mm,thp,rmap: subpages_mapcount of PTE-mapped subpages
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:42:04 +0000 (01:42 -0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:58:47 +0000 (15:58 -0800)
commitbe5ef2d9b006bbd93b1a03e1da2dbd19fb0b9f14
treec09447acafe04dedfe5a4a88dc4dfa1d7e3a8371
parent11aad2631bf74b3c811dee76154702aab855a323
mm,thp,rmap: subpages_mapcount of PTE-mapped subpages

Patch series "mm,thp,rmap: rework the use of subpages_mapcount", v2.

This patch (of 3):

Following suggestion from Linus, instead of counting every PTE map of a
compound page in subpages_mapcount, just count how many of its subpages
are PTE-mapped: this yields the exact number needed for NR_ANON_MAPPED and
NR_FILE_MAPPED stats, without any need for a locked scan of subpages; and
requires updating the count less often.

This does then revert total_mapcount() and folio_mapcount() to needing a
scan of subpages; but they are inherently racy, and need no locking, so
Linus is right that the scans are much better done there.  Plus (unlike in
6.1 and previous) subpages_mapcount lets us avoid the scan in the common
case of no PTE maps.  And page_mapped() and folio_mapped() remain scanless
and just as efficient with the new meaning of subpages_mapcount: those are
the functions which I most wanted to remove the scan from.

The updated page_dup_compound_rmap() is no longer suitable for use by anon
THP's __split_huge_pmd_locked(); but page_add_anon_rmap() can be used for
that, so long as its VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked) is deleted.

Evidence is that this way goes slightly faster than the previous
implementation for most cases; but significantly faster in the (now
scanless) pmds after ptes case, which started out at 870ms and was brought
down to 495ms by the previous series, now takes around 105ms.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a5849eca-22f1-3517-bf29-95d982242742@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/eec17e16-4e1-7c59-f1bc-5bca90dac919@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst
include/linux/mm.h
include/linux/rmap.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/rmap.c