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* [PATCH 0/2] Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault
@ 2024-08-30  8:41 Dev Jain
  2024-08-30  8:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Abstract THP allocation Dev Jain
  2024-08-30  8:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: Allocate THP on hugezeropage wp-fault Dev Jain
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Dev Jain @ 2024-08-30  8:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, david, willy, kirill.shutemov
  Cc: ryan.roberts, anshuman.khandual, catalin.marinas, cl, vbabka,
	mhocko, apopple, dave.hansen, will, baohua, jack, mark.rutland,
	hughd, aneesh.kumar, yang, peterx, ioworker0, jglisse,
	linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel, linux-mm, Dev Jain

It was observed at [1] and [2] that the current kernel behaviour of
shattering a hugezeropage is inconsistent and suboptimal. For a VMA with
a THP allowable order, when we write-fault on it, the kernel installs a
PMD-mapped THP. On the other hand, if we first get a read fault, we get
a PMD pointing to the hugezeropage; subsequent write will trigger a
write-protection fault, shattering the hugezeropage into one writable
page, and all the other PTEs write-protected. The conclusion being, as
compared to the case of a single write-fault, applications have to suffer
512 extra page faults if they were to use the VMA as such, plus we get
the overhead of khugepaged trying to replace that area with a THP anyway.

Instead, replace the hugezeropage with a THP on wp-fault.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/3743d7e1-0b79-4eaf-82d5-d1ca29fe347d@arm.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cfae0c0-96a2-4308-9c62-f7a640520242@arm.com/

Dev Jain (2):
  mm: Abstract THP allocation
  mm: Allocate THP on hugezeropage wp-fault

 include/linux/huge_mm.h |   7 ++
 mm/huge_memory.c        | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 mm/memory.c             |   5 +-
 3 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

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2.30.2



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