linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/1] mm/mlock: implement folio_mlock_step() using folio_pte

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:04:18 +0800
From: Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: ryan.roberts@....com,
	david@...hat.com,
	21cnbao@...il.com,
	baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com,
	ziy@...dia.com,
	fengwei.yin@...el.com,
	ying.huang@...el.com,
	libang.li@...group.com,
	willy@...radead.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] mm/mlock: implement folio_mlock_step() using folio_pte_batch()

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.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
---
v2 -> v3:
 - Rebased to mm/mm-unstable
 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240603140745.83880-1-ioworker0@gmail.com/
v1 -> v2:
 - Remove the likely() hint (per Matthew)
 - Keep type declarations at the beginning of the function (per Matthew)
 - Make a minimum change (per Barry)
 - Pick RB from Baolin - thanks!
 - Pick AB from David - thanks!
 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240603033118.76457-1-ioworker0@gmail.com/

 mm/mlock.c | 19 ++++---------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 30b51cdea89d..52d6e401ad67 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);
+	const fpb_t fpb_flags = FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY | FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY;
+	unsigned int count = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte);
 
 	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