From 19eaf44954df64f9bc8dec398219e15ad0811497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Roberts Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 16:12:05 +0000 Subject: mm: thp: support allocation of anonymous multi-size THP Introduce the logic to allow THP to be configured (through the new sysfs interface we just added) to allocate large folios to back anonymous memory, which are larger than the base page size but smaller than PMD-size. We call this new THP extension "multi-size THP" (mTHP). mTHP continues to be PTE-mapped, but in many cases can still provide similar benefits to traditional PMD-sized THP: Page faults are significantly reduced (by a factor of e.g. 4, 8, 16, etc. depending on the configured order), but latency spikes are much less prominent because the size of each page isn't as huge as the PMD-sized variant and there is less memory to clear in each page fault. The number of per-page operations (e.g. ref counting, rmap management, lru list management) are also significantly reduced since those ops now become per-folio. Some architectures also employ TLB compression mechanisms to squeeze more entries in when a set of PTEs are virtually and physically contiguous and approporiately aligned. In this case, TLB misses will occur less often. The new behaviour is disabled by default, but can be enabled at runtime by writing to /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepage-XXkb/enabled (see documentation in previous commit). The long term aim is to change the default to include suitable lower orders, but there are some risks around internal fragmentation that need to be better understood first. [ryan.roberts@arm.com: resolve some multi-size THP review nits] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231214160251.3574571-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207161211.2374093-5-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Tested-by: Kefeng Wang Tested-by: John Hubbard Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Barry Song Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Rientjes Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Itaru Kitayama Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yin Fengwei Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/huge_mm.h | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h index 609c153bae57..fa7a38a30fc6 100644 --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h @@ -68,9 +68,11 @@ extern struct kobj_attribute shmem_enabled_attr; #define HPAGE_PMD_NR (1<