Re: [RFC PATCH 07/26] hugetlb: add hugetlb_pte to track HugeTLB page table entries

[James Houghton]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 5:47 AM manish.mishra <manish.mishra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 24/06/22 11:06 pm, James Houghton wrote:
> > After high-granularity mapping, page table entries for HugeTLB pages can
> > be of any size/type. (For example, we can have a 1G page mapped with a
> > mix of PMDs and PTEs.) This struct is to help keep track of a HugeTLB
> > PTE after we have done a page table walk.
> >
> > Without this, we'd have to pass around the "size" of the PTE everywhere.
> > We effectively did this before; it could be fetched from the hstate,
> > which we pass around pretty much everywhere.
> >
> > This commit includes definitions for some basic helper functions that
> > are used later. These helper functions wrap existing PTE
> > inspection/modification functions, where the correct version is picked
> > depending on if the HugeTLB PTE is actually "huge" or not. (Previously,
> > all HugeTLB PTEs were "huge").
> >
> > For example, hugetlb_ptep_get wraps huge_ptep_get and ptep_get, where
> > ptep_get is used when the HugeTLB PTE is PAGE_SIZE, and huge_ptep_get is
> > used in all other cases.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   include/linux/hugetlb.h | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   mm/hugetlb.c            | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   2 files changed, 141 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > index 5fe1db46d8c9..1d4ec9dfdebf 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > @@ -46,6 +46,68 @@ enum {
> >       __NR_USED_SUBPAGE,
> >   };
> >
> > +struct hugetlb_pte {
> > +     pte_t *ptep;
> > +     unsigned int shift;
> > +};
> > +
> > +static inline
> > +void hugetlb_pte_init(struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     hpte->ptep = NULL;
> I agree it does not matter but still will hpte->shift = 0 too be better?
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline
> > +void hugetlb_pte_populate(struct hugetlb_pte *hpte, pte_t *ptep,
> > +                       unsigned int shift)
> > +{
> > +     BUG_ON(!ptep);
> > +     hpte->ptep = ptep;
> > +     hpte->shift = shift;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline
> > +unsigned long hugetlb_pte_size(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     BUG_ON(!hpte->ptep);
> > +     return 1UL << hpte->shift;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline
> > +unsigned long hugetlb_pte_mask(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     BUG_ON(!hpte->ptep);
> > +     return ~(hugetlb_pte_size(hpte) - 1);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline
> > +unsigned int hugetlb_pte_shift(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     BUG_ON(!hpte->ptep);
> > +     return hpte->shift;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline
> > +bool hugetlb_pte_huge(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     return !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HUGETLB_HIGH_GRANULARITY_MAPPING) ||
> > +             hugetlb_pte_shift(hpte) > PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline
> > +void hugetlb_pte_copy(struct hugetlb_pte *dest, const struct hugetlb_pte *src)
> > +{
> > +     dest->ptep = src->ptep;
> > +     dest->shift = src->shift;
> > +}
> > +
> > +bool hugetlb_pte_present_leaf(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte);
> > +bool hugetlb_pte_none(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte);
> > +bool hugetlb_pte_none_mostly(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte);
> > +pte_t hugetlb_ptep_get(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte);
> > +void hugetlb_pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte,
> > +                    unsigned long address);
> > +
> >   struct hugepage_subpool {
> >       spinlock_t lock;
> >       long count;
> > @@ -1130,6 +1192,28 @@ static inline spinlock_t *huge_pte_lock_shift(unsigned int shift,
> >       return ptl;
> >   }
> >
> > +static inline
> > +spinlock_t *hugetlb_pte_lockptr(struct mm_struct *mm, struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +
> > +     BUG_ON(!hpte->ptep);
> > +     // Only use huge_pte_lockptr if we are at leaf-level. Otherwise use
> > +     // the regular page table lock.
> > +     if (hugetlb_pte_none(hpte) || hugetlb_pte_present_leaf(hpte))
> > +             return huge_pte_lockptr(hugetlb_pte_shift(hpte),
> > +                             mm, hpte->ptep);
> > +     return &mm->page_table_lock;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline
> > +spinlock_t *hugetlb_pte_lock(struct mm_struct *mm, struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     spinlock_t *ptl = hugetlb_pte_lockptr(mm, hpte);
> > +
> > +     spin_lock(ptl);
> > +     return ptl;
> > +}
> > +
> >   #if defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE) && defined(CONFIG_CMA)
> >   extern void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(int order);
> >   extern void __init hugetlb_cma_check(void);
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > index d6d0d4c03def..1a1434e29740 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -1120,6 +1120,63 @@ static bool vma_has_reserves(struct vm_area_struct *vma, long chg)
> >       return false;
> >   }
> >
> > +bool hugetlb_pte_present_leaf(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     pgd_t pgd;
> > +     p4d_t p4d;
> > +     pud_t pud;
> > +     pmd_t pmd;
> > +
> > +     BUG_ON(!hpte->ptep);
> > +     if (hugetlb_pte_size(hpte) >= PGDIR_SIZE) {
> > +             pgd = *(pgd_t *)hpte->ptep;
>
> sorry did not understand in these conditions why
>
> hugetlb_pte_size(hpte) >= PGDIR_SIZE. I mean why >= check
>
> and not just == check?

