[PATCH] PM: hibernate: don't store zero pages in the image file.

From: Brian Geffon
Date: Mon Jun 26 2023 - 11:45:15 EST

On ChromeOS we've observed a considerable number of in-use pages filled with
zeros. Today with hibernate it's entirely possible that saveable pages are just
zero filled. Since we're already copying pages word-by-word in do_copy_page it
becomes almost free to determine if a page was completely filled with zeros.

This change introduces a new bitmap which will track these zero pages. If a page
is zero it will not be included in the saved image, instead to track these zero
pages in the image file we will introduce a new flag which we will set on the
packed PFN list. When reading back in the image file we will detect these zero
page PFNs and rebuild the zero page bitmap.

When the image is being loaded through calls to write_next_page if we encounter
a zero page we will silently memset it to 0 and then continue on to the next
page. Given the implementation in snapshot_read_next/snapshot_write_next this
change will be transparent to non-compressed/compressed and swsusp modes of
operation.

To provide some concrete numbers from simple ad-hoc testing, on a device which
was lightly in use we saw that:

PM: hibernation: Image created (964408 pages copied, 548304 zero pages)

Of the approximately 6.2GB of saveable pages 2.2GB (36%) were just zero filled
and could be tracked entirely within the packed PFN list. The savings would
obviously be much lower for lzo compressed images, but even in the case of
compression not copying pages across to the compression threads will still
speed things up. It's also possible that we would see better overall compression
ratios as larger regions of "real data" would improve the compressibility.

Finally, such an approach could dramatically improve swsusp performance
as each one of those zero pages requires a write syscall to reload, by
handling it as part of the packed PFN list we're able to fully avoid
that.

Patch v4 -> v5:
- Addressed numerous style comments from Rafael J. Wysocki.

Patch v3 -> v4:
- Suggestions from Matthias Kaehlcke:
- Return number of copy pages from copy_data_pages
- Use an explicit temporary bitmap while moving the zerm_bm
to safe pages.

Patch v2 -> v3:
- Use nr_zero_pages rather than walking each pfn to count.
- Make sure zero_bm is allocated in safe pages on resume.
When reading in the pfn list and building the zero page bm
we don't know which pages are unsafe yet so we will need to
copy this bm to safe pages after the metadata has been read.

Patch v1 -> v2:
- minor code mistake from rebasing corrected.

Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/power/snapshot.c | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 147 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/snapshot.c b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
index cd8b7b35f1e8..4da53d470c82 100644
--- a/kernel/power/snapshot.c
+++ b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
@@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ struct bm_position {
struct mem_zone_bm_rtree *zone;
struct rtree_node *node;
unsigned long node_pfn;
+ unsigned long cur_pfn;
int node_bit;
};

@@ -589,6 +590,7 @@ static void memory_bm_position_reset(struct memory_bitmap *bm)
bm->cur.node = list_entry(bm->cur.zone->leaves.next,
struct rtree_node, list);
bm->cur.node_pfn = 0;
+ bm->cur.cur_pfn = BM_END_OF_MAP;
bm->cur.node_bit = 0;
}

@@ -799,6 +801,7 @@ static int memory_bm_find_bit(struct memory_bitmap *bm, unsigned long pfn,
bm->cur.zone = zone;
bm->cur.node = node;
bm->cur.node_pfn = (pfn - zone->start_pfn) & ~BM_BLOCK_MASK;
+ bm->cur.cur_pfn = pfn;

/* Set return values */
*addr = node->data;
@@ -850,6 +853,11 @@ static void memory_bm_clear_current(struct memory_bitmap *bm)
clear_bit(bit, bm->cur.node->data);
}

+static unsigned long memory_bm_get_current(struct memory_bitmap *bm)
+{
+ return bm->cur.cur_pfn;
+}
+
static int memory_bm_test_bit(struct memory_bitmap *bm, unsigned long pfn)
{
void *addr;
@@ -929,10 +937,12 @@ static unsigned long memory_bm_next_pfn(struct memory_bitmap *bm)
if (bit < bits) {
pfn = bm->cur.zone->start_pfn + bm->cur.node_pfn + bit;
bm->cur.node_bit = bit + 1;
+ bm->cur.cur_pfn = pfn;
return pfn;
}
} while (rtree_next_node(bm));

