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authorDavid Hildenbrand <[email protected]>2022-10-21 12:11:34 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2022-12-11 18:12:08 -0800
commit58f595c6659198e1ad0ed431a408ddd79b21e579 (patch)
tree50220506cd971de61be8a0772d92cb94a61f14e5 /tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
parent5036880efdad976165c817dcb6a1c8c24fb16caa (diff)
mm/ksm: simplify break_ksm() to not rely on VM_FAULT_WRITE
Now that GUP no longer requires VM_FAULT_WRITE, break_ksm() is the sole remaining user of VM_FAULT_WRITE. As we also want to stop triggering a fake write fault and instead use FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- similar to GUP-triggered unsharing when taking a R/O pin on a shared anonymous page (including KSM pages), let's stop relying on VM_FAULT_WRITE. Let's rework break_ksm() to not rely on the return value of handle_mm_fault() anymore to figure out whether COW-breaking was successful. Simply perform another follow_page() lookup to verify the result. While this makes break_ksm() slightly less efficient, we can simplify handle_mm_fault() a little and easily switch to FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE without introducing similar KSM-specific behavior for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE. In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a performance degradation of ~4% -- 5% (old: ~5250 MiB/s, new: ~5010 MiB/s). I don't think that we particularly care about that performance drop when unmerging. If it ever turns out to be an actual performance issue, we can think about a better alternative for FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE -- let's just keep it simple for now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Xu <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]> Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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