Some architectures (e.g. arm64) can tell from looking at a pte, if some follow-on ptes also map contiguous physical memory with the same pgprot. (for arm64, these are contpte mappings).
Take advantage of this knowledge to optimize folio_pte_batch() so that it can skip these ptes when scanning to create a batch. By default, if an arch does not opt-in, folio_pte_batch() returns a compile-time 1, so the changes are optimized out and the behaviour is as before. arm64 will opt-in to providing this hint in the next patch, which will greatly reduce the cost of ptep_get() when scanning a range of contptes. Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubb...@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.robe...@arm.com> --- include/linux/pgtable.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ mm/memory.c | 20 +++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h index 50f32cccbd92..cba31f177d27 100644 --- a/include/linux/pgtable.h +++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h @@ -212,6 +212,24 @@ static inline int pmd_dirty(pmd_t pmd) #define arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() do {} while (0) #endif +#ifndef pte_batch_hint +/** + * pte_batch_hint - Number of pages that can be added to batch without scanning. + * @ptep: Page table pointer for the entry. + * @pte: Page table entry. + * + * Some architectures know that a set of contiguous ptes all map the same + * contiguous memory with the same permissions. In this case, it can provide a + * hint to aid pte batching without the core code needing to scan every pte. + * + * May be overridden by the architecture, else pte_batch_hint is always 1. + */ +static inline unsigned int pte_batch_hint(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte) +{ + return 1; +} +#endif + #ifndef pte_advance_pfn static inline pte_t pte_advance_pfn(pte_t pte, unsigned long nr) { diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 65fbe4f886c1..902665b27702 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -988,16 +988,21 @@ static inline int folio_pte_batch(struct folio *folio, unsigned long addr, { unsigned long folio_end_pfn = folio_pfn(folio) + folio_nr_pages(folio); const pte_t *end_ptep = start_ptep + max_nr; - pte_t expected_pte = __pte_batch_clear_ignored(pte_advance_pfn(pte, 1), flags); - pte_t *ptep = start_ptep + 1; + pte_t expected_pte = __pte_batch_clear_ignored(pte, flags); + pte_t *ptep = start_ptep; bool writable; + int nr; if (any_writable) *any_writable = false; VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(!pte_present(pte), folio); - while (ptep != end_ptep) { + nr = pte_batch_hint(ptep, pte); + expected_pte = pte_advance_pfn(expected_pte, nr); + ptep += nr; + + while (ptep < end_ptep) { pte = ptep_get(ptep); if (any_writable) writable = !!pte_write(pte); @@ -1011,17 +1016,18 @@ static inline int folio_pte_batch(struct folio *folio, unsigned long addr, * corner cases the next PFN might fall into a different * folio. */ - if (pte_pfn(pte) == folio_end_pfn) + if (pte_pfn(pte) >= folio_end_pfn) break; if (any_writable) *any_writable |= writable; - expected_pte = pte_advance_pfn(expected_pte, 1); - ptep++; + nr = pte_batch_hint(ptep, pte); + expected_pte = pte_advance_pfn(expected_pte, nr); + ptep += nr; } - return ptep - start_ptep; + return min(ptep - start_ptep, max_nr); } /* -- 2.25.1