Re: [PATCH] dm-crypt: allocate compound pages if possible

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:47:08PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> +		while (order > 0) {
> +			page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask
> +				| __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN, order);

... | __GFP_COMP

>  		page = mempool_alloc(&cc->page_pool, gfp_mask);
>  		if (!page) {
>  			crypt_free_buffer_pages(cc, clone);
>  			bio_put(clone);
>  			gfp_mask |= __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
> +			order = 0;
>  			goto retry;
>  		}
>  
> -		len = (remaining_size > PAGE_SIZE) ? PAGE_SIZE : remaining_size;
> -
> -		bio_add_page(clone, page, len, 0);
> +have_pages:
> +		page->compound_order = order;

No.  You'll corrupt the next page if page is order-0, which it is if it
came from the mempool.  Also we've deleted page->compound_order in -next
so you can't make this mistake.  Using __GFP_COMP will set this field
for you, so you can just drop this line.

> -		remaining_size -= len;
> +		for (o = 0; o < 1U << order; o++) {
> +			unsigned len = min((unsigned)PAGE_SIZE, remaining_size);
> +			bio_add_page(clone, page, len, 0);
> +			remaining_size -= len;
> +			page++;

You can add multiple pages at once, whether they're compound or not.  So
replace this entire loop with:

		bio_add_page(clone, page, remaining_size, 0);

> @@ -1711,10 +1732,23 @@ static void crypt_free_buffer_pages(stru
>  {
>  	struct bio_vec *bv;
>  	struct bvec_iter_all iter_all;
> +	unsigned skip_entries = 0;
>  
>  	bio_for_each_segment_all(bv, clone, iter_all) {
> -		BUG_ON(!bv->bv_page);
> -		mempool_free(bv->bv_page, &cc->page_pool);
> +		unsigned order;
> +		struct page *page = bv->bv_page;
> +		BUG_ON(!page);
> +		if (skip_entries) {
> +			skip_entries--;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +		order = page->compound_order;
> +		if (order) {
> +			__free_pages(page, order);
> +			skip_entries = (1U << order) - 1;
> +		} else {
> +			mempool_free(page, &cc->page_pool);
> +		}

You can simplify this by using the folio code.

	struct folio_iter fi;

	bio_for_each_folio_all(fi, bio) {
		if (folio_test_large(folio))
			folio_put(folio);
		else
			mempool_free(&folio->page, &cc->page_pool);
	}

(further work would actually convert this driver to use folios instead
of pages)