[PATCH v2 13/15] mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP

David Hildenbrand
2024-01-25T19:33:59Z

Let's implement PTE batching when consecutive (present) PTEs map
consecutive pages of the same large folio, and all other PTE bits besides
the PFNs are equal.

We will optimize folio_pte_batch() separately, to ignore selected
PTE bits. This patch is based on work by Ryan Roberts.

Use __always_inline for __copy_present_ptes() and keep the handling for
single PTEs completely separate from the multi-PTE case: we really want
the compiler to optimize for the single-PTE case with small folios, to
not degrade performance.

Note that PTE batching will never exceed a single page table and will
always stay within VMA boundaries.

Further, processing PTE-mapped THP that maybe pinned and have
PageAnonExclusive set on at least one subpage should work as expected,
but there is room for improvement: We will repeatedly (1) detect a PTE
batch (2) detect that we have to copy a page (3) fall back and allocate a
single page to copy a single page. For now we won't care as pinned pages
are a corner case, and we should rather look into maintaining only a
single PageAnonExclusive bit for large folios.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
include/linux/pgtable.h | 31 +++++++++++
mm/memory.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index 351cd9dc7194f..891ed246978a4 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -650,6 +650,37 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addres
}
#endif

+#ifndef wrprotect_ptes
+/**
+ * wrprotect_ptes - Write-protect consecutive pages that are mapped to a
+ * contiguous range of addresses.
+ * @mm: Address space to map the pages into.
+ * @addr: Address the first page is mapped at.
+ * @ptep: Page table pointer for the first entry.
+ * @nr: Number of pages to write-protect.
+ *
+ * May be overridden by the architecture; otherwise, implemented as a simple
+ * loop over ptep_set_wrprotect().
+ *
+ * Note that PTE bits in the PTE range besides the PFN can differ. For example,
+ * some PTEs might already be write-protected.
+ *
+ * Context: The caller holds the page table lock. The pages all belong
+ * to the same folio. The PTEs are all in the same PMD.
+ */
+static inline void wrprotect_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
+ pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr)
+{
+ for (;;) {
+ ptep_set_wrprotect(mm, addr, ptep);
+ if (--nr == 0)
+ break;
+ ptep++;
+ addr += PAGE_SIZE;
+ }
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* On some architectures hardware does not set page access bit when accessing
* memory page, it is responsibility of software setting this bit. It brings
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 729ca4d6a820c..4d1be89a01ee0 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -930,15 +930,15 @@ copy_present_page(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma
return 0;
}

-static inline void __copy_present_pte(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
+static __always_inline void __copy_present_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
struct vm_area_struct *src_vma, pte_t *dst_pte, pte_t *src_pte,
- pte_t pte, unsigned long addr)
+ pte_t pte, unsigned long addr, int nr)
{
struct mm_struct *src_mm = src_vma->vm_mm;

/* If it's a COW mapping, write protect it both processes. */
if (is_cow_mapping(src_vma->vm_flags) && pte_write(pte)) {
- ptep_set_wrprotect(src_mm, addr, src_pte);
+ wrprotect_ptes(src_mm, addr, src_pte, nr);
pte = pte_wrprotect(pte);
}

@@ -950,26 +950,93 @@ static inline void __copy_present_pte(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
if (!userfaultfd_wp(dst_vma))
pte = pte_clear_uffd_wp(pte);

- set_pte_at(dst_vma->vm_mm, addr, dst_pte, pte);
+ set_ptes(dst_vma->vm_mm, addr, dst_pte, pte, nr);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Detect a PTE batch: consecutive (present) PTEs that map consecutive
+ * pages of the same folio.
+ *
+ * All PTEs inside a PTE batch have the same PTE bits set, excluding the PFN.
+ */
+static inline int folio_pte_batch(struct folio *folio, unsigned long addr,
+ pte_t *start_ptep, pte_t pte, int max_nr)
+{
+ unsigned long folio_end_pfn = folio_pfn(folio) + folio_nr_pages(folio);
+ const pte_t *end_ptep = start_ptep + max_nr;
+ pte_t expected_pte = pte_next_pfn(pte);
+ pte_t *ptep = start_ptep + 1;
+
+ VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(!pte_present(pte), folio);
+
+ while (ptep != end_ptep) {
+ pte = ptep_get(ptep);
+
+ if (!pte_same(pte, expected_pte))
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * Stop immediately once we reached the end of the folio. In
+ * corner cases the next PFN might fall into a different
+ * folio.
+ */
+ if (pte_pfn(pte) == folio_end_pfn)
+ break;
+
+ expected_pte = pte_next_pfn(expected_pte);
+ ptep++;
+ }
+
+ return ptep - start_ptep;
}

