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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 9c111273bbf9..0d8f548d9d7e 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1238,15 +1238,8 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		/*
 		 * Check if the page has any GUP (or other external) pins.
 		 *
-		 * Here the check is racy it may see total_mapcount > refcount
-		 * in some cases.
-		 * For example, one process with one forked child process.
-		 * The parent has the PMD split due to MADV_DONTNEED, then
-		 * the child is trying unmap the whole PMD, but khugepaged
-		 * may be scanning the parent between the child has
-		 * PageDoubleMap flag cleared and dec the mapcount.  So
-		 * khugepaged may see total_mapcount > refcount.
-		 *
+		 * Here the check may be racy:
+		 * it may see total_mapcount > refcount in some cases?
 		 * But such case is ephemeral we could always retry collapse
 		 * later.  However it may report false positive if the page
 		 * has excessive GUP pins (i.e. 512).  Anyway the same check