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author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2022-10-21 12:11:34 +0200 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-12-11 18:12:08 -0800 |
commit | 58f595c6659198e1ad0ed431a408ddd79b21e579 (patch) | |
tree | 50220506cd971de61be8a0772d92cb94a61f14e5 /COPYING | |
parent | 5036880efdad976165c817dcb6a1c8c24fb16caa (diff) |
mm/ksm: simplify break_ksm() to not rely on VM_FAULT_WRITE
Now that GUP no longer requires VM_FAULT_WRITE, break_ksm() is the sole
remaining user of VM_FAULT_WRITE. As we also want to stop triggering a
fake write fault and instead use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- similar to
GUP-triggered unsharing when taking a R/O pin on a shared anonymous page
(including KSM pages), let's stop relying on VM_FAULT_WRITE.
Let's rework break_ksm() to not rely on the return value of
handle_mm_fault() anymore to figure out whether COW-breaking was
successful. Simply perform another follow_page() lookup to verify the
result.
While this makes break_ksm() slightly less efficient, we can simplify
handle_mm_fault() a little and easily switch to FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE without
introducing similar KSM-specific behavior for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE.
In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge
performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in
a performance degradation of ~4% -- 5% (old: ~5250 MiB/s, new: ~5010
MiB/s).
I don't think that we particularly care about that performance drop when
unmerging. If it ever turns out to be an actual performance issue, we can
think about a better alternative for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- let's just keep
it simple for now.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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