mm/mprotect: use mmu_gather
Patch series "mm/mprotect: avoid unnecessary TLB flushes", v6. This patchset is intended to remove unnecessary TLB flushes during mprotect() syscalls. Once this patch-set make it through, similar and further optimizations for MADV_COLD and userfaultfd would be possible. Basically, there are 3 optimizations in this patch-set: 1. Use TLB batching infrastructure to batch flushes across VMAs and do better/fewer flushes. This would also be handy for later userfaultfd enhancements. 2. Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes. This optimization is the one that provides most of the performance benefits. Unlike previous versions, we now only avoid flushes that would not result in spurious page-faults. 3. Avoiding TLB flushes on change_huge_pmd() that are only needed to prevent the A/D bits from changing. Andrew asked for some benchmark numbers. I do not have an easy determinate macrobenchmark in which it is easy to show benefit. I therefore ran a microbenchmark: a loop that does the following on anonymous memory, just as a sanity check to see that time is saved by avoiding TLB flushes. The loop goes: mprotect(p, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ) mprotect(p, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) *p = 0; // make the page writable The test was run in KVM guest with 1 or 2 threads (the second thread was busy-looping). I measured the time (cycles) of each operation: 1 thread 2 threads mmots +patch mmots +patch PROT_READ 3494 2725 (-22%) 8630 7788 (-10%) PROT_READ|WRITE 3952 2724 (-31%) 9075 2865 (-68%) [ mmots = v5.17-rc6-mmots-2022-03-06-20-38 ] The exact numbers are really meaningless, but the benefit is clear. There are 2 interesting results though. (1) PROT_READ is cheaper, while one can expect it not to be affected. This is presumably due to TLB miss that is saved (2) Without memory access (*p = 0), the speedup of the patch is even greater. In that scenario mprotect(PROT_READ) also avoids the TLB flush. As a result both operations on the patched kernel take roughly ~1500 cycles (with either 1 or 2 threads), whereas on mmotm their cost is as high as presented in the table. This patch (of 3): change_pXX_range() currently does not use mmu_gather, but instead implements its own deferred TLB flushes scheme. This both complicates the code, as developers need to be aware of different invalidation schemes, and prevents opportunities to avoid TLB flushes or perform them in finer granularity. The use of mmu_gather for modified PTEs has benefits in various scenarios even if pages are not released. For instance, if only a single page needs to be flushed out of a range of many pages, only that page would be flushed. If a THP page is flushed, on x86 a single TLB invlpg instruction can be used instead of 512 instructions (or a full TLB flush, which would Linux would actually use by default). mprotect() over multiple VMAs requires a single flush. Use mmu_gather in change_pXX_range(). As the pages are not released, only record the flushed range using tlb_flush_pXX_range(). Handle THP similarly and get rid of flush_cache_range() which becomes redundant since tlb_start_vma() calls it when needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401180821.1986781-1-namit@vmware.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401180821.1986781-2-namit@vmware.comSigned-off-by:Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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