On 10/14/24 5:55AM, Ryan Roberts wrote:
Hi All, Patch bomb incoming... This covers many subsystems, so I've included a core set of people on the full series and additionally included maintainers on relevant patches. I haven't included those maintainers on this cover letter since the numbers were far too big for it to work. But I've included a link to this cover letter on each patch, so they can hopefully find their way here. For follow up submissions I'll break it up by subsystem, but for now thought it was important to show the full picture. This RFC series implements support for boot-time page size selection within the arm64 kernel. arm64 supports 3 base page sizes (4K, 16K, 64K), but to date, page size has been selected at compile-time, meaning the size is baked into a given kernel image. As use of larger-than-4K page sizes become more prevalent this starts to present a problem for distributions. Boot-time page size selection enables the creation of a single kernel image, which can be told which page size to use on the kernel command line.
This looks really promising. Building and maintaining separate kernels is costly. Being able to build one kernel for three protential page sizes would not only cut down on the overhead of producing kernel packages and images, but also eases benchmarking and testing different page sizes without the need to build and install multiple kernels.
I'm also impressed that the patches are less intrusive than I would have expected. I'm looking forward to seeing this project move forward.
Thanks, Shaggy
Why is having an image-per-page size problematic? ================================================= Many traditional distros are now supporting both 4K and 64K. And this means managing 2 kernel packages, along with drivers for each. For some, it means multiple installer flavours and multiple ISOs. All of this adds up to a less-than-ideal level of complexity. Additionally, Android now supports 4K and 16K kernels. I'm told having to explicitly manage their KABI for each kernel is painful, and the extra flash space required for both kernel images and the duplicated modules has been problematic. Boot-time page size selection solves all of this. Additionally, in starting to think about the longer term deployment story for D128 page tables, which Arm architecture now supports, a lot of the same problems need to be solved, so this work sets us up nicely for that. So what's the down side? ======================== Well nothing's free; Various static allocations in the kernel image must be sized for the worst case (largest supported page size), so image size is in line with size of 64K compile-time image. So if you're interested in 4K or 16K, there is a slight increase to the image size. But I expect that problem goes away if you're compressing the image - its just some extra zeros. At boot-time, I expect we could free the unused static storage once we know the page size - although that would be a follow up enhancement. And then there is performance. Since PAGE_SIZE and friends are no longer compile-time constants, we must look up their values and do arithmetic at runtime instead of compile-time. My early perf testing suggests this is inperceptible for real-world workloads, and only has small impact on microbenchmarks - more on this below. Approach ======== The basic idea is to rid the source of any assumptions that PAGE_SIZE and friends are compile-time constant, but in a way that allows the compiler to perform the same optimizations as was previously being done if they do turn out to be compile-time constant. Where constants are required, we use limits; PAGE_SIZE_MIN and PAGE_SIZE_MAX. See commit log in patch 1 for full description of all the classes of problems to solve. By default PAGE_SIZE_MIN=PAGE_SIZE_MAX=PAGE_SIZE. But an arch may opt-in to boot-time page size selection by defining PAGE_SIZE_MIN & PAGE_SIZE_MAX. arm64 does this if the user selects the CONFIG_ARM64_BOOT_TIME_PAGE_SIZE Kconfig, which is an alternative to selecting a compile-time page size. When boot-time page size is active, the arch pgtable geometry macro definitions resolve to something that can be configured at boot. The arm64 implementation in this series mainly uses global, __ro_after_init variables. I've tried using alternatives patching, but that performs worse than loading from memory; I think due to code size bloat. Status ====== When CONFIG_ARM64_BOOT_TIME_PAGE_SIZE is selected, I've only implemented enough to compile the kernel image itself with defconfig (and a few other bits and pieces). This is enough to build a kernel that can boot under QEMU or FVP. I'll happily do the rest of the work to enable all the extra drivers, but wanted to get feedback on the shape of this effort first. If anyone wants to do any testing, and has a must-have config, let me know and I'll prioritize enabling it first. The series is arranged as follows: - patch 1: Add macros required for converting non-arch code to support boot-time page size selection - patches 2-36: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption from all non-arch code - patches 37-38: Some arm64 tidy ups - patch 39: Add macros required for converting arm64 code to support boot-time page size selection - patches 40-56: arm64 changes to support boot-time page size selection - patch 57: Add arm64 Kconfig option to enable boot-time page size selection Ideally, I'd like to get the basics merged (something like this series), then incrementally improve it over a handful of kernel releases until we can demonstrate that we have feature parity with the compile-time build and no performance blockers. Once at that point, ideally the compile-time build options would be removed and the code could be cleaned up further. One of the bigger peices that I'd propose to add as a follow up, is to make va-size boot-time selectable too. That will greatly simplify LPA2 fallback handling. Assuming people are ammenable to the rough shape, how would I go about getting the non-arch changes merged? Since they cover many subsystems, will each piece need to go independently to each relevant maintainer or could it all be merged together through the arm64 tree? Image Size ========== The below shows the size of