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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:59:53 -0500
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
CC: linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] thp: optimize away unnecessary page table locking
(12/21/11 5:23 PM), Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Currently when we check if we can handle thp as it is or we need to
> split it into regular sized pages, we hold page table lock prior to
> check whether a given pmd is mapping thp or not. Because of this,
> when it's not "huge pmd" we suffer from unnecessary lock/unlock overhead.
> To remove it, this patch introduces a optimized check function and
> replace several similar logics with it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi<n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes<rientjes@...gle.com>
ok, this looks a valuable patch.
> ---
> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 74 ++++++++++------------------
> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 7 +++
> mm/huge_memory.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> mm/mremap.c | 3 +-
> 4 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git 3.2-rc5.orig/fs/proc/task_mmu.c 3.2-rc5/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 0df61ab..3b79dd4 100644
> --- 3.2-rc5.orig/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ 3.2-rc5/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -394,20 +394,12 @@ static int smaps_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> pte_t *pte;
> spinlock_t *ptl;
>
> - spin_lock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
> - if (pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd)) {
> - spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> - } else {
> - smaps_pte_entry(*(pte_t *)pmd, addr,
> - HPAGE_PMD_SIZE, walk);
> - spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - mss->anonymous_thp += HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
> - return 0;
> - }
> - } else {
> + if (check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd, vma)) {
> + smaps_pte_entry(*(pte_t *)pmd, addr,
> + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE, walk);
> spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> + mss->anonymous_thp += HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
> + return 0;
> }
> /*
> * The mmap_sem held all the way back in m_start() is what
> @@ -689,26 +681,19 @@ static int pagemap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> /* find the first VMA at or above 'addr' */
> vma = find_vma(walk->mm, addr);
>
> - spin_lock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
> - if (pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd)) {
> - spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> - } else {
> - for (; addr != end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> - int offset = (addr& ~PAGEMAP_WALK_MASK)
> - >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> - pfn = thp_pte_to_pagemap_entry(*(pte_t *)pmd,
> - offset);
> - err = add_to_pagemap(addr, pfn, pm);
> - if (err)
> - break;
> - }
> - spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - return err;
> + /* David comment */
This commnet doesn't explain anything.
> + if (check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd, vma)) {
> + for (; addr != end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> + int offset = (addr& ~PAGEMAP_WALK_MASK)
> + >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> + pfn = thp_pte_to_pagemap_entry(*(pte_t *)pmd,
> + offset);
> + err = add_to_pagemap(addr, pfn, pm);
> + if (err)
> + break;
> }
> - } else {
> spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> + return err;
> }
>
> for (; addr != end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> @@ -975,24 +960,17 @@ static int gather_pte_stats(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> pte_t *pte;
>
> md = walk->private;
> - spin_lock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
> - if (pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd)) {
> - spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - wait_split_huge_page(md->vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> - } else {
> - pte_t huge_pte = *(pte_t *)pmd;
> - struct page *page;
> -
> - page = can_gather_numa_stats(huge_pte, md->vma, addr);
> - if (page)
> - gather_stats(page, md, pte_dirty(huge_pte),
> - HPAGE_PMD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE);
> - spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> - return 0;
> - }
> - } else {
> +
> + if (check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd, md->vma)) {
> + pte_t huge_pte = *(pte_t *)pmd;
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + page = can_gather_numa_stats(huge_pte, md->vma, addr);
> + if (page)
> + gather_stats(page, md, pte_dirty(huge_pte),
> + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE);
> spin_unlock(&walk->mm->page_table_lock);
> + return 0;
> }
>
> orig_pte = pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr,&ptl);
> diff --git 3.2-rc5.orig/include/linux/huge_mm.h 3.2-rc5/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> index a9ace9c..477c8e3 100644
> --- 3.2-rc5.orig/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> +++ 3.2-rc5/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ extern void __vma_adjust_trans_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long start,
> unsigned long end,
> long adjust_next);
> +extern int check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd,
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma);
> static inline void vma_adjust_trans_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long start,
> unsigned long end,
> @@ -176,6 +178,11 @@ static inline void vma_adjust_trans_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> long adjust_next)
> {
> }
> +static inline int check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd,
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
> #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
>
> #endif /* _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H */
> diff --git 3.2-rc5.orig/mm/huge_memory.c 3.2-rc5/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 36b3d98..b73c744 100644
> --- 3.2-rc5.orig/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ 3.2-rc5/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -1001,29 +1001,21 @@ int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> {
