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* [PATCH v3 0/2] Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault
@ 2024-09-11  6:55 Dev Jain
  2024-09-11  6:55 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: Abstract THP allocation Dev Jain
  2024-09-11  6:56 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mm: Allocate THP on hugezeropage wp-fault Dev Jain
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Dev Jain @ 2024-09-11  6:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, david, willy, kirill.shutemov
  Cc: ryan.roberts, anshuman.khandual, catalin.marinas, cl, vbabka,
	mhocko, apopple, dave.hansen, will, baohua, jack, mark.rutland,
	hughd, aneesh.kumar, yang, peterx, ioworker0, jglisse,
	wangkefeng.wang, ziy, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel, linux-mm,
	Dev Jain

It was observed at [1] and [2] that the current kernel behaviour of
shattering a hugezeropage is inconsistent and suboptimal. For a VMA with
a THP allowable order, when we write-fault on it, the kernel installs a
PMD-mapped THP. On the other hand, if we first get a read fault, we get
a PMD pointing to the hugezeropage; subsequent write will trigger a
write-protection fault, shattering the hugezeropage into one writable
page, and all the other PTEs write-protected. The conclusion being, as
compared to the case of a single write-fault, applications have to suffer
512 extra page faults if they were to use the VMA as such, plus we get
the overhead of khugepaged trying to replace that area with a THP anyway.

Instead, replace the hugezeropage with a THP on wp-fault.

v2->v3:
 - Drop foliop and order parameters, prefix the thp functions with pmd_
 - First allocate THP, then pgtable, not vice-versa
 - Move pgtable_trans_huge_deposit() from map_pmd_thp() to caller
 - Drop exposing functions in include/linux/huge_mm.h
 - Open code do_huge_zero_wp_pmd_locked()
 - Release folio in case of pmd change after taking the lock, or
   check_stable_address_space() returning VM_FAULT_SIGBUS
 - Drop uffd-wp preservation. Looking at page_table_check_pmd_flags(), 
   preserving uffd-wp on a writable entry is invalid. Looking at
   mfill_atomic(), uffd_copy() is a null operation when pmd is marked
   uffd-wp.

v1->v2:
 - Wrap do_huge_zero_wp_pmd_locked() around lock and unlock
 - Call thp_fault_alloc() before do_huge_zero_wp_pmd_locked() to avoid
 - calling sleeping function from spinlock context

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/3743d7e1-0b79-4eaf-82d5-d1ca29fe347d@arm.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cfae0c0-96a2-4308-9c62-f7a640520242@arm.com/

The patchset applies on the latest mm-unstable branch.

Dev Jain (2):
  mm: Abstract THP allocation
  mm: Allocate THP on hugezeropage wp-fault

 mm/huge_memory.c | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 114 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

-- 
2.30.2



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