a defconfig (+ xfs, squashfs, ftrace, kprobes) kernel image on disk for base (before any changes applied), compile (with changes, configured for compile-time page size) and boot (with changes, configured for boot-time page size). You can see the that compile-16k and 64k configs are actually slightly smaller than the baselines; that's due to optimizing some buffer sizes which didn't need to depend on page size during the series. The boot-time image is ~1% bigger than the 64k compile-time image. I believe there is scope to improve this to make it equal to compile-64k if required: | config | size/KB | diff/KB | diff/% | |-------------|---------|---------|---------| | base-4k | 54895 | 0 | 0.0% | | base-16k | 55161 | 266 | 0.5% | | base-64k | 56775 | 1880 | 3.4% | | compile-4k | 54895 | 0 | 0.0% | | compile-16k | 55097 | 202 | 0.4% | | compile-64k | 56391 | 1496 | 2.7% | | boot-4K | 57045 | 2150 | 3.9% | And below shows the size of the image in memory at run-time, separated for text and data costs. The boot image has ~1% text cost; most likely due to the fact that PAGE_SIZE and friends are not compile-time constants so need instructions to load the values and do arithmetic. I believe we could eventually get the data cost to match the cost for the compile image for the chosen page size by freeing the ends of the static buffers not needed for the selected page size: | | text | text | text | data | data | data | | config | size/KB | diff/KB | diff/% | size/KB | diff/KB | diff/% | |-------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------| | base-4k | 20561 | 0 | 0.0% | 14314 | 0 | 0.0% | | base-16k | 20439 | -122 | -0.6% | 14625 | 311 | 2.2% | | base-64k | 20435 | -126 | -0.6% | 15673 | 1359 | 9.5% | | compile-4k | 20565 | 4 | 0.0% | 14315 | 1 | 0.0% | | compile-16k | 20443 | -118 | -0.6% | 14517 | 204 | 1.4% | | compile-64k | 20439 | -122 | -0.6% | 15134 | 820 | 5.7% | | boot-4K | 20811 | 250 | 1.2% | 15287 | 973 | 6.8% | Functional Testing ================== I've build-tested defconfig for all arches supported by tuxmake (which is most) without issue. I've boot-tested arm64 with CONFIG_ARM64_BOOT_TIME_PAGE_SIZE for all page sizes and a few va-sizes, and additionally have run all the mm-selftests, with no regressions observed vs the equivalent compile-time page size build (although the mm-selftests have a few existing failures when run against 16K and 64K kernels - those should really be investigated and fixed independently). Test coverage is lacking for many of the drivers that I've touched, but in many cases, I'm hoping the changes are simple enough that review might suffice? Performance Testing =================== I've run some limited performance benchmarks: First, a real-world benchmark that causes a lot of page table manipulation (and therefore we would expect to see regression here if we are going to see it anywhere); kernel compilation. It barely registers a change. Values are times, so smaller is better. All relative to base-4k: | | kern | kern | user | user | real | real | | config | mean | stdev | mean | stdev | mean | stdev | |-------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------| | base-4k | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.3% | | compile-4k | -0.2% | 1.1% | -0.2% | 0.3% | -0.1% | 0.3% | | boot-4k | 0.1% | 1.0% | -0.3% | 0.2% | -0.2% | 0.2% | The Speedometer JavaScript benchmark also shows no change. Values are runs per min, so bigger is better. All relative to base-4k: | config | mean | stdev | |-------------|---------|---------| | base-4k | 0.0% | 0.8% | | compile-4k | 0.4% | 0.8% | | boot-4k | 0.0% | 0.9% | Finally, I've run some microbenchmarks known to stress page table manipulations (originally from David Hildenbrand). The fork test maps/allocs 1G of anon memory, then measures the cost of fork(). The munmap test maps/allocs 1G of anon memory then measures the cost of munmap()ing it. The fork test is known to be extremely sensitive to any changes that cause instructions to be aligned differently in cachelines. When using this test for other changes, I've seen double digit regressions for the slightest thing, so 12% regression on this test is actually fairly good. This likely represents the extreme worst case for regressions that will be observed across other microbenchmarks (famous last words). Values are times, so smaller is better. All relative to base-4k: | | fork | fork | munmap | munmap | | config | mean | stdev | stdev | stdev | |-------------|---------|---------|---------|---------| | base-4k | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.3% | | compile-4k | 0.1% | 1.3% | -0.9% | 0.1% | | boot-4k | 12.8% | 1.2% | 3.8% | 1.0% | NOTE: The series applies on top of v6.11. Thanks, Ryan Ryan Roberts (57): mm: Add macros ahead of supporting boot-time page size selection vmlinux: Align to PAGE_SIZE_MAX mm/memcontrol: Fix seq_buf size to save memory when PAGE_SIZE is large mm/page_alloc: Make page_frag_cache boot-time page size compatible mm: Avoid split pmd ptl if pmd level is run-time folded mm: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption fs: Introduce MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE_SIZE_MAX for array sizing fs: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption fs/nfs: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption fs/ext4: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption fork: Permit boot-time THREAD_SIZE determination cgroup: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption bpf: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption pm/hibernate: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption stackdepot: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption perf: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption kvm: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption trace: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption crash: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption crypto: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption sunrpc: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption sound: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption net: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption net: