Re: [PATCH v4 35/36] mm: Convert do_set_pte() to set_pte_range()

From: Yin, Fengwei
Date: Thu Mar 16 2023 - 12:43:06 EST




On 3/17/2023 12:38 AM, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> On 16/03/2023 16:23, Yin, Fengwei wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/15/2023 11:26 PM, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>> On 15/03/2023 05:14, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
>>>> From: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> set_pte_range() allows to setup page table entries for a specific
>>>> range. It takes advantage of batched rmap update for large folio.
>>>> It now takes care of calling update_mmu_cache_range().
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 2 +-
>>>> include/linux/mm.h | 3 ++-
>>>> mm/filemap.c | 3 +--
>>>> mm/memory.c | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
>>>> 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
>>>> index 7de7a7272a5e..922886fefb7f 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
>>>> @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ locked. The VM will unlock the page.
>>>> Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff"
>>>> till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must
>>>> not block. If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking,
>>>> -filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup
>>>> +filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use set_pte_range() to setup
>>>> page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in
>>>> "pte" field in vm_fault structure. Pointers to entries for other offsets
>>>> should be calculated relative to "pte".
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
>>>> index ee755bb4e1c1..81788c985a8c 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
>>>> @@ -1299,7 +1299,8 @@ static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page);
>>>> -void do_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page, unsigned long addr);
>>>> +void set_pte_range(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio,
>>>> + struct page *page, unsigned int nr, unsigned long addr);
>>>>
>>>> vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf);
>>>> vm_fault_t finish_mkwrite_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf);
>>>> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
>>>> index 6e2b0778db45..e2317623dcbf 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/filemap.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
>>>> @@ -3504,8 +3504,7 @@ static vm_fault_t filemap_map_folio_range(struct vm_fault *vmf,
>>>> ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
>>>>
>>>> ref_count++;
>>>> - do_set_pte(vmf, page, addr);
>>>> - update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, vmf->pte);
>>>> + set_pte_range(vmf, folio, page, 1, addr);
>>>> } while (vmf->pte++, page++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, ++count < nr_pages);
>>>>
>>>> /* Restore the vmf->pte */
>>>> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
>>>> index 6aa21e8f3753..9a654802f104 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/memory.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/memory.c
>>>> @@ -4274,7 +4274,8 @@ vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
>>>> }
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>> -void do_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page, unsigned long addr)
>>>> +void set_pte_range(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio,
>>>> + struct page *page, unsigned int nr, unsigned long addr)
>>>> {
>>>> struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
>>>> bool uffd_wp = vmf_orig_pte_uffd_wp(vmf);
>>>> @@ -4282,7 +4283,7 @@ void do_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page, unsigned long addr)
>>>> bool prefault = vmf->address != addr;
>>>
>>> I think you are changing behavior here - is this intentional? Previously this
>>> would be evaluated per page, now its evaluated once for the whole range. The
>>> intention below is that directly faulted pages are mapped young and prefaulted
>>> pages are mapped old. But now a whole range will be mapped the same.
>>
>> Yes. You are right here.
>>
>> Look at the prefault and cpu_has_hw_af for ARM64, it looks like we
>> can avoid to handle vmf->address == addr specially. It's OK to
>> drop prefault and change the logic here a little bit to:
>> if (arch_wants_old_prefaulted_pte())
>> entry = pte_mkold(entry);
>> else
>> entry = pte_sw_mkyong(entry);
>>
>> It's not necessary to use pte_sw_mkyong for vmf->address == addr
>> because HW will set the ACCESS bit in page table entry.
>>
>> Add Will Deacon in case I missed something here. Thanks.
>
> I'll defer to Will's response, but not all arm HW supports HW access flag
> management. In that case it's done by SW, so I would imagine that by setting
> this to old initially, we will get a second fault to set the access bit, which
> will slow things down. I wonder if you will need to split this into (up to) 3
> calls to set_ptes()?
If no HW access flag, arch_wants_old_prefaulted_pte() will return false. So
path will goto pte_sw_mkyong(entry). Right?


Regards
Yin, Fengwei

>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Yin, Fengwei
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>>> pte_t entry;
>>>>
>>>> - flush_icache_page(vma, page);
>>>> + flush_icache_pages(vma, page, nr);
>>>> entry = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
>>>>
>>>> if (prefault && arch_wants_old_prefaulted_pte())
>>>> @@ -4296,14 +4297,18 @@ void do_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page, unsigned long addr)
>>>> entry = pte_mkuffd_wp(entry);
>>>> /* copy-on-write page */
>>>> if (write && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
>>>> - inc_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
>>>> - page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, addr);
>>>> - lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable(page, vma);
>>>> + add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES, nr);
>>>> + VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(nr != 1, folio);
>>>> + folio_add_new_anon_rmap(folio, vma, addr);
>>>> + folio_add_lru_vma(folio, vma);
>>>> } else {
>>>> - inc_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, mm_counter_file(page));
>>>> - page_add_file_rmap(page, vma, false);
>>>> + add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, mm_counter_file(page), nr);
>>>> + folio_add_file_rmap_range(folio, page, nr, vma, false);
>>>> }
>>>> - set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, vmf->pte, entry);
>>>> + set_ptes(vma->vm_mm, addr, vmf->pte, entry, nr);
>>>> +
>>>> + /* no need to invalidate: a not-present page won't be cached */
>>>> + update_mmu_cache_range(vma, addr, vmf->pte, nr);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> static bool vmf_pte_changed(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>>>> @@ -4376,11 +4381,9 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>>>>
>>>> /* Re-check under ptl */
>>>> if (likely(!vmf_pte_changed(vmf))) {
>>>> - do_set_pte(vmf, page, vmf->address);
>>>> -
>>>> - /* no need to invalidate: a not-present page won't be cached */
>>>> - update_mmu_cache(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
>>>> + struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
>>>>
>>>> + set_pte_range(vmf, folio, page, 1, vmf->address);
>>>> ret = 0;
>>>> } else {
>>>> update_mmu_tlb(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
>>>
>