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* [PATCH v21 1/8] Row pattern recognition patch for raw parser.
@ 2024-08-26 04:32 Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
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From: Tatsuo Ishii @ 2024-08-26 04:32 UTC (permalink / raw)

---
 src/backend/parser/gram.y       | 221 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h  |  67 ++++++++++
 src/include/parser/kwlist.h     |   8 ++
 src/include/parser/parse_node.h |   1 +
 4 files changed, 286 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/parser/gram.y b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
index 84cef57a70..a8130da934 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -676,6 +676,21 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
 				json_object_constructor_null_clause_opt
 				json_array_constructor_null_clause_opt
 
+%type <target>	row_pattern_measure_item
+				row_pattern_definition
+%type <node>	opt_row_pattern_common_syntax
+				opt_row_pattern_skip_to
+				row_pattern_subset_item
+				row_pattern_term
+%type <list>	opt_row_pattern_measures
+				row_pattern_measure_list
+				row_pattern_definition_list
+				opt_row_pattern_subset_clause
+				row_pattern_subset_list
+				row_pattern_subset_rhs
+				row_pattern
+%type <boolean>	opt_row_pattern_initial_or_seek
+				first_or_last
 
 /*
  * Non-keyword token types.  These are hard-wired into the "flex" lexer.
@@ -719,7 +734,7 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
 	CURRENT_TIME CURRENT_TIMESTAMP CURRENT_USER CURSOR CYCLE
 
 	DATA_P DATABASE DAY_P DEALLOCATE DEC DECIMAL_P DECLARE DEFAULT DEFAULTS
-	DEFERRABLE DEFERRED DEFINER DELETE_P DELIMITER DELIMITERS DEPENDS DEPTH DESC
+	DEFERRABLE DEFERRED DEFINE DEFINER DELETE_P DELIMITER DELIMITERS DEPENDS DEPTH DESC
 	DETACH DICTIONARY DISABLE_P DISCARD DISTINCT DO DOCUMENT_P DOMAIN_P
 	DOUBLE_P DROP
 
@@ -735,7 +750,7 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
 	HANDLER HAVING HEADER_P HOLD HOUR_P
 
 	IDENTITY_P IF_P ILIKE IMMEDIATE IMMUTABLE IMPLICIT_P IMPORT_P IN_P INCLUDE
-	INCLUDING INCREMENT INDENT INDEX INDEXES INHERIT INHERITS INITIALLY INLINE_P
+	INCLUDING INCREMENT INDENT INDEX INDEXES INHERIT INHERITS INITIAL INITIALLY INLINE_P
 	INNER_P INOUT INPUT_P INSENSITIVE INSERT INSTEAD INT_P INTEGER
 	INTERSECT INTERVAL INTO INVOKER IS ISNULL ISOLATION
 
@@ -748,7 +763,7 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
 	LEADING LEAKPROOF LEAST LEFT LEVEL LIKE LIMIT LISTEN LOAD LOCAL
 	LOCALTIME LOCALTIMESTAMP LOCATION LOCK_P LOCKED LOGGED
 
-	MAPPING MATCH MATCHED MATERIALIZED MAXVALUE MERGE MERGE_ACTION METHOD
+	MAPPING MATCH MATCHED MATERIALIZED MAXVALUE MEASURES MERGE MERGE_ACTION METHOD
 	MINUTE_P MINVALUE MODE MONTH_P MOVE
 
 	NAME_P NAMES NATIONAL NATURAL NCHAR NESTED NEW NEXT NFC NFD NFKC NFKD NO
@@ -760,8 +775,9 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
 	ORDER ORDINALITY OTHERS OUT_P OUTER_P
 	OVER OVERLAPS OVERLAY OVERRIDING OWNED OWNER
 
-	PARALLEL PARAMETER PARSER PARTIAL PARTITION PASSING PASSWORD PATH
-	PLACING PLAN PLANS POLICY
+	PARALLEL PARAMETER PARSER PARTIAL PARTITION PASSING PASSWORD PAST
+	PATH PATTERN_P PERMUTE PLACING PLAN PLANS POLICY
+
 	POSITION PRECEDING PRECISION PRESERVE PREPARE PREPARED PRIMARY
 	PRIOR PRIVILEGES PROCEDURAL PROCEDURE PROCEDURES PROGRAM PUBLICATION
 
