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Andrea Arcangeli 71e3aac072 thp: transparent hugepage core 
Lately I've been working to make KVM use hugepages transparently without
the usual restrictions of hugetlbfs.  Some of the restrictions I'd like to
see removed:

1) hugepages have to be swappable or the guest physical memory remains
   locked in RAM and can't be paged out to swap

2) if a hugepage allocation fails, regular pages should be allocated
   instead and mixed in the same vma without any failure and without
   userland noticing

3) if some task quits and more hugepages become available in the
   buddy, guest physical memory backed by regular pages should be
   relocated on hugepages automatically in regions under
   madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) (ideally event driven by waking up the
   kernel deamon if the order=HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT list becomes
   not null)

4) avoidance of reservation and maximization of use of hugepages whenever
   possible. Reservation (needed to avoid runtime fatal faliures) may be ok for
   1 machine with 1 database with 1 database cache with 1 database cache size
   known at boot time. It's definitely not feasible with a virtualization
   hypervisor usage like RHEV-H that runs an unknown number of virtual machines
   with an unknown size of each virtual machine with an unknown amount of
   pagecache that could be potentially useful in the host for guest not using
   O_DIRECT (aka cache=off).

hugepages in the virtualization hypervisor (and also in the guest!) are
much more important than in a regular host not using virtualization,
becasue with NPT/EPT they decrease the tlb-miss cacheline accesses from 24
to 19 in case only the hypervisor uses transparent hugepages, and they
decrease the tlb-miss cacheline accesses from 19 to 15 in case both the
linux hypervisor and the linux guest both uses this patch (though the
guest will limit the addition speedup to anonymous regions only for
now...).  Even more important is that the tlb miss handler is much slower
on a NPT/EPT guest than for a regular shadow paging or no-virtualization
scenario.  So maximizing the amount of virtual memory cached by the TLB
pays off significantly more with NPT/EPT than without (even if there would
be no significant speedup in the tlb-miss runtime).

The first (and more tedious) part of this work requires allowing the VM to
handle anonymous hugepages mixed with regular pages transparently on
regular anonymous vmas.  This is what this patch tries to achieve in the
least intrusive possible way.  We want hugepages and hugetlb to be used in
a way so that all applications can benefit without changes (as usual we
leverage the KVM virtualization design: by improving the Linux VM at
large, KVM gets the performance boost too).

The most important design choice is: always fallback to 4k allocation if
the hugepage allocation fails!  This is the _very_ opposite of some large
pagecache patches that failed with -EIO back then if a 64k (or similar)
allocation failed...

Second important decision (to reduce the impact of the feature on the
existing pagetable handling code) is that at any time we can split an
hugepage into 512 regular pages and it has to be done with an operation
that can't fail.  This way the reliability of the swapping isn't decreased
(no need to allocate memory when we are short on memory to swap) and it's
trivial to plug a split_huge_page* one-liner where needed without
polluting the VM.  Over time we can teach mprotect, mremap and friends to
handle pmd_trans_huge natively without calling split_huge_page*.  The fact
it can't fail isn't just for swap: if split_huge_page would return -ENOMEM
(instead of the current void) we'd need to rollback the mprotect from the
middle of it (ideally including undoing the split_vma) which would be a
big change and in the very wrong direction (it'd likely be simpler not to
call split_huge_page at all and to teach mprotect and friends to handle
hugepages instead of rolling them back from the middle).  In short the
very value of split_huge_page is that it can't fail.

The collapsing and madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) part will remain separated and
incremental and it'll just be an "harmless" addition later if this initial
part is agreed upon.  It also should be noted that locking-wise replacing
regular pages with hugepages is going to be very easy if compared to what
I'm doing below in split_huge_page, as it will only happen when
page_count(page) matches page_mapcount(page) if we can take the PG_lock
and mmap_sem in write mode.  collapse_huge_page will be a "best effort"
that (unlike split_huge_page) can fail at the minimal sign of trouble and
we can try again later.  collapse_huge_page will be similar to how KSM
works and the madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) will work similar to
madvise(MADV_MERGEABLE).

The default I like is that transparent hugepages are used at page fault
time.  This can be changed with
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.  The control knob can be set
to three values "always", "madvise", "never" which mean respectively that
hugepages are always used, or only inside madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) regions,
or never used.  /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag instead
controls if the hugepage allocation should defrag memory aggressively
"always", only inside "madvise" regions, or "never".

