl, no, [build Perl modules (PL/Perl)])
+PGAC_ARG_OPTARG(with, perl,
+[TRUSTWORTHINESS], [build Perl modules (PL/Perl)],
+[
+  PERL_TRUSTED=yes
+  PERL_UNTRUSTED=yes
+],
+[
+  if test "$withval" = trusted ; then
+    PERL_TRUSTED=yes
+    PERL_UNTRUSTED=no
+  elif test "$withval" = untrusted ; then
+    PERL_TRUSTED=no
+    PERL_UNTRUSTED=yes
+  else
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([invalid --with-perl value: argument must be omitted or specified as 'trusted' or 'untrusted'])
+  fi
+],
+[
+  if test "$PERL_TRUSTED" = yes ; then
+    AC_DEFINE([USE_PERL], 1, [Define to 1 to build with trusted Perl support. (--with-perl='trusted')])
+  fi
+  if test "$PERL_UNTRUSTED" = yes ; then
+    AC_DEFINE([USE_PERLU], 1, [Define to 1 to build with untrusted Perl support. (--with-perl='untrusted')])
+  fi
+],
+[
+  PERL_TRUSTED=no
+  PERL_UNTRUSTED=no
+])
 AC_MSG_RESULT([$with_perl])
 AC_SUBST(with_perl)
+AC_SUBST(PERL_TRUSTED)
+AC_SUBST(PERL_UNTRUSTED)
 
 #
 # Optionally build Python modules (PL/Python)
diff --git a/contrib/bool_plperl/Makefile b/contrib/bool_plperl/Makefile
index efe1de986b..ae23e7e3f1 100644
--- a/contrib/bool_plperl/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/bool_plperl/Makefile
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ PGFILEDESC = "bool_plperl - bool transform for plperl"
 
 PG_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/src/pl/plperl
 
-EXTENSION = bool_plperlu bool_plperl
-DATA = bool_plperlu--1.0.sql bool_plperl--1.0.sql
-
-REGRESS = bool_plperl bool_plperlu
+# We do not yet know whether we are building with trusted PL/Perl, untrusted
+# PL/Perl, or both, so for now we assume we are just building trusted PL/Perl.
+# We'll adjust these later on if this assumption was accurate.
+EXTENSION = bool_plperl
+DATA = bool_plperl--1.0.sql
+REGRESS = bool_plperl
 
 ifdef USE_PGXS
 PG_CONFIG = pg_config
@@ -37,3 +39,17 @@ endif
 
 # As with plperl we need to include the perl_includespec directory last.
 override CPPFLAGS := $(CPPFLAGS) $(perl_embed_ccflags) $(perl_includespec)
+
+# Since we now know whether we are building trusted PL/Perl, untrusted PL/Perl,
+# or both, we should adjust the relevant variables accordingly.
+ifeq ($(PERL_TRUSTED), no)
+	override undefine EXTENSION
+	override undefine DATA
+	override undefine REGRESS
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(PERL_UNTRUSTED), yes)
+	override EXTENSION += bool_plperlu
+	override DATA += bool_plperlu--1.0.sql
+	override REGRESS += bool_plperlu
+endif
diff --git a/contrib/hstore_plperl/Makefile b/contrib/hstore_plperl/Makefile
index 9065f16408..32af5049a9 100644
--- a/contrib/hstore_plperl/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/hstore_plperl/Makefile
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ OBJS = \
 	hstore_plperl.o
 PGFILEDESC = "hstore_plperl - hstore transform for plperl"
 
+# We do not yet know whether we are building with trusted PL/Perl, untrusted
+# PL/Perl, or both, so for now we assume we are just building trusted PL/Perl.
+# We'll adjust these later on if this assumption was accurate.
+EXTENSION = hstore_plperl
+DATA = hstore_plperl--1.0.sql
+REGRESS = hstore_plperl create_transform
 
-EXTENSION = hstore_plperl hstore_plperlu
-DATA = hstore_plperl--1.0.sql hstore_plperlu--1.0.sql
-
-REGRESS = hstore_plperl hstore_plperlu create_transform
 EXTRA_INSTALL = contrib/hstore
 
 ifdef USE_PGXS
@@ -39,3 +41,17 @@ endif
 
 # As with plperl we need to include the perl_includespec directory last.
 override CPPFLAGS := $(CPPFLAGS) $(perl_embed_ccflags) $(perl_includespec)
+
+# Since we now know whether we are building trusted PL/Perl, untrusted PL/Perl,
+# or both, we should adjust the relevant variables accordingly.
+ifeq ($(PERL_TRUSTED), no)
+	override undefine EXTENSION
+	override undefine DATA
+	override undefine REGRESS
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(PERL_UNTRUSTED), yes)
+	override EXTENSION += hstore_plperlu
+	override DATA += hstore_plperlu--1.0.sql
+	override REGRESS += hstore_plperlu
+endif
diff --git a/contrib/jsonb_plperl/Makefile b/contrib/jsonb_plperl/Makefile
index ba9480e819..218bd51c9e 100644
--- a/contrib/jsonb_plperl/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/jsonb_plperl/Makefile
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ PGFILEDESC = "jsonb_plperl - jsonb transform for plperl"
 
 PG_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/src/pl/plperl
 
-EXTENSION = jsonb_plperlu jsonb_plperl
-DATA = jsonb_plperlu--1.0.sql jsonb_plperl--1.0.sql
-
-REGRESS = jsonb_plperl jsonb_plperlu
+# We do not yet know whether we are building with trusted PL/Perl, untrusted
+# PL/Perl, or both, so for now we assume we are just building trusted PL/Perl.
+# We'll adjust these later on if this assumption was accurate.
+EXTENSION = jsonb_plperl
+DATA = jsonb_plperl--1.0.sql
+REGRESS = jsonb_plperl
 
 SHLIB_LINK += $(filter -lm, $(LIBS))
 