@@ -772,12 +788,13 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
 	RESET RESTART RESTRICT RETURN RETURNING RETURNS REVOKE RIGHT ROLE ROLLBACK ROLLUP
 	ROUTINE ROUTINES ROW ROWS RULE
 
-	SAVEPOINT SCALAR SCHEMA SCHEMAS SCROLL SEARCH SECOND_P SECURITY SELECT
+	SAVEPOINT SCALAR SCHEMA SCHEMAS SCROLL SEARCH SECOND_P SECURITY SEEK SELECT
 	SEQUENCE SEQUENCES
+
 	SERIALIZABLE SERVER SESSION SESSION_USER SET SETS SETOF SHARE SHOW
 	SIMILAR SIMPLE SKIP SMALLINT SNAPSHOT SOME SOURCE SQL_P STABLE STANDALONE_P
 	START STATEMENT STATISTICS STDIN STDOUT STORAGE STORED STRICT_P STRING_P STRIP_P
-	SUBSCRIPTION SUBSTRING SUPPORT SYMMETRIC SYSID SYSTEM_P SYSTEM_USER
+	SUBSCRIPTION SUBSET SUBSTRING SUPPORT SYMMETRIC SYSID SYSTEM_P SYSTEM_USER
 
 	TABLE TABLES TABLESAMPLE TABLESPACE TARGET TEMP TEMPLATE TEMPORARY TEXT_P THEN
 	TIES TIME TIMESTAMP TO TRAILING TRANSACTION TRANSFORM
@@ -886,6 +903,7 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
 %nonassoc	UNBOUNDED NESTED /* ideally would have same precedence as IDENT */
 %nonassoc	IDENT PARTITION RANGE ROWS GROUPS PRECEDING FOLLOWING CUBE ROLLUP
 			SET KEYS OBJECT_P SCALAR VALUE_P WITH WITHOUT PATH
+			MEASURES AFTER INITIAL SEEK PATTERN_P
 %left		Op OPERATOR		/* multi-character ops and user-defined operators */
 %left		'+' '-'
 %left		'*' '/' '%'
@@ -16217,7 +16235,8 @@ over_clause: OVER window_specification
 		;
 
 window_specification: '(' opt_existing_window_name opt_partition_clause
-						opt_sort_clause opt_frame_clause ')'
+						opt_sort_clause opt_row_pattern_measures opt_frame_clause
+						opt_row_pattern_common_syntax ')'
 				{
 					WindowDef  *n = makeNode(WindowDef);
 
@@ -16225,10 +16244,12 @@ window_specification: '(' opt_existing_window_name opt_partition_clause
 					n->refname = $2;
 					n->partitionClause = $3;
 					n->orderClause = $4;
+					n->rowPatternMeasures = $5;
 					/* copy relevant fields of opt_frame_clause */
-					n->frameOptions = $5->frameOptions;
-					n->startOffset = $5->startOffset;
-					n->endOffset = $5->endOffset;
+					n->frameOptions = $6->frameOptions;
+					n->startOffset = $6->startOffset;
+					n->endOffset = $6->endOffset;
+					n->rpCommonSyntax = (RPCommonSyntax *)$7;
 					n->location = @1;
 					$$ = n;
 				}
@@ -16252,6 +16273,31 @@ opt_partition_clause: PARTITION BY expr_list		{ $$ = $3; }
 			| /*EMPTY*/								{ $$ = NIL; }
 		;
 
+/*
+ * ROW PATTERN_P MEASURES
+ */
+opt_row_pattern_measures: MEASURES row_pattern_measure_list	{ $$ = $2; }
+			| /*EMPTY*/								{ $$ = NIL; }
+		;
+
+row_pattern_measure_list:
+			row_pattern_measure_item
+					{ $$ = list_make1($1); }
+			| row_pattern_measure_list ',' row_pattern_measure_item
+					{ $$ = lappend($1, $3); }
+		;
+
+row_pattern_measure_item:
+			a_expr AS ColLabel
+				{
+					$$ = makeNode(ResTarget);
+					$$->name = $3;
+					$$->indirection = NIL;
+					$$->val = (Node *) $1;
+					$$->location = @1;
+				}
+		;
+
 /*
  * For frame clauses, we return a WindowDef, but only some fields are used:
  * frameOptions, startOffset, and endOffset.
@@ -16411,6 +16457,143 @@ opt_window_exclusion_clause:
 			| /*EMPTY*/				{ $$ = 0; }
 		;
 
