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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)
commit7ba65a7761d7c90c9f0f7a45bf83bf8c02b9a35c
tree0aa559789db47a6dfff9a572b2553bbcbd272016
parent36cbd8db83247a4197d14d57364ad56cd310162b
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