[PATCH v10 7/7] mm: Don't split THP page when syscall is called

[Minchan Kim]

We don't need to split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is
called. It could be done when VM decide really frees it so
we could reduce the number of THP split.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/huge_mm.h |  3 +++
 mm/huge_memory.c        | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/madvise.c            | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 mm/rmap.c               |  4 ++++
 mm/vmscan.c             | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index 63579cb8d3dc..f0d37238cf8f 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ extern struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 					  unsigned long addr,
 					  pmd_t *pmd,
 					  unsigned int flags);
+extern int madvise_free_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
+			struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr);
 extern int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 			struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr);
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 5d562a9fe931..2a70069dcfc0 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1384,6 +1384,31 @@ out:
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int madvise_free_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		 pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
+{
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	if (__pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma, &ptl) == 1) {
+		pmd_t orig_pmd;
+		struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+
+		/* No hugepage in swapcache */
+		VM_BUG_ON(PageSwapCache(pmd_page(orig_pmd)));
+
+		orig_pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(tlb->mm, addr, pmd);
+		orig_pmd = pmd_mkold(orig_pmd);
+		orig_pmd = pmd_mkclean(orig_pmd);
+
+		set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, orig_pmd);
+		tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr);
+		spin_unlock(ptl);
+		ret = 1;
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+
 int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		 pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
 {
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 372a25a8ea82..3c99919ee094 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -320,8 +320,23 @@ static inline unsigned long madvise_free_pmd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 		 * if the range covers.
 		 */
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))
-			split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
+		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
+			if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+				if (!rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem)) {
+					pr_err("%s: mmap_sem is unlocked! addr=0x%lx end=0x%lx vma->vm_start=0x%lx vma->vm_end=0x%lx\n",
+						__func__, addr, end,
+						vma->vm_start,
+						vma->vm_end);
+					BUG();
+				}
+#endif
+				split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
+			} else if (madvise_free_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr))
+				goto next;
+			/* fall through */
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Here there can be other concurrent MADV_DONTNEED or
 		 * trans huge page faults running, and if the pmd is
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index ee495d84c8b3..3c415eb8b6f0 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -702,6 +702,10 @@ static int page_referenced_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		/* go ahead even if the pmd is pmd_trans_splitting() */
 		if (pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(vma, address, pmd))
 			referenced++;
+
+		if (pmd_dirty(*pmd))
+			dirty++;
+
 		spin_unlock(ptl);
 	} else {
 		pte_t *pte;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f7a45600846f..4e15babf4414 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -971,15 +971,23 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 		 * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
 		 * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
 		 */
-		if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page) && !freeable) {
-			if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
-				goto keep_locked;
-			if (!add_to_swap(page, page_list))
-				goto activate_locked;
-			may_enter_fs = 1;
+		if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
+			if (!freeable) {
+				if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
+					goto keep_locked;
+				if (!add_to_swap(page, page_list))
+					goto activate_locked;
+				may_enter_fs = 1;
 
-			/* Adding to swap updated mapping */
-			mapping = page_mapping(page);
+				/* Adding to swap updated mapping */
+				mapping = page_mapping(page);
+			} else {
+				if (unlikely(PageTransHuge(page))) {
+					if (unlikely(split_huge_page_to_list(
+						page, page_list)))
+						goto keep_locked;
+				}
+			}
 		}
 
 		/*
-- 
2.0.0

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