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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:23:46 -0700
From: Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@...il.com>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add statistics for PUD level pagetable
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:31:42PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Recently, we found that cross-die access to pagetable pages on ARM64
> machines can cause performance fluctuations in our business. Currently,
> there are no PMU events available to track this situation on our ARM64
> machines, so an accurate pagetable accounting can help to analyze this
> issue, but now the PUD level pagetable accounting is missed.
>
> So introducing pagetable_pud_ctor/dtor() to help to get an accurate
> PUD pagetable accounting, as well as converting the architectures with
> using generic PUD pagatable allocation to add corresponding PUD pagetable
> accounting. Moreover this patch will also mark the PUD level pagetable
> with PG_table flag, which will help to do sanity validation in unpoison_memory().
>
> On my testing machine, I can see more pagetables statistics after the patch
> with page-types tool:
>
> Before patch:
> flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags
> 0x0000000004000000 27326 106 __________________________g_________________ pgtable
> After patch:
> 0x0000000004000000 27541 107 __________________________g_________________ pgtable
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@...il.com>
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