I did >= PGDIR_SIZE just because it was consistent with the rest of
the sizes, but, indeed, > PGDIR_SIZE makes little sense, so I'll
replace it with ==.

>
> > +             return pgd_present(pgd) && pgd_leaf(pgd);
> > +     } else if (hugetlb_pte_size(hpte) >= P4D_SIZE) {
> > +             p4d = *(p4d_t *)hpte->ptep;
> > +             return p4d_present(p4d) && p4d_leaf(p4d);
> > +     } else if (hugetlb_pte_size(hpte) >= PUD_SIZE) {
> > +             pud = *(pud_t *)hpte->ptep;
> > +             return pud_present(pud) && pud_leaf(pud);
> > +     } else if (hugetlb_pte_size(hpte) >= PMD_SIZE) {
> > +             pmd = *(pmd_t *)hpte->ptep;
> > +             return pmd_present(pmd) && pmd_leaf(pmd);
> > +     } else if (hugetlb_pte_size(hpte) >= PAGE_SIZE)
> > +             return pte_present(*hpte->ptep);
> > +     BUG();
> > +}
> > +
> > +bool hugetlb_pte_none(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     if (hugetlb_pte_huge(hpte))
> > +             return huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(hpte->ptep));
> > +     return pte_none(ptep_get(hpte->ptep));
> > +}
> > +
> > +bool hugetlb_pte_none_mostly(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     if (hugetlb_pte_huge(hpte))
> > +             return huge_pte_none_mostly(huge_ptep_get(hpte->ptep));
> > +     return pte_none_mostly(ptep_get(hpte->ptep));
> > +}
> > +
> > +pte_t hugetlb_ptep_get(const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte)
> > +{
> > +     if (hugetlb_pte_huge(hpte))
> > +             return huge_ptep_get(hpte->ptep);
> > +     return ptep_get(hpte->ptep);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void hugetlb_pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, const struct hugetlb_pte *hpte,
> > +                    unsigned long address)
> > +{
> > +     BUG_ON(!hpte->ptep);
> > +     unsigned long sz = hugetlb_pte_size(hpte);
> > +
> > +     if (sz > PAGE_SIZE)
> > +             return huge_pte_clear(mm, address, hpte->ptep, sz);
>
> just for cosistency something like above?
>
> if (hugetlb_pte_huge(hpte))
> +               return huge_pte_clear
> ;

Will do, yes. (I added hugetlb_pte_huge quite late, and I guess I
missed updating this spot. :))

>
> > +     return pte_clear(mm, address, hpte->ptep);
> > +}
> > +
> >   static void enqueue_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
> >   {
> >       int nid = page_to_nid(page);