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Message-ID: <9ade1f26-1642-48b3-b7e4-ba571892c7d6@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:04:43 +0000
From: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@...il.com>
To: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 7/9] khugepaged: add mTHP support
On 11/02/2025 00:30, Nico Pache wrote:
> Introduce the ability for khugepaged to collapse to different mTHP sizes.
> While scanning a PMD range for potential collapse candidates, keep track
> of pages in MIN_MTHP_ORDER chunks via a bitmap. Each bit represents a
> utilized region of order MIN_MTHP_ORDER ptes. We remove the restriction
> of max_ptes_none during the scan phase so we dont bailout early and miss
> potential mTHP candidates.
>
> After the scan is complete we will perform binary recursion on the
> bitmap to determine which mTHP size would be most efficient to collapse
> to. max_ptes_none will be scaled by the attempted collapse order to
> determine how full a THP must be to be eligible.
>
> If a mTHP collapse is attempted, but contains swapped out, or shared
> pages, we dont perform the collapse.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
> ---
> mm/khugepaged.c | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index c8048d9ec7fb..cd310989725b 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1127,13 +1127,14 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> {
> LIST_HEAD(compound_pagelist);
> pmd_t *pmd, _pmd;
> - pte_t *pte;
> + pte_t *pte, mthp_pte;
> pgtable_t pgtable;
> struct folio *folio;
> spinlock_t *pmd_ptl, *pte_ptl;
> int result = SCAN_FAIL;
> struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> struct mmu_notifier_range range;
> + unsigned long _address = address + offset * PAGE_SIZE;
> VM_BUG_ON(address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
>
> /*
> @@ -1148,12 +1149,13 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> *mmap_locked = false;
> }
>
> - result = alloc_charge_folio(&folio, mm, cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + result = alloc_charge_folio(&folio, mm, cc, order);
> if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
> goto out_nolock;
>
> mmap_read_lock(mm);
> - result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, address, true, &vma, cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + *mmap_locked = true;
> + result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, address, true, &vma, cc, order);
> if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED) {
> mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> goto out_nolock;
> @@ -1171,13 +1173,14 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> * released when it fails. So we jump out_nolock directly in
> * that case. Continuing to collapse causes inconsistency.
> */
> - result = __collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma, address, pmd,
> - referenced, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + result = __collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma, _address, pmd,
> + referenced, order);
> if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
> goto out_nolock;
> }
>
> mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> + *mmap_locked = false;
> /*
> * Prevent all access to pagetables with the exception of
> * gup_fast later handled by the ptep_clear_flush and the VM
> @@ -1187,7 +1190,7 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> * mmap_lock.
> */
> mmap_write_lock(mm);
> - result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, address, true, &vma, cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, address, true, &vma, cc, order);
> if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
> goto out_up_write;
> /* check if the pmd is still valid */
> @@ -1198,11 +1201,12 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> vma_start_write(vma);
> anon_vma_lock_write(vma->anon_vma);
>
> - mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, mm, address,
> - address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
> + mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, mm, _address,
> + _address + (PAGE_SIZE << order));
> mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
>
> pmd_ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd); /* probably unnecessary */
> +
> /*
> * This removes any huge TLB entry from the CPU so we won't allow
> * huge and small TLB entries for the same virtual address to
> @@ -1216,10 +1220,10 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
> tlb_remove_table_sync_one();
>
> - pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, &_pmd, address, &pte_ptl);
> + pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, &_pmd, _address, &pte_ptl);
> if (pte) {
> - result = __collapse_huge_page_isolate(vma, address, pte, cc,
> - &compound_pagelist, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + result = __collapse_huge_page_isolate(vma, _address, pte, cc,
> + &compound_pagelist, order);
> spin_unlock(pte_ptl);
> } else {
> result = SCAN_PMD_NULL;
> @@ -1248,8 +1252,8 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> anon_vma_unlock_write(vma->anon_vma);
>
> result = __collapse_huge_page_copy(pte, folio, pmd, _pmd,
> - vma, address, pte_ptl,
> - &compound_pagelist, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + vma, _address, pte_ptl,
> + &compound_pagelist, order);
> pte_unmap(pte);
> if (unlikely(result != SCAN_SUCCEED))
> goto out_up_write;
> @@ -1260,20 +1264,37 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> * write.
> */
> __folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
> - pgtable = pmd_pgtable(_pmd);
> -
> - _pmd = mk_huge_pmd(&folio->page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> - _pmd = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(_pmd), vma);
> -
> - spin_lock(pmd_ptl);
> - BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*pmd));
> - folio_add_new_anon_rmap(folio, vma, address, RMAP_EXCLUSIVE);
> - folio_add_lru_vma(folio, vma);
> - pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pmd, pgtable);
> - set_pmd_at(mm, address, pmd, _pmd);
> - update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, address, pmd);
> - deferred_split_folio(folio, false);
> - spin_unlock(pmd_ptl);
> + if (order == HPAGE_PMD_ORDER) {
> + pgtable = pmd_pgtable(_pmd);
> + _pmd = mk_huge_pmd(&folio->page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> + _pmd = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(_pmd), vma);
> +
> + spin_lock(pmd_ptl);
> + BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*pmd));
> + folio_add_new_anon_rmap(folio, vma, _address, RMAP_EXCLUSIVE);
> + folio_add_lru_vma(folio, vma);
> + pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pmd, pgtable);
> + set_pmd_at(mm, address, pmd, _pmd);
> + update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, address, pmd);
> + deferred_split_folio(folio, false);
> + spin_unlock(pmd_ptl);
> + } else { //mTHP
> + mthp_pte = mk_pte(&folio->page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> + mthp_pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(mthp_pte), vma);
> +
> + spin_lock(pmd_ptl);
> + folio_ref_add(folio, (1 << order) - 1);
> + folio_add_new_anon_rmap(folio, vma, _address, RMAP_EXCLUSIVE);
> + folio_add_lru_vma(folio, vma);
> + spin_lock(pte_ptl);
> + set_ptes(vma->vm_mm, _address, pte, mthp_pte, (1 << order));
> + update_mmu_cache_range(NULL, vma, _address, pte, (1 << order));
> + spin_unlock(pte_ptl);
> + smp_wmb(); /* make pte visible before pmd */
> + pmd_populate(mm, pmd, pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
> + deferred_split_folio(folio, false);
Hi Nico,
This patch will have the same issue as the one I pointed out in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/82b9efd1-f2a6-4452-b2ea-6c163e17cdf7@gmail.com/ ?
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