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arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific test_and_clear_young_ptes()
authorBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Fri, 6 Mar 2026 06:43:42 +0000 (14:43 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 5 Apr 2026 20:53:16 +0000 (13:53 -0700)
Implement the Arm64 architecture-specific test_and_clear_young_ptes() to
enable batched checking of young flags, improving performance during large
folio reclamation when MGLRU is enabled.

While we're at it, simplify ptep_test_and_clear_young() by calling
test_and_clear_young_ptes().  Since callers guarantee that PTEs are
present before calling these functions, we can use pte_cont() to check the
CONT_PTE flag instead of pte_valid_cont().

Performance testing:

Enable MGLRU, then allocate 10G clean file-backed folios by mmap() in a
memory cgroup, and try to reclaim 8G file-backed folios via the
memory.reclaim interface.  I can observe 60%+ performance improvement on
my Arm64 32-core server (and about 15% improvement on my X86 machine).

W/o patchset:
real 0m0.470s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.470s

W/ patchset:
real 0m0.180s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.179s

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7f891d42a720cc2e57862f3b79e4f774404f313c.1772778858.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h

index aa4b13da6371ae26ff99792908afed3b8f16e49c..ab451d20e4c53bf3ecd8d9bd3d3739e87c13e920 100644 (file)
@@ -1812,16 +1812,22 @@ static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
        return __ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);
 }
 
+#define test_and_clear_young_ptes test_and_clear_young_ptes
+static inline int test_and_clear_young_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+                                           unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
+                                           unsigned int nr)
+{
+       if (likely(nr == 1 && !pte_cont(__ptep_get(ptep))))
+               return __ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
+
+       return contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, nr);
+}
+
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG
 static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                                unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
 {
-       pte_t orig_pte = __ptep_get(ptep);
-
-       if (likely(!pte_valid_cont(orig_pte)))
-               return __ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
-
-       return contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
+       return test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
 }
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_CLEAR_YOUNG_FLUSH