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mm: swap: reuse exclusive folio directly instead of wp page faults

After swapping out, we perform a swap-in operation.  If we first read and
then write, we encounter a major fault in do_swap_page for reading, along
with additional minor faults in do_wp_page for writing.  However, the
latter appears to be unnecessary and inefficient.  Instead, we can
directly reuse in do_swap_page and completely eliminate the need for
do_wp_page.

This patch achieves that optimization specifically for exclusive folios. 
The following microbenchmark demonstrates the significant reduction in
minor faults.

 #define DATA_SIZE (2UL * 1024 * 1024)
 #define PAGE_SIZE (4UL * 1024)

 static void *read_write_data(char *addr)
 {
         char tmp;

         for (int i = 0; i < DATA_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE) {
                 tmp = *(volatile char *)(addr + i);
                 *(volatile char *)(addr + i) = tmp;
         }
 }

 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
         struct rusage ru;

         char *addr = mmap(NULL, DATA_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                         MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
         memset(addr, 0x11, DATA_SIZE);

         do {
                 long old_ru_minflt, old_ru_majflt;
                 long new_ru_minflt, new_ru_majflt;

                 madvise(addr, DATA_SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT);

                 getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &ru);
                 old_ru_minflt = ru.ru_minflt;
                 old_ru_majflt = ru.ru_majflt;

                 read_write_data(addr);
                 getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &ru);
                 new_ru_minflt = ru.ru_minflt;
                 new_ru_majflt = ru.ru_majflt;

                 printf("minor faults:%ld major faults:%ld\n",
                         new_ru_minflt - old_ru_minflt,
                         new_ru_majflt - old_ru_majflt);
         } while(0);

         return 0;
 }

w/o patch,
/ # ~/a.out
minor faults:512 major faults:512

w/ patch,
/ # ~/a.out
minor faults:0 major faults:512

Minor faults decrease to 0!

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240602004502.26895-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Barry Song 2024-06-02 12:45:02 +12:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 7b09fa7ea4
commit c18160dba5

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@ -4310,6 +4310,10 @@ check_folio:
add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES, nr_pages);
add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_SWAPENTS, -nr_pages);
pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(vmf->orig_pte))
pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(vmf->orig_pte))
pte = pte_mkuffd_wp(pte);
/*
* Same logic as in do_wp_page(); however, optimize for pages that are
@ -4319,18 +4323,18 @@ check_folio:
*/
if (!folio_test_ksm(folio) &&
(exclusive || folio_ref_count(folio) == 1)) {
if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(pte), vma);
vmf->flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) && !userfaultfd_pte_wp(vma, pte) &&
!vma_soft_dirty_enabled(vma)) {
pte = pte_mkwrite(pte, vma);
if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
pte = pte_mkdirty(pte);
vmf->flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
}
}
rmap_flags |= RMAP_EXCLUSIVE;
}
folio_ref_add(folio, nr_pages - 1);
flush_icache_pages(vma, page, nr_pages);
if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(vmf->orig_pte))
pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(vmf->orig_pte))
pte = pte_mkuffd_wp(pte);
vmf->orig_pte = pte_advance_pfn(pte, page_idx);
/* ksm created a completely new copy */