The pmd_trans_splitting/pmd_trans_huge locking is very solid.  The
put_page (from get_user_page users that can't use mmu notifier like
O_DIRECT) that runs against a __split_huge_page_refcount instead was a
pain to serialize in a way that would result always in a coherent page
count for both tail and head.  I think my locking solution with a
compound_lock taken only after the page_first is valid and is still a
PageHead should be safe but it surely needs review from SMP race point of
view.  In short there is no current existing way to serialize the O_DIRECT
final put_page against split_huge_page_refcount so I had to invent a new
one (O_DIRECT loses knowledge on the mapping status by the time gup_fast
returns so...).  And I didn't want to impact all gup/gup_fast users for
now, maybe if we change the gup interface substantially we can avoid this
locking, I admit I didn't think too much about it because changing the gup
unpinning interface would be invasive.

If we ignored O_DIRECT we could stick to the existing compound refcounting
code, by simply adding a get_user_pages_fast_flags(foll_flags) where KVM
(and any other mmu notifier user) would call it without FOLL_GET (and if
FOLL_GET isn't set we'd just BUG_ON if nobody registered itself in the
current task mmu notifier list yet).  But O_DIRECT is fundamental for
decent performance of virtualized I/O on fast storage so we can't avoid it
to solve the race of put_page against split_huge_page_refcount to achieve
a complete hugepage feature for KVM.

Swap and oom works fine (well just like with regular pages ;).  MMU
notifier is handled transparently too, with the exception of the young bit
on the pmd, that didn't have a range check but I think KVM will be fine
because the whole point of hugepages is that EPT/NPT will also use a huge
pmd when they notice gup returns pages with PageCompound set, so they
won't care of a range and there's just the pmd young bit to check in that
case.

NOTE: in some cases if the L2 cache is small, this may slowdown and waste
memory during COWs because 4M of memory are accessed in a single fault
instead of 8k (the payoff is that after COW the program can run faster).
So we might want to switch the copy_huge_page (and clear_huge_page too) to
not temporal stores.  I also extensively researched ways to avoid this
cache trashing with a full prefault logic that would cow in 8k/16k/32k/64k
up to 1M (I can send those patches that fully implemented prefault) but I
concluded they're not worth it and they add an huge additional complexity
and they remove all tlb benefits until the full hugepage has been faulted
in, to save a little bit of memory and some cache during app startup, but
they still don't improve substantially the cache-trashing during startup
if the prefault happens in >4k chunks.  One reason is that those 4k pte
entries copied are still mapped on a perfectly cache-colored hugepage, so
the trashing is the worst one can generate in those copies (cow of 4k page
copies aren't so well colored so they trashes less, but again this results
in software running faster after the page fault).  Those prefault patches
allowed things like a pte where post-cow pages were local 4k regular anon
pages and the not-yet-cowed pte entries were pointing in the middle of
some hugepage mapped read-only.  If it doesn't payoff substantially with
todays hardware it will payoff even less in the future with larger l2
caches, and the prefault logic would blot the VM a lot.  If one is
emebdded transparent_hugepage can be disabled during boot with sysfs or
with the boot commandline parameter transparent_hugepage=0 (or
transparent_hugepage=2 to restrict hugepages inside madvise regions) that
will ensure not a single hugepage is allocated at boot time.  It is simple
enough to just disable transparent hugepage globally and let transparent
hugepages be allocated selectively by applications in the MADV_HUGEPAGE
region (both at page fault time, and if enabled with the
collapse_huge_page too through the kernel daemon).

This patch supports only hugepages mapped in the pmd, archs that have
smaller hugepages will not fit in this patch alone.  Also some archs like
power have certain tlb limits that prevents mixing different page size in
the same regions so they will not fit in this framework that requires
"graceful fallback" to basic PAGE_SIZE in case of physical memory
fragmentation.  hugetlbfs remains a perfect fit for those because its
software limits happen to match the hardware limits.  hugetlbfs also
remains a perfect fit for hugepage sizes like 1GByte that cannot be hoped
to be found not fragmented after a certain system uptime and that would be
very expensive to defragment with relocation, so requiring reservation.
hugetlbfs is the "reservation way", the point of transparent hugepages is
not to have any reservation at all and maximizing the use of cache and
hugepages at all times automatically.

