linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 11/36] fs: Support THPs in zero_user

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Date:   Mon, 25 May 2020 07:55:18 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/36] fs: Support THPs in zero_user_segments

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 06:16:31AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
> 
> We can only kmap() one subpage of a THP at a time, so loop over all
> relevant subpages, skipping ones which don't need to be zeroed.  This is
> too large to inline when THPs are enabled and we actually need highmem,
> so put it in highmem.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/highmem.h | 15 +++++++---
>  mm/highmem.c            | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
> index ea5cdbd8c2c3..74614903619d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/highmem.h
> +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
> @@ -215,13 +215,18 @@ static inline void clear_highpage(struct page *page)
>  	kunmap_atomic(kaddr);
>  }
>  
> +#if defined(CONFIG_HIGHMEM) && defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
> +void zero_user_segments(struct page *page, unsigned start1, unsigned end1,
> +		unsigned start2, unsigned end2);
> +#else /* !HIGHMEM || !TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
>  static inline void zero_user_segments(struct page *page,
> -	unsigned start1, unsigned end1,
> -	unsigned start2, unsigned end2)
> +		unsigned start1, unsigned end1,
> +		unsigned start2, unsigned end2)
>  {
> +	unsigned long i;
>  	void *kaddr = kmap_atomic(page);
>  
> -	BUG_ON(end1 > PAGE_SIZE || end2 > PAGE_SIZE);
> +	BUG_ON(end1 > thp_size(page) || end2 > thp_size(page));
>  
>  	if (end1 > start1)
>  		memset(kaddr + start1, 0, end1 - start1);
> @@ -230,8 +235,10 @@ static inline void zero_user_segments(struct page *page,
>  		memset(kaddr + start2, 0, end2 - start2);
>  
>  	kunmap_atomic(kaddr);
> -	flush_dcache_page(page);
> +	for (i = 0; i < hpage_nr_pages(page); i++)
> +		flush_dcache_page(page + i);

Well, we need to settle on whether flush_dcache_page() has to be aware
about compound pages. There are already architectures that know how to
flush compound page, see ARM.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov