Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] mm,thp: Add filemap_huge_fault() for THP

[Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>]

> On Jul 31, 2019, at 1:25 AM, William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> This set of patches is the first step towards a mechanism for automatically
> mapping read-only text areas of appropriate size and alignment to THPs
> whenever possible.
> 
> For now, the central routine, filemap_huge_fault(), amd various support
> routines are only included if the experimental kernel configuration option
> 
> 	RO_EXEC_FILEMAP_HUGE_FAULT_THP
> 
> is enabled.
> 
> This is because filemap_huge_fault() is dependent upon the
> address_space_operations vector readpage() pointing to a routine that will
> read and fill an entire large page at a time without poulluting the page
> cache with PAGESIZE entries for the large page being mapped or performing
> readahead that would pollute the page cache entries for succeeding large
> pages. Unfortunately, there is no good way to determine how many bytes
> were read by readpage(). At present, if filemap_huge_fault() were to call
> a conventional readpage() routine, it would only fill the first PAGESIZE
> bytes of the large page, which is definitely NOT the desired behavior.
> 
> However, by making the code available now it is hoped that filesystem
> maintainers who have pledged to provide such a mechanism will do so more
> rapidly.

Could you please explain how to test/try this? Would it automatically map
all executables to THPs? 

Thanks,
Song