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Andrea Arcangeli 71e3aac072 thp: transparent hugepage core 
Lately I've been working to make KVM use hugepages transparently without
the usual restrictions of hugetlbfs.  Some of the restrictions I'd like to
see removed:

1) hugepages have to be swappable or the guest physical memory remains
   locked in RAM and can't be paged out to swap

2) if a hugepage allocation fails, regular pages should be allocated
   instead and mixed in the same vma without any failure and without
   userland noticing

3) if some task quits and more hugepages become available in the
   buddy, guest physical memory backed by regular pages should be
   relocated on hugepages automatically in regions under
   madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) (ideally event driven by waking up the
   kernel deamon if the order=HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT list becomes
   not null)

4) avoidance of reservation and maximization of use of hugepages whenever
   possible. Reservation (needed to avoid runtime fatal faliures) may be ok for
   1 machine with 1 database with 1 database cache with 1 database cache size
   known at boot time. It's definitely not feasible with a virtualization
   hypervisor usage like RHEV-H that runs an unknown number of virtual machines
   with an unknown size of each virtual machine with an unknown amount of
   pagecache that could be potentially useful in the host for guest not using
   O_DIRECT (aka cache=off).

hugepages in the virtualization hypervisor (and also in the guest!) are
much more important than in a regular host not using virtualization,
becasue with NPT/EPT they decrease the tlb-miss cacheline accesses from 24
to 19 in case only the hypervisor uses transparent hugepages, and they
decrease the tlb-miss cacheline accesses from 19 to 15 in case both the
linux hypervisor and the linux guest both uses this patch (though the
guest will limit the addition speedup to anonymous regions only for
now...).  Even more important is that the tlb miss handler is much slower
on a NPT/EPT guest than for a regular shadow paging or no-virtualization
scenario.  So maximizing the amount of virtual memory cached by the TLB
pays off significantly more with NPT/EPT than without (even if there would
be no significant speedup in the tlb-miss runtime).

The first (and more tedious) part of this work requires allowing the VM to
handle anonymous hugepages mixed with regular pages transparently on
regular anonymous vmas.  This is what this patch tries to achieve in the
least intrusive possible way.  We want hugepages and hugetlb to be used in
a way so that all applications can benefit without changes (as usual we
leverage the KVM virtualization design: by improving the Linux VM at
large, KVM gets the performance boost too).

The most important design choice is: always fallback to 4k allocation if
the hugepage allocation fails!  This is the _very_ opposite of some large
pagecache patches that failed with -EIO back then if a 64k (or similar)
allocation failed...

Second important decision (to reduce the impact of the feature on the
existing pagetable handling code) is that at any time we can split an
hugepage into 512 regular pages and it has to be done with an operation
that can't fail.  This way the reliability of the swapping isn't decreased
(no need to allocate memory when we are short on memory to swap) and it's
trivial to plug a split_huge_page* one-liner where needed without
polluting the VM.  Over time we can teach mprotect, mremap and friends to
handle pmd_trans_huge natively without calling split_huge_page*.  The fact
it can't fail isn't just for swap: if split_huge_page would return -ENOMEM
(instead of the current void) we'd need to rollback the mprotect from the
middle of it (ideally including undoing the split_vma) which would be a
big change and in the very wrong direction (it'd likely be simpler not to
call split_huge_page at all and to teach mprotect and friends to handle
hugepages instead of rolling them back from the middle).  In short the
very value of split_huge_page is that it can't fail.

The collapsing and madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) part will remain separated and
incremental and it'll just be an "harmless" addition later if this initial
part is agreed upon.  It also should be noted that locking-wise replacing
regular pages with hugepages is going to be very easy if compared to what
I'm doing below in split_huge_page, as it will only happen when
page_count(page) matches page_mapcount(page) if we can take the PG_lock
and mmap_sem in write mode.  collapse_huge_page will be a "best effort"
that (unlike split_huge_page) can fail at the minimal sign of trouble and
we can try again later.  collapse_huge_page will be similar to how KSM
works and the madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) will work similar to
madvise(MADV_MERGEABLE).

The default I like is that transparent hugepages are used at page fault
time.  This can be changed with
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.  The control knob can be set
to three values "always", "madvise", "never" which mean respectively that
hugepages are always used, or only inside madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) regions,
or never used.  /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag instead
controls if the hugepage allocation should defrag memory aggressively
"always", only inside "madvise" regions, or "never".