@@ -39,3 +41,17 @@ endif
 
 # As with plperl we need to include the perl_includespec directory last.
 override CPPFLAGS := $(CPPFLAGS) $(perl_embed_ccflags) $(perl_includespec)
+
+# Since we now know whether we are building trusted PL/Perl, untrusted PL/Perl,
+# or both, we should adjust the relevant variables accordingly.
+ifeq ($(PERL_TRUSTED), no)
+    override undefine EXTENSION
+    override undefine DATA
+    override undefine REGRESS
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(PERL_UNTRUSTED), yes)
+    override EXTENSION += jsonb_plperlu
+    override DATA += jsonb_plperlu--1.0.sql
+    override REGRESS += jsonb_plperlu
+endif
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index c585078029..4377e9d51a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -873,10 +873,31 @@ build-postgresql:
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-       <term><option>--with-perl</option></term>
+       <term><option>--with-perl<optional>=<replaceable>TRUSTWORTHINESS</replaceable></optional></option></term>
        <listitem>
         <para>
          Build the <application>PL/Perl</application> server-side language.
+         <replaceable>TRUSTWORTHINESS</replaceable> is an optional argument and,
+         if provided, must be one of:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+         <listitem>
+          <para>
+           <option>trusted</option> to build only trusted
+           <application>PL/Perl</application>
+          </para>
+         </listitem>
+         <listitem>
+          <para>
+           <option>untrusted</option> to build only untrusted
+           <application>PL/Perl</application>
+           (<application>PL/PerlU</application>)
+          </para>
+         </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+         If <replaceable>TRUSTWORTHINESS</replaceable> is not specified, both
+         trusted and untrusted <application>PL/Perl</application> will be built.
         </para>
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/src/Makefile.global.in b/src/Makefile.global.in
index 051718e4fe..53f367ca7a 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.global.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.global.in
@@ -526,6 +526,8 @@ GENHTML = @GENHTML@
 
 DEF_PGPORT = @default_port@
 WANTED_LANGUAGES = @WANTED_LANGUAGES@
+PERL_TRUSTED = @PERL_TRUSTED@
+PERL_UNTRUSTED = @PERL_UNTRUSTED@
 
 
 ##########################################################################
diff --git a/src/include/pg_config.h.in b/src/include/pg_config.h.in
index cdd742cb55..2779f5f671 100644
--- a/src/include/pg_config.h.in
+++ b/src/include/pg_config.h.in
@@ -931,6 +931,12 @@
 /* Define to 1 to build with PAM support. (--with-pam) */
 #undef USE_PAM
 
+/* Define to 1 to build with trusted Perl support. (--with-perl='trusted') */
+#undef USE_PERL
+
+/* Define to 1 to build with untrusted Perl support. (--with-perl='untrusted') */
+#undef USE_PERLU
+
 /* Define to 1 to use software CRC-32C implementation (slicing-by-8). */
 #undef USE_SLICING_BY_8_CRC32C
 
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile b/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile
index a2e6410f53..d01201bbac 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile
@@ -27,8 +27,13 @@ NAME = plperl
 
 OBJS = plperl.o SPI.o Util.o $(WIN32RES)
 
-DATA = plperl.control plperl--1.0.sql \
-       plperlu.control plperlu--1.0.sql
+ifeq ($(PERL_TRUSTED), yes)
+	DATA += plperl.control plperl--1.0.sql
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(PERL_UNTRUSTED), yes)
+	DATA += plperlu.control plperlu--1.0.sql
+endif
 
 PERLCHUNKS = plc_perlboot.pl plc_trusted.pl
 
@@ -56,14 +61,26 @@ endif # win32
 SHLIB_LINK = $(perl_embed_ldflags)
 
 REGRESS_OPTS = --dbname=$(PL_TESTDB)
-REGRESS = plperl_setup plperl plperl_lc plperl_trigger plperl_shared \
-	plperl_elog plperl_util plperl_init plperlu plperl_array \
-	plperl_call plperl_transaction
-# if Perl can support two interpreters in one backend,
-# test plperl-and-plperlu cases
-ifneq ($(PERL),)
-ifeq ($(shell $(PERL) -V:usemultiplicity), usemultiplicity='define';)
-	REGRESS += plperl_plperlu
+
+ifeq ($(PERL_TRUSTED), yes)
+	REGRESS = plperl_setup plperl plperl_lc plperl_trigger plperl_shared \
+		plperl_elog plperl_util plperl_init plperl_array plperl_call \
+		plperl_transaction
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(PERL_UNTRUSTED), yes)
+	REGRESS += plperlu
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(PERL_TRUSTED), yes)
+ifeq ($(PERL_UNTRUSTED), yes)
+	# if Perl can support two interpreters in one backend,
+	# test plperl-and-plperlu cases
+	ifneq ($(PERL),)
+		ifeq ($(shell $(PERL) -V:usemultiplicity), usemultiplicity='define';)
+			REGRESS += plperl_plperlu
+		endif
+	endif
 endif
 endif
 
