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author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2022-11-03 02:51:38 +0100 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-12-01 00:58:46 +0100 |
commit | cb67f4282bf9693658dbda934a441ddbbb1446df (patch) | |
tree | 799f5d9f3b36ff8d844e90ace1f09a94a7ec3a5c /Documentation/mm | |
parent | mm,hugetlb: use folio fields in second tail page (diff) | |
download | linux-cb67f4282bf9693658dbda934a441ddbbb1446df.tar.xz linux-cb67f4282bf9693658dbda934a441ddbbb1446df.zip |
mm,thp,rmap: simplify compound page mapcount handling
Compound page (folio) mapcount calculations have been different for anon
and file (or shmem) THPs, and involved the obscure PageDoubleMap flag.
And each huge mapping and unmapping of a file (or shmem) THP involved
atomically incrementing and decrementing the mapcount of every subpage of
that huge page, dirtying many struct page cachelines.
Add subpages_mapcount field to the struct folio and first tail page, so
that the total of subpage mapcounts is available in one place near the
head: then page_mapcount() and total_mapcount() and page_mapped(), and
their folio equivalents, are so quick that anon and file and hugetlb don't
need to be optimized differently. Delete the unloved PageDoubleMap.
page_add and page_remove rmap functions must now maintain the
subpages_mapcount as well as the subpage _mapcount, when dealing with pte
mappings of huge pages; and correct maintenance of NR_ANON_MAPPED and
NR_FILE_MAPPED statistics still needs reading through the subpages, using
nr_subpages_unmapped() - but only when first or last pmd mapping finds
subpages_mapcount raised (double-map case, not the common case).
But are those counts (used to decide when to split an anon THP, and in
vmscan's pagecache_reclaimable heuristic) correctly maintained? Not
quite: since page_remove_rmap() (and also split_huge_pmd()) is often
called without page lock, there can be races when a subpage pte mapcount
0<->1 while compound pmd mapcount 0<->1 is scanning - races which the
previous implementation had prevented. The statistics might become
inaccurate, and even drift down until they underflow through 0. That is
not good enough, but is better dealt with in a followup patch.
Update a few comments on first and second tail page overlaid fields.
hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() has to "increment" compound_mapcount, but
subpages_mapcount and compound_pincount are already correctly at 0, so
delete its reinitialization of compound_pincount.
A simple 100 X munmap(mmap(2GB, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, tmpfs), 2GB) took
18 seconds on small pages, and used to take 1 second on huge pages, but
now takes 119 milliseconds on huge pages. Mapping by pmds a second time
used to take 860ms and now takes 92ms; mapping by pmds after mapping by
ptes (when the scan is needed) used to take 870ms and now takes 495ms.
But there might be some benchmarks which would show a slowdown, because
tail struct pages now fall out of cache until final freeing checks them.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/47ad693-717-79c8-e1ba-46c3a6602e48@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst index 216db1d67d04..a560e0c01b16 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -125,24 +125,6 @@ pages: ->_mapcount of all sub-pages in order to have race-free detection of last unmap of subpages. -PageDoubleMap() indicates that the page is *possibly* mapped with PTEs. - -For anonymous pages, PageDoubleMap() also indicates ->_mapcount in all -subpages is offset up by one. This additional reference is required to -get race-free detection of unmap of subpages when we have them mapped with -both PMDs and PTEs. - -This optimization is required to lower the overhead of per-subpage mapcount -tracking. The alternative is to alter ->_mapcount in all subpages on each -map/unmap of the whole compound page. - -For anonymous pages, we set PG_double_map when a PMD of the page is split -for the first time, but still have a PMD mapping. The additional references -go away with the last compound_mapcount. - -File pages get PG_double_map set on the first map of the page with PTE and -goes away when the page gets evicted from the page cache. - split_huge_page internally has to distribute the refcounts in the head page to the tail pages before clearing all PG_head/tail bits from the page structures. It can be done easily for refcounts taken by page table |