[PATCH RFC] mm: madvise: pageout: ignore references rather than clearing young

Barry Song
2024-02-23T04:17:39Z

From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>

While doing MADV_PAGEOUT, the current code will clear PTE young
so that vmscan won't read young flags to allow the reclamation
of madvised folios to go ahead.
It seems we can do it by directly ignoring references, thus we
can remove tlb flush in madvise and rmap overhead in vmscan.

Regarding the side effect, in the original code, if a parallel
thread runs side by side to access the madvised memory with the
thread doing madvise, folios will get a chance to be re-activated
by vmscan. But with the patch, they will still be reclaimed. But
this behaviour doing PAGEOUT and doing access at the same time is
quite silly like DoS. So probably, we don't need to care.

A microbench as below has shown 6% decrement on the latency of
MADV_PAGEOUT,

#define PGSIZE 4096
main()
{
int i;
#define SIZE 512*1024*1024
volatile long *p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

for (i = 0; i < SIZE/sizeof(long); i += PGSIZE / sizeof(long))
p[i] = 0x11;

madvise(p, SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT);
}

w/o patch w/ patch
root@10:~# time ./a.out root@10:~# time ./a.out
real 0m49.634s real 0m46.334s
user 0m0.637s user 0m0.648s
sys 0m47.434s sys 0m44.265s

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
---
mm/damon/paddr.c | 2 +-
mm/internal.h | 2 +-
mm/madvise.c | 8 ++++----
mm/vmscan.c | 12 +++++++-----
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/paddr.c b/mm/damon/paddr.c
index 081e2a325778..5e6dc312072c 100644
--- a/mm/damon/paddr.c
+++ b/mm/damon/paddr.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static unsigned long damon_pa_pageout(struct damon_region *r, struct damos *s)
put_folio:
folio_put(folio);
}
- applied = reclaim_pages(&folio_list);
+ applied = reclaim_pages(&folio_list, false);
cond_resched();
return applied * PAGE_SIZE;
}
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 93e229112045..36c11ea41f47 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ extern unsigned long __must_check vm_mmap_pgoff(struct file *, unsigned long,
unsigned long, unsigned long);

extern void set_pageblock_order(void);
-unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *folio_list);
+unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *folio_list, bool ignore_references);
unsigned int reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
struct list_head *folio_list);
/* The ALLOC_WMARK bits are used as an index to zone->watermark */
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index abde3edb04f0..44a498c94158 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
return 0;
}

- if (pmd_young(orig_pmd)) {
+ if (!pageout && pmd_young(orig_pmd)) {
pmdp_invalidate(vma, addr, pmd);
orig_pmd = pmd_mkold(orig_pmd);

@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
huge_unlock:
spin_unlock(ptl);
if (pageout)
- reclaim_pages(&folio_list);
+ reclaim_pages(&folio_list, true);
return 0;
}

@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,

VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_large(folio), folio);

- if (pte_young(ptent)) {
+ if (!pageout && pte_young(ptent)) {
ptent = ptep_get_and_clear_full(mm, addr, pte,
tlb->fullmm);
ptent = pte_mkold(ptent);
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
}
if (pageout)
- reclaim_pages(&folio_list);
+ reclaim_pages(&folio_list, true);
cond_resched();

return 0;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 402c290fbf5a..ba2f37f46a73 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2102,7 +2102,8 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
}

static unsigned int reclaim_folio_list(struct list_head *folio_list,
- struct pglist_data *pgdat)
+ struct pglist_data *pgdat,
+ bool ignore_references)
{
struct reclaim_stat dummy_stat;
unsigned int nr_reclaimed;
@@ -2115,7 +2116,7 @@ static unsigned int reclaim_folio_list(struct list_head *folio_list,
.no_demotion = 1,
};

- nr_reclaimed = shrink_folio_list(folio_list, pgdat, &sc, &dummy_stat, false);
+ nr_reclaimed = shrink_folio_list(folio_list, pgdat, &sc, &dummy_stat, ignore_references);
while (!list_empty(folio_list)) {
folio = lru_to_folio(folio_list);
list_del(&folio->lru);
@@ -2125,7 +2126,7 @@ static unsigned int reclaim_folio_list(struct list_head *folio_list,
return nr_reclaimed;
}

-unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *folio_list)
+unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *folio_list, bool ignore_references)
{
int nid;
unsigned int nr_reclaimed = 0;
@@ -2147,11 +2148,12 @@ unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *folio_list)
continue;
}

- nr_reclaimed += reclaim_folio_list(&node_folio_list, NODE_DATA(nid));
+ nr_reclaimed += reclaim_folio_list(&node_folio_list, NODE_DATA(nid),
+ ignore_references);
nid = folio_nid(lru_to_folio(folio_list));
} while (!list_empty(folio_list));

- nr_reclaimed += reclaim_folio_list(&node_folio_list, NODE_DATA(nid));
+ nr_reclaimed += reclaim_folio_list(&node_folio_list, NODE_DATA(nid), ignore_references);

memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag);

--
2.34.1