From: Pradeep Sawlani <sawlani@xxxxxxxxxx> On system like Android where most of the process are forked from parent w/o execve, KSM can scan same page multiple times in one scan cycle. There is no advantage in scanning same page multiple times for merging. During testing with Android, it was observed around 60% pages are skipped for each scan cycle. Change-Id: I0cf01802f0b4d61fcab92558beb9e1c660dc9a77 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMrOTPgBtANS_ryRjan0-dTL97U7eRvtf3dCsss=Kn+Uk89fuA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Pradeep Sawlani <sawlani@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/page-flags.h | 11 +++++++++++ mm/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ mm/ksm.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index 4dabf0f..af4462f 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -108,8 +108,15 @@ enum pageflags { #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE PG_compound_lock, #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_KSM_CHECK_PAGE + PG_ksm_scan0, /* page has been scanned by even KSM cycle */ +#endif __NR_PAGEFLAGS, +#ifdef CONFIG_KSM_CHECK_PAGE + /* page has been scanned by odd KSM cycle */ + PG_ksm_scan1 = PG_owner_priv_1, +#endif /* Filesystems */ PG_checked = PG_owner_priv_1, @@ -209,6 +216,10 @@ PAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved) PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) __PAGEFLAG(SlobFree, slob_free) +#ifdef CONFIG_KSM_CHECK_PAGE +CLEARPAGEFLAG(KsmScan0, ksm_scan0) TESTSETFLAG(KsmScan0, ksm_scan0) +CLEARPAGEFLAG(KsmScan1, ksm_scan1) TESTSETFLAG(KsmScan1, ksm_scan1) +#endif /* * Private page markings that may be used by the filesystem that owns the page diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 3922002..984f67c 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -246,6 +246,16 @@ config KSM until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set). +config KSM_CHECK_PAGE + bool "Check page before scanning" + depends on KSM + default n + help + If enabled, this will check and skip if page is already scanned in + same KSM scan cycle. + This is useful in situation where you have parent and + child process marking same area for KSM scanning. + config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" depends on MMU diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 47c8853..2edb9cb 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -558,7 +558,9 @@ static void remove_rmap_item_from_tree(struct rmap_item *rmap_item) * than left over from before. */ age = (unsigned char)(ksm_scan.seqnr - rmap_item->address); +#ifndef CONFIG_KSM_CHECK_PAGE BUG_ON(age > 1); +#endif if (!age) rb_erase(&rmap_item->node, &root_unstable_tree); @@ -1407,6 +1409,31 @@ next_mm: return NULL; } +static inline int is_page_scanned(struct page *page) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_KSM_CHECK_PAGE + /* page is already marked as ksm, so this will be simple merge */ + if (PageKsm(page)) + return 0; + + if (ksm_scan.seqnr & 0x1) { + /* odd cycle */ + /* clear even cycle bit */ + ClearPageKsmScan0(page); + /* get old value and mark it scanned */ + return TestSetPageKsmScan1(page); + } else { + /* even cycle */ + /* clear odd cycle bit */ + ClearPageKsmScan1(page); + /* get old value and mark it scanned */ + return TestSetPageKsmScan0(page); + } +#else + return 0; +#endif +} + /** * ksm_do_scan - the ksm scanner main worker function. * @scan_npages - number of pages we want to scan before we return. @@ -1421,8 +1448,10 @@ static void ksm_do_scan(unsigned int scan_npages) rmap_item = scan_get_next_rmap_item(&page); if (!rmap_item) return; - if (!PageKsm(page) || !in_stable_tree(rmap_item)) - cmp_and_merge_page(page, rmap_item); + if (!PageKsm(page) || !in_stable_tree(rmap_item)) { + if (!is_page_scanned(page)) + cmp_and_merge_page(page, rmap_item); + } put_page(page); } } -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>