From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: sparsemem: use page table lock to protect kernel pmd operations The init_mm.page_table_lock is used to protect kernel page tables, we can use it to serialize splitting vmemmap PMD mappings instead of mmap write lock, which can increase the concurrency of vmemmap_remap_free(). Actually, It increase the concurrency between allocations of HugeTLB pages. But it is not the only benefit. There are a lot of users of mmap read lock of init_mm. The mmap write lock is holding through vmemmap_remap_free(), removing mmap write lock usage to make it does not affect other users of mmap read lock. It is not making anything worse and always a win to move. Now the kernel page table walker does not hold the page_table_lock when walking pmd entries. There may be consistency issue of a pmd entry, because pmd entry might change from a huge pmd entry to a PTE page table. There is only one user of kernel page table walker, namely ptdump. The ptdump already considers the consistency, which use a local variable to cache the value of pmd entry. But we also need to update ->action to ACTION_CONTINUE to make sure the walker does not walk every pte entry again when concurrent thread has split the huge pmd. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211101031651.75851-4-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam <bodeddub@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chen Huang <chenhuang5@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/ptdump.c | 16 ++++++++++---- mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) --- a/mm/ptdump.c~mm-sparsemem-use-page-table-lock-to-protect-kernel-pmd-operations +++ a/mm/ptdump.c @@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ static int ptdump_pgd_entry(pgd_t *pgd, if (st->effective_prot) st->effective_prot(st, 0, pgd_val(val)); - if (pgd_leaf(val)) + if (pgd_leaf(val)) { st->note_page(st, addr, 0, pgd_val(val)); + walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE; + } return 0; } @@ -61,8 +63,10 @@ static int ptdump_p4d_entry(p4d_t *p4d, if (st->effective_prot) st->effective_prot(st, 1, p4d_val(val)); - if (p4d_leaf(val)) + if (p4d_leaf(val)) { st->note_page(st, addr, 1, p4d_val(val)); + walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE; + } return 0; } @@ -82,8 +86,10 @@ static int ptdump_pud_entry(pud_t *pud, if (st->effective_prot) st->effective_prot(st, 2, pud_val(val)); - if (pud_leaf(val)) + if (pud_leaf(val)) { st->note_page(st, addr, 2, pud_val(val)); + walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE; + } return 0; } @@ -101,8 +107,10 @@ static int ptdump_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, if (st->effective_prot) st->effective_prot(st, 3, pmd_val(val)); - if (pmd_leaf(val)) + if (pmd_leaf(val)) { st->note_page(st, addr, 3, pmd_val(val)); + walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE; + } return 0; } --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c~mm-sparsemem-use-page-table-lock-to-protect-kernel-pmd-operations +++ a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c @@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ struct vmemmap_remap_walk { struct list_head *vmemmap_pages; }; -static int split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, - struct vmemmap_remap_walk *walk) +static int __split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start) { pmd_t __pmd; int i; @@ -76,15 +75,34 @@ static int split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd_t set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, entry); } - /* Make pte visible before pmd. See comment in pmd_install(). */ - smp_wmb(); - pmd_populate_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, pgtable); - - flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, start + PMD_SIZE); + spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); + if (likely(pmd_leaf(*pmd))) { + /* Make pte visible before pmd. See comment in pmd_install(). */ + smp_wmb(); + pmd_populate_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, pgtable); + flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, start + PMD_SIZE); + } else { + pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pgtable); + } + spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); return 0; } +static int split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start) +{ + int leaf; + + spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); + leaf = pmd_leaf(*pmd); + spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); + + if (!leaf) + return 0; + + return __split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd, start); +} + static void vmemmap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, struct vmemmap_remap_walk *walk) @@ -121,13 +139,12 @@ static int vmemmap_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); do { - if (pmd_leaf(*pmd)) { - int ret; + int ret; + + ret = split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd, addr & PMD_MASK); + if (ret) + return ret; - ret = split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd, addr & PMD_MASK, walk); - if (ret) - return ret; - } next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); vmemmap_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, walk); } while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end); @@ -321,10 +338,8 @@ int vmemmap_remap_free(unsigned long sta */ BUG_ON(start - reuse != PAGE_SIZE); - mmap_write_lock(&init_mm); + mmap_read_lock(&init_mm); ret = vmemmap_remap_range(reuse, end, &walk); - mmap_write_downgrade(&init_mm); - if (ret && walk.nr_walked) { end = reuse + walk.nr_walked * PAGE_SIZE; /* _
