From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34535C10F03 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [203.11.71.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B00B6217D9 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:23:49 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org B00B6217D9 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.ibm.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44pS034cj7zDqLn for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 01:23:47 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=linux.ibm.com (client-ip=148.163.158.5; helo=mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com; envelope-from=ldufour@linux.ibm.com; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.ibm.com Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.158.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44pRy55MBCzDq6B for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 01:22:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098421.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.27/8.16.0.27) with SMTP id x3NFKeoD043492 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:22:03 -0400 Received: from e06smtp03.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp03.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.99]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2s242uuy6p-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:22:01 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp03.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! 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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:21:42 +0100 Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (mk.ibm.com [9.149.105.60]) by b06cxnps3075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id x3NFLfkJ26017998 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:21:41 GMT Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7BC42045; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:21:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678A04204D; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:21:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [9.145.7.116] (unknown [9.145.7.116]) by d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:21:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 01/31] mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT To: Jerome Glisse References: <20190416134522.17540-1-ldufour@linux.ibm.com> <20190416134522.17540-2-ldufour@linux.ibm.com> <20190418214721.GA11645@redhat.com> From: Laurent Dufour Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:21:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190418214721.GA11645@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19042315-0012-0000-0000-00000311DE1E X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19042315-0013-0000-0000-0000214A2FD2 Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:, , definitions=2019-04-23_04:, , signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1904230103 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: jack@suse.cz, sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org, Will Deacon , mhocko@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, paulus@samba.org, Punit Agrawal , hpa@zytor.com, Michel Lespinasse , Alexei Starovoitov , Andrea Arcangeli , ak@linux.intel.com, Minchan Kim , aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com, x86@kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , Daniel Jordan , Ingo Molnar , David Rientjes , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Haiyan Song , npiggin@gmail.com, sj38.park@gmail.com, dave@stgolabs.net, kemi.wang@intel.com, kirill@shutemov.name, Thomas Gleixner , zhong jiang , Ganesh Mahendran , Yang Shi , Mike Rapoport , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Senozhatsky , vinayak menon , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Tim Chen , haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Le 18/04/2019 à 23:47, Jerome Glisse a écrit : > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:44:52PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote: >> This configuration variable will be used to build the code needed to >> handle speculative page fault. >> >> By default it is turned off, and activated depending on architecture >> support, ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, SMP and MMU. >> >> The architecture support is needed since the speculative page fault handler >> is called from the architecture's page faulting code, and some code has to >> be added there to handle the speculative handler. >> >> The dependency on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is required because vm_normal_page() >> does processing that is not compatible with the speculative handling in the >> case ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is not set. >> >> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner >> Suggested-by: David Rientjes >> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour > > Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse Thanks Jérôme. > Small question below > >> --- >> mm/Kconfig | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig >> index 0eada3f818fa..ff278ac9978a 100644 >> --- a/mm/Kconfig >> +++ b/mm/Kconfig >> @@ -761,4 +761,26 @@ config GUP_BENCHMARK >> config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL >> bool >> >> +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT >> + def_bool n >> + >> +config SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT >> + bool "Speculative page faults" >> + default y >> + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT >> + depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL && MMU && SMP >> + help >> + Try to handle user space page faults without holding the mmap_sem. >> + >> + This should allow better concurrency for massively threaded processes > > Is there any case where it does not provide better concurrency ? The > should make me wonder :) Depending on the VMA's type, it may not provide better concurrency. Indeed only anonymous mapping are managed currently. Perhaps this should be mentioned here, is it ? >> + since the page fault handler will not wait for other thread's memory >> + layout change to be done, assuming that this change is done in >> + another part of the process's memory space. This type of page fault >> + is named speculative page fault. >> + >> + If the speculative page fault fails because a concurrent modification >> + is detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet >> + allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault >> + is then tried. >> + >> endmenu >> -- >> 2.21.0 >> >