Some performance result:

vmx andrea # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge/ ./largep
ages3
memset page fault 1566023
memset tlb miss 453854
memset second tlb miss 453321
random access tlb miss 41635
random access second tlb miss 41658
vmx andrea # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge/ ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566471
memset tlb miss 453375
memset second tlb miss 453320
random access tlb miss 41636
random access second tlb miss 41637
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566642
memset tlb miss 453417
memset second tlb miss 453313
random access tlb miss 41630
random access second tlb miss 41647
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566872
memset tlb miss 453418
memset second tlb miss 453315
random access tlb miss 41618
random access second tlb miss 41659
vmx andrea # echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/transparent_hugepage
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 2182476
memset tlb miss 460305
memset second tlb miss 460179
random access tlb miss 44483
random access second tlb miss 44186
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 2182791
memset tlb miss 460742
memset second tlb miss 459962
random access tlb miss 43981
random access second tlb miss 43988

============
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

#define SIZE (3UL*1024*1024*1024)

int main()
{
	char *p = malloc(SIZE), *p2;
	struct timeval before, after;

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset page fault %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset second tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	for (p2 = p; p2 < p+SIZE; p2 += 4096)
		*p2 = 0;
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("random access tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	for (p2 = p; p2 < p+SIZE; p2 += 4096)
		*p2 = 0;
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("random access second tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	return 0;
}
============