The pmd_trans_splitting/pmd_trans_huge locking is very solid.  The
put_page (from get_user_page users that can't use mmu notifier like
O_DIRECT) that runs against a __split_huge_page_refcount instead was a
pain to serialize in a way that would result always in a coherent page
count for both tail and head.  I think my locking solution with a
compound_lock taken only after the page_first is valid and is still a
PageHead should be safe but it surely needs review from SMP race point of
view.  In short there is no current existing way to serialize the O_DIRECT
final put_page against split_huge_page_refcount so I had to invent a new
one (O_DIRECT loses knowledge on the mapping status by the time gup_fast
returns so...).  And I didn't want to impact all gup/gup_fast users for
now, maybe if we change the gup interface substantially we can avoid this
locking, I admit I didn't think too much about it because changing the gup
unpinning interface would be invasive.

If we ignored O_DIRECT we could stick to the existing compound refcounting
code, by simply adding a get_user_pages_fast_flags(foll_flags) where KVM
(and any other mmu notifier user) would call it without FOLL_GET (and if
FOLL_GET isn't set we'd just BUG_ON if nobody registered itself in the
current task mmu notifier list yet).  But O_DIRECT is fundamental for
decent performance of virtualized I/O on fast storage so we can't avoid it
to solve the race of put_page against split_huge_page_refcount to achieve
a complete hugepage feature for KVM.

Swap and oom works fine (well just like with regular pages ;).  MMU
notifier is handled transparently too, with the exception of the young bit
on the pmd, that didn't have a range check but I think KVM will be fine
because the whole point of hugepages is that EPT/NPT will also use a huge
pmd when they notice gup returns pages with PageCompound set, so they
won't care of a range and there's just the pmd young bit to check in that
case.

NOTE: in some cases if the L2 cache is small, this may slowdown and waste
memory during COWs because 4M of memory are accessed in a single fault
instead of 8k (the payoff is that after COW the program can run faster).
So we might want to switch the copy_huge_page (and clear_huge_page too) to
not temporal stores.  I also extensively researched ways to avoid this
cache trashing with a full prefault logic that would cow in 8k/16k/32k/64k
up to 1M (I can send those patches that fully implemented prefault) but I
concluded they're not worth it and they add an huge additional complexity
and they remove all tlb benefits until the full hugepage has been faulted
in, to save a little bit of memory and some cache during app startup, but
they still don't improve substantially the cache-trashing during startup
if the prefault happens in >4k chunks.  One reason is that those 4k pte
entries copied are still mapped on a perfectly cache-colored hugepage, so
the trashing is the worst one can generate in those copies (cow of 4k page
copies aren't so well colored so they trashes less, but again this results
in software running faster after the page fault).  Those prefault patches
allowed things like a pte where post-cow pages were local 4k regular anon
pages and the not-yet-cowed pte entries were pointing in the middle of
some hugepage mapped read-only.  If it doesn't payoff substantially with
todays hardware it will payoff even less in the future with larger l2
caches, and the prefault logic would blot the VM a lot.  If one is
emebdded transparent_hugepage can be disabled during boot with sysfs or
with the boot commandline parameter transparent_hugepage=0 (or
transparent_hugepage=2 to restrict hugepages inside madvise regions) that
will ensure not a single hugepage is allocated at boot time.  It is simple
enough to just disable transparent hugepage globally and let transparent
hugepages be allocated selectively by applications in the MADV_HUGEPAGE
region (both at page fault time, and if enabled with the
collapse_huge_page too through the kernel daemon).

This patch supports only hugepages mapped in the pmd, archs that have
smaller hugepages will not fit in this patch alone.  Also some archs like
power have certain tlb limits that prevents mixing different page size in
the same regions so they will not fit in this framework that requires
"graceful fallback" to basic PAGE_SIZE in case of physical memory
fragmentation.  hugetlbfs remains a perfect fit for those because its
software limits happen to match the hardware limits.  hugetlbfs also
remains a perfect fit for hugepage sizes like 1GByte that cannot be hoped
to be found not fragmented after a certain system uptime and that would be
very expensive to defragment with relocation, so requiring reservation.
hugetlbfs is the "reservation way", the point of transparent hugepages is
not to have any reservation at all and maximizing the use of cache and
hugepages at all times automatically.

