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[2/2] mm: always enable thp for dax mappings

Message ID 149713137723.17377.8854203820807564559.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com (mailing list archive)
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Dan Williams June 10, 2017, 9:49 p.m. UTC
The madvise policy for transparent huge pages is meant to avoid unwanted
allocations of transparent huge pages. It allows a policy of disabling
the extra memory pressure and effort to arrange for a huge page when it
is not needed.

DAX by definition never incurs this overhead since it is statically
allocated. The policy choice makes even less sense for device-dax which
tries to guarantee a given tlb-fault size. Specifically, the following
setting:

	echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

...violates that guarantee and silently disables all device-dax
instances with a 2M or 1G alignment. So, let's avoid that non-obvious
side effect by force enabling thp for dax mappings in all cases.

It is worth noting that the reason this uses vma_is_dax(), and the
resulting header include changes, is that previous attempts to add a
VM_DAX flag were NAKd.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
 include/linux/dax.h     |    5 -----
 include/linux/fs.h      |    6 ++++++
 include/linux/huge_mm.h |    5 +++++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com June 12, 2017, 12:07 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 02:49:37PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> index c4706e2c3358..901ed3767d1b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>  #ifndef _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
>  #define _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
>  
> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> +

It means <linux/mm.h> now depends on <linux/fs.h>. I don't think it's a
good idea.
Dan Williams June 12, 2017, 2:47 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 02:49:37PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>> index c4706e2c3358..901ed3767d1b 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>>  #ifndef _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
>>  #define _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
>>
>> +#include <linux/fs.h>
>> +
>
> It means <linux/mm.h> now depends on <linux/fs.h>. I don't think it's a
> good idea.

Seems to be ok as far as 0day-kbuild-robot is concerned. The
alternative is to move vma_is_dax() out of line. I think
transparent_hugepage_enabled() is called frequently enough to make it
worth it to keep it inline.
Ross Zwisler June 13, 2017, 9:35 p.m. UTC | #3
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 07:47:19AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 02:49:37PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> >> index c4706e2c3358..901ed3767d1b 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> >> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
> >>  #ifndef _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
> >>  #define _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
> >>
> >> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> >> +
> >
> > It means <linux/mm.h> now depends on <linux/fs.h>. I don't think it's a
> > good idea.
> 
> Seems to be ok as far as 0day-kbuild-robot is concerned. The
> alternative is to move vma_is_dax() out of line. I think
> transparent_hugepage_enabled() is called frequently enough to make it
> worth it to keep it inline.

Yea, I played with moving vma_is_dax() to include/linux/mm.h instead, but ran
into the issue where IS_DAX() is defined in include/linux/fs.h.  So, any way
we slice it we end up requiring both MM and FS includes for this to work.

Since the way you have it here apparently works and passes zero-day, my vote
is to just go with it.
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diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index 1f6b6072af64..cbaf3d53d66b 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -151,11 +151,6 @@  static inline unsigned int dax_radix_order(void *entry)
 #endif
 int dax_pfn_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf);
 
-static inline bool vma_is_dax(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
-{
-	return vma->vm_file && IS_DAX(vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host);
-}
-
 static inline bool dax_mapping(struct address_space *mapping)
 {
 	return mapping->host && IS_DAX(mapping->host);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 803e5a9b2654..5916ab3a12d5 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/mm_types.h>
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/semaphore.h>
 #include <linux/fiemap.h>
@@ -3042,6 +3043,11 @@  static inline bool io_is_direct(struct file *filp)
 	return (filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) || IS_DAX(filp->f_mapping->host);
 }
 
+static inline bool vma_is_dax(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	return vma->vm_file && IS_DAX(vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host);
+}
+
 static inline int iocb_flags(struct file *file)
 {
 	int res = 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index c4706e2c3358..901ed3767d1b 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ 
 #ifndef _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
 #define _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
 
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+
 extern int do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf);
 extern int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 			 pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd, unsigned long addr,
@@ -92,6 +94,9 @@  static inline bool transparent_hugepage_enabled(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	if (transparent_hugepage_flags & (1 << TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG))
 		return true;
 
+	if (vma_is_dax(vma))
+		return true;
+
 	if (transparent_hugepage_flags
 			& (1 << TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG))
 		/* check vma flags */;