mm: accelerate mm_populate() treatment of THP pages

This change adds a follow_page_mask function which is equivalent to
follow_page, but with an extra page_mask argument.

follow_page_mask sets *page_mask to HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1 when it encounters
a THP page, and to 0 in other cases.

__get_user_pages() makes use of this in order to accelerate populating
THP ranges - that is, when both the pages and vmas arrays are NULL, we
don't need to iterate HPAGE_PMD_NR times to cover a single THP page (and
we also avoid taking mm->page_table_lock that many times).

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

include/linux/mm.h

@@ -1629,8 +1629,17 @@ int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 int vm_insert_mixed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 			unsigned long pfn);
 
-struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long address,
-			unsigned int foll_flags);
+struct page *follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			      unsigned long address, unsigned int foll_flags,
+			      unsigned int *page_mask);
+
+static inline struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		unsigned long address, unsigned int foll_flags)
+{
+	unsigned int unused_page_mask;
+	return follow_page_mask(vma, address, foll_flags, &unused_page_mask);
+}
+
 #define FOLL_WRITE	0x01	/* check pte is writable */
 #define FOLL_TOUCH	0x02	/* mark page accessed */
 #define FOLL_GET	0x04	/* do get_page on page */

mm/memory.c

@@ -1462,19 +1462,21 @@ int zap_vma_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zap_vma_ptes);
 
 /**
- * follow_page - look up a page descriptor from a user-virtual address
+ * follow_page_mask - look up a page descriptor from a user-virtual address
  * @vma: vm_area_struct mapping @address
  * @address: virtual address to look up
  * @flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour
+ * @page_mask: on output, *page_mask is set according to the size of the page
  *
  * @flags can have FOLL_ flags set, defined in <linux/mm.h>
  *
  * Returns the mapped (struct page *), %NULL if no mapping exists, or
  * an error pointer if there is a mapping to something not represented
  * by a page descriptor (see also vm_normal_page()).
  */
-struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
-			unsigned int flags)
+struct page *follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			      unsigned long address, unsigned int flags,
+			      unsigned int *page_mask)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	pud_t *pud;
@@ -1484,6 +1486,8 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 	struct page *page;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 
+	*page_mask = 0;
+
 	page = follow_huge_addr(mm, address, flags & FOLL_WRITE);
 	if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
 		BUG_ON(flags & FOLL_GET);
@@ -1530,6 +1534,7 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 				page = follow_trans_huge_pmd(vma, address,
 							     pmd, flags);
 				spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+				*page_mask = HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1;
 				goto out;
 			}
 		} else
@@ -1684,6 +1689,7 @@ long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 {
 	long i;
 	unsigned long vm_flags;
+	unsigned int page_mask;
 
 	if (!nr_pages)
 		return 0;
@@ -1761,6 +1767,7 @@ long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 				get_page(page);
 			}
 			pte_unmap(pte);
+			page_mask = 0;
 			goto next_page;
 		}
 
@@ -1778,6 +1785,7 @@ long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 		do {
 			struct page *page;
 			unsigned int foll_flags = gup_flags;
+			unsigned int page_increm;
 
 			/*
 			 * If we have a pending SIGKILL, don't keep faulting
@@ -1787,7 +1795,8 @@ long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 				return i ? i : -ERESTARTSYS;
 
 			cond_resched();
-			while (!(page = follow_page(vma, start, foll_flags))) {
+			while (!(page = follow_page_mask(vma, start,
+						foll_flags, &page_mask))) {
 				int ret;
 				unsigned int fault_flags = 0;
 
@@ -1861,13 +1870,19 @@ long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 				flush_anon_page(vma, page, start);
 				flush_dcache_page(page);
+				page_mask = 0;
 			}
 next_page:
-			if (vmas)
+			if (vmas) {
 				vmas[i] = vma;
-			i++;
-			start += PAGE_SIZE;
-			nr_pages--;
+				page_mask = 0;
+			}
+			page_increm = 1 + (~(start >> PAGE_SHIFT) & page_mask);
+			if (page_increm > nr_pages)
+				page_increm = nr_pages;
+			i += page_increm;
+			start += page_increm * PAGE_SIZE;
+			nr_pages -= page_increm;
 		} while (nr_pages && start < vma->vm_end);
 	} while (nr_pages);
 	return i;

mm/nommu.c

@@ -1819,9 +1819,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mremap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, old_len,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
-			unsigned int foll_flags)
+struct page *follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			      unsigned long address, unsigned int flags,
+			      unsigned int *page_mask)
 {
+	*page_mask = 0;
 	return NULL;
 }