Re: [PATCH v4 01/26] mm: Do page fault accounting in handle_mm_fault

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Peter Xu wrote:

> @@ -4408,6 +4440,34 @@ vm_fault_t handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
>  			mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(false);
>  	}
>  
> +	if (ret & (VM_FAULT_RETRY | VM_FAULT_ERROR))
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Do accounting in the common code, to avoid unnecessary
> +	 * architecture differences or duplicated code.
> +	 *
> +	 * We arbitrarily make the rules be:
> +	 *
> +	 *  - Unsuccessful faults do not count (e.g. when the address wasn't
> +	 *    valid). That includes arch_vma_access_permitted() failing above.
> +	 *
> +	 *    So this is expressly not a "this many hardware page faults"
> +	 *    counter. Use the hw profiling for that.
> +	 *
> +	 *  - Incomplete faults do not count (e.g. RETRY).  They will only
> +	 *    count once completed.
> +	 *
> +	 *  - The fault counts as a "major" fault when the final successful
> +	 *    fault is VM_FAULT_MAJOR, or if it was a retry (which implies that
> +	 *    we couldn't handle it immediately previously).
> +	 *
> +	 *  - If the fault is done for GUP, regs will be NULL and no accounting
> +	 *    will be done.
> +	 */
> +	mm_account_fault(regs, address, (ret & VM_FAULT_MAJOR) ||
> +			 (flags & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED));
> +
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(handle_mm_fault);

Just a nit, likely not important: I wonder if it would be cleaner to pass 
the vm_fault_t into mm_account_fault() and then do the VM_FAULT_RETRY and
VM_FAULT_ERROR checks there as well as putting the comment about how 
accounting is handled in that function.  Your comment is great.