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authorHuang Ying <[email protected]>2018-08-17 15:45:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2018-08-17 16:20:29 -0700
commit974e6d66b6b5c6e2d6a3ccc18b2f9a0b472be5b4 (patch)
tree0aa559789db47a6dfff9a572b2553bbcbd272016 /tools/perf/scripts/python/bin
parent5b7a1d406062449a4d51aea1df37a73285ced1dc (diff)
mm, hugetlbfs: pass fault address to cow handler
This is to take better advantage of the general huge page copying optimization. Where, the target subpage will be copied last to avoid the cache lines of target subpage to be evicted when copying other subpages. This works better if the address of the target subpage is available when copying huge page. So hugetlbfs page fault handlers are changed to pass that information to hugetlb_cow(). This will benefit workloads which don't access the begin of the hugetlbfs huge page after the page fault under heavy cache contention. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]> Cc: Christopher Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]> Cc: Punit Agrawal <[email protected]> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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