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl_setup.out b/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl_setup.out
index 5234febefd..d0682325b2 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl_setup.out
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl_setup.out
@@ -1,18 +1,15 @@
 --
--- Install the plperl and plperlu extensions
+-- Install plperl
 --
 -- Before going ahead with the to-be-tested installations, verify that
--- a non-superuser is allowed to install plperl (but not plperlu) when
--- suitable permissions have been granted.
+-- a non-superuser is allowed to install plperl when suitable permissions
+-- have been granted.
 CREATE USER regress_user1;
 CREATE USER regress_user2;
 SET ROLE regress_user1;
 CREATE EXTENSION plperl;  -- fail
 ERROR:  permission denied to create extension "plperl"
 HINT:  Must have CREATE privilege on current database to create this extension.
-CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;  -- fail
-ERROR:  permission denied to create extension "plperlu"
-HINT:  Must be superuser to create this extension.
 RESET ROLE;
 DO $$
 begin
@@ -22,9 +19,6 @@ end;
 $$;
 SET ROLE regress_user1;
 CREATE EXTENSION plperl;
-CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;  -- fail
-ERROR:  permission denied to create extension "plperlu"
-HINT:  Must be superuser to create this extension.
 CREATE SCHEMA plperl_setup_scratch;
 SET search_path = plperl_setup_scratch;
 GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA plperl_setup_scratch TO regress_user2;
@@ -68,6 +62,5 @@ RESET ROLE;
 DROP OWNED BY regress_user1;
 DROP USER regress_user1;
 DROP USER regress_user2;
--- Now install the versions that will be used by subsequent test scripts.
+-- Now install the version that will be used by subsequent test scripts.
 CREATE EXTENSION plperl;
-CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperlu.out b/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperlu.out
index a3edb38497..f759466a90 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperlu.out
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/expected/plperlu.out
@@ -1,5 +1,32 @@
+-- Before going ahead with the to-be-tested installations, verify that
+-- only superusers can install plperlu.
+CREATE USER regress_user1;
+SET ROLE regress_user1;
+CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;  -- fail
+ERROR:  permission denied to create extension "plperlu"
+HINT:  Must be superuser to create this extension.
+RESET ROLE;
+DO $$
+begin
+  execute format('grant create on database %I to regress_user1',
+                 current_database());
+end;
+$$;
+SET ROLE regress_user1;
+CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;  -- fail
+ERROR:  permission denied to create extension "plperlu"
+HINT:  Must be superuser to create this extension.
+RESET ROLE;
+DO $$
+begin
+  execute format('revoke create on database %I from regress_user1',
+                 current_database());
+end;
+$$;
+DROP ROLE regress_user1;
 -- Use ONLY plperlu tests here. For plperl/plerlu combined tests
 -- see plperl_plperlu.sql
+CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;
 -- This test tests setting on_plperlu_init after loading plperl
 LOAD 'plperl';
 -- Test plperl.on_plperlu_init gets run
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c b/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
index 9bc6793a30..ff5f9641d5 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/plperl.c
@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ _PG_init(void)
 	 * OK since the worst result would be an error.  Your code oughta pass
 	 * use_strict anyway ;-)
 	 */
+#ifdef USE_PERL
 	DefineCustomStringVariable("plperl.on_plperl_init",
 							   gettext_noop("Perl initialization code to execute once when plperl is first used."),
 							   NULL,
@@ -452,7 +453,9 @@ _PG_init(void)
 							   NULL,
 							   PGC_SUSET, 0,
 							   NULL, NULL, NULL);
+#endif  /* USE_PERL */
 
+#ifdef USE_PERLU
 	DefineCustomStringVariable("plperl.on_plperlu_init",
 							   gettext_noop("Perl initialization code to execute once when plperlu is first used."),
 							   NULL,
@@ -460,6 +463,7 @@ _PG_init(void)
 							   NULL,
 							   PGC_SUSET, 0,
 							   NULL, NULL, NULL);
+#endif  /* USE_PERLU */
 
 	MarkGUCPrefixReserved("plperl");
 
@@ -2039,6 +2043,7 @@ plperl_validator_internal(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS, bool trusted)
  * There are three externally visible pieces to plperl: plperl_call_handler,
  * plperl_inline_handler, and plperl_validator.
  */
+#ifdef USE_PERL
 
 PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(plperl_call_handler);
 
@@ -2064,11 +2069,14 @@ plperl_validator(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return plperl_validator_internal(fcinfo, true);
 }
 
+#endif  /* USE_PERL */
+
 
 /*
  * plperlu likewise requires three externally visible functions:
  * plperlu_call_handler, plperlu_inline_handler, and plperlu_validator.
  */
+#ifdef USE_PERLU
 
 PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(plperlu_call_handler);
 
@@ -2095,6 +2103,8 @@ plperlu_validator(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	return plperl_validator_internal(fcinfo, false);
 }
 
+#endif  /* USE_PERLU */
+
 
 /*
  * Uses mkfunc to create a subroutine whose text is
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl_setup.sql b/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl_setup.sql
index a89cf56617..eb29cacdac 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl_setup.sql
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl_setup.sql
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 --
--- Install the plperl and plperlu extensions
+-- Install plperl
 --
 
 -- Before going ahead with the to-be-tested installations, verify that
--- a non-superuser is allowed to install plperl (but not plperlu) when
--- suitable permissions have been granted.
+-- a non-superuser is allowed to install plperl when suitable permissions
+-- have been granted.
 
 CREATE USER regress_user1;
 CREATE USER regress_user2;
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ CREATE USER regress_user2;
 SET ROLE regress_user1;
 
 CREATE EXTENSION plperl;  -- fail
-CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;  -- fail
 
 RESET ROLE;
 
@@ -26,7 +25,6 @@ $$;
 SET ROLE regress_user1;
 
 CREATE EXTENSION plperl;
-CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;  -- fail
 CREATE SCHEMA plperl_setup_scratch;
 SET search_path = plperl_setup_scratch;
 GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA plperl_setup_scratch TO regress_user2;
@@ -68,6 +66,5 @@ DROP OWNED BY regress_user1;
 DROP USER regress_user1;
 DROP USER regress_user2;
 
--- Now install the versions that will be used by subsequent test scripts.
+-- Now install the version that will be used by subsequent test scripts.
 CREATE EXTENSION plperl;
-CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperlu.sql b/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperlu.sql
index be43df5d90..1e050e8237 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperlu.sql
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/sql/plperlu.sql
@@ -1,5 +1,34 @@
+-- Before going ahead with the to-be-tested installations, verify that
+-- only superusers can install plperlu.
+CREATE USER regress_user1;
+
+SET ROLE regress_user1;
+CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;  -- fail
+RESET ROLE;
+
+DO $$
+begin
+  execute format('grant create on database %I to regress_user1',
+                 current_database());
+end;
+$$;
+
+SET ROLE regress_user1;
+CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;  -- fail
+RESET ROLE;
+
+DO $$
+begin
+  execute format('revoke create on database %I from regress_user1',
+                 current_database());
+end;
+$$;
+
+DROP ROLE regress_user1;
+
 -- Use ONLY plperlu tests here. For plperl/plerlu combined tests
 -- see plperl_plperlu.sql
+CREATE EXTENSION plperlu;
 
