[tip:sched/core] mm: Only flush TLBs if a transhuge PMD is modified for NUMA pte scanning

From: tip-bot for Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Oct 09 2013 - 13:26:27 EST


Commit-ID: f123d74abf91574837d14e5ea58f6a779a387bf5
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f123d74abf91574837d14e5ea58f6a779a387bf5
Author: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:28:49 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:39:49 +0200

mm: Only flush TLBs if a transhuge PMD is modified for NUMA pte scanning

NUMA PTE scanning is expensive both in terms of the scanning itself and
the TLB flush if there are any updates. The TLB flush is avoided if no
PTEs are updated but there is a bug where transhuge PMDs are considered
to be updated even if they were already pmd_numa. This patch addresses
the problem and TLB flushes should be reduced.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-12-git-send-email-mgorman@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
mm/mprotect.c | 14 ++++++++++----
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index d4928769..de8d5cf 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1458,6 +1458,12 @@ out:
return ret;
}

+/*
+ * Returns
+ * - 0 if PMD could not be locked
+ * - 1 if PMD was locked but protections unchange and TLB flush unnecessary
+ * - HPAGE_PMD_NR is protections changed and TLB flush necessary
+ */
int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
unsigned long addr, pgprot_t newprot, int prot_numa)
{
@@ -1466,9 +1472,11 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,

if (__pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma) == 1) {
pmd_t entry;
- entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
+ ret = 1;
if (!prot_numa) {
+ entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
+ ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR;
BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry));
} else {
struct page *page = pmd_page(*pmd);
@@ -1476,12 +1484,17 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
/* only check non-shared pages */
if (page_mapcount(page) == 1 &&
!pmd_numa(*pmd)) {
+ entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
entry = pmd_mknuma(entry);
+ ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR;
}
}
- set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
+
+ /* Set PMD if cleared earlier */
+ if (ret == HPAGE_PMD_NR)
+ set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
+
spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
- ret = 1;
}

return ret;
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 7bdbd4b..2da33dc 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -144,10 +144,16 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)
split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
- else if (change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, newprot,
- prot_numa)) {
- pages++;
- continue;
+ else {
+ int nr_ptes = change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr,
+ newprot, prot_numa);
+
+ if (nr_ptes) {
+ if (nr_ptes == HPAGE_PMD_NR)
+ pages++;
+
+ continue;
+ }
}
/* fall through */
}
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