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David Hildenbrand 789753e17c mm/memory: factor out zapping of present pte into zap_present_pte()
Patch series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP", v3.

This series is based on [1].  Similar to what we did with fork(), let's
implement PTE batching during unmap/zap when processing PTE-mapped THPs.

We collect consecutive PTEs that map consecutive pages of the same large
folio, making sure that the other PTE bits are compatible, and (a) adjust
the refcount only once per batch, (b) call rmap handling functions only
once per batch, (c) perform batch PTE setting/updates and (d) perform TLB
entry removal once per batch.

Ryan was previously working on this in the context of cont-pte for arm64,
int latest iteration [2] with a focus on arm6 with cont-pte only.  This
series implements the optimization for all architectures, independent of
such PTE bits, teaches MMU gather/TLB code to be fully aware of such
large-folio-pages batches as well, and amkes use of our new rmap batching
function when removing the rmap.

To achieve that, we have to enlighten MMU gather / page freeing code
(i.e., everything that consumes encoded_page) to process unmapping of
consecutive pages that all belong to the same large folio.  I'm being very
careful to not degrade order-0 performance, and it looks like I managed to
achieve that.

While this series should -- similar to [1] -- be beneficial for adding
cont-pte support on arm64[2], it's one of the requirements for maintaining
a total mapcount[3] for large folios with minimal added overhead and
further changes[4] that build up on top of the total mapcount.

Independent of all that, this series results in a speedup during munmap()
and similar unmapping (process teardown, MADV_DONTNEED on larger ranges)
with PTE-mapped THP, which is the default with THPs that are smaller than
a PMD (for example, 16KiB to 1024KiB mTHPs for anonymous memory[5]).

On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU, munmap'ing a 1GiB VMA backed by
PTE-mapped folios of the same size (stddev < 1%) results in the following
runtimes for munmap() in seconds (shorter is better):

Folio Size | mm-unstable |      New | Change
---------------------------------------------
      4KiB |    0.058110 | 0.057715 |   - 1%
     16KiB |    0.044198 | 0.035469 |   -20%
     32KiB |    0.034216 | 0.023522 |   -31%
     64KiB |    0.029207 | 0.018434 |   -37%
    128KiB |    0.026579 | 0.014026 |   -47%
    256KiB |    0.025130 | 0.011756 |   -53%
    512KiB |    0.024292 | 0.010703 |   -56%
   1024KiB |    0.023812 | 0.010294 |   -57%
   2048KiB |    0.023785 | 0.009910 |   -58%

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129124649.189745-1-david@redhat.com
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218105100.172635-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
[3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230809083256.699513-1-david@redhat.com
[4] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231124132626.235350-1-david@redhat.com
[5] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207161211.2374093-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com


This patch (of 10):

Let's prepare for further changes by factoring out processing of present
PTEs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240214204435.167852-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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arch mm/hugetlb: move page order check inside hugetlb_cma_reserve() 2024-02-22 10:24:59 -08:00
block blk-iocost: Fix an UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning 2024-02-08 10:11:39 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Remove bogus SGL free on zero-length error path 2024-02-02 18:08:12 +08:00
Documentation mm/cma: add sysfs file 'release_pages_success' 2024-02-22 10:24:57 -08:00
drivers zram: do not allocate physically contiguous strm buffers 2024-02-22 10:24:59 -08:00
fs userfaultfd: fix return error if mmap_changing is non-zero in MOVE ioctl 2024-02-22 10:24:38 -08:00
include mm/mglru: improve struct lru_gen_mm_walk 2024-02-22 10:24:58 -08:00
init arm64, powerpc, riscv, s390, x86: ptdump: refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX 2024-02-22 10:24:47 -08:00
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