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Message-ID: <79686de9-d8f9-f4ce-d43d-ac1ef8a09665@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 18:12:40 -0700
From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
"Kirill Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
"Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@...hat.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@...radead.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: gup: pack has_pinned in MMF_HAS_PINNED
On 5/7/21 8:05 AM, Peter Xu wrote:
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
>
> has_pinned 32bit can be packed in the MMF_HAS_PINNED bit as a noop
> cleanup.
>
> Any atomic_inc/dec to the mm cacheline shared by all threads in
> pin-fast would reintroduce a loss of SMP scalability to pin-fast, so
> there's no future potential usefulness to keep an atomic in the mm for
> this.
>
> set_bit(MMF_HAS_PINNED) will be theoretically a bit slower than
> WRITE_ONCE (atomic_set is equivalent to WRITE_ONCE), but the set_bit
> (just like atomic_set after this commit) has to be still issued only
> once per "mm", so the difference between the two will be lost in the
> noise.
>
> will-it-scale "mmap2" shows no change in performance with enterprise
> config as expected.
>
> will-it-scale "pin_fast" retains the > 4000% SMP scalability
> performance improvement against upstream as expected.
>
> This is a noop as far as overall performance and SMP scalability are
> concerned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
> [peterx: Fix build for task_mmu.c, introduce mm_set_has_pinned_flag, fix
> comment here and there]
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
> ---
> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
> include/linux/mm_types.h | 10 ----------
> include/linux/sched/coredump.h | 8 ++++++++
> kernel/fork.c | 1 -
> mm/gup.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
> 6 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 4c95cc57a66a8..6144571942db9 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ static inline bool pte_is_pinned(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> return false;
> if (!is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags))
> return false;
> - if (likely(!atomic_read(&vma->vm_mm->has_pinned)))
> + if (likely(!test_bit(MMF_HAS_PINNED, &vma->vm_mm->flags)))
> return false;
> page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pte);
> if (!page)
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index d6790ab0cf575..94dc84f6d8658 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@ static inline bool page_needs_cow_for_dma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> if (!is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags))
> return false;
>
> - if (!atomic_read(&vma->vm_mm->has_pinned))
> + if (!test_bit(MMF_HAS_PINNED, &vma->vm_mm->flags))
> return false;
>
> return page_maybe_dma_pinned(page);
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index 6613b26a88946..15d79858fadbd 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -435,16 +435,6 @@ struct mm_struct {
> */
> atomic_t mm_count;
>
> - /**
> - * @has_pinned: Whether this mm has pinned any pages. This can
> - * be either replaced in the future by @pinned_vm when it
> - * becomes stable, or grow into a counter on its own. We're
> - * aggresive on this bit now - even if the pinned pages were
> - * unpinned later on, we'll still keep this bit set for the
> - * lifecycle of this mm just for simplicity.
> - */
> - atomic_t has_pinned;
> -
> /**
> * @write_protect_seq: Locked when any thread is write
> * protecting pages mapped by this mm to enforce a later COW,
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
> index dfd82eab29025..4d9e3a6568758 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
> @@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
> #define MMF_OOM_VICTIM 25 /* mm is the oom victim */
> #define MMF_OOM_REAP_QUEUED 26 /* mm was queued for oom_reaper */
> #define MMF_MULTIPROCESS 27 /* mm is shared between processes */
> +/*
> + * MMF_HAS_PINNED: Whether this mm has pinned any pages. This can be either
> + * replaced in the future by mm.pinned_vm when it becomes stable, or grow into
> + * a counter on its own. We're aggresive on this bit for now: even if the
> + * pinned pages were unpinned later on, we'll still keep this bit set for the
> + * lifecycle of this mm, just for simplicity.
> + */
> +#define MMF_HAS_PINNED 28 /* FOLL_PIN has run, never cleared */
> #define MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK (1 << MMF_DISABLE_THP)
>
> #define MMF_INIT_MASK (MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK | MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK |\
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 502dc046fbc62..a71e73707ef59 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1026,7 +1026,6 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
> mm_pgtables_bytes_init(mm);
> mm->map_count = 0;
> mm->locked_vm = 0;
> - atomic_set(&mm->has_pinned, 0);
> atomic64_set(&mm->pinned_vm, 0);
> memset(&mm->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(mm->rss_stat));
> spin_lock_init(&mm->page_table_lock);
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index 9933bc5c2eff2..bb130723a6717 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -1270,6 +1270,17 @@ int fixup_user_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fixup_user_fault);
>
> +/*
> + * Set the MMF_HAS_PINNED if not set yet; after set it'll be there for the mm's
> + * lifecycle. Avoid setting the bit unless necessary, or it might cause write
> + * cache bouncing on large SMP machines for concurrent pinned gups.
> + */
> +static inline void mm_set_has_pinned_flag(unsigned long *mm_flags)
> +{
> + if (!test_bit(MMF_HAS_PINNED, mm_flags))
> + set_bit(MMF_HAS_PINNED, mm_flags);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Please note that this function, unlike __get_user_pages will not
> * return 0 for nr_pages > 0 without FOLL_NOWAIT
> @@ -1292,8 +1303,8 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm,
> BUG_ON(*locked != 1);
> }
>
> - if ((flags & FOLL_PIN) && !atomic_read(&mm->has_pinned))
> - atomic_set(&mm->has_pinned, 1);
> + if (flags & FOLL_PIN)
> + mm_set_has_pinned_flag(&mm->flags);
>
> /*
> * FOLL_PIN and FOLL_GET are mutually exclusive. Traditional behavior
> @@ -2617,8 +2628,8 @@ static int internal_get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start,
> FOLL_FAST_ONLY)))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> - if ((gup_flags & FOLL_PIN) && !atomic_read(¤t->mm->has_pinned))
> - atomic_set(¤t->mm->has_pinned, 1);
> + if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN)
> + mm_set_has_pinned_flag(¤t->mm->flags);
>
> if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FAST_ONLY))
> might_lock_read(¤t->mm->mmap_lock);
>
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