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mm, hugetlbfs: pass fault address to cow handler
authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:45:57 +0000 (15:45 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:20:29 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
commit974e6d66b6b5c6e2d6a3ccc18b2f9a0b472be5b4
tree0aa559789db47a6dfff9a572b2553bbcbd272016
parent5b7a1d406062449a4d51aea1df37a73285ced1dc
mm, hugetlbfs: pass fault address to cow handler

This is to take better advantage of the general huge page copying
optimization.  Where, the target subpage will be copied last to avoid
the cache lines of target subpage to be evicted when copying other
subpages.  This works better if the address of the target subpage is
available when copying huge page.  So hugetlbfs page fault handlers are
changed to pass that information to hugetlb_cow().  This will benefit
workloads which don't access the begin of the hugetlbfs huge page after
the page fault under heavy cache contention.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180524005851.4079-5-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c