This set makes uprobe aware of THPs. Currently, when uprobe is attached to text on THP, the page is split by FOLL_SPLIT. As a result, uprobe eliminates the performance benefit of THP. This set makes uprobe THP-aware. Instead of FOLL_SPLIT, we introduces FOLL_SPLIT_PMD, which only split PMD for uprobe. TODO (temporarily removed in v7): After all uprobes within the THP are removed, regroup the PTE-mapped pages into huge PMD. This set (plus a few THP patches) is also available at https://github.com/liu-song-6/linux/tree/uprobe-thp Changes v6 => v7: 1. Include Acked-by from Kirill A. Shutemov for the first 4 patches; 2. Keep only the first 4 patches (while I working on improving the last 2). Changes v5 => v6: 1. Enable khugepaged to collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP (Kirill A. Shutemov). 2. uprobe asks khuagepaged to collaspe pmd. (Kirill A. Shutemov) Note: Theast two patches in v6 the set apply _after_ v7 of set "Enable THP for text section of non-shmem files" Changes v4 => v5: 1. Propagate pte_alloc() error out of follow_pmd_mask(). Changes since v3: 1. Simplify FOLL_SPLIT_PMD case in follow_pmd_mask(), (Kirill A. Shutemov) 2. Fix try_collapse_huge_pmd() to match change in follow_pmd_mask(). Changes since v2: 1. For FOLL_SPLIT_PMD, populated the page table in follow_pmd_mask(). 2. Simplify logic in uprobe_write_opcode. (Oleg Nesterov) 3. Fix page refcount handling with FOLL_SPLIT_PMD. 4. Much more testing, together with THP on ext4 and btrfs (sending in separate set). 5. Rebased. Changes since v1: 1. introduces FOLL_SPLIT_PMD, instead of modifying split_huge_pmd*(); 2. reuse pages_identical() from ksm.c; 3. rewrite most of try_collapse_huge_pmd(). Song Liu (4): mm: move memcmp_pages() and pages_identical() uprobe: use original page when all uprobes are removed mm, thp: introduce FOLL_SPLIT_PMD uprobe: use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD instead of FOLL_SPLIT include/linux/mm.h | 8 +++++++ kernel/events/uprobes.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- mm/gup.c | 8 +++++-- mm/ksm.c | 18 --------------- mm/util.c | 13 +++++++++++ 5 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1
