Patch series "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges", v11.
This series adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages.
The series improves on the current discontiguous clearing approach in two
ways:
- clear pages in a contiguous fashion.
- use batched clearing via clear_pages() wherever exposed.
The first is useful because it allows us to make much better use of
hardware prefetchers.
The second, enables advertising the real extent to the processor. Where
specific instructions support it (ex. string instructions on x86; "mops"
on arm64 etc), a processor can optimize based on this because, instead of
seeing a sequence of 8-byte stores, or a sequence of 4KB pages, it sees a
larger unit being operated on.
For instance, AMD Zen uarchs (for extents larger than LLC-size) switch to
a mode where they start eliding cacheline allocation. This is helpful not
just because it results in higher bandwidth, but also because now the
cache is not evicting useful cachelines and replacing them with zeroes.
Demand faulting a 64GB region shows performance improvement:
$ perf bench mem mmap -p $pg-sz -f demand -s 64GB -l 5
baseline +series
(GBps +- %stdev) (GBps +- %stdev)
pg-sz=2MB 11.76 +- 1.10% 25.34 +- 1.18% [*] +115.47% preempt=*
pg-sz=1GB 24.85 +- 2.41% 39.22 +- 2.32% + 57.82% preempt=none|voluntary
pg-sz=1GB (similar) 52.73 +- 0.20% [#] +112.19% preempt=full|lazy
[*] This improvement is because switching to sequential clearing
allows the hardware prefetchers to do a much better job.
[#] For pg-sz=1GB a large part of the improvement is because of the
cacheline elision mentioned above. preempt=full|lazy improves upon
that because, not needing explicit invocations of cond_resched() to
ensure reasonable preemption latency, it can clear the full extent
as a single unit. In comparison the maximum extent used for
preempt=none|voluntary is PROCESS_PAGES_NON_PREEMPT_BATCH (32MB).
When provided the full extent the processor forgoes allocating
cachelines on this path almost entirely.
(The hope is that eventually, in the fullness of time, the lazy
preemption model will be able to do the same job that none or
voluntary models are used for, allowing us to do away with
cond_resched().)
Raghavendra also tested previous version of the series on AMD Genoa and
sees similar improvement [1] with preempt=lazy.
$ perf bench mem map -p $page-size -f populate -s 64GB -l 10
base patched change
pg-sz=2MB 12.731939 GB/sec 26.304263 GB/sec 106.6%
pg-sz=1GB 26.232423 GB/sec 61.174836 GB/sec 133.2%
This patch (of 8):
Let's drop all variants that effectively map to clear_page() and provide
it in a generic variant instead.
We'll use the macro clear_user_page to indicate whether an architecture
provides it's own variant.
Also, clear_user_page() is only called from the generic variant of
clear_user_highpage(), so define it only if the architecture does not
provide a clear_user_highpage(). And, for simplicity define it in
linux/highmem.h.
Note that for parisc, clear_page() and clear_user_page() map to
clear_page_asm(), so we can just get rid of the custom clear_user_page()
implementation. There is a clear_user_page_asm() function on parisc, that
seems to be unused. Not sure what's up with that.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzessutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.
This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement).
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Most architectures only support a single hardcoded page size. In order
to ensure that each one of these sets the corresponding Kconfig symbols,
change over the PAGE_SHIFT definition to the common one and allow
only the hardware page size to be selected.
Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Stop providing our own arch alloc/free hooks and just expose the segment
offset and use the generic dma-direct allocator.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
When compiling with 'W=1' warnings such as the following occur all over
the place:
./include/linux/pfn.h:21:22: warning: comparison of unsigned expression
>= 0 is always true [-Wtype-limits]
which is due to ARCH_PFN_OFFSET being 0 by default
(if CONFIG_NIOS2_MEM_BASE is not changed in the Kconfig). Fix these
warnings by making pfn_valid a static inline function.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Some C-only definition from nios2 asm/page.h are exposed to assembly code.
Extend the !__ASSEMBLY__ section to prevent this.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
To align with other architectures, the expression produced by expanding
the macro page_to_virt() should be of type void*, since it returns a
virtual address. Fix that, and also fix up an instance where page_to_virt
was expected to return 'unsigned long', and drop another instance that was
entirely unused (page_to_bus)
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
shm_align_mask is not defined/used on nios2, thus there is no need to
declare it.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