+ bm->cur.cur_pfn = BM_END_OF_MAP;
return BM_END_OF_MAP;
}

@@ -1371,14 +1381,18 @@ static unsigned int count_data_pages(void)

/*
* This is needed, because copy_page and memcpy are not usable for copying
- * task structs.
+ * task structs. Returns true if the page was filled with only zeros, otherwise false.
*/
-static inline void do_copy_page(long *dst, long *src)
+static inline bool do_copy_page(long *dst, long *src)
{
+ long z = 0;
int n;

- for (n = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(long); n; n--)
+ for (n = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(long); n; n--) {
+ z |= *src;
*dst++ = *src++;
+ }
+ return !z;
}

/**
@@ -1387,17 +1401,20 @@ static inline void do_copy_page(long *dst, long *src)
* Check if the page we are going to copy is marked as present in the kernel
* page tables. This always is the case if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC or
* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP is not set. In that case kernel_page_present()
- * always returns 'true'.
+ * always returns 'true'. Returns true if the page was entirely composed of zeros
+ * otherwise it will return false.
*/
-static void safe_copy_page(void *dst, struct page *s_page)
+static bool safe_copy_page(void *dst, struct page *s_page)
{
+ bool zeros_only;
if (kernel_page_present(s_page)) {
- do_copy_page(dst, page_address(s_page));
+ zeros_only = do_copy_page(dst, page_address(s_page));
} else {
hibernate_map_page(s_page);
- do_copy_page(dst, page_address(s_page));
+ zeros_only = do_copy_page(dst, page_address(s_page));
hibernate_unmap_page(s_page);
}
+ return zeros_only;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
@@ -1407,17 +1424,18 @@ static inline struct page *page_is_saveable(struct zone *zone, unsigned long pfn
saveable_highmem_page(zone, pfn) : saveable_page(zone, pfn);
}

-static void copy_data_page(unsigned long dst_pfn, unsigned long src_pfn)
+static bool copy_data_page(unsigned long dst_pfn, unsigned long src_pfn)
{
struct page *s_page, *d_page;
void *src, *dst;
+ bool zeros_only;

s_page = pfn_to_page(src_pfn);
d_page = pfn_to_page(dst_pfn);
if (PageHighMem(s_page)) {
src = kmap_atomic(s_page);
dst = kmap_atomic(d_page);
- do_copy_page(dst, src);
+ zeros_only = do_copy_page(dst, src);
kunmap_atomic(dst);
kunmap_atomic(src);
} else {
@@ -1426,30 +1444,39 @@ static void copy_data_page(unsigned long dst_pfn, unsigned long src_pfn)
* The page pointed to by src may contain some kernel
* data modified by kmap_atomic()
*/
- safe_copy_page(buffer, s_page);
+ zeros_only = safe_copy_page(buffer, s_page);
dst = kmap_atomic(d_page);
copy_page(dst, buffer);
kunmap_atomic(dst);
} else {
- safe_copy_page(page_address(d_page), s_page);
+ zeros_only = safe_copy_page(page_address(d_page), s_page);
}
}
+ return ret;
}
#else
#define page_is_saveable(zone, pfn) saveable_page(zone, pfn)

-static inline void copy_data_page(unsigned long dst_pfn, unsigned long src_pfn)
+static inline int copy_data_page(unsigned long dst_pfn, unsigned long src_pfn)
{
- safe_copy_page(page_address(pfn_to_page(dst_pfn)),
+ return safe_copy_page(page_address(pfn_to_page(dst_pfn)),
pfn_to_page(src_pfn));
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HIGHMEM */

-static void copy_data_pages(struct memory_bitmap *copy_bm,
- struct memory_bitmap *orig_bm)
+/*
+ * Copy data pages will copy all pages into pages pulled from the copy_bm.
+ * If a page was entirely filled with zeros it will be marked in the zero_bm.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of pages copied.
+ */
+static unsigned long copy_data_pages(struct memory_bitmap *copy_bm,
+ struct memory_bitmap *orig_bm,
+ struct memory_bitmap *zero_bm)
{
+ unsigned long copied_pages = 0;
struct zone *zone;
- unsigned long pfn;
+ unsigned long pfn, copy_pfn;

