The patch titled
Subject: hugetlb: lazy page table copies in fork()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
hugetlb-lazy-page-table-copies-in-fork.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/hugetlb-lazy-page-table-copies-in-fork.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: hugetlb: lazy page table copies in fork()
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:56:20 -0700
Lazy page table copying at fork time was introduced with commit
d992895ba2b2 ("[PATCH] Lazy page table copies in fork()"). At the time,
hugetlb was very new and did not support page faulting. As a result, it
was excluded. When full page fault support was added for hugetlb, the
exclusion was not removed.
Simply remove the check that prevents lazy copying of hugetlb page tables
at fork. Of course, like other mappings this only applies to shared
mappings.
Lazy page table copying at fork will be less advantageous for hugetlb
mappings because:
- There are fewer page table entries with hugetlb
- hugetlb pmds can be shared instead of copied
In any case, completely eliminating the copy at fork time should speed
things up.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220621235620.291305-5-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/memory.c~hugetlb-lazy-page-table-copies-in-fork
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ vma_needs_copy(struct vm_area_struct *ds
if (userfaultfd_wp(dst_vma))
return true;
- if (src_vma->vm_flags & (VM_HUGETLB | VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP))
+ if (src_vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP))
return true;
if (src_vma->anon_vma)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx are
hugetlb-skip-to-end-of-pt-page-mapping-when-pte-not-present.patch
hugetlb-do-not-update-address-in-huge_pmd_unshare.patch
hugetlb-lazy-page-table-copies-in-fork.patch
