The patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc: split prep_compound_page into head and tail subparts
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-page_alloc-split-prep_compound_page-into-head-and-tail-subparts.patch
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From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: split prep_compound_page into head and tail subparts
Patch series "mm, device-dax: Introduce compound pages in devmap", v7.
This series converts device-dax to use compound pages, and moves away from
the 'struct page per basepage on PMD/PUD' that is done today. Doing so,
1) unlocks a few noticeable improvements on unpin_user_pages() and makes
device-dax+altmap case 4x times faster in pinning (numbers below and in
last patch) 2) as mentioned in various other threads it's one important
step towards cleaning up ZONE_DEVICE refcounting.
I've split the compound pages on devmap part from the rest based on recent
discussions on devmap pending and future work planned[5][6]. There is
consensus that device-dax should be using compound pages to represent its
PMD/PUDs just like HugeTLB and THP, and that leads to less specialization
of the dax parts. I will pursue the rest of the work in parallel once
this part is merged, particular the GUP-{slow,fast} improvements [7] and
the tail struct page deduplication memory savings part[8].
To summarize what the series does:
Patch 1: Prepare hwpoisoning to work with dax compound pages.
Patches 2-3: Split the current utility function of prep_compound_page()
into head and tail and use those two helpers where appropriate to take
advantage of caches being warm after __init_single_page(). This is used
when initializing zone device when we bring up device-dax namespaces.
Patches 4-10: Add devmap support for compound pages in device-dax.
memmap_init_zone_device() initialize its metadata as compound pages, and
it introduces a new devmap property known as vmemmap_shift which outlines
how the vmemmap is structured (defaults to base pages as done today). The
property describe the page order of the metadata essentially. While at it
do a few cleanups in device-dax in patches 5-9. Finally enable device-dax
usage of devmap @vmemmap_shift to a value based on its own @align
property. @vmemmap_shift returns 0 by default (which is today's case of
base pages in devmap, like fsdax or the others) and the usage of compound
devmap is optional. Starting with device-dax (*not* fsdax) we enable it
by default. There are a few pinning improvements particular on the
unpinning case and altmap, as well as unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock()
being just as effective as THP/hugetlb[0] pages.
$ gup_test -f /dev/dax1.0 -m 16384 -r 10 -S -a -n 512 -w
(pin_user_pages_fast 2M pages) put:~71 ms -> put:~22 ms
[altmap]
(pin_user_pages_fast 2M pages) get:~524ms put:~525 ms -> get: ~127ms put:~71ms
$ gup_test -f /dev/dax1.0 -m 129022 -r 10 -S -a -n 512 -w
(pin_user_pages_fast 2M pages) put:~513 ms -> put:~188 ms
[altmap with -m 127004]
(pin_user_pages_fast 2M pages) get:~4.1 secs put:~4.12 secs -> get:~1sec put:~563ms
Tested on x86 with 1Tb+ of pmem (alongside registering it with RDMA with
and without altmap), alongside gup_test selftests with dynamic dax regions
and static dax regions. Coupled with ndctl unit tests for dynamic dax
devices that exercise all of this. Note, for dynamic dax regions I had to
revert commit 8aa83e6395 ("x86/setup: Call early_reserve_memory()
earlier"), it is a known issue that this commit broke efi_fake_mem=.
This patch (of 11):
Split the utility function prep_compound_page() into head and tail
counterparts, and use them accordingly.
This is in preparation for sharing the storage for compound page
metadata.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202204422.26777-1-joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202204422.26777-3-joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-split-prep_compound_page-into-head-and-tail-subparts
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -726,23 +726,33 @@ void free_compound_page(struct page *pag
free_the_page(page, compound_order(page));
}
+static void prep_compound_head(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+ set_compound_page_dtor(page, COMPOUND_PAGE_DTOR);
+ set_compound_order(page, order);
+ atomic_set(compound_mapcount_ptr(page), -1);
+ if (hpage_pincount_available(page))
+ atomic_set(compound_pincount_ptr(page), 0);
+}
+
+static void prep_compound_tail(struct page *head, int tail_idx)
+{
+ struct page *p = head + tail_idx;
+
+ p->mapping = TAIL_MAPPING;
+ set_compound_head(p, head);
+}
+
void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
{
int i;
int nr_pages = 1 << order;
__SetPageHead(page);
- for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++) {
- struct page *p = page + i;
- p->mapping = TAIL_MAPPING;
- set_compound_head(p, page);
- }
+ for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++)
+ prep_compound_tail(page, i);
- set_compound_page_dtor(page, COMPOUND_PAGE_DTOR);
- set_compound_order(page, order);
- atomic_set(compound_mapcount_ptr(page), -1);
- if (hpage_pincount_available(page))
- atomic_set(compound_pincount_ptr(page), 0);
+ prep_compound_head(page, order);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-page_alloc-split-prep_compound_page-into-head-and-tail-subparts.patch
mm-page_alloc-refactor-memmap_init_zone_device-page-init.patch
mm-memremap-add-zone_device-support-for-compound-pages.patch
device-dax-use-align-for-determining-pgoff.patch
device-dax-use-struct_size.patch
device-dax-ensure-dev_dax-pgmap-is-valid-for-dynamic-devices.patch
device-dax-factor-out-page-mapping-initialization.patch
device-dax-set-mapping-prior-to-vmf_insert_pfn_pmdpud.patch
device-dax-remove-pfn-from-__dev_dax_ptepmdpud_fault.patch
device-dax-compound-devmap-support.patch
