linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 0/2] mm: add huge pfnmap support for remap_pfn

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Message-ID: <20250923133104.926672-1-yintirui@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:31:02 +0800
From: Yin Tirui <yintirui@...wei.com>
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/2] mm: add huge pfnmap support for remap_pfn_range()

Overview
========
This patch series adds huge page support for remap_pfn_range(),
automatically creating huge mappings when prerequisites are satisfied
(size, alignment, architecture support, etc.) and falling back to
normal page mappings otherwise.

This work builds on Peter Xu's previous efforts on huge pfnmap
support [0].

TODO
====
- Add PUD-level huge page support. Currently, only PMD-level huge
pages are supported.
- Consider the logic related to vmap_page_range and extract
reusable common code.

Tests Done
==========
- Cross-build tests.
- Performance tests with custom device driver implementing mmap()
  with remap_pfn_range():
    - lat_mem_rd benchmark modified to use mmap(device_fd) instead of
      malloc() shows around 40% improvement in memory access latency with
      huge page support compared to normal page mappings.

      numactl -C 0 lat_mem_rd -t 4096M (stride=64)
      Memory Size (MB)    Without Huge Mapping With Huge Mapping Improvement
      ----------------    -----------------    --------------    -----------
      64.00               148.858 ns           100.780 ns        32.3%
      128.00              164.745 ns           103.537 ns        37.2%
      256.00              169.907 ns           103.179 ns        39.3%
      512.00              171.285 ns           103.072 ns        39.8%
      1024.00             173.054 ns           103.055 ns        40.4%
      2048.00             172.820 ns           103.091 ns        40.3%
      4096.00             172.877 ns           103.115 ns        40.4%

    - Custom memory copy operations on mmap(device_fd) show around 18% performance 
      improvement with huge page support compared to normal page mappings.

      numactl -C 0 memcpy_test (memory copy performance test)
      Memory Size (MB)    Without Huge Mapping With Huge Mapping Improvement
      ----------------    -----------------    --------------    -----------
      1024.00             95.76 ms             77.91 ms          18.6%
      2048.00             190.87 ms            155.64 ms         18.5%
      4096.00             380.84 ms            311.45 ms         18.2%

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240826204353.2228736-2-peterx@redhat.com/T/#u

Yin Tirui (2):
  pgtable: add pte_clrhuge() implementation for arm64 and riscv
  mm: add PMD-level huge page support for remap_pfn_range()

 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |  8 ++++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h |  5 +++
 include/linux/pgtable.h          |  6 ++-
 mm/huge_memory.c                 | 22 +++++++---
 mm/memory.c                      | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 5 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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