Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] khugepaged: Optimize collapse_pte_mapped_thp() for large folios by PTE batching

[Dev Jain]

On 25/06/25 6:41 pm, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 11:28:05AM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
> > Use PTE batching to optimize collapse_pte_mapped_thp().
> >
> > On arm64, suppose khugepaged is scanning a pte-mapped 2MB THP for collapse.
> > Then, calling ptep_clear() for every pte will cause a TLB flush for every
> > contpte block. Instead, clear_full_ptes() does a
> > contpte_try_unfold_partial() which will flush the TLB only for the (if any)
> > starting and ending contpte block, if they partially overlap with the range
> > khugepaged is looking at.
> >
> > For all arches, there should be a benefit due to batching atomic operations
> > on mapcounts due to folio_remove_rmap_ptes().
> >
> > Note that we do not need to make a change to the check
> > "if (folio_page(folio, i) != page)"; if i'th page of the folio is equal
> > to the first page of our batch, then i + 1, .... i + nr_batch_ptes - 1
> > pages of the folio will be equal to the corresponding pages of our
> > batch mapping consecutive pages.
> >
> > No issues were observed with mm-selftests.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   mm/khugepaged.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> >   1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> > index 3944b112d452..4c8d33abfbd8 100644
> > --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> > +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> > @@ -1499,15 +1499,16 @@ static int set_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> >   int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> >   			    bool install_pmd)
> >   {
> > +	int nr_mapped_ptes = 0, nr_batch_ptes, result = SCAN_FAIL;
> >   	struct mmu_notifier_range range;
> >   	bool notified = false;
> >   	unsigned long haddr = addr & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
> > +	unsigned long end = haddr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
> >   	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vma_lookup(mm, haddr);
> >   	struct folio *folio;
> >   	pte_t *start_pte, *pte;
> >   	pmd_t *pmd, pgt_pmd;
> >   	spinlock_t *pml = NULL, *ptl;
> > -	int nr_ptes = 0, result = SCAN_FAIL;
> >   	int i;
> >
> >   	mmap_assert_locked(mm);
> > @@ -1621,11 +1622,17 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> >   		goto abort;
> >
> >   	/* step 2: clear page table and adjust rmap */
> > -	for (i = 0, addr = haddr, pte = start_pte;
> > -	     i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, pte++) {
> > +	for (i = 0, addr = haddr, pte = start_pte; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR;
> > +	     i += nr_batch_ptes, addr += nr_batch_ptes * PAGE_SIZE,
> > +	     pte += nr_batch_ptes) {
> > +		const fpb_t flags = FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY | FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY;
> > +		int max_nr_batch_ptes = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +		struct folio *mapped_folio;
> >   		struct page *page;
> >   		pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte);
> >
> > +		nr_batch_ptes = 1;
> > +
> >   		if (pte_none(ptent))
> >   			continue;
> >   		/*
> > @@ -1639,26 +1646,33 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> >   			goto abort;
> >   		}
> >   		page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, ptent);
> > +		mapped_folio = page_folio(page);
> > +
> >   		if (folio_page(folio, i) != page)
> >   			goto abort;
> Isn't this asserting that folio == mapped_folio here? We're saying page is the
> ith page of folio, so why do we need to look up mapped_folio?

We need to check for all PTEs whether they map the right page or not. This may
get disturbed due to mremap and stuff.

> > +		mapped_folio = page_folio(page);
> You're assigning this twice.

Forgot to remove, thanks.

> > +		nr_batch_ptes = folio_pte_batch(mapped_folio, addr, pte, ptent,
> > +						max_nr_batch_ptes, flags,
> > +						NULL, NULL, NULL);
> > +
> >   		/*
> >   		 * Must clear entry, or a racing truncate may re-remove it.
> >   		 * TLB flush can be left until pmdp_collapse_flush() does it.
> >   		 * PTE dirty? Shmem page is already dirty; file is read-only.
> >   		 */
> > -		ptep_clear(mm, addr, pte);
> > -		folio_remove_rmap_pte(folio, page, vma);
> > -		nr_ptes++;
> > +		clear_full_ptes(mm, addr, pte, nr_batch_ptes, /* full = */ false);
> > +		folio_remove_rmap_ptes(folio, page, nr_batch_ptes, vma);
> > +		nr_mapped_ptes += nr_batch_ptes;
> >   	}
> >
> >   	if (!pml)
> >   		spin_unlock(ptl);
> >
> >   	/* step 3: set proper refcount and mm_counters. */
> > -	if (nr_ptes) {
> > -		folio_ref_sub(folio, nr_ptes);
> > -		add_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter_file(folio), -nr_ptes);
> > +	if (nr_mapped_ptes) {
> > +		folio_ref_sub(folio, nr_mapped_ptes);
> > +		add_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter_file(folio), -nr_mapped_ptes);
> >   	}
> >
> >   	/* step 4: remove empty page table */
> > @@ -1691,10 +1705,10 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> >   			: SCAN_SUCCEED;
> >   	goto drop_folio;
> >   abort:
> > -	if (nr_ptes) {
> > +	if (nr_mapped_ptes) {
> I know it's ironic coming from me :P but I'm not sure why we need to churn this
> up by renaming?

Because nr_ptes is an existing variable and I need a new variable to make
the jump at the end of the PTE batch.

> >   		flush_tlb_mm(mm);
> > -		folio_ref_sub(folio, nr_ptes);
> > -		add_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter_file(folio), -nr_ptes);
> > +		folio_ref_sub(folio, nr_mapped_ptes);
> > +		add_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter_file(folio), -nr_mapped_ptes);
> >   	}
> >   unlock:
> >   	if (start_pte)
> > --
> > 2.30.2
> V