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mm/rmap: support move to different root anon_vma in folio_move_anon_rmap()
Patch series "userfaultfd move option", v6.
This patch series introduces UFFDIO_MOVE feature to userfaultfd, which has
long been implemented and maintained by Andrea in his local tree [1], but
was not upstreamed due to lack of use cases where this approach would be
better than allocating a new page and copying the contents. Previous
upstraming attempts could be found at [6] and [7].
UFFDIO_COPY performs ~20% better than UFFDIO_MOVE when the application
needs pages to be allocated [2]. However, with UFFDIO_MOVE, if pages are
available (in userspace) for recycling, as is usually the case in heap
compaction algorithms, then we can avoid the page allocation and memcpy
(done by UFFDIO_COPY). Also, since the pages are recycled in the
userspace, we avoid the need to release (via madvise) the pages back to
the kernel [3]. We see over 40% reduction (on a Google pixel 6 device) in
the compacting thread's completion time by using UFFDIO_MOVE vs.
UFFDIO_COPY. This was measured using a benchmark that emulates a heap
compaction implementation using userfaultfd (to allow concurrent accesses
by application threads). More details of the usecase are explained in
[3].
Furthermore, UFFDIO_MOVE enables moving swapped-out pages without
touching them within the same vma. Today, it can only be done by mremap,
however it forces splitting the vma.
TODOs for follow-up improvements:
- cross-mm support. Known differences from single-mm and missing pieces:
- memcg recharging (might need to isolate pages in the process)
- mm counters
- cross-mm deposit table moves
- cross-mm test
- document the address space where src and dest reside in struct
uffdio_move
- TLB flush batching. Will require extensive changes to PTL locking in
move_pages_pte(). OTOH that might let us reuse parts of mremap code.
This patch (of 5):
For now, folio_move_anon_rmap() was only used to move a folio to a
different anon_vma after fork(), whereby the root anon_vma stayed
unchanged. For that, it was sufficient to hold the folio lock when
calling folio_move_anon_rmap().
However, we want to make use of folio_move_anon_rmap() to move folios
between VMAs that have a different root anon_vma. As folio_referenced()
performs an RMAP walk without holding the folio lock but only holding the
anon_vma in read mode, holding the folio lock is insufficient.
When moving to an anon_vma with a different root anon_vma, we'll have to
hold both, the folio lock and the anon_vma lock in write mode.
Consequently, whenever we succeeded in folio_lock_anon_vma_read() to
read-lock the anon_vma, we have to re-check if the mapping was changed in
the meantime. If that was the case, we have to retry.
Note that folio_move_anon_rmap() must only be called if the anon page is
exclusive to a process, and must not be called on KSM folios.
This is a preparation for UFFDIO_MOVE, which will hold the folio lock, the
anon_vma lock in write mode, and the mmap_lock in read mode.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Geffon <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Lokesh Gidra <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicolas Geoffray <[email protected]>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: ZhangPeng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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