 -- This test tests setting on_plperlu_init after loading plperl
 LOAD 'plperl';
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v4 2/8] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2024-10-16 18:21 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2024-10-16 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the kernel is responsible to chose an address, where to place each
shared memory mapping, which is the lowest possible address that do not clash
with any other mappings. This is considered to be the most portable approach,
but one of the downsides is that there is no place to resize allocated mappings
anymore. Here is how it looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps,
/dev/zero represents the anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
    ...
    7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
    7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)

By specifying the mapping address directly it's possible to place the
mapping in a way that leaves room for resizing. The idea is:

* To reserve some address space via mmap'ing a large chunk of memory
  with PROT_NONE and MAP_NORESERVE. This way we prepare a playground for
  preparing shared memory layout without risking anything interfering
  with that.

* To slice the reserved space up into sections, one to use for each
  shared segment.

* Allocate shared memory segments out of corresponding slices and
  leaving unclaimed space in between them. This is implemented via
  mmap'ing memory at a specified address from the reserved space with
  MAP_FIXED.

The result looks like this:

    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved space
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2

Things like address space randomization should not be a problem in this
context, since the randomization is applied to the mmap base, which is
one per process.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21250648 kB
    VmRSS:             22948 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10404 kB
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17637376 (~16.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 284 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..a0f03ff868f 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -108,6 +108,66 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping placing (/dev/zero (deleted) below) looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * ...
+ * 7f471aef2000-7f471aef9000 /dev/shm/PostgreSQL.3859891842
+ * 7f471aef9000-7f471aefa000 /SYSV007dbf7d (deleted)
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We would like to place multiple mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * enough space between them in the address space to be able to resize up to
+ * certain size, but without counting towards the total memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve that we first reserve some shared memory address space by
+ * mmap'ing a segment of MaxAvailableMemory size with PROT_NONE and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE (these flags allow to make sure this space will not be used by
+ * anything else, yet do not count against memory limits). Having the reserved
+ * space, we allocate out of it actual chunks of shared memory as usual,
+ * updating a pointer to the current available reserved space for the next
+ * allocation with the gap between segments in mind.
+ *
+ * The result would look like this:
+ *
+ * 012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
+ * 7f4426f54000-7f442e010000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f442e010000-7f443a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f443a800000-7f444196c000 /dev/zero (deleted)
+ * 7f444196c000-7f470a800000                     # reserved empty space
+ * 7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libicudata.so.74.2
+ * [...]
+ *
+ * The reserved space pointer is calculated to slice up the total reserved
+ * space into fixed fractions of address space for each segment, as specified
+ * in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Offset from the beginning of the reserved space, which indicates currently
+ * available range. New shared memory segments have to be allocated at this
+ * offset related to the reserved space.
+ */
+static Size reserved_offset = 0;
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -626,39 +686,198 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
  * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not switch from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
-CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
+CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping, Pointer base)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
 	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS;
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* ReserveAnonymousMemory should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
 		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
+	}
+#endif
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to create mapping at an address out of the reserved range, which
+	 * will allow to extend it later. Use reserved_offset to allocate the
+	 * segment, then update currently available reserved range.
+	 *
+	 * If the last step has failed, fallback to the regular mapping
+	 * creation and signal that shared buffers could not be resized without
+	 * a restart.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(base + reserved_offset, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
+	mmap_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+		elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) at address %p failed: %m, "
+					 "fallback to the non-resizable allocation",
+			 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize, base + reserved_offset);
+
 		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+						   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
+		mmap_errno = errno;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		Size total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+
+		reserved_offset += total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+	}
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		errno = mmap_errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
+						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
+						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
+						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
+						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
+						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 allocsize) : 0));
+	}
+
+	mapping->shmem = ptr;
+	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+}
+
+/*
+ * ReserveAnonymousMemory
+ *
+ * Reserve shared memory address space, from which shared memory segments are
+ * going to be sliced out. The goal of this exercise is to support segments
+ * resizing, for which we need a reserved space free of potential clashes with
+ * other mmap'd areas that are not under our control. Reservation is done via
+ * mmap, and will not allocate any memory until it will be actually used, and
+ * MAP_NORESERVE allows to make it not counting againt kernel reservation
+ * limits (e.g. in cgroups or for huge pages). Do not get confused because of
+ * MAP_NORESERVE -- we need to reserve some space, but not the actual memory,
+ * and that is that this flag is about.
+ *
+ * Note, that with MAP_NORESERVE a reservation with hugetlb will succeed even
+ * if there is actually not enough huge pages. Hence this function is
+ * responsible for deciding whether to use huge pages or not. To achieve that
+ * we need to probe first and try to allocate needed memory for all segments --
+ * if this succeeds, we unmap the probe segment and use hugetlb; if it fails,
+ * we proceed with the regular memory.
+ */
+void *
+ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size)
+{
+	Size		allocsize = reserve_size;
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 *
+		 * We could actually have a mix and match of segments with and without
+		 * huge pages. But in that case we need to have multiple reservation
+		 * spaces to use corresponding memory (hugetlb adress space reserved
+		 * for hugetlb segments, regular memory for others), and it doesn't
+		 * seem to worth the complexity for now.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
 		mmap_errno = errno;
 		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
 		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+			/* No huge pages, we will go with the regular page size */
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+						 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", total_size);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			/*
+			 * All fine, unmap the temporary segment and proceed with reserving
+			 * using huge pages.
+			 */
+			if (munmap(ptr, total_size) < 0)
+				elog(LOG, "reservice space: munmap(%p, %zu) failed: %m",
+					 ptr, total_size);
+
+			/* Round up the requested size to a suitable large value. */
+			if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
+				allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
+
+			elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+						 allocsize);
+			ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+					   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | mmap_flags,
+					   -1, 0);
+			mmap_errno = errno;
+
+			/* This should not happen, but handle errors anyway */
+			if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+			{
+				elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB "
+							 "failed, huge pages disabled: %m", allocsize);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -666,10 +885,12 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 	/*
 	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
 	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * previously. At this point ptr is either pointing to the probe segment,
+	 * if we couldn't mmap it, or the reservation space.
 	 */
 	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
 					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
 	{
@@ -677,10 +898,11 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
 		 * to non-huge pages.
 		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
+		allocsize = reserve_size;
+
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: mmap(%zu)", allocsize);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_NONE,
+				   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0);
 	}
 
