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Yang Shi authored
Recently we found regression when running will_it_scale/page_fault3 test on ARM64. Over 70% down for the multi processes cases and over 20% down for the multi threads cases. It turns out the regression is caused by commit 89b15332 ("mm: drop mmap_sem before calling balance_dirty_pages() in write fault"). The test mmaps a memory size file then write to the mapping, this would make all memory dirty and trigger dirty pages throttle, that upstream commit would release mmap_sem then retry the page fault. The retried page fault would see correct PTEs installed then just fall through to spurious TLB flush. The regression is caused by the excessive spurious TLB flush. It is fine on x86 since x86's spurious TLB flush is no-op. We could just skip the spurious TLB flush to mitigate the regression. Suggested-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by:
Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com> Debugged-by:
Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-by:
Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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