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Date:   Tue, 5 Sep 2017 17:19:39 -0700
From:   Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To:     Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@...il.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oleksiy.Avramchenko@...y.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ion: add movability support for page pools

On 09/05/2017 05:55 AM, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> ion page pool may become quite large and scattered all around
> the kernel memory area. These pages are actually not used so
> moving them around to reduce fragmentation is quite cheap because
> there's no need to copy their contents.
> 

Can you give a few more details about what this helps?
Some benchmark numbers?

It looks like something similar was implemented for zsmalloc.
Are we going to start seeing a proliferation of pseudo filesystems
for each subsystem that wants to migrate pages?

> This patch implements callbacks that support page moving.
> 
> Singed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h           |   2 +
>  drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c | 165 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
> index fa9ed81..a948cb2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
> @@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ size_t ion_heap_freelist_size(struct ion_heap *heap);
>   * @order:		order of pages in the pool
>   * @list:		plist node for list of pools
>   * @cached:		it's cached pool or not
> + * @inode:		inode for ion_pool pseudo filesystem
>   *
>   * Allows you to keep a pool of pre allocated pages to use from your heap.
>   * Keeping a pool of pages that is ready for dma, ie any cached mapping have
> @@ -336,6 +337,7 @@ struct ion_page_pool {
>  	gfp_t gfp_mask;
>  	unsigned int order;
>  	struct plist_node list;
> +	struct inode *inode;
>  };
>  
>  struct ion_page_pool *ion_page_pool_create(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c
> index 817849d..3c6ba9c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c
> @@ -19,12 +19,17 @@
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>  #include <linux/list.h>
> +#include <linux/migrate.h>
> +#include <linux/mount.h>
> +#include <linux/page-flags.h>
>  #include <linux/init.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/swap.h>
>  
>  #include "ion.h"
>  
> +#define ION_PAGE_CACHE	1
> +
>  static void *ion_page_pool_alloc_pages(struct ion_page_pool *pool)
>  {
>  	struct page *page = alloc_pages(pool->gfp_mask, pool->order);
> @@ -37,12 +42,19 @@ static void *ion_page_pool_alloc_pages(struct ion_page_pool *pool)
>  static void ion_page_pool_free_pages(struct ion_page_pool *pool,
>  				     struct page *page)
>  {
> +	if (pool->inode && pool->order == 0) {
> +		lock_page(page);
> +		__ClearPageMovable(page);
> +		unlock_page(page);
> +	}
> +
>  	__free_pages(page, pool->order);
>  }
>  
>  static int ion_page_pool_add(struct ion_page_pool *pool, struct page *page)
>  {
>  	mutex_lock(&pool->mutex);
> +	page->private = ION_PAGE_CACHE;
>  	if (PageHighMem(page)) {
>  		list_add_tail(&page->lru, &pool->high_items);
>  		pool->high_count++;
> @@ -50,6 +62,9 @@ static int ion_page_pool_add(struct ion_page_pool *pool, struct page *page)
>  		list_add_tail(&page->lru, &pool->low_items);
>  		pool->low_count++;
>  	}
> +
> +	if (pool->inode && pool->order == 0)
> +		__SetPageMovable(page, pool->inode->i_mapping);
>  	mutex_unlock(&pool->mutex);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -68,7 +83,9 @@ static struct page *ion_page_pool_remove(struct ion_page_pool *pool, bool high)
>  		pool->low_count--;
>  	}
>  
> -	list_del(&page->lru);
> +	clear_bit(ION_PAGE_CACHE, &page->private);
> +
> +	list_del_init(&page->lru);
>  	return page;
>  }
>  
> @@ -85,8 +102,13 @@ struct page *ion_page_pool_alloc(struct ion_page_pool *pool)
>  		page = ion_page_pool_remove(pool, false);
>  	mutex_unlock(&pool->mutex);
>  
> -	if (!page)
> +	if (!page) {
>  		page = ion_page_pool_alloc_pages(pool);
> +	} else {
> +		lock_page(page);
> +		__ClearPageMovable(page);
> +		unlock_page(page);
> +	}
>  
>  	return page;
>  }
> @@ -146,6 +168,136 @@ int ion_page_pool_shrink(struct ion_page_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	return freed;
>  }
>  
> +static bool ion_page_pool_isolate(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
> +{
> +	struct ion_page_pool *pool;
> +	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
> +
> +	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageIsolated(page), page);
> +
> +	if (!mapping)
> +		return false;
> +	pool = mapping->private_data;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&pool->mutex);
> +	if (unlikely(!test_bit(ION_PAGE_CACHE, &page->private))) {
> +		mutex_unlock(&pool->mutex);
> +		return false;
> +	}
> +
> +	list_del(&page->lru);
> +	if (PageHighMem(page))
> +		pool->high_count--;
> +	else
> +		pool->low_count--;
> +	mutex_unlock(&pool->mutex);
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
> +static int ion_page_pool_migrate(struct address_space *mapping,
> +				 struct page *newpage,
> +				 struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
> +{
> +	struct ion_page_pool *pool = mapping->private_data;
> +
> +	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageMovable(page), page);
> +	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageIsolated(page), page);
> +
> +	lock_page(page);
> +	newpage->private = ION_PAGE_CACHE;
> +	__SetPageMovable(newpage, page_mapping(page));
> +	get_page(newpage);
> +	__ClearPageMovable(page);
> +	ClearPagePrivate(page);
> +	unlock_page(page);
> +	mutex_lock(&pool->mutex);
> +	if (PageHighMem(newpage)) {
> +		list_add_tail(&newpage->lru, &pool->high_items);
> +		pool->high_count++;
> +	} else {
> +		list_add_tail(&newpage->lru, &pool->low_items);
> +		pool->low_count++;
> +	}
> +	mutex_unlock(&pool->mutex);
> +	put_page(page);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void ion_page_pool_putback(struct page *page)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * migrate function either succeeds or returns -EAGAIN, which
> +	 * results in calling it again until it succeeds, sothis callback
> +	 * is not needed.
> +	 */
> +}
> +
> +static struct dentry *ion_pool_do_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
> +				int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data)
> +{
> +	static const struct dentry_operations ops = {
> +		.d_dname = simple_dname,
> +	};
> +
> +	return mount_pseudo(fs_type, "ion_pool:", NULL, &ops, 0x77);
> +}
> +
> +static struct file_system_type ion_pool_fs = {
> +	.name		= "ion_pool",
> +	.mount		= ion_pool_do_mount,
> +	.kill_sb	= kill_anon_super,
> +};
> +
> +static int ion_pool_cnt;
> +static struct vfsmount *ion_pool_mnt;
> +static int ion_pool_mount(void)
> +{
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
> +	ion_pool_mnt = kern_mount(&ion_pool_fs);
> +	if (IS_ERR(ion_pool_mnt))
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(ion_pool_mnt);
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static const struct address_space_operations ion_pool_aops = {
> +	.isolate_page = ion_page_pool_isolate,
> +	.migratepage = ion_page_pool_migrate,
> +	.putback_page = ion_page_pool_putback,
> +};
> +
> +static int ion_pool_register_migration(struct ion_page_pool *pool)
> +{
> +	int  ret = simple_pin_fs(&ion_pool_fs, &ion_pool_mnt, &ion_pool_cnt);
> +
> +	if (ret < 0) {
> +		pr_err("Cannot mount pseudo fs: %d\n", ret);
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +	pool->inode = alloc_anon_inode(ion_pool_mnt->mnt_sb);
> +	if (IS_ERR(pool->inode)) {
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(pool->inode);
> +		pool->inode = NULL;
> +		simple_release_fs(&ion_pool_mnt, &ion_pool_cnt);
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +
> +	pool->inode->i_mapping->private_data = pool;
> +	pool->inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ion_pool_aops;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void ion_pool_unregister_migration(struct ion_page_pool *pool)
> +{
> +	if (pool->inode) {
> +		iput(pool->inode);
> +		pool->inode = NULL;
> +		simple_release_fs(&ion_pool_mnt, &ion_pool_cnt);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  struct ion_page_pool *ion_page_pool_create(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
>  					   bool cached)
>  {
> @@ -161,19 +313,24 @@ struct ion_page_pool *ion_page_pool_create(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
>  	pool->order = order;
>  	mutex_init(&pool->mutex);
>  	plist_node_init(&pool->list, order);
> -	if (cached)
> +	if (cached) {
>  		pool->cached = true;
> +		ion_pool_register_migration(pool);
> +	}
> +
> +	pool->inode = NULL;
>  
>  	return pool;
>  }
>  
>  void ion_page_pool_destroy(struct ion_page_pool *pool)
>  {
> +	ion_pool_unregister_migration(pool);
>  	kfree(pool);
>  }
>  
>  static int __init ion_page_pool_init(void)
>  {
> -	return 0;
> +	return ion_pool_mount();
>  }
>  device_initcall(ion_page_pool_init);
> 

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