linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/mlock: implement folio_mlock_step() using folio_pte

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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 12:27:09 +0800
From: Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ryan.roberts@....com, david@...hat.com, 
	baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com, ziy@...dia.com, fengwei.yin@...el.com, 
	ying.huang@...el.com, libang.li@...group.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/mlock: implement folio_mlock_step() using folio_pte_batch()

Hi Barry,

Thanks for taking time to review!

On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 12:14 PM Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 3:31 PM Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Let's make folio_mlock_step() simply a wrapper around folio_pte_batch(),
> > which will greatly reduce the cost of ptep_get() when scanning a range of
> > contptes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/mlock.c | 23 ++++++-----------------
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
> > index 30b51cdea89d..1ae6232d38cf 100644
> > --- a/mm/mlock.c
> > +++ b/mm/mlock.c
> > @@ -307,26 +307,15 @@ void munlock_folio(struct folio *folio)
> >  static inline unsigned int folio_mlock_step(struct folio *folio,
> >                 pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
> >  {
> > -       unsigned int count, i, nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
> > -       unsigned long pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
> > -       pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte);
> > -
> > -       if (!folio_test_large(folio))
> > +       if (likely(!folio_test_large(folio)))
> >                 return 1;
> >
> > -       count = pfn + nr - pte_pfn(ptent);
> > -       count = min_t(unsigned int, count, (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > -
> > -       for (i = 0; i < count; i++, pte++) {
> > -               pte_t entry = ptep_get(pte);
> > -
> > -               if (!pte_present(entry))
> > -                       break;
> > -               if (pte_pfn(entry) - pfn >= nr)
> > -                       break;
> > -       }
> > +       const fpb_t fpb_flags = FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY | FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY;
> > +       int max_nr = (end - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
> > +       pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte);
> >
> > -       return i;
> > +       return folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, pte, ptent, max_nr, fpb_flags, NULL,
> > +                              NULL, NULL);
> >  }
>
> what about a minimum change as below?

Nice, that makes sense to me ;)
I'll adjust as you suggested.

Thanks again for your time!
Lance

> index 30b51cdea89d..e8b98f84fbd2 100644
> --- a/mm/mlock.c
> +++ b/mm/mlock.c
> @@ -307,26 +307,15 @@ void munlock_folio(struct folio *folio)
>  static inline unsigned int folio_mlock_step(struct folio *folio,
>                 pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
>  {
> -       unsigned int count, i, nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
> -       unsigned long pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
> +       unsigned int count = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>         pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte);
> +       const fpb_t fpb_flags = FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY | FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY;
>
>         if (!folio_test_large(folio))
>                 return 1;
>
> -       count = pfn + nr - pte_pfn(ptent);
> -       count = min_t(unsigned int, count, (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> -
> -       for (i = 0; i < count; i++, pte++) {
> -               pte_t entry = ptep_get(pte);
> -
> -               if (!pte_present(entry))
> -                       break;
> -               if (pte_pfn(entry) - pfn >= nr)
> -                       break;
> -       }
> -
> -       return i;
> +       return folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, pte, ptent, count, fpb_flags, NULL,
> +                              NULL, NULL);
>  }
>
>
>
> >
> >  static inline bool allow_mlock_munlock(struct folio *folio,
> > --
> > 2.33.1
> >