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From: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
To: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, surenb@google.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 19:19:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240407171902.5958-A-hca@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d45fffc-877a-4ad1-ad02-a33341e467e7@huawei.com>

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 03:49:53PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> On 2024/4/4 4:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 16:37:58 +0800 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > After VMA lock-based page fault handling enabled, if bad access met
> > > under per-vma lock, it will fallback to mmap_lock-based handling,
> > > so it leads to unnessary mmap lock and vma find again. A test from
> > > lmbench shows 34% improve after this changes on arm64,
> > > 
> > >    lat_sig -P 1 prot lat_sig 0.29194 -> 0.19198
> > > 
> > > Only build test on other archs except arm64.
> > 
> > Thanks.  So we now want a bunch of architectures to runtime test this.  Do
> > we have a selftest in place which will adequately do this?
> 
> I don't find such selftest, and badaccess would lead to coredump, the
> performance should not affect most scene, so no selftest is acceptable.
> lmbench is easy to use to measure the performance.

The rationale for this series (performance improvement) is a bit odd,
since I would expect that the changed code is usually never executed.


      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-07 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-03  8:37 Kefeng Wang
2024-04-03  8:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] arm64: mm: cleanup __do_page_fault() Kefeng Wang
2024-04-09 11:14   ` Catalin Marinas
2024-04-03  8:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] arm64: mm: accelerate pagefault when VM_FAULT_BADACCESS Kefeng Wang
2024-04-09 11:15   ` Catalin Marinas
2024-04-03  8:38 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] arm: " Kefeng Wang
2024-04-03  8:38 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] powerpc: mm: accelerate pagefault when badaccess Kefeng Wang
2024-04-09  8:56   ` Michael Ellerman
2024-04-03  8:38 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] riscv: " Kefeng Wang
2024-04-10  7:32   ` Alexandre Ghiti
2024-04-10  8:07     ` Kefeng Wang
2024-04-10 17:28       ` Alexandre Ghiti
2024-04-11  1:17         ` Kefeng Wang
2024-04-03  8:38 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] s390: " Kefeng Wang
2024-04-07 17:19   ` Heiko Carstens
2024-04-03  8:38 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] x86: " Kefeng Wang
2024-04-03 20:45 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] arch/mm/fault: " Andrew Morton
2024-04-07  7:49   ` Kefeng Wang
2024-04-07 17:19     ` Heiko Carstens [this message]

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