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authorBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>2026-03-06 14:43:41 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-04-05 13:53:16 -0700
commit56e5b60b2114dee967c971f08dd29ef193bd3a2d (patch)
treea335e7570cb5fda480044cdc87a169b67e24dce8
parent6d7237dda44f24bb0dec5dbd2a0ed6be77bf6ef6 (diff)
mm: support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU
Use the batched helper test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify() to check and clear the young flag to improve the performance during large folio reclamation when MGLRU is enabled. Meanwhile, we can also support batched checking the young and dirty flag when MGLRU walks the mm's pagetable to update the folios' generation counter. Since MGLRU also checks the PTE dirty bit, use folio_pte_batch_flags() with FPB_MERGE_YOUNG_DIRTY set to detect batches of PTEs for a large folio. Then we can remove the ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify() since it has no users now. Note that we also update the 'young' counter and 'mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG]' counter with the batched count in the lru_gen_look_around() and walk_pte_range(). However, the batched operations may inflate these two counters, because in a large folio not all PTEs may have been accessed. (Additionally, tracking how many PTEs have been accessed within a large folio is not very meaningful, since the mm core actually tracks access/dirty on a per-folio basis, not per page). The impact analysis is as follows: 1. The 'mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG]' counter has no functional impact and is mainly for debugging. 2. The 'young' counter is used to decide whether to place the current PMD entry into the bloom filters by suitable_to_scan() (so that next time we can check whether it has been accessed again), which may set the hash bit in the bloom filters for a PMD entry that hasn't seen much access. However, bloom filters inherently allow some error, so this effect appears negligible. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/378f4acf7d07410aa7c2e4b49d56bb165918eb34.1772778858.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-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>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h5
-rw-r--r--mm/internal.h6
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c28
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c43
4 files changed, 49 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 5c3ae0348754..3f651baf7e2b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ struct lru_gen_memcg {
void lru_gen_init_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
void lru_gen_init_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec);
-bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw);
+bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, unsigned int nr);
void lru_gen_init_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
void lru_gen_exit_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
@@ -703,7 +703,8 @@ static inline void lru_gen_init_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec)
{
}
-static inline bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
+static inline bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
+ unsigned int nr)
{
return false;
}
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 1357dc04f065..4ab833b8bcdf 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1848,10 +1848,4 @@ static inline int pmdp_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */
-static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
-{
- return test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
-}
-
#endif /* __MM_INTERNAL_H */
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index cd48f34f11b5..abe4712a220c 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -965,25 +965,20 @@ static bool folio_referenced_one(struct folio *folio,
return false;
}
+ if (pvmw.pte && folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ const unsigned long end_addr = pmd_addr_end(address, vma->vm_end);
+ const unsigned int max_nr = (end_addr - address) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ pte_t pteval = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
+
+ nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, pvmw.pte, pteval, max_nr);
+ }
+
if (lru_gen_enabled() && pvmw.pte) {
- if (lru_gen_look_around(&pvmw))
+ if (lru_gen_look_around(&pvmw, nr))
referenced++;
} else if (pvmw.pte) {
- if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
- unsigned long end_addr = pmd_addr_end(address, vma->vm_end);
- unsigned int max_nr = (end_addr - address) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- pte_t pteval = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
-
- nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, pvmw.pte,
- pteval, max_nr);
- }
-
- ptes += nr;
if (clear_flush_young_ptes_notify(vma, address, pvmw.pte, nr))
referenced++;
- /* Skip the batched PTEs */
- pvmw.pte += nr - 1;
- pvmw.address += (nr - 1) * PAGE_SIZE;
} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)) {
if (pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(vma, address,
pvmw.pmd))
@@ -993,6 +988,7 @@ static bool folio_referenced_one(struct folio *folio,
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
}
+ ptes += nr;
pra->mapcount -= nr;
/*
* If we are sure that we batched the entire folio,
@@ -1002,6 +998,10 @@ static bool folio_referenced_one(struct folio *folio,
page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
break;
}
+
+ /* Skip the batched PTEs */
+ pvmw.pte += nr - 1;
+ pvmw.address += (nr - 1) * PAGE_SIZE;
}
if (referenced)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7ab9e1cdccd2..3a4a0a81c871 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3499,6 +3499,7 @@ static bool walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(walk->lruvec);
DEFINE_MAX_SEQ(walk->lruvec);
int gen = lru_gen_from_seq(max_seq);
+ unsigned int nr;
pmd_t pmdval;
pte = pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(args->mm, pmd, start & PMD_MASK, &pmdval, &ptl);
@@ -3517,11 +3518,13 @@ static bool walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
lazy_mmu_mode_enable();
restart:
- for (i = pte_index(start), addr = start; addr != end; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ for (i = pte_index(start), addr = start; addr != end; i += nr, addr += nr * PAGE_SIZE) {
unsigned long pfn;
struct folio *folio;
- pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte + i);
+ pte_t *cur_pte = pte + i;
+ pte_t ptent = ptep_get(cur_pte);
+ nr = 1;
total++;
walk->mm_stats[MM_LEAF_TOTAL]++;
@@ -3533,7 +3536,16 @@ restart:
if (!folio)
continue;
- if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(args->vma, addr, pte + i))
+ if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ const unsigned int max_nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ nr = folio_pte_batch_flags(folio, NULL, cur_pte, &ptent,
+ max_nr, FPB_MERGE_YOUNG_DIRTY);
+ total += nr - 1;
+ walk->mm_stats[MM_LEAF_TOTAL] += nr - 1;
+ }
+
+ if (!test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(args->vma, addr, cur_pte, nr))
continue;
if (last != folio) {
@@ -3546,8 +3558,8 @@ restart:
if (pte_dirty(ptent))
dirty = true;
- young++;
- walk->mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG]++;
+ young += nr;
+ walk->mm_stats[MM_LEAF_YOUNG] += nr;
}
walk_update_folio(walk, last, gen, dirty);
@@ -4191,7 +4203,7 @@ static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
* the PTE table to the Bloom filter. This forms a feedback loop between the
* eviction and the aging.
*/
-bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
+bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, unsigned int nr)
{
int i;
bool dirty;
@@ -4214,7 +4226,7 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
lockdep_assert_held(pvmw->ptl);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(folio_test_lru(folio), folio);
- if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pte))
+ if (!test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(vma, addr, pte, nr))
return false;
if (spin_is_contended(pvmw->ptl))
@@ -4248,10 +4260,12 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
pte -= (addr - start) / PAGE_SIZE;
- for (i = 0, addr = start; addr != end; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ for (i = 0, addr = start; addr != end;
+ i += nr, pte += nr, addr += nr * PAGE_SIZE) {
unsigned long pfn;
- pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte + i);
+ pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte);
+ nr = 1;
pfn = get_pte_pfn(ptent, vma, addr, pgdat);
if (pfn == -1)
continue;
@@ -4260,7 +4274,14 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (!folio)
continue;
- if (!ptep_test_and_clear_young_notify(vma, addr, pte + i))
+ if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ const unsigned int max_nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ nr = folio_pte_batch_flags(folio, NULL, pte, &ptent,
+ max_nr, FPB_MERGE_YOUNG_DIRTY);
+ }
+
+ if (!test_and_clear_young_ptes_notify(vma, addr, pte, nr))
continue;
if (last != folio) {
@@ -4273,7 +4294,7 @@ bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (pte_dirty(ptent))
dirty = true;
- young++;
+ young += nr;
}
walk_update_folio(walk, last, gen, dirty);