HAVE_MOVE_PUD enables remapping pages at the PUD level if both the
source and destination addresses are PUD-aligned.

With HAVE_MOVE_PUD enabled it can be inferred that there is approximately
a 19x improvement in performance on arm64. (See data below).

------- Test Results ---------

The following results were obtained using a 5.4 kernel, by remapping
a PUD-aligned, 1GB sized region to a PUD-aligned destination.
The results from 10 iterations of the test are given below:

Total mremap times for 1GB data on arm64. All times are in nanoseconds.

Control          HAVE_MOVE_PUD

1247761          74271
1219896          46771
1094792          59687
1227760          48385
1043698          76666
1101771          50365
1159896          52500
1143594          75261
1025833          61354
1078125          48697

1134312.6        59395.7    <-- Mean time in nanoseconds

A 1GB mremap completion time drops from ~1.1 milliseconds
to ~59 microseconds on arm64. (~19x speed up).

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <redacted>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
Changes in v3:
  - Add set_pud_at() macro - Used by move_normal_pud().

Changes in v4:
  - Add Kirill's Acked-by.

 arch/arm64/Kconfig               | 1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 434d6791e869..7191a79fb44d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig

@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ
 	select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
+	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_PCI
 	select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if (ACPI && EFI)
 	select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index a11bf52e0c38..0b0b36974757 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h

@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdevmap(pmd_t pmd)
 #define pfn_pud(pfn,prot)	__pud(__phys_to_pud_val((phys_addr_t)(pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) | pgprot_val(prot))
 
 #define set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmdp, pmd)	set_pte_at(mm, addr, (pte_t *)pmdp, pmd_pte(pmd))
+#define set_pud_at(mm, addr, pudp, pud)	set_pte_at(mm, addr, (pte_t *)pudp, pud_pte(pud))
 
 #define __p4d_to_phys(p4d)	__pte_to_phys(p4d_pte(p4d))
 #define __phys_to_p4d_val(phys)	__phys_to_pte_val(phys)

-- 
2.28.0.1011.ga647a8990f-goog


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