 	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -688,20 +910,18 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
-						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
+				(errmsg("reserving space: could not map anonymous shared "
+						"memory: %m"),
 				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
-						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
-						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
-						 "(currently %zu bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared "
-						 "memory usage, perhaps by reducing \"shared_buffers\" or "
-						 "\"max_connections\".",
+						 "for a reserved shared memory address space exceeded "
+						 "available memory, swap space, or huge pages. To "
+						 "reduce the request reservation size (currently %zu "
+						 "bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's \"maximum_shared_buffers\".",
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
-	mapping->shmem = ptr;
-	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -740,7 +960,7 @@ AnonymousShmemDetach(int status, Datum arg)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	IpcMemoryKey NextShmemSegID;
 	void	   *memAddress;
@@ -760,14 +980,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -782,7 +994,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
 		/* On success, mapping data will be modified. */
-		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping);
+		CreateAnonymousSegment(mapping, base);
 
 		next_free_segment++;
 
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..ce719f1b412 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ EnableLockPagesPrivilege(int elevel)
  */
 PGShmemHeader *
 PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-					 PGShmemHeader **shim)
+					 PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base)
 {
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..076888c0172 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -203,9 +203,12 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 	PGShmemHeader *seghdr;
 	Size		size;
 	int			numSemas;
+	void 		*base;
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	base = ReserveAnonymousMemory((Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ);
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 		 *
 		 * XXX: Do multiple shims are needed, one per segment?
 		 */
-		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim);
+		seghdr = PGSharedMemoryCreate(size, &shim, base);
 
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that huge pages are never reported as "unknown" while the
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index 2152aad97d9..1d42a5856c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 131072;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index 4eaeca89f2c..dede37f7905 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2364,6 +2364,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		131072, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 138078c29c5..4a83e255652 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT ShmemSegment Segments[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -100,10 +101,11 @@ extern void PGSharedMemoryNoReAttach(void);
 #endif
 
 extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
-										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
+										   PGShmemHeader **shim, Pointer base);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
 extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+void *ReserveAnonymousMemory(Size reserve_size);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 213+ messages in thread

From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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* [PATCH v5 05/10] Address space reservation for shared memory
@ 2025-06-17 09:47 Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
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From: Dmitrii Dolgov @ 2025-06-17 09:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

Currently the shared memory layout is designed to pack everything tight
together, leaving no space between mappings for resizing. Here is how it
looks like for one mapping in /proc/$PID/maps, /dev/zero represents the
anonymous shared memory we talk about:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    012d9000-0133e000         [heap]
    7f443a800000-7f470a800000 /dev/zero (deleted)
    7f470a800000-7f471831d000 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7f4718400000-7f4718401000 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
    ...

Make the layout more dynamic via splitting every shared memory segment
into two parts:

* An anonymous file, which actually contains shared memory content. Such
  an anonymous file is created via memfd_create, it lives in memory,
  behaves like a regular file and semantically equivalent to an
  anonymous memory allocated via mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS.

* A reservation mapping, which size is much larger than required shared
  segment size. This mapping is created with flags PROT_NONE (which
  makes sure the reserved space is not used), and MAP_NORESERVE (to not
  count the reserved space against memory limits). The anonymous file is
  mapped into this reservation mapping.

The resulting layout looks like this:

    00400000-00490000         /path/bin/postgres
    ...
    3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 		[heap]
    7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- anon file
    7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted) -- reservation
    7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
    7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34

To resize a shared memory segment in this layout it's possible to use ftruncate
on the anonymous file, adjusting access permissions on the reserved space as
needed.

This approach also do not impact the actual memory usage as reported by
the kernel. Here is the output of /proc/$PID/status for the master
version with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    // Peak virtual memory size, which is described as total pages
    // mapped in mm_struct. It corresponds to the mapped reserved space
    // and is the only number that grows with it.
    VmPeak:          2043192 kB
    // Size of memory portions. It contains RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem
    VmRSS:             22908 kB
    // Size of resident anonymous memory
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    // Size of resident file mappings
    RssFile:           10364 kB
    // Size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, mapping of tmpfs and
    // shared anonymous mappings)
    RssShmem:          11776 kB

Here is the same for the patch when reserving 20GB of space:

    VmPeak:         21255824 kB
    VmRSS:             25020 kB
    RssAnon:             768 kB
    RssFile:           10812 kB
    RssShmem:          13440 kB

Cgroup v2 doesn't have any problems with that as well. To verify a new cgroup
was created with the memory limit 256 MB, then PostgreSQL was launched withing
this cgroup with shared_buffers = 128 MB:

    $ cd /sys/fs/cgroup
    $ mkdir postgres
    $ cd postres
    $ echo 268435456 > memory.max

    $ echo $MASTER_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the master branch has being successfully launched
    #  from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    17465344 (~16.6 MB)
    # stop postgres

    $ echo $PATCH_PID_SHELL > cgroup.procs
    # postgres from the patch has being successfully launched from that shell
    $ cat memory.current
    20770816 (~19.8 MB)

To control the amount of space reserved a new GUC max_available_memory
is introduced. Ideally it should be based on the maximum available
memory, hense the name.

There are also few unrelated advantages of using anon files:

* We've got a file descriptor, which could be used for regular file
  operations (modification, truncation, you name it).

* The file could be given a name, which improves readability when it
  comes to process maps.

* By default, Linux will not add file-backed shared mappings into a core dump,
  making it more convenient to work with them in PostgreSQL: no more huge dumps
  to process.

The downside is that memfd_create is Linux specific.
---
 src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c       | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c      |   2 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c      |   5 +-
 src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c     |   2 +-
 src/backend/utils/init/globals.c    |   1 +
 src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c |  14 ++
 src/include/miscadmin.h             |   1 +
 src/include/portability/mem.h       |   2 +-
 src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h      |   5 +-
 9 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
index 56af0231d24..363ddfd1fca 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@ void	   *UsedShmemSegAddr = NULL;
 typedef struct AnonymousMapping
 {
 	int shmem_segment;
-	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the mapping */
+	Size shmem_size; 			/* Size of the actually used memory */
+	Size shmem_reserved; 		/* Size of the reserved mapping */
 	Pointer shmem; 				/* Pointer to the start of the mapped memory */
 	Pointer seg_addr; 			/* SysV shared memory for the header */
 	unsigned long seg_id; 		/* IPC key */
+	int segment_fd; 			/* fd for the backing anon file */
 } AnonymousMapping;
 
 static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
@@ -108,6 +110,49 @@ static AnonymousMapping Mappings[ANON_MAPPINGS];
 /* Keeps track of used mapping segments */
 static int next_free_segment = 0;
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous mapping layout we use looks like this:
+ *
+ * 00400000-00c2a000 r-xp 			/bin/postgres
+ * ...
+ * 3f526000-3f590000 rw-p 			[heap]
+ * 7fbd827fe000-7fbd8bdde000 rw-s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbd8bdde000-7fbe82800000 ---s 	/memfd:main (deleted)
+ * 7fbe82800000-7fbe90670000 r--p 	/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
+ * 7fbe90800000-7fbe90941000 r-xp 	/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.34
+ * ...
+ *
+ * We need to place shared memory mappings in such a way, that there will be
+ * gaps between them in the address space. Those gaps have to be large enough
+ * to resize the mapping up to certain size, without counting towards the total
+ * memory consumption.
+ *
+ * To achieve this, for each shared memory segment we first create an anonymous
+ * file of specified size using memfd_create, which will accomodate actual
+ * shared memory mapping content. It is represented by the first /memfd:main
+ * with rw permissions. Then we create a mapping for this file using mmap, with
+ * size much larger than required and flags PROT_NONE (allows to make sure the
+ * reserved space will not be used) and MAP_NORESERVE (prevents the space from
+ * being counted against memory limits). The mapping serves as an address space
+ * reservation, into which shared memory segment can be extended and is
+ * represented by the second /memfd:main with no permissions.
+ *
+ * The reserved space for each segment is calculated as a fraction of the total
+ * reserved space (MaxAvailableMemory), as specified in the SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO
+ * array.
+ */
+static double SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[1] = {
+	1.0, 									/* MAIN_SHMEM_SLOT */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flag telling that we have decided to use huge pages.
+ *
+ * XXX: It's possible to use GetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", false, false)
+ * instead, but it feels like an overkill.
+ */
+static bool huge_pages_on = false;
+
 static void *InternalIpcMemoryCreate(IpcMemoryKey memKey, Size size);
 static void IpcMemoryDetach(int status, Datum shmaddr);
 static void IpcMemoryDelete(int status, Datum shmId);
@@ -503,19 +548,20 @@ PGSharedMemoryAttach(IpcMemoryId shmId,
  * hugepage sizes, we might want to think about more invasive strategies,
  * such as increasing shared_buffers to absorb the extra space.
  *
- * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into
- * *hugepagesize, and the hugepage-related mmap flags to use into
- * *mmap_flags if requested by the caller.  If huge pages are not supported,
- * *hugepagesize and *mmap_flags are set to 0.
+ * Returns the (real, assumed or config provided) page size into *hugepagesize,
+ * the hugepage-related mmap and memfd flags to use into *mmap_flags and
+ * *memfd_flags if requested by the caller. If huge pages are not supported,
+ * *hugepagesize, *mmap_flags and *memfd_flags are set to 0.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 #ifdef MAP_HUGETLB
 
 	Size		default_hugepagesize = 0;
 	Size		hugepagesize_local = 0;
 	int			mmap_flags_local = 0;
+	int			memfd_flags_local = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * System-dependent code to find out the default huge page size.
@@ -574,6 +620,7 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	}
 
 	mmap_flags_local = MAP_HUGETLB;
+	memfd_flags_local = MFD_HUGETLB;
 
 	/*
 	 * On recent enough Linux, also include the explicit page size, if
@@ -584,7 +631,16 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 	{
 		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
 
-		mmap_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
+	}
+#endif
+
+#if defined(MFD_HUGE_MASK) && defined(MFD_HUGE_SHIFT)
+	if (hugepagesize_local != default_hugepagesize)
+	{
+		int			shift = pg_ceil_log2_64(hugepagesize_local);
+
+		memfd_flags_local |= (shift & MAP_HUGE_MASK) << MAP_HUGE_SHIFT;
 	}
 #endif
 
@@ -593,6 +649,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = mmap_flags_local;
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = hugepagesize_local;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = memfd_flags_local;
 
 #else
 
@@ -600,6 +658,8 @@ GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
 	if (mmap_flags)
 		*mmap_flags = 0;
+	if (memfd_flags)
+		*memfd_flags = 0;
 
