From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
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Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] mm: align file-backed mmap to exec folio order in thp_get_unmapped_area
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 11:08:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260402181326.3107102-5-usama.arif@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260402181326.3107102-1-usama.arif@linux.dev>
thp_get_unmapped_area() is the get_unmapped_area callback for
filesystems like ext4, xfs, and btrfs. It attempts to align the virtual
address for PMD_SIZE THP mappings, but on arm64 with 64K base pages
PMD_SIZE is 512M, which is too large for typical shared library mappings,
so the alignment always fails and falls back to PAGE_SIZE.
This means shared libraries loaded by ld.so via mmap() get 64K-aligned
virtual addresses, preventing contpte mapping even when large folios are
allocated with properly aligned file offsets and physical addresses.
Add a fallback in thp_get_unmapped_area_vmflags() that uses
exec_folio_order() to determine alignment, matching the readahead
allocation strategy. This aligns mappings to the hardware TLB
coalescing size (e.g. 2M for contpte on arm64 64K pages, 64K for
contpte/HPA on arm64 4K/16K pages), capped to the mapping length via
rounddown_pow_of_two(len).
The fallback is naturally a no-op on architectures where
exec_folio_order() returns 0, and skips the retry when the alignment
would equal PMD_SIZE (already attempted above) incase another
architecture changes exec_folio_order() in the future.
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index b2a6060b3c20..ad97ac8406dc 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1218,6 +1218,19 @@ unsigned long thp_get_unmapped_area_vmflags(struct file *filp, unsigned long add
if (ret)
return ret;
+ if (filp && exec_folio_order()) {
+ unsigned long exec_folio_size = PAGE_SIZE << exec_folio_order();
+ unsigned long size = rounddown_pow_of_two(len);
+
+ size = min(size, exec_folio_size);
+ if (size > PAGE_SIZE && size != PMD_SIZE) {
+ ret = __thp_get_unmapped_area(filp, addr, len, off,
+ flags, size, vm_flags);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
+ }
+
return mm_get_unmapped_area_vmflags(filp, addr, len, pgoff, flags,
vm_flags);
}
--
2.52.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-02 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-02 18:08 [PATCH v3 0/4] mm: improve large folio readahead and alignment for exec memory Usama Arif
2026-04-02 18:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: bypass mmap_miss heuristic for VM_EXEC readahead Usama Arif
2026-04-02 18:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: use tiered folio allocation " Usama Arif
2026-04-02 18:08 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] elf: align ET_DYN base for PTE coalescing and PMD mapping Usama Arif
2026-04-02 18:08 ` Usama Arif [this message]
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