fec: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption net: marvell: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption net: hns3: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption net: e1000: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption net: igbvf: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption net: igb: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption drivers/base: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption edac: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption optee: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption random: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption sata_sil24: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption virtio: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption xen: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption arm64: Fix macros to work in C code in addition to the linker script arm64: Track early pgtable allocation limit arm64: Introduce macros required for boot-time page selection arm64: Refactor early pgtable size calculation macros arm64: Pass desired page size on command line arm64: Divorce early init from PAGE_SIZE arm64: Clean up simple cases of CONFIG_ARM64_*K_PAGES arm64: Align sections to PAGE_SIZE_MAX arm64: Rework trampoline rodata mapping arm64: Generalize fixmap for boot-time page size arm64: Statically allocate and align for worst-case page size arm64: Convert switch to if for non-const comparison values arm64: Convert BUILD_BUG_ON to VM_BUG_ON arm64: Remove PAGE_SZ asm-offset arm64: Introduce cpu features for page sizes arm64: Remove PAGE_SIZE from assembly code arm64: Runtime-fold pmd level arm64: Support runtime folding in idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings arm64: TRAMP_VALIAS is no longer compile-time constant arm64: Determine THREAD_SIZE at boot-time arm64: Enable boot-time page size selection arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/arc/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/arm/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/arm64/Kconfig | 26 ++- arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 78 ++++++- arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 44 +++- arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h | 28 ++- arch/arm64/include/asm/kernel-pgtable.h | 150 +++++++++---- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h | 21 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h | 11 + arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 6 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 62 ++++-- arch/arm64/include/asm/page-def.h | 3 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 16 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-geometry.h | 46 ++++ arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 28 ++- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 133 +++++++++--- 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arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 48 +++-- arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 10 + arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S | 10 +- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp.lds.S | 4 +- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pgtable-geometry.c | 16 ++ arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 39 ++-- arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S | 7 +- arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S | 33 ++- arch/arm64/lib/mte.S | 27 ++- arch/arm64/mm/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm64/mm/fixmap.c | 38 ++-- arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 40 +--- arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 26 +-- arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 8 +- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 53 +++-- arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c | 12 +- arch/arm64/mm/pgtable-geometry.c | 24 +++ arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 128 ++++++++--- arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c | 3 +- arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 3 + arch/csky/include/asm/page.h | 3 + arch/hexagon/include/asm/page.h | 2 + arch/loongarch/include/asm/page.h | 2 + arch/m68k/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/microblaze/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/mips/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/nios2/include/asm/page.h | 2 + arch/openrisc/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h | 2 + arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/s390/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/sh/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/sparc/include/asm/page.h | 3 + arch/um/include/asm/page.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h | 2 + arch/xtensa/include/asm/page.h | 1 + crypto/lskcipher.c | 4 +- drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c | 46 ++-- drivers/base/node.c | 6 +- drivers/base/topology.c | 32 +-- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 2 +- drivers/char/random.c | 4 +- drivers/edac/edac_mc.h | 13 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64.c | 3 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.h | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 5 +- .../net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h | 25 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 149 +++++++------ 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+- net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 4 +- net/core/hotdata.c | 4 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 4 +- net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 2 +- net/sunrpc/cache.c | 3 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 2 +- sound/soc/soc-utils.c | 4 +- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +- 172 files changed, 2185 insertions(+), 951 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-geometry.h create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pgtable-geometry.c create mode 100644 arch/arm64/mm/pgtable-geometry.c create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/pgtable-geometry.h -- 2.43.0
