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* [PATCH 0/3] userfaultfd remap option
@ 2023-09-14 15:26 Suren Baghdasaryan
  2023-09-14 15:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] userfaultfd: UFFDIO_REMAP: rmap preparation Suren Baghdasaryan
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Suren Baghdasaryan @ 2023-09-14 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm
  Cc: viro, brauner, shuah, aarcange, lokeshgidra, peterx, david, hughd,
	mhocko, axelrasmussen, rppt, willy, Liam.Howlett, jannh,
	zhangpeng362, bgeffon, kaleshsingh, ngeoffray, jdduke, surenb,
	linux-mm, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, linux-kselftest,
	kernel-team

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]:
1. Trivial translations from page to folio, mmap_sem to mmap_lock
2. Replace pmd_trans_unstable() with pte_offset_map_nolock() and handle its
possible failure
3. 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.
4. Add and use anon_vma_trylock_write()  to avoid blocking while in RCU
read section.
5. Accommodate changes in mmu_notifier_range_init() API, switch to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_nonblock() to avoid blocking while in
RCU read section.
6. Open-code now removed __swp_swapcount()
7. Replace pmd_read_atomic() with pmdp_get_lockless()
8. Add new selftest for UFFDIO_REMAP

[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/

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                             |  49 ++
 include/linux/rmap.h                         |   5 +
 include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h                |  17 +
 include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h             |  22 +
 mm/huge_memory.c                             | 118 ++++
 mm/khugepaged.c                              |   3 +
 mm/rmap.c                                    |  13 +
 mm/userfaultfd.c                             | 586 +++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c     |  34 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.h     |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c |  62 ++
 11 files changed, 908 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.42.0.283.g2d96d420d3-goog



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2023-09-14 17:56   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-14 18:34     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-14 15:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] userfaultfd: UFFDIO_REMAP uABI Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-14 18:11   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-14 18:43     ` David Hildenbrand
2023-09-14 18:45       ` David Hildenbrand
2023-09-21 18:04         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-21 18:17           ` David Hildenbrand
2023-09-22  1:57             ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-14 18:47   ` David Hildenbrand
2023-09-14 18:54     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-14 19:28   ` Jann Horn
2023-09-14 20:57     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-19 23:08     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-19 23:40       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-19 23:50       ` Jann Horn
2023-09-20  1:49         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-20 16:11           ` Jann Horn
2023-09-21 16:59     ` Jann Horn
2023-09-14 21:57   ` Nadav Amit
2023-09-15  3:28     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-15  4:03       ` Nadav Amit
2023-09-15  4:15         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-15 23:33   ` Jann Horn
2023-09-15 23:39     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-09-14 15:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] selftests/mm: add UFFDIO_REMAP ioctl test Suren Baghdasaryan

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