linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] khugepaged: Optimize __collapse_huge_page_copy

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Message-ID: <c69f0b21-1e67-4e1d-b56b-a5c1294e8b45@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:40:38 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ziy@...dia.com, baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com,
 Liam.Howlett@...cle.com, npache@...hat.com, ryan.roberts@....com,
 baohua@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] khugepaged: Optimize
 __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded() by PTE batching

On 24.07.25 19:32, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Message-ID: <32843cfb-a70b-4dfb-965c-4e1b0623a1b4@...ifer.local>
> Reply-To:
> In-Reply-To: <20250724052301.23844-3-dev.jain@....com>
> 
> NIT: Please don't capitalise 'Optimize' here.
> 
> I think Andrew fixed this for you actually in the repo though :P
> 
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 10:53:00AM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
>> Use PTE batching to batch process PTEs mapping the same large folio. An
>> improvement is expected due to batching refcount-mapcount manipulation on
>> the folios, and for arm64 which supports contig mappings, the number of
>> TLB flushes is also reduced.
>>
>> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
>> ---
>>   mm/khugepaged.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>>   1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
>> index a55fb1dcd224..f23e943506bc 100644
>> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
>> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
>> @@ -700,12 +700,15 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded(pte_t *pte,
>>   						spinlock_t *ptl,
>>   						struct list_head *compound_pagelist)
>>   {
>> +	unsigned long end = address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
>>   	struct folio *src, *tmp;
>> -	pte_t *_pte;
>>   	pte_t pteval;
>> +	pte_t *_pte;
>> +	unsigned int nr_ptes;
>>
>> -	for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte + HPAGE_PMD_NR;
>> -	     _pte++, address += PAGE_SIZE) {
>> +	for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte + HPAGE_PMD_NR; _pte += nr_ptes,
>> +	     address += nr_ptes * PAGE_SIZE) {
>> +		nr_ptes = 1;
>>   		pteval = ptep_get(_pte);
>>   		if (pte_none(pteval) || is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval))) {
>>   			add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES, 1);
>> @@ -722,18 +725,26 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded(pte_t *pte,
>>   			struct page *src_page = pte_page(pteval);
>>
>>   			src = page_folio(src_page);
>> -			if (!folio_test_large(src))
>> +
>> +			if (folio_test_large(src)) {
>> +				unsigned int max_nr_ptes = (end - address) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +
>> +				nr_ptes = folio_pte_batch(src, _pte, pteval, max_nr_ptes);
>> +			} else {
>>   				release_pte_folio(src);
>> +			}
>> +
>>   			/*
>>   			 * ptl mostly unnecessary, but preempt has to
>>   			 * be disabled to update the per-cpu stats
>>   			 * inside folio_remove_rmap_pte().
>>   			 */
>>   			spin_lock(ptl);
>> -			ptep_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, _pte);
>> -			folio_remove_rmap_pte(src, src_page, vma);
>> +			clear_ptes(vma->vm_mm, address, _pte, nr_ptes);
>> +			folio_remove_rmap_ptes(src, src_page, nr_ptes, vma);
>>   			spin_unlock(ptl);
>> -			free_folio_and_swap_cache(src);
>> +			free_swap_cache(src);
>> +			folio_put_refs(src, nr_ptes);
> 
> Hm one thing here though is the free_folio_and_swap_cache() does:
> 
> 	free_swap_cache(folio);
> 	if (!is_huge_zero_folio(folio))
> 		folio_put(folio);
> 
> Whereas here you unconditionally reduce the reference count. Might this
> cause issues with the shrinker version of the huge zero folio?
> 
> Should this be:
> 
> 			if (!is_huge_zero_folio(src))
> 				folio_put_refs(src, nr_ptes);
> 
> Or do we otherwise avoid issues with this?

The huge zero folio is never PTE-mapped.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb