Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at()

[Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>]

On 6/26/22 20:27, Qi Zheng wrote:
> The commit e5251fd43007 ("mm/hugetlb: introduce set_huge_swap_pte_at()
> helper") add set_huge_swap_pte_at() to handle swap entries on
> architectures that support hugepages consisting of contiguous ptes.
> And currently the set_huge_swap_pte_at() is only overridden by arm64.
> 
> The set_huge_swap_pte_at() provide a sz parameter to help determine
> the number of entries to be updated. But in fact, all hugetlb swap
> entries contain pfn information, so we can find the corresponding
> folio through the pfn recorded in the swap entry, then the folio_size()
> is the number of entries that need to be updated.
> 
> And considering that users will easily cause bugs by ignoring the
> difference between set_huge_swap_pte_at() and set_huge_pte_at().
> Let's handle swap entries in set_huge_pte_at() and remove the
> set_huge_swap_pte_at(), then we can call set_huge_pte_at()
> anywhere, which simplifies our coding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h |  3 ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c      | 34 ++++++++++++++++----------------
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h          | 13 ------------
>  mm/hugetlb.c                     |  8 +++-----
>  mm/rmap.c                        | 11 +++--------
>  5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
> index 1fd2846dbefe..d20f5da2d76f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
> @@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ extern void huge_pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>  			   pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz);
>  #define __HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_PTEP_GET
>  extern pte_t huge_ptep_get(pte_t *ptep);
> -extern void set_huge_swap_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> -				 pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte, unsigned long sz);
> -#define set_huge_swap_pte_at set_huge_swap_pte_at
>  
>  void __init arm64_hugetlb_cma_reserve(void);
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> index c9e076683e5d..58b89b9d13e0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> @@ -238,6 +238,13 @@ static void clear_flush(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  	flush_tlb_range(&vma, saddr, addr);
>  }
>  
> +static inline struct folio *hugetlb_swap_entry_to_folio(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> +	VM_BUG_ON(!is_migration_entry(entry) && !is_hwpoison_entry(entry));
> +
> +	return page_folio(pfn_to_page(swp_offset(entry)));
> +}

Extracting this huge page size from swap entry is an additional operation which
will increase the over all cost for set_huge_swap_pte_at(). At present the size
value is readily available near set_huge_swap_pte_at() call sites.