[PATCH v2] arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64

From: Barry Song
Date: Fri May 27 2022 - 06:07:09 EST


From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>

THP_SWAP has been proved to improve the swap throughput significantly
on x86_64 according to commit bd4c82c22c367e ("mm, THP, swap: delay
splitting THP after swapped out").
As long as arm64 uses 4K page size, it is quite similar with x86_64
by having 2MB PMD THP. So we are going to get similar improvement.
For other page sizes such as 16KB and 64KB, PMD might be too large.
Negative side effects such as IO latency might be a problem. Thus,
we can only safely enable the counterpart of X86_64.
A corner case is that MTE has an assumption that only base pages
can be swapped. We won't enable THP_SWP for ARM64 hardware with
MTE support until MTE is re-arched.

Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 12 ++++++++++++
mm/swap_slots.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index a4968845e67f..5306009df2dc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ config ARM64
select ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
+ select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if ARM64_4K_PAGES
select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
select ARM_AMBA
select ARM_ARCH_TIMER
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 0b6632f18364..06076139c72c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
__flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, end, PUD_SIZE, false, 1)
#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */

+#define arch_thp_swp_supported !system_supports_mte
+
/*
* Outside of a few very special situations (e.g. hibernation), we always
* use broadcast TLB invalidation instructions, therefore a spurious page
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index de29821231c9..4ddaf6ad73ef 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -461,4 +461,16 @@ static inline int split_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio,
return split_huge_page_to_list(&folio->page, list);
}

+/*
+ * archs that select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP but don't support THP_SWP due to
+ * limitations in the implementation like arm64 MTE can override this to
+ * false
+ */
+#ifndef arch_thp_swp_supported
+static inline bool arch_thp_swp_supported(void)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+#endif
+
#endif /* _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H */
diff --git a/mm/swap_slots.c b/mm/swap_slots.c
index 2a65a89b5b4d..10b94d64cc25 100644
--- a/mm/swap_slots.c
+++ b/mm/swap_slots.c
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ swp_entry_t folio_alloc_swap(struct folio *folio)
entry.val = 0;

if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP))
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP) && arch_thp_swp_supported())
get_swap_pages(1, &entry, folio_nr_pages(folio));
goto out;
}
--
2.25.1