Since commit efa7df3e3bb5 ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP
boundaries") a mmap() of anonymous memory without a specific address
hint and of at least PMD_SIZE will be aligned to PMD so that it can
benefit from a THP backing page.
However this change has been shown to regress some workloads
significantly. [1] reports regressions in various spec benchmarks, with
up to 600% slowdown of the cactusBSSN benchmark on some platforms. The
benchmark seems to create many mappings of 4632kB, which would have
merged to a large THP-backed area before commit efa7df3e3bb5 and now
they are fragmented to multiple areas each aligned to PMD boundary with
gaps between. The regression then seems to be caused mainly due to the
benchmark's memory access pattern suffering from TLB or cache aliasing
due to the aligned boundaries of the individual areas.
Another known regression bisected to commit efa7df3e3bb5 is darktable
[2] [3] and early testing suggests this patch fixes the regression there
as well.
To fix the regression but still try to benefit from THP-friendly
anonymous mapping alignment, add a condition that the size of the
mapping must be a multiple of PMD size instead of at least PMD size. In
case of many odd-sized mapping like the cactusBSSN creates, those will
stop being aligned and with gaps between, and instead naturally merge
again.
Reported-by: Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>
Debugged-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229012 [1]
Reported-by: Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219366 [2]
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2050f0d4-57b0-481d-bab8-05e8d48fed0c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [3]
Fixes: efa7df3e3bb5 ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP boundaries")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/mmap.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 9c0fb43064b5..a5297cfb1dfc 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -900,7 +900,8 @@ __get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
if (get_area) {
addr = get_area(file, addr, len, pgoff, flags);
- } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)) {
+ } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
+ && IS_ALIGNED(len, PMD_SIZE)) {
/* Ensures that larger anonymous mappings are THP aligned. */
addr = thp_get_unmapped_area_vmflags(file, addr, len,
pgoff, flags, vm_flags);
--
2.47.0
