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Barry Song c18160dba5 mm: swap: reuse exclusive folio directly instead of wp page faults
After swapping out, we perform a swap-in operation.  If we first read and
then write, we encounter a major fault in do_swap_page for reading, along
with additional minor faults in do_wp_page for writing.  However, the
latter appears to be unnecessary and inefficient.  Instead, we can
directly reuse in do_swap_page and completely eliminate the need for
do_wp_page.

This patch achieves that optimization specifically for exclusive folios. 
The following microbenchmark demonstrates the significant reduction in
minor faults.

 #define DATA_SIZE (2UL * 1024 * 1024)
 #define PAGE_SIZE (4UL * 1024)

 static void *read_write_data(char *addr)
 {
         char tmp;

         for (int i = 0; i < DATA_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE) {
                 tmp = *(volatile char *)(addr + i);
                 *(volatile char *)(addr + i) = tmp;
         }
 }

 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
         struct rusage ru;

         char *addr = mmap(NULL, DATA_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                         MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
         memset(addr, 0x11, DATA_SIZE);

         do {
                 long old_ru_minflt, old_ru_majflt;
                 long new_ru_minflt, new_ru_majflt;

                 madvise(addr, DATA_SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT);

                 getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &ru);
                 old_ru_minflt = ru.ru_minflt;
                 old_ru_majflt = ru.ru_majflt;

                 read_write_data(addr);
                 getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &ru);
                 new_ru_minflt = ru.ru_minflt;
                 new_ru_majflt = ru.ru_majflt;

                 printf("minor faults:%ld major faults:%ld\n",
                         new_ru_minflt - old_ru_minflt,
                         new_ru_majflt - old_ru_majflt);
         } while(0);

         return 0;
 }

w/o patch,
/ # ~/a.out
minor faults:512 major faults:512

w/ patch,
/ # ~/a.out
minor faults:0 major faults:512

Minor faults decrease to 0!

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240602004502.26895-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-03 19:30:04 -07:00
arch arch/x86: do not explicitly clear Reserved flag in free_pagetable 2024-07-03 19:30:02 -07:00
block block: unmap and free user mapped integrity via submitter 2024-06-12 11:00:50 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto This push fixes a bug in the new ecc P521 code as well as a buggy 2024-05-20 08:47:54 -07:00
Documentation mm: shmem: add mTHP counters for anonymous shmem 2024-07-03 19:30:04 -07:00
drivers ata fixes for 6.10-rc6 2024-06-30 14:32:24 -07:00
fs mm: remove MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY mode 2024-07-03 19:30:00 -07:00
include mm: shmem: add mTHP counters for anonymous shmem 2024-07-03 19:30:04 -07:00
init gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-9 2024-06-15 10:43:04 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: signal SQPOLL task_work with TWA_SIGNAL_NO_IPI 2024-06-24 19:46:15 -06:00
ipc Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs. 2024-05-19 14:02:03 -07:00
kernel mm: remove the implementation of swap_free() and always use swap_free_nr() 2024-07-03 19:30:01 -07:00
lib hardening fixes for v6.10-rc6 2024-06-28 16:11:02 -07:00
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mm mm: swap: reuse exclusive folio directly instead of wp page faults 2024-07-03 19:30:04 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 6.10 2024-06-29 13:48:24 -07:00
rust rust: avoid unused import warning in rusttest 2024-06-11 23:33:28 +02:00
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security lsm/stable-6.10 PR 20240617 2024-06-17 18:35:12 -07:00
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