Commit 033193275b3ffcfe7f3fde7b569f3d207f6cd6a0
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Linus Torvalds
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pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary
Right now, if a mm_walk has either ->pte_entry or ->pmd_entry set, it will unconditionally split any transparent huge pages it runs in to. In practice, that means that anyone doing a cat /proc/$pid/smaps will unconditionally break down every huge page in the process and depend on khugepaged to re-collapse it later. This is fairly suboptimal. This patch changes that behavior. It teaches each ->pmd_entry handler (there are five) that they must break down the THPs themselves. Also, the _generic_ code will never break down a THP unless a ->pte_entry handler is actually set. This means that the ->pmd_entry handlers can now choose to deal with THPs without breaking them down. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Michael J Wolf <mjwolf@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Showing 4 changed files with 32 additions and 6 deletions Side-by-side Diff
fs/proc/task_mmu.c
... | ... | @@ -343,6 +343,8 @@ |
343 | 343 | struct page *page; |
344 | 344 | int mapcount; |
345 | 345 | |
346 | + split_huge_page_pmd(walk->mm, pmd); | |
347 | + | |
346 | 348 | pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); |
347 | 349 | for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) { |
348 | 350 | ptent = *pte; |
... | ... | @@ -467,6 +469,8 @@ |
467 | 469 | spinlock_t *ptl; |
468 | 470 | struct page *page; |
469 | 471 | |
472 | + split_huge_page_pmd(walk->mm, pmd); | |
473 | + | |
470 | 474 | pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); |
471 | 475 | for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) { |
472 | 476 | ptent = *pte; |
... | ... | @@ -622,6 +626,8 @@ |
622 | 626 | struct pagemapread *pm = walk->private; |
623 | 627 | pte_t *pte; |
624 | 628 | int err = 0; |
629 | + | |
630 | + split_huge_page_pmd(walk->mm, pmd); | |
625 | 631 | |
626 | 632 | /* find the first VMA at or above 'addr' */ |
627 | 633 | vma = find_vma(walk->mm, addr); |
include/linux/mm.h
... | ... | @@ -914,6 +914,9 @@ |
914 | 914 | * @pgd_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PGD (top-level) entry |
915 | 915 | * @pud_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PUD (2nd-level) entry |
916 | 916 | * @pmd_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PMD (3rd-level) entry |
917 | + * this handler is required to be able to handle | |
918 | + * pmd_trans_huge() pmds. They may simply choose to | |
919 | + * split_huge_page() instead of handling it explicitly. | |
917 | 920 | * @pte_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PTE (4th-level) entry |
918 | 921 | * @pte_hole: if set, called for each hole at all levels |
919 | 922 | * @hugetlb_entry: if set, called for each hugetlb entry |
mm/memcontrol.c
... | ... | @@ -4763,7 +4763,8 @@ |
4763 | 4763 | pte_t *pte; |
4764 | 4764 | spinlock_t *ptl; |
4765 | 4765 | |
4766 | - VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)); | |
4766 | + split_huge_page_pmd(walk->mm, pmd); | |
4767 | + | |
4767 | 4768 | pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); |
4768 | 4769 | for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) |
4769 | 4770 | if (is_target_pte_for_mc(vma, addr, *pte, NULL)) |
4770 | 4771 | |
... | ... | @@ -4925,8 +4926,8 @@ |
4925 | 4926 | pte_t *pte; |
4926 | 4927 | spinlock_t *ptl; |
4927 | 4928 | |
4929 | + split_huge_page_pmd(walk->mm, pmd); | |
4928 | 4930 | retry: |
4929 | - VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)); | |
4930 | 4931 | pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); |
4931 | 4932 | for (; addr != end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) { |
4932 | 4933 | pte_t ptent = *(pte++); |
mm/pagewalk.c
... | ... | @@ -33,19 +33,35 @@ |
33 | 33 | |
34 | 34 | pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); |
35 | 35 | do { |
36 | +again: | |
36 | 37 | next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); |
37 | - split_huge_page_pmd(walk->mm, pmd); | |
38 | - if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) { | |
38 | + if (pmd_none(*pmd)) { | |
39 | 39 | if (walk->pte_hole) |
40 | 40 | err = walk->pte_hole(addr, next, walk); |
41 | 41 | if (err) |
42 | 42 | break; |
43 | 43 | continue; |
44 | 44 | } |
45 | + /* | |
46 | + * This implies that each ->pmd_entry() handler | |
47 | + * needs to know about pmd_trans_huge() pmds | |
48 | + */ | |
45 | 49 | if (walk->pmd_entry) |
46 | 50 | err = walk->pmd_entry(pmd, addr, next, walk); |
47 | - if (!err && walk->pte_entry) | |
48 | - err = walk_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, walk); | |
51 | + if (err) | |
52 | + break; | |
53 | + | |
54 | + /* | |
55 | + * Check this here so we only break down trans_huge | |
56 | + * pages when we _need_ to | |
57 | + */ | |
58 | + if (!walk->pte_entry) | |
59 | + continue; | |
60 | + | |
61 | + split_huge_page_pmd(walk->mm, pmd); | |
62 | + if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) | |
63 | + goto again; | |
64 | + err = walk_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, walk); | |
49 | 65 | if (err) |
50 | 66 | break; |
51 | 67 | } while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end); |