for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
unsigned long max_zone_pfn;
@@ -1462,18 +1489,30 @@ static void copy_data_pages(struct memory_bitmap *copy_bm,
}
memory_bm_position_reset(orig_bm);
memory_bm_position_reset(copy_bm);
+ copy_pfn = memory_bm_next_pfn(copy_bm);
for(;;) {
pfn = memory_bm_next_pfn(orig_bm);
if (unlikely(pfn == BM_END_OF_MAP))
break;
- copy_data_page(memory_bm_next_pfn(copy_bm), pfn);
+ if (copy_data_page(copy_pfn, pfn)) {
+ memory_bm_set_bit(zero_bm, pfn);
+
+ /* Use this copy_pfn for a page that is not full of zeros */
+ continue;
+ }
+ copied_pages++;
+ copy_pfn = memory_bm_next_pfn(copy_bm);
}
+ return copied_pages;
}

/* Total number of image pages */
static unsigned int nr_copy_pages;
/* Number of pages needed for saving the original pfns of the image pages */
static unsigned int nr_meta_pages;
+/* Number of zero pages */
+static unsigned int nr_zero_pages;
+
/*
* Numbers of normal and highmem page frames allocated for hibernation image
* before suspending devices.
@@ -1494,6 +1533,9 @@ static struct memory_bitmap orig_bm;
*/
static struct memory_bitmap copy_bm;

+/* Memory bitmap which tracks which saveable pages were zero filled. */
+static struct memory_bitmap zero_bm;
+
/**
* swsusp_free - Free pages allocated for hibernation image.
*
@@ -1538,6 +1580,7 @@ void swsusp_free(void)
out:
nr_copy_pages = 0;
nr_meta_pages = 0;
+ nr_zero_pages = 0;
restore_pblist = NULL;
buffer = NULL;
alloc_normal = 0;
@@ -1756,8 +1799,15 @@ int hibernate_preallocate_memory(void)
goto err_out;
}

+ error = memory_bm_create(&zero_bm, GFP_IMAGE, PG_ANY);
+ if (error) {
+ pr_err("Cannot allocate zero bitmap\n");
+ goto err_out;
+ }
+
alloc_normal = 0;
alloc_highmem = 0;
+ nr_zero_pages = 0;

/* Count the number of saveable data pages. */
save_highmem = count_highmem_pages();
@@ -2037,19 +2087,19 @@ asmlinkage __visible int swsusp_save(void)
* Kill them.
*/
drain_local_pages(NULL);
- copy_data_pages(&copy_bm, &orig_bm);
+ nr_copy_pages = copy_data_pages(&copy_bm, &orig_bm, &zero_bm);

/*
* End of critical section. From now on, we can write to memory,
* but we should not touch disk. This specially means we must _not_
* touch swap space! Except we must write out our image of course.
*/
-
nr_pages += nr_highmem;
- nr_copy_pages = nr_pages;
+ /* We don't actually copy the zero pages */
+ nr_zero_pages = nr_pages - nr_copy_pages;
nr_meta_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_pages * sizeof(long), PAGE_SIZE);

- pr_info("Image created (%d pages copied)\n", nr_pages);
+ pr_info("Image created (%d pages copied, %d zero pages)\n", nr_copy_pages, nr_zero_pages);

return 0;
}
@@ -2094,15 +2144,22 @@ static int init_header(struct swsusp_info *info)
return init_header_complete(info);
}

+#define ENCODED_PFN_ZERO_FLAG ((unsigned long)1 << (BITS_PER_LONG - 1))
+#define ENCODED_PFN_MASK (~ENCODED_PFN_ZERO_FLAG)
+
/**
* pack_pfns - Prepare PFNs for saving.
* @bm: Memory bitmap.
* @buf: Memory buffer to store the PFNs in.
+ * @zero_bm: Memory bitmap containing PFNs of zero pages.
*
* PFNs corresponding to set bits in @bm are stored in the area of memory
- * pointed to by @buf (1 page at a time).
+ * pointed to by @buf (1 page at a time). Pages which were filled with only
+ * zeros will have the highest bit set in the packed format to distinguish
+ * them from PFNs which will be contained in the image file.
*/
-static inline void pack_pfns(unsigned long *buf, struct memory_bitmap *bm)
+static inline void pack_pfns(unsigned long *buf, struct memory_bitmap *bm,
+ struct memory_bitmap *zero_bm)
{
int j;

