linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: fix linear mapping mem access performace degradation

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:49:09 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To:     "guanghui.fgh" <guanghuifeng@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, david@...hat.com,
        jianyong.wu@....com, james.morse@....com, quic_qiancai@...cinc.com,
        christophe.leroy@...roup.eu, jonathan@...ek.ca,
        mark.rutland@....com, thunder.leizhen@...wei.com,
        anshuman.khandual@....com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        ardb@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: fix linear mapping mem access performace
 degradation

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 05:24:10PM +0800, guanghui.fgh wrote:
> Thanks.
> 
> 在 2022/6/27 14:34, Mike Rapoport 写道:
> 
>     On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 07:10:15PM +0800, Guanghui Feng wrote:
> 
>         The arm64 can build 2M/1G block/sectiion mapping. When using DMA/DMA32 zone
>         (enable crashkernel, disable rodata full, disable kfence), the mem_map will
>         use non block/section mapping(for crashkernel requires to shrink the region
>         in page granularity). But it will degrade performance when doing larging
>         continuous mem access in kernel(memcpy/memmove, etc).
> 
>         There are many changes and discussions:
>         commit 031495635b46
>         commit 1a8e1cef7603
>         commit 8424ecdde7df
>         commit 0a30c53573b0
>         commit 2687275a5843
> 
>     Please include oneline summary of the commit. (See section "Describe your
>     changes" in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst)
> 
> OK, I will add oneline summary in the git commit messages.
> 
>         This patch changes mem_map to use block/section mapping with crashkernel.
>         Firstly, do block/section mapping(normally 2M or 1G) for all avail mem at
>         mem_map, reserve crashkernel memory. And then walking pagetable to split
>         block/section mapping to non block/section mapping(normally 4K) [[[only]]]
>         for crashkernel mem.
> 
>     This already happens when ZONE_DMA/ZONE_DMA32 are disabled. Please explain
>     why is it Ok to change the way the memory is mapped with
>     ZONE_DMA/ZONE_DMA32 enabled.
> 
> In short:
>
> 1.building all avail mem with block/section mapping（normally 1G/2M） without
> inspecting crashkernel
> 2. Reserve crashkernel mem as same as previous doing
> 3. only change the crashkernle mem mapping to normal mapping(normally 4k).
> With this method, there are block/section mapping as more as possible.

This does not answer the question why changing the way the memory is mapped
when there is ZONE_DMA/DMA32 and crashkernel won't cause a regression.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.