 #endif							/* MAP_HUGETLB */
 }
@@ -625,72 +685,90 @@ check_huge_page_size(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
  * Creates an anonymous mmap()ed shared memory segment.
  *
  * This function will modify mapping size to the actual size of the allocation,
- * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested.
+ * if it ends up allocating a segment that is larger than requested. If needed,
+ * it also rounds up the mapping reserved size to be a multiple of huge page
+ * size.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not fallback from huge pages to regular pages in this
+ * function, this decision was already made in ReserveAnonymousMemory and we
+ * stick to it.
  */
 static void
 CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 {
 	Size		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
 	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
-	int			mmap_errno = 0;
+	int			save_errno = 0;
+	int			mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS, memfd_flags = 0;
+
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: size %zu, reserved %zu",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), mapping->shmem_size,
+		 mapping->shmem_reserved);
 
 #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
-	/* PGSharedMemoryCreate should have dealt with this case */
-	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON);
+	/* PrepareHugePages should have dealt with this case */
+	Assert(huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON && !huge_pages_on);
 #else
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	if (huge_pages_on)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Round up the request size to a suitable large value.
-		 */
 		Size		hugepagesize;
-		int			mmap_flags;
 
-		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags);
+		/* Make sure nothing is messed up */
+		Assert(huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY);
+
+		/* Round up the request size to a suitable large value */
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, &memfd_flags);
 
 		if (allocsize % hugepagesize != 0)
 			allocsize += hugepagesize - (allocsize % hugepagesize);
 
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-		if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY && ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-		{
-			DebugMappings();
-			elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB failed, huge pages disabled: %m",
-				 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
-		}
+		/*
+		 * The reserved space is multiple of BLCKSZ. We know the huge page
+		 * size, round up the reserved space to it.
+		 */
+		mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + hugepagesize -
+			(mapping->shmem_reserved % hugepagesize);
+
+		/* Verify that the new size is withing the reserved boundaries */
+		if (mapping->shmem_reserved < mapping->shmem_size)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES),
+					 errmsg("not enough shared memory is reserved"),
+					 errhint("You may need to increase \"max_available_memory\".")));
+
+		mmap_flags = PG_MMAP_FLAGS | mmap_flags;
 	}
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Report whether huge pages are in use.  This needs to be tracked before
-	 * the second mmap() call if attempting to use huge pages failed
-	 * previously.
+	 * Prepare an anonymous file backing the segment. Its size will be
+	 * specified later via ftruncate.
+	 *
+	 * The file behaves like a regular file, but lives in memory. Once all
+	 * references to the file are dropped,  it is automatically released.
+	 * Anonymous memory is used for all backing pages of the file, thus it has
+	 * the same semantics as anonymous memory allocations using mmap with the
+	 * MAP_ANONYMOUS flag.
 	 */
-	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
-					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	mapping->segment_fd = memfd_create(MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment),
+									   memfd_flags);
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED && huge_pages != HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+	/*
+	 * Specify the segment file size using allocsize, which contains
+	 * potentially modified value.
+	 */
+	if(ftruncate(mapping->segment_fd, allocsize) == -1)
 	{
-		/*
-		 * Use the original size, not the rounded-up value, when falling back
-		 * to non-huge pages.
-		 */
-		allocsize = mapping->shmem_size;
-		ptr = mmap(NULL, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
-		mmap_errno = errno;
-	}
+		save_errno = errno;
 
-	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
-	{
-		errno = mmap_errno;
 		DebugMappings();
+		close(mapping->segment_fd);
+
+		errno = save_errno;
 		ereport(FATAL,
-				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not truncate anonymous file: %m",
 						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment)),
-				 (mmap_errno == ENOMEM) ?
+				 (save_errno == ENOMEM) ?
 				 errhint("This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request "
 						 "for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory, "
 						 "swap space, or huge pages. To reduce the request size "
@@ -700,10 +778,112 @@ CreateAnonymousSegment(AnonymousMapping *mapping)
 						 allocsize) : 0));
 	}
 
+	elog(DEBUG1, "segment[%s]: mmap(%zu)",
+		 MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment), allocsize);
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a reservation mapping.
+	 */
+	ptr = mmap(NULL, mapping->shmem_reserved, PROT_NONE,
+			   mmap_flags | MAP_NORESERVE, mapping->segment_fd, 0);
+	save_errno = errno;
+
+	if (ptr == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not map anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
+	/* Make the memory accessible */
+	if(mprotect(ptr, allocsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) == -1)
+	{
+		save_errno = errno;
+		DebugMappings();
+
+		errno = save_errno;
+		ereport(FATAL,
+				(errmsg("segment[%s]: could not mprotect anonymous shared memory: %m",
+						MappingName(mapping->shmem_segment))));
+	}
+
 	mapping->shmem = ptr;
 	mapping->shmem_size = allocsize;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PrepareHugePages
+ *
+ * Figure out if there are enough huge pages to allocate all shared memory
+ * segments, and report that information via huge_pages_status and
+ * huge_pages_on. It needs to be called before creating shared memory segments.
+ *
+ * It is necessary to maintain the same semantic (simple on/off) for
+ * huge_pages_status, even if there are multiple shared memory segments: all
+ * segments either use huge pages or not, there is no mix of segments with
+ * different page size. The latter might be actually beneficial, in particular
+ * because only some segments may require large amount of memory, but for now
+ * we go with a simple solution.
+ */
+void
+PrepareHugePages()
+{
+	void	   *ptr = MAP_FAILED;
+
+	/* Reset to handle reinitialization */
+	next_free_segment = 0;
+
+	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
+#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
+#else
+	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON || huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_TRY)
+	{
+		Size		hugepagesize, total_size = 0;
+		int			mmap_flags;
+
+		GetHugePageSize(&hugepagesize, &mmap_flags, NULL);
+
+		/*
+		 * Figure out how much memory is needed for all segments, keeping in
+		 * mind that for every segment this value will be rounding up by the
+		 * huge page size. The resulting value will be used to probe memory and
+		 * decide whether we will allocate huge pages or not.
+		 */
+		for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
+		{
+			int	numSemas;
+			Size segment_size = CalculateShmemSize(&numSemas, segment);
+
+			if (segment_size % hugepagesize != 0)
+				segment_size += hugepagesize - (segment_size % hugepagesize);
+
+			total_size += segment_size;
+		}
+
+		/* Map total amount of memory to test its availability. */
+		elog(DEBUG1, "reserving space: probe mmap(%zu) with MAP_HUGETLB",
+					 total_size);
+		ptr = mmap(NULL, total_size, PROT_NONE,
+				   PG_MMAP_FLAGS | MAP_ANONYMOUS | mmap_flags, -1, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Report whether huge pages are in use. This needs to be tracked before
+	 * creating shared memory segments.
+	 */
+	SetConfigOption("huge_pages_status", (ptr == MAP_FAILED) ? "off" : "on",
+					PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT);
+	huge_pages_on = ptr != MAP_FAILED;
+}
+
 /*
  * AnonymousShmemDetach --- detach from an anonymous mmap'd block
  * (called as an on_shmem_exit callback, hence funny argument list)
@@ -746,7 +926,7 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 	void	   *memAddress;
 	PGShmemHeader *hdr;
 	struct stat statbuf;
-	Size		sysvsize;
+	Size		sysvsize, total_reserved;
 	AnonymousMapping *mapping = &Mappings[next_free_segment];
 