+opt_row_pattern_common_syntax:
+opt_row_pattern_skip_to opt_row_pattern_initial_or_seek
+				PATTERN_P '(' row_pattern ')'
+				opt_row_pattern_subset_clause
+				DEFINE row_pattern_definition_list
+			{
+				RPCommonSyntax *n = makeNode(RPCommonSyntax);
+				n->rpSkipTo = ((RPCommonSyntax *)$1)->rpSkipTo;
+				n->rpSkipVariable = ((RPCommonSyntax *)$1)->rpSkipVariable;
+				n->initial = $2;
+				n->rpPatterns = $5;
+				n->rpSubsetClause = $7;
+				n->rpDefs = $9;
+				$$ = (Node *) n;
+			}
+			| /*EMPTY*/		{ $$ = NULL; }
+	;
+
+opt_row_pattern_skip_to:
+			AFTER MATCH SKIP TO NEXT ROW
+				{
+					RPCommonSyntax *n = makeNode(RPCommonSyntax);
+					n->rpSkipTo = ST_NEXT_ROW;
+					n->rpSkipVariable = NULL;
+					$$ = (Node *) n;
+			}
+			| AFTER MATCH SKIP PAST LAST_P ROW
+				{
+					RPCommonSyntax *n = makeNode(RPCommonSyntax);
+					n->rpSkipTo = ST_PAST_LAST_ROW;
+					n->rpSkipVariable = NULL;
+					$$ = (Node *) n;
+				}
+			| AFTER MATCH SKIP TO first_or_last ColId
+				{
+					RPCommonSyntax *n = makeNode(RPCommonSyntax);
+					n->rpSkipTo = $5? ST_FIRST_VARIABLE : ST_LAST_VARIABLE;
+					n->rpSkipVariable = $6;
+					$$ = (Node *) n;
+				}
+/*
+			| AFTER MATCH SKIP TO LAST_P ColId		%prec LAST_P
+				{
+					RPCommonSyntax *n = makeNode(RPCommonSyntax);
+					n->rpSkipTo = ST_LAST_VARIABLE;
+					n->rpSkipVariable = $6;
+					$$ = n;
+				}
+			| AFTER MATCH SKIP TO ColId
+				{
+					RPCommonSyntax *n = makeNode(RPCommonSyntax);
+					n->rpSkipTo = ST_VARIABLE;
+					n->rpSkipVariable = $5;
+					$$ = n;
+				}
+*/
+			| /*EMPTY*/
+				{
+					RPCommonSyntax *n = makeNode(RPCommonSyntax);
+					/* temporary set default to ST_NEXT_ROW */
+					n->rpSkipTo = ST_PAST_LAST_ROW;
+					n->rpSkipVariable = NULL;
+					$$ = (Node *) n;
+				}
+	;
+
+first_or_last:
+			FIRST_P		{ $$ = true; }
+			| LAST_P	{ $$ = false; }
+	;
+
+opt_row_pattern_initial_or_seek:
+			INITIAL			{ $$ = true; }
+			| SEEK
+				{
+					ereport(ERROR,
+							(errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
+							 errmsg("SEEK is not supported"),
+							 errhint("Use INITIAL."),
+							 parser_errposition(@1)));
+				}
+			| /*EMPTY*/		{ $$ = true; }
+		;
+
+row_pattern:
+			row_pattern_term							{ $$ = list_make1($1); }
+			| row_pattern row_pattern_term				{ $$ = lappend($1, $2); }
+		;
+
+row_pattern_term:
+			ColId	{ $$ = (Node *) makeSimpleA_Expr(AEXPR_OP, "", (Node *)makeString($1), NULL, @1); }
+			| ColId '*'	{ $$ = (Node *) makeSimpleA_Expr(AEXPR_OP, "*", (Node *)makeString($1), NULL, @1); }
+			| ColId '+'	{ $$ = (Node *) makeSimpleA_Expr(AEXPR_OP, "+", (Node *)makeString($1), NULL, @1); }
+			| ColId '?'	{ $$ = (Node *) makeSimpleA_Expr(AEXPR_OP, "?", (Node *)makeString($1), NULL, @1); }
+		;
+
+opt_row_pattern_subset_clause:
+			SUBSET row_pattern_subset_list	{ $$ = $2; }
+			| /*EMPTY*/												{ $$ = NIL; }
+		;
+
+row_pattern_subset_list:
+			row_pattern_subset_item									{ $$ = list_make1($1); }
+			| row_pattern_subset_list ',' row_pattern_subset_item	{ $$ = lappend($1, $3); }
+			| /*EMPTY*/												{ $$ = NIL; }
+		;
+
+row_pattern_subset_item: ColId '=' '(' row_pattern_subset_rhs ')'
+			{
+				RPSubsetItem *n = makeNode(RPSubsetItem);
+				n->name = $1;
+				n->rhsVariable = $4;
+				$$ = (Node *) n;
+			}
+		;
+
+row_pattern_subset_rhs:
+			ColId								{ $$ = list_make1(makeStringConst($1, @1)); }
+			| row_pattern_subset_rhs ',' ColId	{ $$ = lappend($1, makeStringConst($3, @1)); }
+			| /*EMPTY*/							{ $$ = NIL; }
+		;
+
+row_pattern_definition_list:
+			row_pattern_definition										{ $$ = list_make1($1); }
+			| row_pattern_definition_list ',' row_pattern_definition	{ $$ = lappend($1, $3); }
+		;
+
+row_pattern_definition:
+			ColId AS a_expr
+				{
+					$$ = makeNode(ResTarget);
+					$$->name = $1;
+					$$->indirection = NIL;
+					$$->val = (Node *) $3;
+					$$->location = @1;
+				}
+		;
 
