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authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>2018-08-17 15:45:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-17 16:20:29 -0700
commit974e6d66b6b5c6e2d6a3ccc18b2f9a0b472be5b4 (patch)
tree0aa559789db47a6dfff9a572b2553bbcbd272016 /arch/x86/pci/ce4100.c
parent5b7a1d406062449a4d51aea1df37a73285ced1dc (diff)
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mm, hugetlbfs: pass fault address to cow handler
This is to take better advantage of the general huge page copying
optimization.  Where, the target subpage will be copied last to avoid
the cache lines of target subpage to be evicted when copying other
subpages.  This works better if the address of the target subpage is
available when copying huge page.  So hugetlbfs page fault handlers are
changed to pass that information to hugetlb_cow().  This will benefit
workloads which don't access the begin of the hugetlbfs huge page after
the page fault under heavy cache contention.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180524005851.4079-5-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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