[RFC PATCH 0/9] Enable THP migration for all possible architectures

From: Zi Yan
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 10:30:38 EST


From: Zi Yan <zi.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi all,

THP migration is only enabled on x86_64 with a special
ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION macro. This patchset enables THP migration for
all architectures that uses transparent hugepage, so that special macro can
be dropped. Instead, THP migration is enabled/disabled via
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enable_thp_migration.

I grepped for TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE in arch folder and got 9 architectures that
are supporting transparent hugepage. I mechanically add __pmd_to_swp_entry() and
__swp_entry_to_pmd() based on existing __pte_to_swp_entry() and
__swp_entry_to_pte() for all these architectures, except tile which is going to
be dropped.

I have successfully compiled all these architectures, but have NOT tested them
due to lack of real hardware. I appreciate your help, if the maintainers of
these architectures can do a quick test with the code from
https://github.com/x-y-z/thp-migration-bench . Please apply patch 9 as well
to enable THP migration.

By enabling THP migration, migrating a 2MB THP on x86_64 machines takes only 1/3
time of migrating equivalent 512 4KB pages.

Hi Naoya, I also add soft dirty support for powerpc and s390. It would be great
if you can take a look at patch 6 & 7.

Feel free to give comments. Thanks.

Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-snps-arc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>


Zi Yan (9):
arc: mm: migrate: add pmd swap entry to support thp migration.
arm: mm: migrate: add pmd swap entry to support thp migration.
arm64: mm: migrate: add pmd swap entry to support thp migration.
i386: mm: migrate: add pmd swap entry to support thp migration.
mips: mm: migrate: add pmd swap entry to support thp migration.
powerpc: mm: migrate: add pmd swap entry to support thp migration.
s390: mm: migrate: add pmd swap entry to support thp migration.
sparc: mm: migrate: add pmd swap entry to support thp migration.
mm: migrate: enable thp migration for all possible architectures.

arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-64.h | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/pgtable.h | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 17 ++++++++++++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/pgtable.h | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgtable.h | 2 ++
arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 ++++
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_32.h | 2 ++
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 --
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 2 --
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 21 ++-------------
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 9 +++----
include/linux/swapops.h | 4 +--
mm/Kconfig | 3 ---
mm/huge_memory.c | 27 +++++++++++++-------
mm/migrate.c | 6 ++---
mm/rmap.c | 5 ++--
23 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

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