[PATCH v4 2/5] mm: hugetlb: replace hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled with a static_key

From: Muchun Song
Date: Sat Sep 25 2021 - 23:15:13 EST


The page_head_if_fake() is used throughout memory management and the
conditional check requires checking a global variable, although the
overhead of this check may be small, it increases when the memory
cache comes under pressure. Also, the global variable will not be
modified after system boot, so it is very appropriate to use static
key machanism.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 6 ------
include/linux/page-flags.h | 18 +++++++++++++++---
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 12 ++++++------
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 3cbf60464398..a90cc88195da 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -1055,12 +1055,6 @@ static inline void set_huge_swap_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */

-#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
-extern bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled;
-#else
-#define hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled false
-#endif
-
static inline spinlock_t *huge_pte_lock(struct hstate *h,
struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index b49808e748ce..26e540fd3393 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -185,7 +185,14 @@ enum pageflags {
#ifndef __GENERATING_BOUNDS_H

#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
-extern bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled;
+DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_MAYBE(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON,
+ hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled_key);
+
+static __always_inline bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled(void)
+{
+ return static_branch_maybe(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON,
+ &hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled_key);
+}

/*
* If the feature of freeing some vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB
@@ -205,7 +212,7 @@ extern bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled;
*/
static __always_inline const struct page *page_fixed_fake_head(const struct page *page)
{
- if (!hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled)
+ if (!hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled())
return page;

/*
@@ -229,10 +236,15 @@ static __always_inline const struct page *page_fixed_fake_head(const struct page
return page;
}
#else
-static __always_inline const struct page *page_fixed_fake_head(const struct page *page)
+static inline const struct page *page_fixed_fake_head(const struct page *page)
{
return page;
}
+
+static inline bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled(void)
+{
+ return false;
+}
#endif

static __always_inline int page_is_fake_head(struct page *page)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index f4a8fca691ee..22ecb5e21686 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -188,9 +188,9 @@
#define RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR 1U
#define RESERVE_VMEMMAP_SIZE (RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR << PAGE_SHIFT)

-bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled __read_mostly =
- IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled);
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_MAYBE(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON,
+ hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled_key);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled_key);

static int __init early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param(char *buf)
{
@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ static int __init early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param(char *buf)
return -EINVAL;

if (!strcmp(buf, "on"))
- hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled = true;
+ static_branch_enable(&hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled_key);
else if (!strcmp(buf, "off"))
- hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled = false;
+ static_branch_disable(&hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled_key);
else
return -EINVAL;

@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init(struct hstate *h)
BUILD_BUG_ON(__NR_USED_SUBPAGE >=
RESERVE_VMEMMAP_SIZE / sizeof(struct page));

- if (!hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled)
+ if (!hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled())
return;

vmemmap_pages = (nr_pages * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 4ea91c3ff768..66eaa4e2e76f 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ bool mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(unsigned long size)
* populate a single PMD.
*/
return memmap_on_memory &&
- !hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled &&
+ !hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled() &&
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY) &&
size == memory_block_size_bytes() &&
IS_ALIGNED(vmemmap_size, PMD_SIZE) &&
--
2.11.0