Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: Remember young/dirty bit for page migrations

Nadav Amit
2022-08-04T22:41:02Z

On Aug 4, 2022, at 1:39 PM, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:

> When page migration happens, we always ignore the young/dirty bit settings
> in the old pgtable, and marking the page as old in the new page table using
> either pte_mkold() or pmd_mkold(), and keeping the pte clean.
>
> That's fine from functional-wise, but that's not friendly to page reclaim
> because the moving page can be actively accessed within the procedure. Not
> to mention hardware setting the young bit can bring quite some overhead on
> some systems, e.g. x86_64 needs a few hundreds nanoseconds to set the bit.
> The same slowdown problem to dirty bits when the memory is first written
> after page migration happened.
>
> Actually we can easily remember the A/D bit configuration and recover the
> information after the page is migrated. To achieve it, define a new set of
> bits in the migration swap offset field to cache the A/D bits for old pte.
> Then when removing/recovering the migration entry, we can recover the A/D
> bits even if the page changed.
>
> One thing to mention is that here we used max_swapfile_size() to detect how
> many swp offset bits we have, and we'll only enable this feature if we know
> the swp offset can be big enough to store both the PFN value and the young
> bit. Otherwise the A/D bits are dropped like before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/swapops.h | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/huge_memory.c | 26 +++++++++++-
> mm/migrate.c | 6 ++-
> mm/migrate_device.c | 4 ++
> mm/rmap.c | 5 ++-
> 5 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/swapops.h b/include/linux/swapops.h
> index 1d17e4bb3d2f..34aa448ac6ee 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swapops.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swapops.h
> @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>
> +#include <linux/swapfile.h>

Shouldn’t the ifdef go into linux/swapfile.h if that’s the right thing to do
to prevent others from mistakenly including it?

> +
> /*
> * swapcache pages are stored in the swapper_space radix tree. We want to
> * get good packing density in that tree, so the index should be dense in
> @@ -35,6 +37,24 @@
> #endif
> #define SWP_PFN_MASK ((1UL << SWP_PFN_BITS) - 1)
>
> +/**
> + * Migration swap entry specific bitfield definitions.
> + *
> + * @SWP_MIG_YOUNG_BIT: Whether the page used to have young bit set
> + * @SWP_MIG_DIRTY_BIT: Whether the page used to have dirty bit set
> + *
> + * Note: these bits will be stored in migration entries iff there're enough
> + * free bits in arch specific swp offset. By default we'll ignore A/D bits
> + * when migrating a page. Please refer to migration_entry_supports_ad()
> + * for more information.
> + */
> +#define SWP_MIG_YOUNG_BIT (SWP_PFN_BITS)
> +#define SWP_MIG_DIRTY_BIT (SWP_PFN_BITS + 1)
> +#define SWP_MIG_TOTAL_BITS (SWP_PFN_BITS + 2)
> +
> +#define SWP_MIG_YOUNG (1UL << SWP_MIG_YOUNG_BIT)
> +#define SWP_MIG_DIRTY (1UL << SWP_MIG_DIRTY_BIT)

Any reason not to use BIT(x) ?

> +
> static inline bool is_pfn_swap_entry(swp_entry_t entry);
>
> /* Clear all flags but only keep swp_entry_t related information */
> @@ -265,6 +285,57 @@ static inline swp_entry_t make_writable_migration_entry(pgoff_t offset)
> return swp_entry(SWP_MIGRATION_WRITE, offset);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Returns whether the host has large enough swap offset field to support
> + * carrying over pgtable A/D bits for page migrations. The result is
> + * pretty much arch specific.
> + */
> +static inline bool migration_entry_supports_ad(void)
> +{
> + /*
> + * max_swapfile_size() returns the max supported swp-offset plus 1.
> + * We can support the migration A/D bits iff the pfn swap entry has
> + * the offset large enough to cover all of them (PFN, A & D bits).
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
> + return max_swapfile_size() >= (1UL << SWP_MIG_TOTAL_BITS);

This is an actual a function call (unless LTO has some trick). A bit of a
shame it cannot be at least memoized.

Or at least mark max_swapfile_size() as __attribute_const__ so it would not
be called twice for make_migration_entry_young() and
make_migration_entry_dirty().

> +#else
> + return false;
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> +static inline swp_entry_t make_migration_entry_young(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + if (migration_entry_supports_ad())
> + return swp_entry(swp_type(entry),
> + swp_offset(entry) | SWP_MIG_YOUNG);
> + return entry;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool is_migration_entry_young(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + if (migration_entry_supports_ad())
> + return swp_offset(entry) & SWP_MIG_YOUNG;
> + /* Keep the old behavior of aging page after migration */
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> +static inline swp_entry_t make_migration_entry_dirty(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + if (migration_entry_supports_ad())
> + return swp_entry(swp_type(entry),
> + swp_offset(entry) | SWP_MIG_DIRTY);
> + return entry;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool is_migration_entry_dirty(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + if (migration_entry_supports_ad())
> + return swp_offset(entry) & SWP_MIG_YOUNG_BIT;

Shouldn’t it be SWP_MIG_DIRTY ?

> + /* Keep the old behavior of clean page after migration */
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> extern void __migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
> spinlock_t *ptl);
> extern void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> @@ -311,6 +382,26 @@ static inline int is_readable_migration_entry(swp_entry_t entry)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static inline swp_entry_t make_migration_entry_young(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + return entry;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool is_migration_entry_young(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> +static inline swp_entry_t make_migration_entry_dirty(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + return entry;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool is_migration_entry_dirty(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> #endif

While at it, can you change to:

#endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */

[ these ifdefs burn my eyes ]

Other than that looks good.

Thanks,
Nadav