Patch series "hugetlb: Use new vma lock for huge pmd sharing
synchronization", v2.
hugetlb fault scalability regressions have recently been reported [1].
This is not the first such report, as regressions were also noted when
commit c0d0381ade ("hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing
synchronization") was added [2] in v5.7. At that time, a proposal to
address the regression was suggested [3] but went nowhere.
The regression and benefit of this patch series is not evident when
using the vm_scalability benchmark reported in [2] on a recent kernel.
Results from running,
"./usemem -n 48 --prealloc --prefault -O -U 3448054972"
48 sample Avg
next-20220913 next-20220913 next-20220913
unmodified revert i_mmap_sema locking vma sema locking, this series
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498150 KB/s 501934 KB/s 504793 KB/s
The recent regression report [1] notes page fault and fork latency of
shared hugetlb mappings. To measure this, I created two simple programs:
1) map a shared hugetlb area, write fault all pages, unmap area
Do this in a continuous loop to measure faults per second
2) map a shared hugetlb area, write fault a few pages, fork and exit
Do this in a continuous loop to measure forks per second
These programs were run on a 48 CPU VM with 320GB memory. The shared
mapping size was 250GB. For comparison, a single instance of the program
was run. Then, multiple instances were run in parallel to introduce
lock contention. Changing the locking scheme results in a significant
performance benefit.
test instances unmodified revert vma
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faults per sec 1 393043 395680 389932
faults per sec 24 71405 81191 79048
forks per sec 1 2802 2747 2725
forks per sec 24 439 536 500
Combined faults 24 1621 68070 53662
Combined forks 24 358 67 142
Combined test is when running both faulting program and forking program
simultaneously.
Patches 1 and 2 of this series revert c0d0381ade and 87bf91d39b which
depends on c0d0381ade. Acquisition of i_mmap_rwsem is still required in
the fault path to establish pmd sharing, so this is moved back to
huge_pmd_share. With c0d0381ade reverted, this race is exposed:
Faulting thread Unsharing thread
... ...
ptep = huge_pte_offset()
or
ptep = huge_pte_alloc()
...
i_mmap_lock_write
lock page table
ptep invalid <------------------------ huge_pmd_unshare()
Could be in a previously unlock_page_table
sharing process or worse i_mmap_unlock_write
...
ptl = huge_pte_lock(ptep)
get/update pte
set_pte_at(pte, ptep)
Reverting 87bf91d39b exposes races in page fault/file truncation. When
the new vma lock is put to use in patch 8, this will handle the fault/file
truncation races. This is explained in patch 9 where code associated with
these races is cleaned up.
Patches 3 - 5 restructure existing code in preparation for using the new
vma lock (rw semaphore) for pmd sharing synchronization. The idea is that
this semaphore will be held in read mode for the duration of fault
processing, and held in write mode for unmap operations which may call
huge_pmd_unshare. Acquiring i_mmap_rwsem is also still required to
synchronize huge pmd sharing. However it is only required in the fault
path when setting up sharing, and will be acquired in huge_pmd_share().
Patch 6 adds the new vma lock and all supporting routines, but does not
actually change code to use the new lock.
Patch 7 refactors code in preparation for using the new lock. And, patch
8 finally adds code to make use of this new vma lock. Unfortunately, the
fault code and truncate/hole punch code would naturally take locks in the
opposite order which could lead to deadlock. Since the performance of
page faults is more important, the truncation/hole punch code is modified
to back out and take locks in the correct order if necessary.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/43faf292-245b-5db5-cce9-369d8fb6bd21@infradead.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200622005551.GK5535@shao2-debian/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200706202615.32111-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com/
This patch (of 9):
Commit c0d0381ade ("hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing
synchronization") added code to take i_mmap_rwsem in read mode for the
duration of fault processing. The use of i_mmap_rwsem to prevent
fault/truncate races depends on this. However, this has been shown to
cause performance/scaling issues. As a result, that code will be
reverted. Since the use i_mmap_rwsem to address page fault/truncate races
depends on this, it must also be reverted.
In a subsequent patch, code will be added to detect the fault/truncate
race and back out operations as required.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914221810.95771-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914221810.95771-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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