Some performance result:

vmx andrea # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge/ ./largep
ages3
memset page fault 1566023
memset tlb miss 453854
memset second tlb miss 453321
random access tlb miss 41635
random access second tlb miss 41658
vmx andrea # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge/ ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566471
memset tlb miss 453375
memset second tlb miss 453320
random access tlb miss 41636
random access second tlb miss 41637
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566642
memset tlb miss 453417
memset second tlb miss 453313
random access tlb miss 41630
random access second tlb miss 41647
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566872
memset tlb miss 453418
memset second tlb miss 453315
random access tlb miss 41618
random access second tlb miss 41659
vmx andrea # echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/transparent_hugepage
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 2182476
memset tlb miss 460305
memset second tlb miss 460179
random access tlb miss 44483
random access second tlb miss 44186
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 2182791
memset tlb miss 460742
memset second tlb miss 459962
random access tlb miss 43981
random access second tlb miss 43988

============
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

#define SIZE (3UL*1024*1024*1024)

int main()
{
	char *p = malloc(SIZE), *p2;
	struct timeval before, after;

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset page fault %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset second tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	for (p2 = p; p2 < p+SIZE; p2 += 4096)
		*p2 = 0;
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("random access tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	for (p2 = p; p2 < p+SIZE; p2 += 4096)
		*p2 = 0;
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("random access second tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	return 0;
}
============

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00

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#ifndef _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_64_H
#define _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_64_H
#include <linux/const.h>
#include <asm/pgtable_64_types.h>
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
/*
* This file contains the functions and defines necessary to modify and use
* the x86-64 page table tree.
*/
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include <linux/threads.h>
extern pud_t level3_kernel_pgt[512];
extern pud_t level3_ident_pgt[512];
extern pmd_t level2_kernel_pgt[512];
extern pmd_t level2_fixmap_pgt[512];
extern pmd_t level2_ident_pgt[512];
extern pgd_t init_level4_pgt[];
#define swapper_pg_dir init_level4_pgt
extern void paging_init(void);
#define pte_ERROR(e) \
printk("%s:%d: bad pte %p(%016lx).\n", \
__FILE__, __LINE__, &(e), pte_val(e))
#define pmd_ERROR(e) \
printk("%s:%d: bad pmd %p(%016lx).\n", \
__FILE__, __LINE__, &(e), pmd_val(e))
#define pud_ERROR(e) \
printk("%s:%d: bad pud %p(%016lx).\n", \
__FILE__, __LINE__, &(e), pud_val(e))
#define pgd_ERROR(e) \
printk("%s:%d: bad pgd %p(%016lx).\n", \
__FILE__, __LINE__, &(e), pgd_val(e))
struct mm_struct;
void set_pte_vaddr_pud(pud_t *pud_page, unsigned long vaddr, pte_t new_pte);
static inline void native_pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pte_t *ptep)
{
*ptep = native_make_pte(0);
}
static inline void native_set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
{
*ptep = pte;
}
static inline void native_set_pte_atomic(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
{
native_set_pte(ptep, pte);
}
static inline void native_set_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd)
{
*pmdp = pmd;
}
static inline void native_pmd_clear(pmd_t *pmd)
{
native_set_pmd(pmd, native_make_pmd(0));
}
static inline pte_t native_ptep_get_and_clear(pte_t *xp)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
return native_make_pte(xchg(&xp->pte, 0));
#else
/* native_local_ptep_get_and_clear,
but duplicated because of cyclic dependency */
pte_t ret = *xp;
native_pte_clear(NULL, 0, xp);
return ret;
#endif
}
static inline pmd_t native_pmdp_get_and_clear(pmd_t *xp)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
return native_make_pmd(xchg(&xp->pmd, 0));
#else
/* native_local_pmdp_get_and_clear,
but duplicated because of cyclic dependency */
pmd_t ret = *xp;
native_pmd_clear(xp);
return ret;
#endif
}
static inline void native_set_pud(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud)
{
*pudp = pud;
}
static inline void native_pud_clear(pud_t *pud)
{
native_set_pud(pud, native_make_pud(0));
}
static inline void native_set_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd)
{
*pgdp = pgd;
}
static inline void native_pgd_clear(pgd_t *pgd)
{
native_set_pgd(pgd, native_make_pgd(0));
}
extern void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
/*
* Conversion functions: convert a page and protection to a page entry,
* and a page entry and page directory to the page they refer to.
*/
/*
* Level 4 access.
*/
static inline int pgd_large(pgd_t pgd) { return 0; }
#define mk_kernel_pgd(address) __pgd((address) | _KERNPG_TABLE)
/* PUD - Level3 access */
/* PMD - Level 2 access */
#define pte_to_pgoff(pte) ((pte_val((pte)) & PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
#define pgoff_to_pte(off) ((pte_t) { .pte = ((off) << PAGE_SHIFT) | \
_PAGE_FILE })
#define PTE_FILE_MAX_BITS __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT
/* PTE - Level 1 access. */
/* x86-64 always has all page tables mapped. */
#define pte_offset_map(dir, address) pte_offset_kernel((dir), (address))
#define pte_unmap(pte) ((void)(pte))/* NOP */
#define update_mmu_cache(vma, address, ptep) do { } while (0)
/* Encode and de-code a swap entry */
#if _PAGE_BIT_FILE < _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE
#define SWP_TYPE_BITS (_PAGE_BIT_FILE - _PAGE_BIT_PRESENT - 1)
#define SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT (_PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE + 1)
#else
#define SWP_TYPE_BITS (_PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE - _PAGE_BIT_PRESENT - 1)
#define SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT (_PAGE_BIT_FILE + 1)
#endif
#define MAX_SWAPFILES_CHECK() BUILD_BUG_ON(MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT > SWP_TYPE_BITS)
#define __swp_type(x) (((x).val >> (_PAGE_BIT_PRESENT + 1)) \
& ((1U << SWP_TYPE_BITS) - 1))
#define __swp_offset(x) ((x).val >> SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT)
#define __swp_entry(type, offset) ((swp_entry_t) { \
((type) << (_PAGE_BIT_PRESENT + 1)) \
| ((offset) << SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT) })
#define __pte_to_swp_entry(pte) ((swp_entry_t) { pte_val((pte)) })
#define __swp_entry_to_pte(x) ((pte_t) { .pte = (x).val })
extern int kern_addr_valid(unsigned long addr);
extern void cleanup_highmap(void);
#define HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA
#define HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN
#define pgtable_cache_init() do { } while (0)
#define check_pgt_cache() do { } while (0)
#define PAGE_AGP PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE
#define HAVE_PAGE_AGP 1
/* fs/proc/kcore.c */
#define kc_vaddr_to_offset(v) ((v) & __VIRTUAL_MASK)
#define kc_offset_to_vaddr(o) ((o) | ~__VIRTUAL_MASK)
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SAME
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
static inline int pmd_trans_splitting(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_val(pmd) & _PAGE_SPLITTING;
}
static inline int pmd_trans_huge(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_val(pmd) & _PAGE_PSE;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
#define mk_pmd(page, pgprot) pfn_pmd(page_to_pfn(page), (pgprot))
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS
extern int pmdp_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp,
pmd_t entry, int dirty);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG
extern int pmdp_test_and_clear_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_CLEAR_YOUNG_FLUSH
extern int pmdp_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SPLITTING_FLUSH
extern void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMD_WRITE
static inline int pmd_write(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_flags(pmd) & _PAGE_RW;
}
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_GET_AND_CLEAR
static inline pmd_t pmdp_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pmd_t *pmdp)
{
pmd_t pmd = native_pmdp_get_and_clear(pmdp);
pmd_update(mm, addr, pmdp);
return pmd;
}
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SET_WRPROTECT
static inline void pmdp_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
{
clear_bit(_PAGE_BIT_RW, (unsigned long *)&pmdp->pmd);
pmd_update(mm, addr, pmdp);
}
static inline int pmd_young(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_flags(pmd) & _PAGE_ACCESSED;
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_set_flags(pmd_t pmd, pmdval_t set)
{
pmdval_t v = native_pmd_val(pmd);
return native_make_pmd(v | set);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_clear_flags(pmd_t pmd, pmdval_t clear)
{
pmdval_t v = native_pmd_val(pmd);
return native_make_pmd(v & ~clear);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_mkold(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_ACCESSED);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_wrprotect(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_RW);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdirty(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_DIRTY);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_mkhuge(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_PSE);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_mkyoung(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_ACCESSED);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_mkwrite(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_RW);
}
static inline pmd_t pmd_mknotpresent(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_PRESENT);
}
#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_64_H */
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