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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:15:34 -0800
From: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, 
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, 
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP boundaries

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 4:11 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 4:09 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...glecom> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 4:07 PM Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:09 AM Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 16. 01. 24, 12:53, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > On 09. 08. 22, 20:24, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > > >> Align larger anonymous memory mappings on THP boundaries by
> > > > >> going through thp_get_unmapped_area if THPs are enabled for
> > > > >> the current process.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> With this patch, larger anonymous mappings are now THP aligned.
> > > > >> When a malloc library allocates a 2MB or larger arena, that
> > > > >> arena can now be mapped with THPs right from the start, which
> > > > >> can result in better TLB hit rates and execution time.
> > > > >
> > > > > This appears to break 32bit processes on x86_64 (at least). In
> > > > > particular, 32bit kernel or firefox builds in our build system.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reverting this on top of 6.7 makes it work again.
> > > > >
> > > > > Downstream report:
> > > > >   https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218841
> > > > >
> > > > > So running:
> > > > > pahole -J --btf_gen_floats -j --lang_exclude=rust
> > > > > --skip_encoding_btf_inconsistent_proto --btf_gen_optimized .tmp_vmlinux.btf
> > > > >
> > > > > crashes or errors out with some random errors:
> > > > > [182671] STRUCT idr's field 'idr_next' offset=128 bit_size=0 type=181346
> > > > > Error emitting field
> > > > >
> > > > > strace shows mmap() fails with ENOMEM right before the errors:
> > > > > 1223  mmap2(NULL, 5783552, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> > > > > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0 <unfinished ...>
> > > > > ...
> > > > > 1223  <... mmap2 resumed>)              = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate
> > > > > memory)
> > > > >
> > > > > Note the .tmp_vmlinux.btf above can be arbitrary, but likely large
> > > > > enough. For reference, one is available at:
> > > > > https://decibel.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/n/btf
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > This works around the problem, of course (but is a band-aid, not a fix):
> > > >
> > > > --- a/mm/mmap.c
> > > > +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> > > > @@ -1829,7 +1829,7 @@ get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long
> > > > addr, unsigned long len,
> > > >                   */
> > > >                  pgoff = 0;
> > > >                  get_area = shmem_get_unmapped_area;
> > > > -       } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)) {
> > > > +       } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) &&
> > > > !in_32bit_syscall()) {
> > > >                  /* Ensures that larger anonymous mappings are THP
> > > > aligned. */
> > > >                  get_area = thp_get_unmapped_area;
> > > >          }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > thp_get_unmapped_area() does not take care of the legacy stuff...
> > >
> > > Could you please help test the below patch? It is compiled, but I
> > > don't have 32 bit userspace or machine to test it.
> >
> > Hmm. I think you misunderstood me. This is happening on x86_64 emulated system.
>
> I mean it's x86_64 Android emulator, so kernel is 64bit.

No, I didn't. This patch is aimed to solve the -ENOMEM problem
reported by Jiri Slaby. I believe his test was run on 32 bit machine
or 32 bit userspace on 64 bit kernel.

>
> >
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > index 94ef5c02b459..a4d0839e5f31 100644
> > > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > @@ -811,6 +811,9 @@ static unsigned long
> > > __thp_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp,
> > >         loff_t off_align = round_up(off, size);
> > >         unsigned long len_pad, ret;
> > >
> > > +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_32BIT) || in_compat_syscall())
> > > +               return 0;
> > > +
> > >         if (off_end <= off_align || (off_end - off_align) < size)
> > >                 return 0;
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > --
> > > > js
> > > > suse labs
> > > >
> > >