/*
- * Copy one pte. Returns 0 if succeeded, or -EAGAIN if one preallocated page
- * is required to copy this pte.
+ * Copy one present PTE, trying to batch-process subsequent PTEs that map
+ * consecutive pages of the same folio by copying them as well.
+ *
+ * Returns -EAGAIN if one preallocated page is required to copy the next PTE.
+ * Otherwise, returns the number of copied PTEs (at least 1).
*/
static inline int
-copy_present_pte(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
+copy_present_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
pte_t *dst_pte, pte_t *src_pte, pte_t pte, unsigned long addr,
- int *rss, struct folio **prealloc)
+ int max_nr, int *rss, struct folio **prealloc)
{
struct page *page;
struct folio *folio;
+ int err, nr;

page = vm_normal_page(src_vma, addr, pte);
if (unlikely(!page))
goto copy_pte;

folio = page_folio(page);
+
+ /*
+ * If we likely have to copy, just don't bother with batching. Make
+ * sure that the common "small folio" case is as fast as possible
+ * by keeping the batching logic separate.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!*prealloc && folio_test_large(folio) && max_nr != 1)) {
+ nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, src_pte, pte, max_nr);
+ folio_ref_add(folio, nr);
+ if (folio_test_anon(folio)) {
+ if (unlikely(folio_try_dup_anon_rmap_ptes(folio, page,
+ nr, src_vma))) {
+ folio_ref_sub(folio, nr);
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
+ rss[MM_ANONPAGES] += nr;
+ VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(PageAnonExclusive(page), folio);
+ } else {
+ folio_dup_file_rmap_ptes(folio, page, nr);
+ rss[mm_counter_file(page)] += nr;
+ }
+ __copy_present_ptes(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte, pte,
+ addr, nr);
+ return nr;
+ }
+
folio_get(folio);
if (folio_test_anon(folio)) {
/*
@@ -981,8 +1048,9 @@ copy_present_pte(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
if (unlikely(folio_try_dup_anon_rmap_pte(folio, page, src_vma))) {
/* Page may be pinned, we have to copy. */
folio_put(folio);
- return copy_present_page(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte,
- addr, rss, prealloc, page);
+ err = copy_present_page(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte,
+ addr, rss, prealloc, page);
+ return err ? err : 1;
}
rss[MM_ANONPAGES]++;
VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(PageAnonExclusive(page), folio);
@@ -992,8 +1060,8 @@ copy_present_pte(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
}

copy_pte:
- __copy_present_pte(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte, pte, addr);
- return 0;
+ __copy_present_ptes(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte, pte, addr, 1);
+ return 1;
}

static inline struct folio *folio_prealloc(struct mm_struct *src_mm,
@@ -1030,10 +1098,11 @@ copy_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
pte_t *src_pte, *dst_pte;
pte_t ptent;
spinlock_t *src_ptl, *dst_ptl;
- int progress, ret = 0;
+ int progress, max_nr, ret = 0;
int rss[NR_MM_COUNTERS];
swp_entry_t entry = (swp_entry_t){0};
struct folio *prealloc = NULL;
+ int nr;

again:
progress = 0;
@@ -1064,6 +1133,8 @@ copy_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();

do {
+ nr = 1;
+
/*
* We are holding two locks at this point - either of them
* could generate latencies in another task on another CPU.
@@ -1100,9 +1171,10 @@ copy_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(ret != -ENOENT);
}
- /* copy_present_pte() will clear `*prealloc' if consumed */
- ret = copy_present_pte(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte,
- ptent, addr, rss, &prealloc);
+ /* copy_present_ptes() will clear `*prealloc' if consumed */
+ max_nr = (end - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
+ ret = copy_present_ptes(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte,
+ ptent, addr, max_nr, rss, &prealloc);
/*
* If we need a pre-allocated page for this pte, drop the
* locks, allocate, and try again.
@@ -1119,8 +1191,10 @@ copy_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
folio_put(prealloc);
prealloc = NULL;
}
- progress += 8;
- } while (dst_pte++, src_pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
+ nr = ret;
+ progress += 8 * nr;
+ } while (dst_pte += nr, src_pte += nr, addr += PAGE_SIZE * nr,
+ addr != end);

arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
pte_unmap_unlock(orig_src_pte, src_ptl);
@@ -1141,7 +1215,7 @@ copy_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
prealloc = folio_prealloc(src_mm, src_vma, addr, false);
if (!prealloc)
return -ENOMEM;
- } else if (ret) {
+ } else if (ret < 0) {
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
}

--
2.43.0