From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f198.google.com (mail-qk0-f198.google.com [209.85.220.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397226B04C9 for ; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:07:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qk0-f198.google.com with SMTP id 190-v6so3557519qkf.16 for ; Thu, 17 May 2018 04:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com. [148.163.156.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f12-v6si903434qke.216.2018.05.17.04.07.48 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 17 May 2018 04:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098393.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w4HB4BdS022828 for ; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:07:47 -0400 Received: from e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.108]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2j187ph2uf-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:07:47 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 17 May 2018 12:07:44 +0100 From: Laurent Dufour Subject: [PATCH v11 26/26] arm64/mm: add speculative page fault Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 13:06:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1526555193-7242-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1526555193-7242-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-Id: <1526555193-7242-27-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, kirill@shutemov.name, ak@linux.intel.com, dave@stgolabs.net, jack@suse.cz, Matthew Wilcox , khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, paulus@samba.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , hpa@zytor.com, Will Deacon , Sergey Senozhatsky , sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com, Andrea Arcangeli , Alexei Starovoitov , kemi.wang@intel.com, Daniel Jordan , David Rientjes , Jerome Glisse , Ganesh Mahendran , Minchan Kim , Punit Agrawal , vinayak menon , Yang Shi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, bsingharora@gmail.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Tim Chen , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org From: Mahendran Ganesh This patch enables the speculative page fault on the arm64 architecture. I completed spf porting in 4.9. From the test result, we can see app launching time improved by about 10% in average. For the apps which have more than 50 threads, 15% or even more improvement can be got. Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran [handle_speculative_fault() is no more returning the vma pointer] Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour --- arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c index 91c53a7d2575..fb9f840367f9 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c @@ -411,6 +411,16 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, addr); /* + * let's try a speculative page fault without grabbing the + * mmap_sem. + */ + fault = handle_speculative_fault(mm, addr, mm_flags); + if (fault != VM_FAULT_RETRY) { + perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_SPF, 1, regs, addr); + goto done; + } + + /* * As per x86, we may deadlock here. However, since the kernel only * validly references user space from well defined areas of the code, * we can bug out early if this is from code which shouldn't. @@ -460,6 +470,8 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, } up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); +done: + /* * Handle the "normal" (no error) case first. */ -- 2.7.4