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_RMAP_H
#define _LINUX_RMAP_H
/*
* Declarations for Reverse Mapping functions in mm/rmap.c
*/
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
/*
* The anon_vma heads a list of private "related" vmas, to scan if
* an anonymous page pointing to this anon_vma needs to be unmapped:
* the vmas on the list will be related by forking, or by splitting.
*
* Since vmas come and go as they are split and merged (particularly
* in mprotect), the mapping field of an anonymous page cannot point
* directly to a vma: instead it points to an anon_vma, on whose list
* the related vmas can be easily linked or unlinked.
*
* After unlinking the last vma on the list, we must garbage collect
* the anon_vma object itself: we're guaranteed no page can be
* pointing to this anon_vma once its vma list is empty.
*/
struct anon_vma {
struct anon_vma *root; /* Root of this anon_vma tree */
spinlock_t lock; /* Serialize access to vma list */
#if defined(CONFIG_KSM) || defined(CONFIG_MIGRATION)
/*
* The external_refcount is taken by either KSM or page migration
* to take a reference to an anon_vma when there is no
* guarantee that the vma of page tables will exist for
* the duration of the operation. A caller that takes
* the reference is responsible for clearing up the
* anon_vma if they are the last user on release
*/
atomic_t external_refcount;
#endif
/*
* NOTE: the LSB of the head.next is set by
* mm_take_all_locks() _after_ taking the above lock. So the
* head must only be read/written after taking the above lock
* to be sure to see a valid next pointer. The LSB bit itself
* is serialized by a system wide lock only visible to
* mm_take_all_locks() (mm_all_locks_mutex).
*/
struct list_head head; /* Chain of private "related" vmas */
};
/*
* The copy-on-write semantics of fork mean that an anon_vma
* can become associated with multiple processes. Furthermore,
* each child process will have its own anon_vma, where new
* pages for that process are instantiated.
*
* This structure allows us to find the anon_vmas associated
* with a VMA, or the VMAs associated with an anon_vma.
* The "same_vma" list contains the anon_vma_chains linking
* all the anon_vmas associated with this VMA.
* The "same_anon_vma" list contains the anon_vma_chains
* which link all the VMAs associated with this anon_vma.
*/
struct anon_vma_chain {
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
struct list_head same_vma; /* locked by mmap_sem & page_table_lock */
struct list_head same_anon_vma; /* locked by anon_vma->lock */
};
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
#if defined(CONFIG_KSM) || defined(CONFIG_MIGRATION)
static inline void anonvma_external_refcount_init(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
atomic_set(&anon_vma->external_refcount, 0);
}
static inline int anonvma_external_refcount(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
return atomic_read(&anon_vma->external_refcount);
}
static inline void get_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
atomic_inc(&anon_vma->external_refcount);
}
void drop_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *);
#else
static inline void anonvma_external_refcount_init(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
}
static inline int anonvma_external_refcount(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
return 0;
}
static inline void get_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
}
static inline void drop_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_KSM */
static inline struct anon_vma *page_anon_vma(struct page *page)
{
if (((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS) !=
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON)
return NULL;
return page_rmapping(page);
}
static inline void vma_lock_anon_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
struct anon_vma *anon_vma = vma->anon_vma;
if (anon_vma)
spin_lock(&anon_vma->root->lock);
}
static inline void vma_unlock_anon_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
struct anon_vma *anon_vma = vma->anon_vma;
if (anon_vma)
spin_unlock(&anon_vma->root->lock);
}
static inline void anon_vma_lock(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
spin_lock(&anon_vma->root->lock);
}
static inline void anon_vma_unlock(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
{
spin_unlock(&anon_vma->root->lock);
}
/*
* anon_vma helper functions.
*/
void anon_vma_init(void); /* create anon_vma_cachep */
int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *);
void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *);
int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
void __anon_vma_link(struct vm_area_struct *);
void anon_vma_free(struct anon_vma *);
static inline void anon_vma_merge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct vm_area_struct *next)
{
VM_BUG_ON(vma->anon_vma != next->anon_vma);
unlink_anon_vmas(next);
}
/*
* rmap interfaces called when adding or removing pte of page
*/
void page_move_anon_rmap(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long);
void page_add_anon_rmap(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long);
void do_page_add_anon_rmap(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *,
unsigned long, int);
void page_add_new_anon_rmap(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long);
void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *);
void page_remove_rmap(struct page *);
void hugepage_add_anon_rmap(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *,
unsigned long);
void hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *,
unsigned long);
static inline void page_dup_rmap(struct page *page)
{
atomic_inc(&page->_mapcount);
}
/*
* Called from mm/vmscan.c to handle paging out
*/
int page_referenced(struct page *, int is_locked,
struct mem_cgroup *cnt, unsigned long *vm_flags);
int page_referenced_one(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *,
unsigned long address, unsigned int *mapcount, unsigned long *vm_flags);
enum ttu_flags {
TTU_UNMAP = 0, /* unmap mode */
TTU_MIGRATION = 1, /* migration mode */
TTU_MUNLOCK = 2, /* munlock mode */
TTU_ACTION_MASK = 0xff,
TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK = (1 << 8), /* ignore mlock */
TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS = (1 << 9), /* don't age */
TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON = (1 << 10),/* corrupted page is recoverable */
};
#define TTU_ACTION(x) ((x) & TTU_ACTION_MASK)
bool is_vma_temporary_stack(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
int try_to_unmap(struct page *, enum ttu_flags flags);
int try_to_unmap_one(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *,
unsigned long address, enum ttu_flags flags);
/*
* Called from mm/filemap_xip.c to unmap empty zero page
*/
pte_t *__page_check_address(struct page *, struct mm_struct *,
unsigned long, spinlock_t **, int);
static inline pte_t *page_check_address(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long address,
spinlock_t **ptlp, int sync)
{
pte_t *ptep;
__cond_lock(*ptlp, ptep = __page_check_address(page, mm, address,
ptlp, sync));
return ptep;
}
/*
* Used by swapoff to help locate where page is expected in vma.
*/
unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *);
/*
* Cleans the PTEs of shared mappings.
* (and since clean PTEs should also be readonly, write protects them too)
*
* returns the number of cleaned PTEs.
*/
int page_mkclean(struct page *);
/*
* called in munlock()/munmap() path to check for other vmas holding
* the page mlocked.
*/
int try_to_munlock(struct page *);
/*
* Called by memory-failure.c to kill processes.
*/
struct anon_vma *__page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page);
static inline struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page)
{
struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
__cond_lock(RCU, anon_vma = __page_lock_anon_vma(page));
/* (void) is needed to make gcc happy */
(void) __cond_lock(&anon_vma->root->lock, anon_vma);
return anon_vma;
}
void page_unlock_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma);
int page_mapped_in_vma(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
/*
* Called by migrate.c to remove migration ptes, but might be used more later.
*/
int rmap_walk(struct page *page, int (*rmap_one)(struct page *,
struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, void *), void *arg);
#else /* !CONFIG_MMU */
#define anon_vma_init() do {} while (0)
#define anon_vma_prepare(vma) (0)
#define anon_vma_link(vma) do {} while (0)
static inline int page_referenced(struct page *page, int is_locked,
struct mem_cgroup *cnt,
unsigned long *vm_flags)
{
*vm_flags = 0;
return 0;
}
#define try_to_unmap(page, refs) SWAP_FAIL
static inline int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
{
return 0;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
/*
* Return values of try_to_unmap
*/
#define SWAP_SUCCESS 0
#define SWAP_AGAIN 1
#define SWAP_FAIL 2
#define SWAP_MLOCK 3
#endif /* _LINUX_RMAP_H */
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