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authorKeith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>2018-10-26 15:10:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-26 16:38:15 -0700
commitdf06b37ffe5a442503b7095b77b0a970df515459 (patch)
tree2fdb301eba4b4c2240595040496096b3a6489c79 /mm/huge_memory.c
parent9fd61bc95130d4971568b89c9548b5e0a4e18e0e (diff)
downloadlinux-df06b37ffe5a442503b7095b77b0a970df515459.tar.gz
mm/gup: cache dev_pagemap while pinning pages
Getting pages from ZONE_DEVICE memory needs to check the backing device's
live-ness, which is tracked in the device's dev_pagemap metadata.  This
metadata is stored in a radix tree and looking it up adds measurable
software overhead.

This patch avoids repeating this relatively costly operation when
dev_pagemap is used by caching the last dev_pagemap while getting user
pages.  The gup_benchmark kernel self test reports this reduces time to
get user pages to as low as 1/3 of the previous time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181012173040.15669-1-keith.busch@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c16
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 8ea1b36bd452..25c7d7509cf4 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -852,11 +852,10 @@ static void touch_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 }
 
 struct page *follow_devmap_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
-		pmd_t *pmd, int flags)
+		pmd_t *pmd, int flags, struct dev_pagemap **pgmap)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn = pmd_pfn(*pmd);
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
-	struct dev_pagemap *pgmap;
 	struct page *page;
 
 	assert_spin_locked(pmd_lockptr(mm, pmd));
@@ -886,12 +885,11 @@ struct page *follow_devmap_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 		return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
 
 	pfn += (addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, NULL);
-	if (!pgmap)
+	*pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, *pgmap);
+	if (!*pgmap)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
 	page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
 	get_page(page);
-	put_dev_pagemap(pgmap);
 
 	return page;
 }
@@ -1000,11 +998,10 @@ static void touch_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 }
 
 struct page *follow_devmap_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
-		pud_t *pud, int flags)
+		pud_t *pud, int flags, struct dev_pagemap **pgmap)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn = pud_pfn(*pud);
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
-	struct dev_pagemap *pgmap;
 	struct page *page;
 
 	assert_spin_locked(pud_lockptr(mm, pud));
@@ -1028,12 +1025,11 @@ struct page *follow_devmap_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 		return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
 
 	pfn += (addr & ~PUD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, NULL);
-	if (!pgmap)
+	*pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, *pgmap);
+	if (!*pgmap)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
 	page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
 	get_page(page);
-	put_dev_pagemap(pgmap);
 
 	return page;
 }