FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and
actually, there is not even the need to wait for the migration to
finish, we only want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page.
Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP
code. Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually
care about the page itself, we only need to know a single property --
no need to even grab a reference.
So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of
FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in
the future.
In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge
performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in
a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s).
I don't think we particularly care for now.
Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback.
Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by
another 100-200 MiB/s.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/ksm.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index c6f58aa6e731..5cdb852ff132 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/oom.h>
#include <linux/numa.h>
+#include <linux/pagewalk.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -419,6 +420,39 @@ static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
}
+static int break_ksm_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long next,
+ struct mm_walk *walk)
+{
+ struct page *page = NULL;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
+ pte_t *pte;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (pmd_leaf(*pmd) || !pmd_present(*pmd))
+ return 0;
+
+ pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+ if (pte_present(*pte)) {
+ page = vm_normal_page(walk->vma, addr, *pte);
+ } else if (!pte_none(*pte)) {
+ swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(*pte);
+
+ /*
+ * As KSM pages remain KSM pages until freed, no need to wait
+ * here for migration to end.
+ */
+ if (is_migration_entry(entry))
+ page = pfn_swap_entry_to_page(entry);
+ }
+ ret = page && PageKsm(page);
+ pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static const struct mm_walk_ops break_ksm_ops = {
+ .pmd_entry = break_ksm_pmd_entry,
+};
+
/*
* We use break_ksm to break COW on a ksm page by triggering unsharing,
* such that the ksm page will get replaced by an exclusive anonymous page.
@@ -434,21 +468,16 @@ static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
*/
static int break_ksm(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
{
- struct page *page;
vm_fault_t ret = 0;
do {
- bool ksm_page = false;
+ int ksm_page;
cond_resched();
- page = follow_page(vma, addr,
- FOLL_GET | FOLL_MIGRATION | FOLL_REMOTE);
- if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page))
- break;
- if (PageKsm(page))
- ksm_page = true;
- put_page(page);
-
+ ksm_page = walk_page_range_vma(vma, addr, addr + 1,
+ &break_ksm_ops, NULL);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ksm_page < 0))
+ return ksm_page;
if (!ksm_page)
return 0;
ret = handle_mm_fault(vma, addr,
--
2.37.3