@@ -2110,6 +2167,8 @@ static inline void pack_pfns(unsigned long *buf, struct memory_bitmap *bm)
buf[j] = memory_bm_next_pfn(bm);
if (unlikely(buf[j] == BM_END_OF_MAP))
break;
+ if (memory_bm_test_bit(zero_bm, buf[j]))
+ buf[j] |= ENCODED_PFN_ZERO_FLAG;
}
}

@@ -2151,7 +2210,7 @@ int snapshot_read_next(struct snapshot_handle *handle)
memory_bm_position_reset(&copy_bm);
} else if (handle->cur <= nr_meta_pages) {
clear_page(buffer);
- pack_pfns(buffer, &orig_bm);
+ pack_pfns(buffer, &orig_bm, &zero_bm);
} else {
struct page *page;

@@ -2247,24 +2306,35 @@ static int load_header(struct swsusp_info *info)
* unpack_orig_pfns - Set bits corresponding to given PFNs in a memory bitmap.
* @bm: Memory bitmap.
* @buf: Area of memory containing the PFNs.
+ * @zero_bm: Memory bitmap with the zero PFNs marked.
*
* For each element of the array pointed to by @buf (1 page at a time), set the
- * corresponding bit in @bm.
+ * corresponding bit in @bm. If the page was originally populated with only
+ * zeros then a corresponding bit will also be set in @zero_bm.
*/
-static int unpack_orig_pfns(unsigned long *buf, struct memory_bitmap *bm)
+static int unpack_orig_pfns(unsigned long *buf, struct memory_bitmap *bm,
+ struct memory_bitmap *zero_bm)
{
+ unsigned long decoded_pfn;
+ bool zero;
int j;

for (j = 0; j < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(long); j++) {
if (unlikely(buf[j] == BM_END_OF_MAP))
break;

- if (pfn_valid(buf[j]) && memory_bm_pfn_present(bm, buf[j])) {
- memory_bm_set_bit(bm, buf[j]);
+ zero = !!(buf[j] & ENCODED_PFN_ZERO_FLAG);
+ decoded_pfn = buf[j] & ENCODED_PFN_MASK;
+ if (pfn_valid(decoded_pfn) && memory_bm_pfn_present(bm, decoded_pfn)) {
+ memory_bm_set_bit(bm, decoded_pfn);
+ if (zero) {
+ memory_bm_set_bit(zero_bm, decoded_pfn);
+ nr_zero_pages++;
+ }
} else {
- if (!pfn_valid(buf[j]))
+ if (!pfn_valid(decoded_pfn))
pr_err(FW_BUG "Memory map mismatch at 0x%llx after hibernation\n",
- (unsigned long long)PFN_PHYS(buf[j]));
+ (unsigned long long)PFN_PHYS(decoded_pfn));
return -EFAULT;
}
}
@@ -2486,6 +2556,7 @@ static inline void free_highmem_data(void) {}
* prepare_image - Make room for loading hibernation image.
* @new_bm: Uninitialized memory bitmap structure.
* @bm: Memory bitmap with unsafe pages marked.
+ * @zero_bm: Memory bitmap containing the zero pages.
*
* Use @bm to mark the pages that will be overwritten in the process of
* restoring the system memory state from the suspend image ("unsafe" pages)
@@ -2496,10 +2567,15 @@ static inline void free_highmem_data(void) {}
* pages will be used for just yet. Instead, we mark them all as allocated and
* create a lists of "safe" pages to be used later. On systems with high
* memory a list of "safe" highmem pages is created too.
+ *
+ * Because it was not known which pages were unsafe when @zero_bm was created,
+ * make a copy of it and recreate it within safe pages.
*/
-static int prepare_image(struct memory_bitmap *new_bm, struct memory_bitmap *bm)
+static int prepare_image(struct memory_bitmap *new_bm, struct memory_bitmap *bm,
+ struct memory_bitmap *zero_bm)
{
unsigned int nr_pages, nr_highmem;
+ struct memory_bitmap tmp;
struct linked_page *lp;
int error;

