[PATCH v8 3/3] arm64: mte: add compression support to mteswap.c

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Fri Nov 03 2023 - 12:04:08 EST


Update mteswap.c to perform inline compression of memory tags when
possible.

If CONFIG_ARM64_MTE_COMP is enabled, mteswap.c will attemt to compress
saved tags for a struct page and store them directly in Xarray entry
instead of wasting heap space.

Soon after booting Android, tag compression saves ~2x memory previously
spent by mteswap.c on tag allocations. On a moderately loaded device with
~20% tagged pages, this leads to saving several megabytes of kernel heap:

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mteswap/stats
8 bytes: 102496 allocations, 67302 deallocations
128 bytes: 212234 allocations, 178278 deallocations
uncompressed tag storage size: 8851200
compressed tag storage size: 4346368

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
v8:
- adapt to the new compression API, abandon mteswap_{no,}comp.c
- move stats collection to mteswap.c

v5:
- drop a dead variable from _mte_free_saved_tags() in mteswap_comp.c
- ensure MTE compression works with arbitrary page sizes
- update patch description

v4:
- minor code simplifications suggested by Andy Shevchenko, added
missing header dependencies
- changed compression API names to reflect modifications made to
memcomp.h (as suggested by Yury Norov)

v3:
- Addressed comments by Andy Shevchenko in another patch:
- fixed includes order
- replaced u64 with unsigned long
- added MODULE_IMPORT_NS(MTECOMP)
---
arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 84 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
index a31833e3ddc54..0f558942d88b8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
@@ -1,28 +1,48 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/xarray.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/swapops.h>
#include <asm/mte.h>
+#include <asm/mtecomp.h>
+#include "mtecomp.h"
+
+enum mteswap_counters {
+ MTESWAP_CTR_INLINE = 0,
+ MTESWAP_CTR_NOINLINE,
+ MTESWAP_CTR_SIZE
+};
+static atomic_long_t alloc_counters[MTESWAP_CTR_SIZE];
+static atomic_long_t dealloc_counters[MTESWAP_CTR_SIZE];

static DEFINE_XARRAY(mte_pages);

void *mte_allocate_tag_storage(void)
{
- /* tags granule is 16 bytes, 2 tags stored per byte */
- return kmalloc(MTE_PAGE_TAG_STORAGE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ void *ret;
+
+ ret = kmalloc(MTE_PAGE_TAG_STORAGE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (ret)
+ atomic_long_inc(&alloc_counters[MTESWAP_CTR_NOINLINE]);
+ return ret;
}

void mte_free_tag_storage(char *storage)
{
- kfree(storage);
+ if (!mte_is_compressed(storage)) {
+ kfree(storage);
+ atomic_long_dec(&alloc_counters[MTESWAP_CTR_NOINLINE]);
+ } else {
+ atomic_long_dec(&alloc_counters[MTESWAP_CTR_INLINE]);
+ }
}

int mte_save_tags(struct page *page)
{
- void *tag_storage, *ret;
+ void *tag_storage, *ret, *compressed;

if (!page_mte_tagged(page))
return 0;
@@ -32,6 +52,12 @@ int mte_save_tags(struct page *page)
return -ENOMEM;

mte_save_page_tags(page_address(page), tag_storage);
+ compressed = mte_compress(tag_storage);
+ if (compressed) {
+ mte_free_tag_storage(tag_storage);
+ tag_storage = (void *)compressed;
+ atomic_long_inc(&alloc_counters[MTESWAP_CTR_INLINE]);
+ }

/* lookup the swap entry.val from the page */
ret = xa_store(&mte_pages, page_swap_entry(page).val, tag_storage,
@@ -50,13 +76,20 @@ int mte_save_tags(struct page *page)
void mte_restore_tags(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
{
void *tags = xa_load(&mte_pages, entry.val);
+ void *tag_storage = NULL;

if (!tags)
return;

if (try_page_mte_tagging(page)) {
+ if (mte_is_compressed(tags)) {
+ tag_storage = mte_allocate_tag_storage();
+ mte_decompress(tags, tag_storage);
+ tags = tag_storage;
+ }
mte_restore_page_tags(page_address(page), tags);
set_page_mte_tagged(page);
+ mte_free_tag_storage(tag_storage);
}
}

@@ -83,3 +116,50 @@ void mte_invalidate_tags_area(int type)
}
xa_unlock(&mte_pages);
}
+
+/* DebugFS interface. */
+static int stats_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
+{
+ unsigned long total_mem_alloc = 0, total_mem_dealloc = 0;
+ unsigned long total_num_alloc = 0, total_num_dealloc = 0;
+ unsigned long sizes[2] = { 8, MTE_PAGE_TAG_STORAGE };
+ long alloc, dealloc;
+ unsigned long size;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < MTESWAP_CTR_SIZE; i++) {
+ alloc = atomic_long_read(&alloc_counters[i]);
+ dealloc = atomic_long_read(&dealloc_counters[i]);
+ total_num_alloc += alloc;
+ total_num_dealloc += dealloc;
+ size = sizes[i];
+ /*
+ * Do not count 8-byte buffers towards compressed tag storage
+ * size.
+ */
+ if (i) {
+ total_mem_alloc += (size * alloc);
+ total_mem_dealloc += (size * dealloc);
+ }
+ seq_printf(seq,
+ "%lu bytes: %lu allocations, %lu deallocations\n",
+ size, alloc, dealloc);
+ }
+ seq_printf(seq, "uncompressed tag storage size: %lu\n",
+ (total_num_alloc - total_num_dealloc) *
+ MTE_PAGE_TAG_STORAGE);
+ seq_printf(seq, "compressed tag storage size: %lu\n",
+ total_mem_alloc - total_mem_dealloc);
+ return 0;
+}
+DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(stats);
+
+static int mteswap_init(void)
+{
+ struct dentry *mteswap_dir;
+
+ mteswap_dir = debugfs_create_dir("mteswap", NULL);
+ debugfs_create_file("stats", 0444, mteswap_dir, NULL, &stats_fops);
+ return 0;
+}
+module_init(mteswap_init);
--
2.42.0.869.gea05f2083d-goog