The patch titled Subject: mm/hugetlb: grab head page refcount once for group of subpages has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-grab-head-page-refcount-once-for-group-of-subpages.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-grab-head-page-refcount-once-for-group-of-subpages.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-grab-head-page-refcount-once-for-group-of-subpages.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hugetlb: grab head page refcount once for group of subpages Patch series "mm/hugetlb: follow_hugetlb_page() improvements", v2. While looking at ZONE_DEVICE struct page reuse particularly the last patch[0], I found two possible improvements for follow_hugetlb_page() which is solely used for get_user_pages()/pin_user_pages(). The first patch batches page refcount updates while the second tidies up storing the subpages/vmas. Both together bring the cost of slow variant of gup() cost from ~87.6k usecs to ~5.8k usecs. libhugetlbfs tests seem to pass as well gup_test benchmarks with hugetlbfs vmas. This patch (of 2): follow_hugetlb_page() once it locks the pmd/pud, checks all its N subpages in a huge page and grabs a reference for each one. Similar to gup-fast, have follow_hugetlb_page() grab the head page refcount only after counting all its subpages that are part of the just faulted huge page. Consequently we reduce the number of atomics necessary to pin said huge page, which improves non-fast gup() considerably: - 16G with 1G huge page size gup_test -f /mnt/huge/file -m 16384 -r 10 -L -S -n 512 -w PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: ~87.6k us -> ~12.8k us Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210128182632.24562-1-joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210128182632.24562-2-joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm.h | 3 +++ mm/gup.c | 5 ++--- mm/hugetlb.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-hugetlb-grab-head-page-refcount-once-for-group-of-subpages +++ a/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1181,6 +1181,9 @@ static inline void get_page(struct page } bool __must_check try_grab_page(struct page *page, unsigned int flags); +__maybe_unused struct page *try_grab_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs, + unsigned int flags); + static inline __must_check bool try_get_page(struct page *page) { --- a/mm/gup.c~mm-hugetlb-grab-head-page-refcount-once-for-group-of-subpages +++ a/mm/gup.c @@ -78,9 +78,8 @@ static inline struct page *try_get_compo * considered failure, and furthermore, a likely bug in the caller, so a warning * is also emitted. */ -static __maybe_unused struct page *try_grab_compound_head(struct page *page, - int refs, - unsigned int flags) +__maybe_unused struct page *try_grab_compound_head(struct page *page, + int refs, unsigned int flags) { if (flags & FOLL_GET) return try_get_compound_head(page, refs); --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-grab-head-page-refcount-once-for-group-of-subpages +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -4810,7 +4810,7 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struc unsigned long vaddr = *position; unsigned long remainder = *nr_pages; struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma); - int err = -EFAULT; + int err = -EFAULT, refs; while (vaddr < vma->vm_end && remainder) { pte_t *pte; @@ -4930,26 +4930,11 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struc continue; } + refs = 0; + same_page: - if (pages) { + if (pages) pages[i] = mem_map_offset(page, pfn_offset); - /* - * try_grab_page() should always succeed here, because: - * a) we hold the ptl lock, and b) we've just checked - * that the huge page is present in the page tables. If - * the huge page is present, then the tail pages must - * also be present. The ptl prevents the head page and - * tail pages from being rearranged in any way. So this - * page must be available at this point, unless the page - * refcount overflowed: - */ - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!try_grab_page(pages[i], flags))) { - spin_unlock(ptl); - remainder = 0; - err = -ENOMEM; - break; - } - } if (vmas) vmas[i] = vma; @@ -4958,6 +4943,7 @@ same_page: ++pfn_offset; --remainder; ++i; + ++refs; if (vaddr < vma->vm_end && remainder && pfn_offset < pages_per_huge_page(h)) { /* @@ -4965,6 +4951,25 @@ same_page: * of this compound page. */ goto same_page; + } else if (pages) { + /* + * try_grab_compound_head() should always succeed here, + * because: a) we hold the ptl lock, and b) we've just + * checked that the huge page is present in the page + * tables. If the huge page is present, then the tail + * pages must also be present. The ptl prevents the + * head page and tail pages from being rearranged in + * any way. So this page must be available at this + * point, unless the page refcount overflowed: + */ + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!try_grab_compound_head(pages[i-1], + refs, + flags))) { + spin_unlock(ptl); + remainder = 0; + err = -ENOMEM; + break; + } } spin_unlock(ptl); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-hugetlb-grab-head-page-refcount-once-for-group-of-subpages.patch mm-hugetlb-refactor-subpage-recording.patch