linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] hugetlb: skip to end of PT page mapping when pte not present

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Date:   Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:13:28 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
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        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>,
        James Houghton <jthoughton@...gle.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] hugetlb: skip to end of PT page mapping when pte not
 present

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 02:05:15PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> HugeTLB address ranges are linearly scanned during fork, unmap and
> remap operations.  If a non-present entry is encountered, the code
> currently continues to the next huge page aligned address.  However,
> a non-present entry implies that the page table page for that entry
> is not present.  Therefore, the linear scan can skip to the end of
> range mapped by the page table page.  This can speed operations on
> large sparsely populated hugetlb mappings.
> 
> Create a new routine hugetlb_mask_last_page() that will return an
> address mask.  When the mask is ORed with an address, the result
> will be the address of the last huge page mapped by the associated
> page table page.  Use this mask to update addresses in routines which
> linearly scan hugetlb address ranges when a non-present pte is
> encountered.
> 
> hugetlb_mask_last_page is related to the implementation of
> huge_pte_offset as hugetlb_mask_last_page is called when huge_pte_offset
> returns NULL.  This patch only provides a complete hugetlb_mask_last_page
> implementation when CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB is defined.
> Architectures which provide their own versions of huge_pte_offset can also
> provide their own version of hugetlb_mask_last_page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
> Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>

It'll be more efficient, Thanks.

Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>