 /*
  * Supporting nonterminals for expressions.
@@ -17621,6 +17804,7 @@ unreserved_keyword:
 			| INDEXES
 			| INHERIT
 			| INHERITS
+			| INITIAL
 			| INLINE_P
 			| INPUT_P
 			| INSENSITIVE
@@ -17649,6 +17833,7 @@ unreserved_keyword:
 			| MATCHED
 			| MATERIALIZED
 			| MAXVALUE
+			| MEASURES
 			| MERGE
 			| METHOD
 			| MINUTE_P
@@ -17693,7 +17878,10 @@ unreserved_keyword:
 			| PARTITION
 			| PASSING
 			| PASSWORD
+			| PAST
 			| PATH
+			| PATTERN_P
+			| PERMUTE
 			| PLAN
 			| PLANS
 			| POLICY
@@ -17745,6 +17933,7 @@ unreserved_keyword:
 			| SEARCH
 			| SECOND_P
 			| SECURITY
+			| SEEK
 			| SEQUENCE
 			| SEQUENCES
 			| SERIALIZABLE
@@ -17772,6 +17961,7 @@ unreserved_keyword:
 			| STRING_P
 			| STRIP_P
 			| SUBSCRIPTION
+			| SUBSET
 			| SUPPORT
 			| SYSID
 			| SYSTEM_P
@@ -17966,6 +18156,7 @@ reserved_keyword:
 			| CURRENT_USER
 			| DEFAULT
 			| DEFERRABLE
+			| DEFINE
 			| DESC
 			| DISTINCT
 			| DO
@@ -18129,6 +18320,7 @@ bare_label_keyword:
 			| DEFAULTS
 			| DEFERRABLE
 			| DEFERRED
+			| DEFINE
 			| DEFINER
 			| DELETE_P
 			| DELIMITER
@@ -18206,6 +18398,7 @@ bare_label_keyword:
 			| INDEXES
 			| INHERIT
 			| INHERITS
+			| INITIAL
 			| INITIALLY
 			| INLINE_P
 			| INNER_P
@@ -18260,6 +18453,7 @@ bare_label_keyword:
 			| MATCHED
 			| MATERIALIZED
 			| MAXVALUE
+			| MEASURES
 			| MERGE
 			| MERGE_ACTION
 			| METHOD
@@ -18316,7 +18510,10 @@ bare_label_keyword:
 			| PARTITION
 			| PASSING
 			| PASSWORD
+			| PAST
 			| PATH
+			| PATTERN_P
+			| PERMUTE
 			| PLACING
 			| PLAN
 			| PLANS
@@ -18374,6 +18571,7 @@ bare_label_keyword:
 			| SCROLL
 			| SEARCH
 			| SECURITY
+			| SEEK
 			| SELECT
 			| SEQUENCE
 			| SEQUENCES
@@ -18407,6 +18605,7 @@ bare_label_keyword:
 			| STRING_P
 			| STRIP_P
 			| SUBSCRIPTION
+			| SUBSET
 			| SUBSTRING
 			| SUPPORT
 			| SYMMETRIC
diff --git a/src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h b/src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
index 124d853e49..ea4901ed1e 100644
--- a/src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
+++ b/src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
@@ -550,6 +550,48 @@ typedef struct SortBy
 	ParseLoc	location;		/* operator location, or -1 if none/unknown */
 } SortBy;
 
+/*
+ * AFTER MATCH row pattern skip to types in row pattern common syntax
+ */
+typedef enum RPSkipTo
+{
+	ST_NONE,					/* AFTER MATCH omitted */
+	ST_NEXT_ROW,				/* SKIP TO NEXT ROW */
+	ST_PAST_LAST_ROW,			/* SKIP TO PAST LAST ROW */
+	ST_FIRST_VARIABLE,			/* SKIP TO FIRST variable name */
+	ST_LAST_VARIABLE,			/* SKIP TO LAST variable name */
+	ST_VARIABLE					/* SKIP TO variable name */
+}			RPSkipTo;
+
+/*
+ * Row Pattern SUBSET clause item
+ */
+typedef struct RPSubsetItem
+{
+	NodeTag		type;
+	char	   *name;			/* Row Pattern SUBSET clause variable name */
+	List	   *rhsVariable;	/* Row Pattern SUBSET rhs variables (list of
+								 * char *string) */
+}			RPSubsetItem;
+
+/*
+ * RowPatternCommonSyntax - raw representation of row pattern common syntax
+ *
+ */
+typedef struct RPCommonSyntax
+{
+	NodeTag		type;
+	RPSkipTo	rpSkipTo;		/* Row Pattern AFTER MATCH SKIP type */
+	char	   *rpSkipVariable; /* Row Pattern Skip To variable name, if any */
+	bool		initial;		/* true if <row pattern initial or seek> is
+								 * initial */
+	List	   *rpPatterns;		/* PATTERN variables (list of A_Expr) */
+	List	   *rpSubsetClause; /* row pattern subset clause (list of
+								 * RPSubsetItem), if any */
+	List	   *rpDefs;			/* row pattern definitions clause (list of
+								 * ResTarget) */
+}			RPCommonSyntax;
+
 /*
  * WindowDef - raw representation of WINDOW and OVER clauses
  *
@@ -565,6 +607,9 @@ typedef struct WindowDef
 	char	   *refname;		/* referenced window name, if any */
 	List	   *partitionClause;	/* PARTITION BY expression list */
 	List	   *orderClause;	/* ORDER BY (list of SortBy) */
+	List	   *rowPatternMeasures; /* row pattern measures (list of
+									 * ResTarget) */
+	RPCommonSyntax *rpCommonSyntax; /* row pattern common syntax */
 	int			frameOptions;	/* frame_clause options, see below */
 	Node	   *startOffset;	/* expression for starting bound, if any */
 	Node	   *endOffset;		/* expression for ending bound, if any */
@@ -1520,6 +1565,11 @@ typedef struct GroupingSet
  * the orderClause might or might not be copied (see copiedOrder); the framing
  * options are never copied, per spec.
  *
+ * "defineClause" is Row Pattern Recognition DEFINE clause (list of
+ * TargetEntry). TargetEntry.resname represents row pattern definition
+ * variable name. "patternVariable" and "patternRegexp" represents PATTERN
+ * clause.
+ *
  * The information relevant for the query jumbling is the partition clause
  * type and its bounds.
  */
@@ -1549,6 +1599,23 @@ typedef struct WindowClause
 	Index		winref;			/* ID referenced by window functions */
 	/* did we copy orderClause from refname? */
 	bool		copiedOrder pg_node_attr(query_jumble_ignore);
+	/* Row Pattern AFTER MACH SKIP clause */
+	RPSkipTo	rpSkipTo;		/* Row Pattern Skip To type */
+	char	   *rpSkipVariable; /* Row Pattern Skip To variable */
+	bool		initial;		/* true if <row pattern initial or seek> is
+								 * initial */
+	/* Row Pattern DEFINE clause (list of TargetEntry) */
+	List	   *defineClause;
+	/* Row Pattern DEFINE variable initial names (list of String) */
+	List	   *defineInitial;
+	/* Row Pattern PATTERN variable name (list of String) */
+	List	   *patternVariable;
+
+	/*
+	 * Row Pattern PATTERN regular expression quantifier ('+' or ''. list of
+	 * String)
+	 */
+	List	   *patternRegexp;
 } WindowClause;
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/include/parser/kwlist.h b/src/include/parser/kwlist.h
index f8659078ce..f1af381718 100644
--- a/src/include/parser/kwlist.h
+++ b/src/include/parser/kwlist.h
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ PG_KEYWORD("default", DEFAULT, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("defaults", DEFAULTS, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("deferrable", DEFERRABLE, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("deferred", DEFERRED, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
+PG_KEYWORD("define", DEFINE, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("definer", DEFINER, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("delete", DELETE_P, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("delimiter", DELIMITER, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
