On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 05:29:42PM +0000, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> Below is a quick patch to allow FADVISE_DONTNEED for shmem to reclaim
> mapped pages too. This would fit our usecase, and matches MADV_PAGEOUT
> more closely.
>
> The patch series as posted skips mapped pages even if you remove
> the folio_mapped() check, because page_referenced() in
> shrink_page_list() will find page tables with the page mapped,
> and ignore_references is not set when called from reclaim_pages().
>
> You can make this work in a similar fashion to MADV_PAGEOUT by
> first unmapping a page, but only if the mapping belongs to
> the caller. You just have to change the check for "is there
> only one mapping and am I the owner". To do that, change a few
> lines in try_to_unmap to allow for checking the mm the mapping
> belongs to, and pass in current->mm (NULL still unmaps all mappings).
>
> I lightly tested this in a somewhat older codebase, so the diff
> below isn't fully tested. But if there are no objections to
> this approach, we could add it on top of your patchset after
> better testing.
>
> - Frank
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
> index b87d01660412..4403cc2ccc4c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rmap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
> @@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ int folio_referenced(struct folio *, int is_locked,
>
> void try_to_migrate(struct folio *folio, enum ttu_flags flags);
> void try_to_unmap(struct folio *, enum ttu_flags flags);
> +void try_to_unmap_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, struct folio *folio,
> + enum ttu_flags flags);
>
> int make_device_exclusive_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
> unsigned long end, struct page **pages,
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 8632e02661ac..4d30e8f5afe2 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -1443,6 +1443,11 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> munlock_vma_folio(folio, vma, compound);
> }
>
> +struct unmap_arg {
> + enum ttu_flags flags;
> + struct mm_struct *mm;
> +};
> +
> /*
> * @arg: enum ttu_flags will be passed to this argument
> */
> @@ -1455,7 +1460,11 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> struct page *subpage;
> bool anon_exclusive, ret = true;
> struct mmu_notifier_range range;
> - enum ttu_flags flags = (enum ttu_flags)(long)arg;
> + struct unmap_arg *uap = (struct unmap_arg *)arg;
> + enum ttu_flags flags = uap->flags;
> +
> + if (uap->mm && uap->mm != mm)
> + return true;
>
> /*
> * When racing against e.g. zap_pte_range() on another cpu,
> @@ -1776,6 +1785,7 @@ static int folio_not_mapped(struct folio *folio)
>
> /**
> * try_to_unmap - Try to remove all page table mappings to a folio.
> + * @mm: mm to unmap from (NULL to unmap from all)
> * @folio: The folio to unmap.
> * @flags: action and flags
> *
> @@ -1785,11 +1795,16 @@ static int folio_not_mapped(struct folio *folio)
> *
> * Context: Caller must hold the folio lock.
> */
> -void try_to_unmap(struct folio *folio, enum ttu_flags flags)
> +void try_to_unmap_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, struct folio *folio,
> + enum ttu_flags flags)
> {
> + struct unmap_arg ua = {
> + .flags = flags,
> + .mm = mm,
> + };
> struct rmap_walk_control rwc = {
> .rmap_one = try_to_unmap_one,
> - .arg = (void *)flags,
> + .arg = (void *)&ua,
> .done = folio_not_mapped,
> .anon_lock = folio_lock_anon_vma_read,
> };
> @@ -1800,6 +1815,11 @@ void try_to_unmap(struct folio *folio, enum ttu_flags flags)
> rmap_walk(folio, &rwc);
> }
>
> +void try_to_unmap(struct folio *folio, enum ttu_flags flags)
> +{
> + try_to_unmap_mm(NULL, folio, flags);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * @arg: enum ttu_flags will be passed to this argument.
> *
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 1af85259b6fc..b24af2fb3378 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -2362,8 +2362,24 @@ static void shmem_isolate_pages_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t star
>
> if (!folio_try_get(folio))
> continue;
> - if (folio_test_unevictable(folio) || folio_mapped(folio) ||
> - folio_isolate_lru(folio)) {
> +
> + if (folio_test_unevictable(folio)) {
> + folio_put(folio);
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * If the folio is mapped once, try to unmap it from the
> + * caller's page table. If it's still mapped afterwards,
> + * it belongs to someone else, and we're not going to
> + * change someone else's mapping.
> + */
> + if (folio_mapcount(folio) == 1 && folio_trylock(folio)) {
> + try_to_unmap_mm(current->mm, folio, TTU_BATCH_FLUSH);
> + folio_unlock(folio);
> + }
Is rmap walk can be done from a RCU read critical section which does not
allow explicit blocking?
Thanks,
Pavan
