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mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio

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In a Copy-on-Write (CoW) scenario, the last subpage will reuse the entire
large folio, resulting in the waste of (nr_pages - 1) pages.  This wasted
memory remains allocated until it is either unmapped or memory reclamation
occurs.

The following small program can serve as evidence of this behavior

 main()
 {
 #define SIZE 1024 * 1024 * 1024UL
         void *p = malloc(SIZE);
         memset(p, 0x11, SIZE);
         if (fork() == 0)
                 _exit(0);
         memset(p, 0x12, SIZE);
         printf("done\n");
         while(1);
 }

For example, using a 1024KiB mTHP by:
 echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-1024kB/enabled

(1) w/o the patch, it takes 2GiB,

Before running the test program,
 / # free -m
                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
 Mem:            5754          84        5692           0          17        5669
 Swap:              0           0           0

 / # /a.out &
 / # done

After running the test program,
 / # free -m
                 total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
 Mem:            5754        2149        3627           0          19        3605
 Swap:              0           0           0

(2) w/ the patch, it takes 1GiB only,

Before running the test program,
 / # free -m
                 total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
 Mem:            5754          89        5687           0          17        5664
 Swap:              0           0           0

 / # /a.out &
 / # done

After running the test program,
 / # free -m
                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
 Mem:            5754        1122        4655           0          17        4632
 Swap:              0           0           0

This patch migrates the last subpage to a small folio and immediately
returns the large folio to the system. It benefits both memory availability
and anti-fragmentation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240308092721.144735-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Barry Song 2024-03-08 22:27:21 +13:00 committed by Andrew Morton
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@ -3498,6 +3498,16 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_shared(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio)
static bool wp_can_reuse_anon_folio(struct folio *folio, static bool wp_can_reuse_anon_folio(struct folio *folio,
struct vm_area_struct *vma) struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{ {
/*
* We could currently only reuse a subpage of a large folio if no
* other subpages of the large folios are still mapped. However,
* let's just consistently not reuse subpages even if we could
* reuse in that scenario, and give back a large folio a bit
* sooner.
*/
if (folio_test_large(folio))
return false;
/* /*
* We have to verify under folio lock: these early checks are * We have to verify under folio lock: these early checks are
* just an optimization to avoid locking the folio and freeing * just an optimization to avoid locking the folio and freeing