[RFC v2 PATCH 16/17] mm: mmap: Align unhinted maps to highest anon folio order

Ryan Roberts
2023-04-14T13:04:04Z

When allocating large anonymous folios, we want to maximize our chances
of being able to use the highest order we support. Since one of the
constraints is that a folio has to be mapped naturally aligned, let's
have mmap default to that alignment when user space does not provide a
hint.

With this in place, an extra 2% of all allocated anonymous memory
belongs to a folio of the highest order, when compiling the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
---
mm/mmap.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index ff68a67a2a7c..e7652001a32e 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1627,7 +1627,7 @@ generic_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr,
info.length = len;
info.low_limit = mm->mmap_base;
info.high_limit = mmap_end;
- info.align_mask = 0;
+ info.align_mask = BIT(PAGE_SHIFT + ANON_FOLIO_ORDER_MAX) - 1;
info.align_offset = 0;
return vm_unmapped_area(&info);
}
@@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ generic_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr,
info.length = len;
info.low_limit = max(PAGE_SIZE, mmap_min_addr);
info.high_limit = arch_get_mmap_base(addr, mm->mmap_base);
- info.align_mask = 0;
+ info.align_mask = BIT(PAGE_SHIFT + ANON_FOLIO_ORDER_MAX) - 1;
info.align_offset = 0;
addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info);

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