@@ -2516,6 +2592,24 @@ static int prepare_image(struct memory_bitmap *new_bm, struct memory_bitmap *bm)

duplicate_memory_bitmap(new_bm, bm);
memory_bm_free(bm, PG_UNSAFE_KEEP);
+
+ /* Make a copy of zero_bm so it can be created in safe pages */
+ error = memory_bm_create(&tmp, GFP_ATOMIC, PG_ANY);
+ if (error)
+ goto Free;
+
+ duplicate_memory_bitmap(&tmp, zero_bm);
+ memory_bm_free(zero_bm, PG_UNSAFE_KEEP);
+
+ /* Recreate zero_bm in safe pages */
+ error = memory_bm_create(zero_bm, GFP_ATOMIC, PG_SAFE);
+ if (error)
+ goto Free;
+
+ duplicate_memory_bitmap(zero_bm, &tmp);
+ memory_bm_free(&tmp, PG_UNSAFE_KEEP);
+ /* At this point zero_bm is in safe pages and it can be used for restoring. */
+
if (nr_highmem > 0) {
error = prepare_highmem_image(bm, &nr_highmem);
if (error)
@@ -2530,7 +2624,7 @@ static int prepare_image(struct memory_bitmap *new_bm, struct memory_bitmap *bm)
*
* nr_copy_pages cannot be less than allocated_unsafe_pages too.
*/
- nr_pages = nr_copy_pages - nr_highmem - allocated_unsafe_pages;
+ nr_pages = (nr_zero_pages + nr_copy_pages) - nr_highmem - allocated_unsafe_pages;
nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_pages, PBES_PER_LINKED_PAGE);
while (nr_pages > 0) {
lp = get_image_page(GFP_ATOMIC, PG_SAFE);
@@ -2543,7 +2637,7 @@ static int prepare_image(struct memory_bitmap *new_bm, struct memory_bitmap *bm)
nr_pages--;
}
/* Preallocate memory for the image */
- nr_pages = nr_copy_pages - nr_highmem - allocated_unsafe_pages;
+ nr_pages = (nr_zero_pages + nr_copy_pages) - nr_highmem - allocated_unsafe_pages;
while (nr_pages > 0) {
lp = (struct linked_page *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!lp) {
@@ -2631,8 +2725,9 @@ int snapshot_write_next(struct snapshot_handle *handle)
static struct chain_allocator ca;
int error = 0;

+next:
/* Check if we have already loaded the entire image */
- if (handle->cur > 1 && handle->cur > nr_meta_pages + nr_copy_pages)
+ if (handle->cur > 1 && handle->cur > nr_meta_pages + nr_copy_pages + nr_zero_pages)
return 0;

handle->sync_read = 1;
@@ -2657,19 +2752,26 @@ int snapshot_write_next(struct snapshot_handle *handle)
if (error)
return error;

+ error = memory_bm_create(&zero_bm, GFP_ATOMIC, PG_ANY);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+
+ nr_zero_pages = 0;
+
hibernate_restore_protection_begin();
} else if (handle->cur <= nr_meta_pages + 1) {
- error = unpack_orig_pfns(buffer, &copy_bm);
+ error = unpack_orig_pfns(buffer, &copy_bm, &zero_bm);
if (error)
return error;

if (handle->cur == nr_meta_pages + 1) {
- error = prepare_image(&orig_bm, &copy_bm);
+ error = prepare_image(&orig_bm, &copy_bm, &zero_bm);
if (error)
return error;

chain_init(&ca, GFP_ATOMIC, PG_SAFE);
memory_bm_position_reset(&orig_bm);
+ memory_bm_position_reset(&zero_bm);
restore_pblist = NULL;
handle->buffer = get_buffer(&orig_bm, &ca);
handle->sync_read = 0;
@@ -2686,6 +2788,14 @@ int snapshot_write_next(struct snapshot_handle *handle)
handle->sync_read = 0;
}
handle->cur++;
+
+ /* Zero pages were not included in the image, memset it and move on. */
+ if ((handle->cur > (nr_meta_pages + 1)) &&
+ memory_bm_test_bit(&zero_bm, memory_bm_get_current(&orig_bm))) {
+ memset(handle->buffer, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ goto next;
+ }
+
return PAGE_SIZE;
}

@@ -2702,7 +2812,7 @@ void snapshot_write_finalize(struct snapshot_handle *handle)
copy_last_highmem_page();
hibernate_restore_protect_page(handle->buffer);
/* Do that only if we have loaded the image entirely */
- if (handle->cur > 1 && handle->cur > nr_meta_pages + nr_copy_pages) {
+ if (handle->cur > 1 && handle->cur > nr_meta_pages + nr_copy_pages + nr_zero_pages) {
memory_bm_recycle(&orig_bm);
free_highmem_data();
}
--
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