[PATCH v3 3/4] mm: Support batched unmap for lazyfree large folios during reclamation
From: Barry Song <hidden>
Date: 2025-01-15 03:38:52
Also in:
linux-mm, linux-riscv, lkml
Subsystem:
memory management, memory management - rmap (reverse mapping), the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Lorenzo Stoakes, Linus Torvalds
From: Barry Song <redacted>
Currently, the PTEs and rmap of a large folio are removed one at a time.
This is not only slow but also causes the large folio to be unnecessarily
added to deferred_split, which can lead to races between the
deferred_split shrinker callback and memory reclamation. This patch
releases all PTEs and rmap entries in a batch.
Currently, it only handles lazyfree large folios.
The below microbench tries to reclaim 128MB lazyfree large folios
whose sizes are 64KiB:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#define SIZE 128*1024*1024 // 128 MB
unsigned long read_split_deferred()
{
FILE *file = fopen("/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage"
"/hugepages-64kB/stats/split_deferred", "r");
if (!file) {
perror("Error opening file");
return 0;
}
unsigned long value;
if (fscanf(file, "%lu", &value) != 1) {
perror("Error reading value");
fclose(file);
return 0;
}
fclose(file);
return value;
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
while(1) {
volatile int *p = mmap(0, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
memset((void *)p, 1, SIZE);
madvise((void *)p, SIZE, MADV_FREE);
clock_t start_time = clock();
unsigned long start_split = read_split_deferred();
madvise((void *)p, SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT);
clock_t end_time = clock();
unsigned long end_split = read_split_deferred();
double elapsed_time = (double)(end_time - start_time) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
printf("Time taken by reclamation: %f seconds, split_deferred: %ld\n",
elapsed_time, end_split - start_split);
munmap((void *)p, SIZE);
}
return 0;
}
w/o patch:
~ # ./a.out
Time taken by reclamation: 0.177418 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.178348 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.174525 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.171620 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.172241 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.174003 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.171058 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.171993 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.169829 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.172895 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.176063 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.172568 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.171185 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.170632 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.170208 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
Time taken by reclamation: 0.174192 seconds, split_deferred: 2048
...
w/ patch:
~ # ./a.out
Time taken by reclamation: 0.074231 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071026 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.072029 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071873 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.073573 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071906 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.073604 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.075903 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.073191 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071228 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071391 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071468 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071896 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.072508 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071884 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.072433 seconds, split_deferred: 0
Time taken by reclamation: 0.071939 seconds, split_deferred: 0
...
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <redacted>
---
mm/rmap.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index abeb9fcec384..be1978d2712d 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c@@ -1642,6 +1642,25 @@ void folio_remove_rmap_pmd(struct folio *folio, struct page *page, #endif } +/* We support batch unmapping of PTEs for lazyfree large folios */ +static inline bool can_batch_unmap_folio_ptes(unsigned long addr, + struct folio *folio, pte_t *ptep) +{ + const fpb_t fpb_flags = FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY | FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY; + int max_nr = folio_nr_pages(folio); + pte_t pte = ptep_get(ptep); + + if (!folio_test_anon(folio) || folio_test_swapbacked(folio)) + return false; + if (pte_none(pte) || pte_unused(pte) || !pte_present(pte)) + return false; + if (pte_pfn(pte) != folio_pfn(folio)) + return false; + + return folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, ptep, pte, max_nr, fpb_flags, NULL, + NULL, NULL) == max_nr; +} + /* * @arg: enum ttu_flags will be passed to this argument */
@@ -1655,6 +1674,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool anon_exclusive, ret = true; struct mmu_notifier_range range; enum ttu_flags flags = (enum ttu_flags)(long)arg; + int nr_pages = 1; unsigned long pfn; unsigned long hsz = 0;
@@ -1780,6 +1800,16 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma, hugetlb_vma_unlock_write(vma); } pteval = huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pvmw.pte); + } else if (folio_test_large(folio) && !(flags & TTU_HWPOISON) && + can_batch_unmap_folio_ptes(address, folio, pvmw.pte)) { + nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio); + flush_cache_range(vma, range.start, range.end); + pteval = get_and_clear_full_ptes(mm, address, pvmw.pte, nr_pages, 0); + if (should_defer_flush(mm, flags)) + set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(mm, pteval, address, + address + folio_size(folio)); + else + flush_tlb_range(vma, range.start, range.end); } else { flush_cache_page(vma, address, pfn); /* Nuke the page table entry. */
@@ -1875,7 +1905,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma, * redirtied either using the page table or a previously * obtained GUP reference. */ - set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval); + set_ptes(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval, nr_pages); folio_set_swapbacked(folio); goto walk_abort; } else if (ref_count != 1 + map_count) {
@@ -1888,10 +1918,10 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma, * We'll come back here later and detect if the folio was * dirtied when the additional reference is gone. */ - set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval); + set_ptes(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval, nr_pages); goto walk_abort; } - dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); + add_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES, -nr_pages); goto discard; }
@@ -1943,13 +1973,18 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma, dec_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter_file(folio)); } discard: - if (unlikely(folio_test_hugetlb(folio))) + if (unlikely(folio_test_hugetlb(folio))) { hugetlb_remove_rmap(folio); - else - folio_remove_rmap_pte(folio, subpage, vma); + } else { + folio_remove_rmap_ptes(folio, subpage, nr_pages, vma); + folio_ref_sub(folio, nr_pages - 1); + } if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) mlock_drain_local(); folio_put(folio); + /* We have already batched the entire folio */ + if (nr_pages > 1) + goto walk_done; continue; walk_abort: ret = false;
--
2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)