> int ret = 0;
>
> - spin_lock(&tlb->mm->page_table_lock);
> - if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
> - if (unlikely(pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd))) {
> - spin_unlock(&tlb->mm->page_table_lock);
> - wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma,
> - pmd);
> - } else {
> - struct page *page;
> - pgtable_t pgtable;
> - pgtable = get_pmd_huge_pte(tlb->mm);
> - page = pmd_page(*pmd);
> - pmd_clear(pmd);
> - page_remove_rmap(page);
> - VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page)< 0);
> - add_mm_counter(tlb->mm, MM_ANONPAGES, -HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> - VM_BUG_ON(!PageHead(page));
> - spin_unlock(&tlb->mm->page_table_lock);
> - tlb_remove_page(tlb, page);
> - pte_free(tlb->mm, pgtable);
> - ret = 1;
> - }
> - } else
> + if (likely(check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd, vma))) {
> + struct page *page;
> + pgtable_t pgtable;
> + pgtable = get_pmd_huge_pte(tlb->mm);
> + page = pmd_page(*pmd);
> + pmd_clear(pmd);
> + page_remove_rmap(page);
> + VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page)< 0);
> + add_mm_counter(tlb->mm, MM_ANONPAGES, -HPAGE_PMD_NR);
> + VM_BUG_ON(!PageHead(page));
> spin_unlock(&tlb->mm->page_table_lock);
> + tlb_remove_page(tlb, page);
> + pte_free(tlb->mm, pgtable);
> + ret = 1;
> + }
>
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -1034,21 +1026,14 @@ int mincore_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
> {
> int ret = 0;
>
> - spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> - if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
> - ret = !pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd);
> - spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> - if (unlikely(!ret))
> - wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> - else {
> - /*
> - * All logical pages in the range are present
> - * if backed by a huge page.
> - */
> - memset(vec, 1, (end - addr)>> PAGE_SHIFT);
> - }
> - } else
> + if (likely(check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd, vma))) {
> + /*
> + * All logical pages in the range are present
> + * if backed by a huge page.
> + */
> spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> + memset(vec, 1, (end - addr)>> PAGE_SHIFT);
> + }
>
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -1078,21 +1063,12 @@ int move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
> goto out;
> }
>
> - spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> - if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*old_pmd))) {
> - if (pmd_trans_splitting(*old_pmd)) {
> - spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> - wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, old_pmd);
> - ret = -1;
> - } else {
> - pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pmd);
> - VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));
> - set_pmd_at(mm, new_addr, new_pmd, pmd);
> - spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> - ret = 1;
> - }
> - } else {
> + if (likely(check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(old_pmd, vma))) {
> + pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pmd);
> + VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));
> + set_pmd_at(mm, new_addr, new_pmd, pmd);
> spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> + ret = 1;
> }
> out:
> return ret;
> @@ -1104,27 +1080,45 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
> struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
> int ret = 0;
>
> - spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> - if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
> - if (unlikely(pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd))) {
> - spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> - wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> - } else {
> - pmd_t entry;
> + if (likely(check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd, vma))) {
> + pmd_t entry;
>
> - entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
> - entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
> - set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
> - spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> - flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
> - ret = 1;
> - }
> - } else
> + entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
> + entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
> + set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
> spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> + flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
> + ret = 1;
> + }
>
> return ret;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Returns 1 if a given pmd is mapping a thp and stable (not under splitting.)
> + * Returns 0 otherwise. Note that if it returns 1, this routine returns without
> + * unlocking page table locks. So callers must unlock them.
> + */
> +int check_and_wait_split_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
We always should avoid a name of "check". It doesn't explain what the
function does.
> +{
VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(vma->mm)) here?
> + if (!pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))
> + return 0;
> +
> + spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> + if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
> + if (pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd)) {
> + spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> + wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> + } else {
> + /* Thp mapped by 'pmd' is stable, so we can
> + * handle it as it is. */
> + return 1;
> + }
> + }
> + spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> pmd_t *page_check_address_pmd(struct page *page,
> struct mm_struct *mm,
> unsigned long address,
> diff --git 3.2-rc5.orig/mm/mremap.c 3.2-rc5/mm/mremap.c
> index d6959cb..d534668 100644
> --- 3.2-rc5.orig/mm/mremap.c
> +++ 3.2-rc5/mm/mremap.c
> @@ -155,9 +155,8 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> if (err> 0) {
> need_flush = true;
> continue;
> - } else if (!err) {
> - split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, old_pmd);
> }
> + split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, old_pmd);
unrelated hunk?
> VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*old_pmd));
> }
> if (pmd_none(*new_pmd)&& __pte_alloc(new_vma->vm_mm, new_vma,
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