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Date:	Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:31:56 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 16/50] mm: Only flush TLBs if a transhuge PMD is modified for NUMA pte scanning

NUMA PTE scanning is expensive both in terms of the scanning itself and
the TLB flush if there are any updates. The TLB flush is avoided if no
PTEs are updated but there is a bug where transhuge PMDs are considered
to be updated even if they were already pmd_numa. This patch addresses
the problem and TLB flushes should be reduced.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 mm/mprotect.c    | 14 ++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 40f75a6..065a31d 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1474,6 +1474,12 @@ out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns
+ *  - 0 if PMD could not be locked
+ *  - 1 if PMD was locked but protections unchange and TLB flush unnecessary
+ *  - HPAGE_PMD_NR is protections changed and TLB flush necessary
+ */
 int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		unsigned long addr, pgprot_t newprot, int prot_numa)
 {
@@ -1482,9 +1488,11 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 
 	if (__pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma) == 1) {
 		pmd_t entry;
-		entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
+		ret = 1;
 		if (!prot_numa) {
+			entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
 			entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
+			ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR;
 			BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry));
 		} else {
 			struct page *page = pmd_page(*pmd);
@@ -1496,12 +1504,17 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 			if (page_mapcount(page) == 1 &&
 			    !is_huge_zero_page(page) &&
 			    !pmd_numa(*pmd)) {
+				entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
 				entry = pmd_mknuma(entry);
+				ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR;
 			}
 		}
-		set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
+
+		/* Set PMD if cleared earlier */
+		if (ret == HPAGE_PMD_NR)
+			set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
+
 		spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
-		ret = 1;
 	}
 
 	return ret;
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index faa499e..1f9b54b 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -151,10 +151,16 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
 			if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)
 				split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
-			else if (change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, newprot,
-						 prot_numa)) {
-				pages++;
-				continue;
+			else {
+				int nr_ptes = change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr,
+						newprot, prot_numa);
+
+				if (nr_ptes) {
+					if (nr_ptes == HPAGE_PMD_NR)
+						pages++;
+
+					continue;
+				}
 			}
 			/* fall through */
 		}
-- 
1.8.1.4

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