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mm/hugetlb.c: fix unnecessary address expansion of pmd sharing
authorLi Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com>
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:06:54 +0000 (12:06 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 7 Mar 2021 10:27:43 +0000 (11:27 +0100)
commitd982111073ca39e93ccacdf3e5e4260a27b0f806
tree60c1b9fb81a5a429032ec85a91a751682e739be4
parent7582edf28f5d1f0a4d2f7abdb7d9560d09fd41b5
mm/hugetlb.c: fix unnecessary address expansion of pmd sharing

commit a1ba9da8f0f9a37d900ff7eff66482cf7de8015e upstream.

The current code would unnecessarily expand the address range.  Consider
one example, (start, end) = (1G-2M, 3G+2M), and (vm_start, vm_end) =
(1G-4M, 3G+4M), the expected adjustment should be keep (1G-2M, 3G+2M)
without expand.  But the current result will be (1G-4M, 3G+4M).  Actually,
the range (1G-4M, 1G) and (3G, 3G+4M) would never been involved in pmd
sharing.

After this patch, we will check that the vma span at least one PUD aligned
size and the start,end range overlap the aligned range of vma.

With above example, the aligned vma range is (1G, 3G), so if (start, end)
range is within (1G-4M, 1G), or within (3G, 3G+4M), then no adjustment to
both start and end.  Otherwise, we will have chance to adjust start
downwards or end upwards without exceeding (vm_start, vm_end).

Mike:

: The 'adjusted range' is used for calls to mmu notifiers and cache(tlb)
: flushing.  Since the current code unnecessarily expands the range in some
: cases, more entries than necessary would be flushed.  This would/could
: result in performance degradation.  However, this is highly dependent on
: the user runtime.  Is there a combination of vma layout and calls to
: actually hit this issue?  If the issue is hit, will those entries
: unnecessarily flushed be used again and need to be unnecessarily reloaded?

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210104081631.2921415-1-lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com
Fixes: 75802ca66354 ("mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible")
Signed-off-by: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c