Initial support for automatic NUMA balancing was unable to distinguish
between false shared versus private pages except by ignoring pages with an
elevated page_mapcount entirely. This patch kicks away the training wheels
as initial support for identifying shared/private pages is now in place.
Note that the patch still leaves shared, file-backed in VM_EXEC vmas in
place guessing that these are shared library pages. Migrating them are
likely to be of major benefit as generally the expectation would be that
these are read-shared between caches and that iTLB and iCache pressure is
generally low.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
---
 include/linux/migrate.h |  7 ++++---
 mm/memory.c             |  4 ++--
 mm/migrate.c            | 17 ++++++-----------
 mm/mprotect.c           |  4 +---
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index a405d3dc..e7e26af 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -92,11 +92,12 @@ static inline int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct 
address_space *mapping,
 #endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
-extern int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node);
-extern int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node);
+extern int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page,
+                                 struct vm_area_struct *vma, int node);
 extern bool migrate_ratelimited(int node);
 #else
-static inline int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node)
+static inline int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page,
+                                        struct vm_area_struct *vma, int node)
 {
        return -EAGAIN; /* can't migrate now */
 }
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index c28bf52..b06022a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3581,7 +3581,7 @@ int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct 
vm_area_struct *vma,
        }
 
        /* Migrate to the requested node */
-       migrated = migrate_misplaced_page(page, target_nid);
+       migrated = migrate_misplaced_page(page, vma, target_nid);
        if (migrated)
                current_nid = target_nid;
 
@@ -3666,7 +3666,7 @@ static int do_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct 
vm_area_struct *vma,
 
                /* Migrate to the requested node */
                pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
-               migrated = migrate_misplaced_page(page, target_nid);
+               migrated = migrate_misplaced_page(page, vma, target_nid);
                if (migrated)
                        curr_nid = target_nid;
                task_numa_fault(last_nid, curr_nid, 1, migrated);
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 3bbaf5d..23f8122 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1579,7 +1579,8 @@ int numamigrate_isolate_page(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct 
page *page)
  * node. Caller is expected to have an elevated reference count on
  * the page that will be dropped by this function before returning.
  */
-int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node)
+int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+                          int node)
 {
        pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(node);
        int isolated;
@@ -1587,10 +1588,11 @@ int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node)
        LIST_HEAD(migratepages);
 
        /*
-        * Don't migrate pages that are mapped in multiple processes.
-        * TODO: Handle false sharing detection instead of this hammer
+        * Don't migrate file pages that are mapped in multiple processes
+        * with execute permissions as they are probably shared libraries.
         */
-       if (page_mapcount(page) != 1)
+       if (page_mapcount(page) != 1 && page_is_file_cache(page) &&
+           (vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC))
                goto out;
 
        /*
@@ -1641,13 +1643,6 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct 
*mm,
        int page_lru = page_is_file_cache(page);
 
        /*
-        * Don't migrate pages that are mapped in multiple processes.
-        * TODO: Handle false sharing detection instead of this hammer
-        */
-       if (page_mapcount(page) != 1)
-               goto out_dropref;
-
-       /*
         * Rate-limit the amount of data that is being migrated to a node.
         * Optimal placement is no good if the memory bus is saturated and
         * all the time is being spent migrating!
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 94722a4..cacc64a 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -69,9 +69,7 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct 
*vma, pmd_t *pmd,
                                        if (last_nid != this_nid)
                                                all_same_node = false;
 
-                                       /* only check non-shared pages */
-                                       if (!pte_numa(oldpte) &&
-                                           page_mapcount(page) == 1) {
+                                       if (!pte_numa(oldpte)) {
                                                ptent = pte_mknuma(ptent);
                                                updated = true;
                                        }
-- 
1.8.1.4

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