@@ -215,6 +216,7 @@ PG_KEYWORD("index", INDEX, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("indexes", INDEXES, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("inherit", INHERIT, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("inherits", INHERITS, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
+PG_KEYWORD("initial", INITIAL, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("initially", INITIALLY, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("inline", INLINE_P, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("inner", INNER_P, TYPE_FUNC_NAME_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
@@ -273,6 +275,7 @@ PG_KEYWORD("match", MATCH, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("matched", MATCHED, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("materialized", MATERIALIZED, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("maxvalue", MAXVALUE, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
+PG_KEYWORD("measures", MEASURES, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("merge", MERGE, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("merge_action", MERGE_ACTION, COL_NAME_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("method", METHOD, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
@@ -337,7 +340,10 @@ PG_KEYWORD("partial", PARTIAL, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("partition", PARTITION, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("passing", PASSING, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("password", PASSWORD, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
+PG_KEYWORD("past", PAST, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("path", PATH, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
+PG_KEYWORD("pattern", PATTERN_P, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
+PG_KEYWORD("permute", PERMUTE, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("placing", PLACING, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("plan", PLAN, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("plans", PLANS, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
@@ -398,6 +404,7 @@ PG_KEYWORD("scroll", SCROLL, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("search", SEARCH, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("second", SECOND_P, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, AS_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("security", SECURITY, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
+PG_KEYWORD("seek", SEEK, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("select", SELECT, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("sequence", SEQUENCE, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("sequences", SEQUENCES, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
@@ -431,6 +438,7 @@ PG_KEYWORD("strict", STRICT_P, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("string", STRING_P, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("strip", STRIP_P, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("subscription", SUBSCRIPTION, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
+PG_KEYWORD("subset", SUBSET, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("substring", SUBSTRING, COL_NAME_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("support", SUPPORT, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
 PG_KEYWORD("symmetric", SYMMETRIC, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
diff --git a/src/include/parser/parse_node.h b/src/include/parser/parse_node.h
index 5b781d87a9..66935afff8 100644
--- a/src/include/parser/parse_node.h
+++ b/src/include/parser/parse_node.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ typedef enum ParseExprKind
 	EXPR_KIND_WINDOW_FRAME_RANGE,	/* window frame clause with RANGE */
 	EXPR_KIND_WINDOW_FRAME_ROWS,	/* window frame clause with ROWS */
 	EXPR_KIND_WINDOW_FRAME_GROUPS,	/* window frame clause with GROUPS */
+	EXPR_KIND_RPR_DEFINE,		/* DEFINE */
 	EXPR_KIND_SELECT_TARGET,	/* SELECT target list item */
 	EXPR_KIND_INSERT_TARGET,	/* INSERT target list item */
 	EXPR_KIND_UPDATE_SOURCE,	/* UPDATE assignment source item */
-- 
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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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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* [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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