[PATCH v2 0/3] userfaultfd remap option

Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-23T01:31:55Z

This patch series introduces UFFDIO_REMAP feature to userfaultfd, which
has long been implemented and maintained by Andrea in his local tree [1],
but was not upstreamed due to lack of use cases where this approach would
be better than allocating a new page and copying the contents.

UFFDIO_COPY performs ~20% better than UFFDIO_REMAP when the application
needs pages to be allocated [2]. However, with UFFDIO_REMAP, if pages are
available (in userspace) for recycling, as is usually the case in heap
compaction algorithms, then we can avoid the page allocation and memcpy
(done by UFFDIO_COPY). Also, since the pages are recycled in the
userspace, we avoid the need to release (via madvise) the pages back to
the kernel [3].
We see over 40% reduction (on a Google pixel 6 device) in the compacting
thread’s completion time by using UFFDIO_REMAP vs. UFFDIO_COPY. This was
measured using a benchmark that emulates a heap compaction implementation
using userfaultfd (to allow concurrent accesses by application threads).
More details of the usecase are explained in [3].

Furthermore, UFFDIO_REMAP enables remapping swapped-out pages without
touching them within the same vma. Today, it can only be done by mremap,
however it forces splitting the vma.

Main changes since Andrea's last version [1]:
- Trivial translations from page to folio, mmap_sem to mmap_lock
- Replace pmd_trans_unstable() with pte_offset_map_nolock() and handle its
possible failure
- Move pte mapping into remap_pages_pte to allow for retries when source
page or anon_vma is contended. Since pte_offset_map_nolock() start RCU
read section, we can't block anymore after mapping a pte, so have to unmap
the ptesm do the locking and retry.
- Add and use anon_vma_trylock_write() to avoid blocking while in RCU
read section.
- Accommodate changes in mmu_notifier_range_init() API, switch to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_nonblock() to avoid blocking while in
RCU read section.
- Open-code now removed __swp_swapcount()
- Replace pmd_read_atomic() with pmdp_get_lockless()
- Add new selftest for UFFDIO_REMAP

Changes since v1 [4]:
- add mmget_not_zero in userfaultfd_remap, per Jann Horn
- removed extern from function definitions, per Matthew Wilcox
- converted to folios in remap_pages_huge_pmd, per Matthew Wilcox
- use PageAnonExclusive in remap_pages_huge_pmd, per David Hildenbrand
- handle pgtable transfers between MMs, per Jann Horn
- ignore concurrent A/D pte bit changes, per Jann Horn
- split functions into smaller units, per David Hildenbrand
- test for folio_test_large in remap_anon_pte, per Matthew Wilcox
- use pte_swp_exclusive for swapcount check, per David Hildenbrand
- eliminated use of mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_nonblock,
per Jann Horn
- simplified THP alignment checks, per Jann Horn
- refactored the loop inside remap_pages, per Jann Horn
- additional clarifying comments, per Jann Horn

[1] https://gitlab.com/aarcange/aa/-/commit/2aec7aea56b10438a3881a20a411aa4b1fc19e92
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1425575884-2574-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CA+EESO4uO84SSnBhArH4HvLNhaUQ5nZKNKXqxRCyjniNVjp0Aw@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230914152620.2743033-1-surenb@google.com/

Andrea Arcangeli (2):
userfaultfd: UFFDIO_REMAP: rmap preparation
userfaultfd: UFFDIO_REMAP uABI

Suren Baghdasaryan (1):
selftests/mm: add UFFDIO_REMAP ioctl test

fs/userfaultfd.c | 63 ++
include/linux/rmap.h | 5 +
include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 12 +
include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h | 22 +
mm/huge_memory.c | 130 ++++
mm/khugepaged.c | 3 +
mm/rmap.c | 13 +
mm/userfaultfd.c | 590 +++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c | 41 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.h | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c | 62 ++
11 files changed, 940 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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