linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/9] mm/ksm: break

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Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:11:32 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/9] mm/ksm: break_ksm() cleanups and fixes

This series cleans up and fixes break_ksm(). In summary, we no longer
use fake write faults to break COW but instead FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE. Further,
we move away from using follow_page() --- that we can hopefully remove
completely at one point --- and use new walk_page_range_vma() instead.

Fortunately, we can get rid of VM_FAULT_WRITE and FOLL_MIGRATION in common
code now.

Extend the existing ksm tests by an unmerge benchmark, and a some new
unmerge tests.

Add a selftest to measure MADV_UNMERGEABLE performance. In my setup
(AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance
on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a
performance degradation of ~6% -- 7% (old: ~5250 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s).
I don't think we particularly care for now, but it's good to be aware
of the implication.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>

v1 -> v2:
* "selftests/vm: add KSM unmerge tests"
 -> Add new unmerge tests
* "mm/ksm: fix KSM COW breaking with userfaultfd-wp via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE"
 -> Simplify patch description now that we have a selftest
* "mm/pagewalk: don't trigger test_walk() in walk_page_vma()"
 -> Added
* "mm/pagewalk: add walk_page_range_vma()"
 -> Don't call test_walk()
* "mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma()"
 -> Simplify and fix missing unlock, fix missing "static"

David Hildenbrand (9):
  selftests/vm: add test to measure MADV_UNMERGEABLE performance
  mm/ksm: simplify break_ksm() to not rely on VM_FAULT_WRITE
  mm: remove VM_FAULT_WRITE
  selftests/vm: add KSM unmerge tests
  mm/ksm: fix KSM COW breaking with userfaultfd-wp via
    FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE
  mm/pagewalk: don't trigger test_walk() in walk_page_vma()
  mm/pagewalk: add walk_page_range_vma()
  mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma()
  mm/gup: remove FOLL_MIGRATION

 include/linux/mm.h                            |   1 -
 include/linux/mm_types.h                      |   3 -
 include/linux/pagewalk.h                      |   5 +
 mm/gup.c                                      |  55 +---
 mm/huge_memory.c                              |   2 +-
 mm/ksm.c                                      |  78 +++--
 mm/memory.c                                   |   9 +-
 mm/pagewalk.c                                 |  27 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile           |   2 +
 .../selftests/vm/ksm_functional_tests.c       | 279 ++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/ksm_tests.c        |  76 ++++-
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh     |   2 +
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/vm_util.c          |  10 +
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/vm_util.h          |   1 +
 14 files changed, 456 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vm/ksm_functional_tests.c


base-commit: 9abf2313adc1ca1b6180c508c25f22f9395cc780
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2.37.3