 	/*
@@ -760,14 +940,6 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 				 errmsg("could not stat data directory \"%s\": %m",
 						DataDir)));
 
-	/* Complain if hugepages demanded but we can't possibly support them */
-#if !defined(MAP_HUGETLB)
-	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
-				 errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
-#endif
-
 	/* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
 	if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -776,8 +948,16 @@ PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 
 	/* Room for a header? */
 	Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));
+
+	/* Prepare the mapping information */
 	mapping->shmem_size = size;
 	mapping->shmem_segment = next_free_segment;
+	total_reserved = (Size) MaxAvailableMemory * BLCKSZ;
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = total_reserved * SHMEM_RESIZE_RATIO[next_free_segment];
+
+	/* Round up to be a multiple of BLCKSZ */
+	mapping->shmem_reserved = mapping->shmem_reserved + BLCKSZ -
+		(mapping->shmem_reserved % BLCKSZ);
 
 	if (shared_memory_type == SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
 	{
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
index 4dee856d6bd..732fedee87e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion(HANDLE hChild)
  * use GetLargePageMinimum() instead.
  */
 void
-GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags)
+GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags, int *memfd_flags)
 {
 	if (hugepagesize)
 		*hugepagesize = 0;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
index 8b38e985327..b60f7ef9ce2 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores(void)
 
 	Assert(!IsUnderPostmaster);
 
+	/* Decide if we use huge pages or regular size pages */
+	PrepareHugePages();
+
 	for(int segment = 0; segment < ANON_MAPPINGS; segment++)
 	{
 		/* Compute the size of the shared-memory block */
@@ -377,7 +380,7 @@ InitializeShmemGUCs(void)
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the number of huge pages required.
 	 */
-	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL);
+	GetHugePageSize(&hp_size, NULL, NULL);
 	if (hp_size != 0)
 	{
 		Size		hp_required;
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
index 72255a1c5ca..8d025f0e907 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pg_get_shmem_pagesize(void)
 	Assert(huge_pages_status != HUGE_PAGES_UNKNOWN);
 
 	if (huge_pages_status == HUGE_PAGES_ON)
-		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL);
+		GetHugePageSize(&os_page_size, NULL, NULL);
 
 	return os_page_size;
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
index d31cb45a058..90d3feb547c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ int			max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 2;
  * register background workers.
  */
 int			NBuffers = 16384;
+int			MaxAvailableMemory = 524288;
 int			MaxConnections = 100;
 int			max_worker_processes = 8;
 int			max_parallel_workers = 8;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
index f04bfedb2fd..a221e446d6a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,20 @@ struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"max_available_memory", PGC_SIGHUP, RESOURCES_MEM,
+			gettext_noop("Sets the upper limit for the shared_buffers value."),
+			gettext_noop("Shared memory could be resized at runtime, this "
+						 "parameters sets the upper limit for it, beyond which "
+						 "resizing would not be supported. Normally this value "
+						 "would be the same as the total available memory."),
+			GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS
+		},
+		&MaxAvailableMemory,
+		524288, 16, INT_MAX / 2,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	{
 		{"vacuum_buffer_usage_limit", PGC_USERSET, RESOURCES_MEM,
 			gettext_noop("Sets the buffer pool size for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and autovacuum."),
diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 1bef98471c3..a0c37a7749e 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxConnections;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int max_worker_processes;
diff --git a/src/include/portability/mem.h b/src/include/portability/mem.h
index ef9800732d9..40588ff6968 100644
--- a/src/include/portability/mem.h
+++ b/src/include/portability/mem.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #define MAP_NOSYNC			0
 #endif
 
-#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
+#define PG_MMAP_FLAGS			(MAP_SHARED|MAP_HASSEMAPHORE)
 
 /* Some really old systems don't define MAP_FAILED. */
 #ifndef MAP_FAILED
diff --git a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
index 2348c59b5a0..79b0b1ef9eb 100644
--- a/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
+++ b/src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT int shared_memory_type;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_page_size;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int huge_pages_status;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxAvailableMemory;
 
 /* Possible values for huge_pages and huge_pages_status */
 typedef enum
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ extern PGShmemHeader *PGSharedMemoryCreate(Size size,
 										   PGShmemHeader **shim);
 extern bool PGSharedMemoryIsInUse(unsigned long id1, unsigned long id2);
 extern void PGSharedMemoryDetach(void);
-extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags);
+extern void GetHugePageSize(Size *hugepagesize, int *mmap_flags,
+							int *memfd_flags);
+void PrepareHugePages(void);
 
 /* The main segment, contains everything except buffer blocks and related data. */
 #define MAIN_SHMEM_SEGMENT 0
-- 
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