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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 01/18] mm: allow for detecting underflows with page_mapcount() again
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:10:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1426c42-0630-4949-ac1d-a7f9ae89e6cb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZhW2RQtKDvUrbyWA@casper.infradead.org>

On 09.04.24 23:42, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 09:22:44PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Commit 53277bcf126d ("mm: support page_mapcount() on page_has_type()
>> pages") made it impossible to detect mapcount underflows by treating
>> any negative raw mapcount value as a mapcount of 0.
> 
> Yes, but I don't think this is the right place to check for underflow.
> We should be checking for that on modification, not on read.

While I don't disagree (and we'd check more instances that way, for example
deferred rmap removal), that requires a bit more churn and figuring out of
if losing some information we would have printed in print_bad_pte() is worth
that change.

> I think
> it's more important for page_mapcount() to be fast than a debugging aid.

I really don't think page_mapcount() is a good use of time for
micro-optimizations, but let's investigate:

A big hunk of code in page_mapcount() seems to be the compound handling.
The code before that (reading mapcount, checking for the condition,
conditionally setting it to 0), would generate right now:

  177:	8b 42 30             	mov    0x30(%rdx),%eax
  17a:   b9 00 00 00 00          mov    $0x0,%ecx
  17f:	83 c0 01             	add    $0x1,%eax
  182:	0f 48 c1             	cmovs  %ecx,%eax

My variant is longer:

  17b:	8b 4a 30             	mov    0x30(%rdx),%ecx
  17e:	81 f9 7f ff ff ff    	cmp    $0xffffff7f,%ecx
  184:	8d 41 01             	lea    0x1(%rcx),%eax
  187:	b9 00 00 00 00       	mov    $0x0,%ecx
  18c:	0f 4e c1             	cmovle %ecx,%eax
  18f:	48 8b 0a             	mov    (%rdx),%rcx

The compiler does not seem to do the smart thing, which would
be rearranging the code to effectively be:

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index ef34cf54c14f..7392596882ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ static inline int page_mapcount(struct page *page)
         int mapcount = atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) + 1;
  
         /* Handle page_has_type() pages */
-       if (mapcount < 0)
+       if (mapcount < PAGE_MAPCOUNT_RESERVE + 1)
                 mapcount = 0;
         if (unlikely(PageCompound(page)))
                 mapcount += folio_entire_mapcount(page_folio(page));


Which would result in:

  177:   8b 42 30                mov    0x30(%rdx),%eax
  17a:   31 c9                   xor    %ecx,%ecx
  17c:   83 c0 01                add    $0x1,%eax
  17f:   83 f8 80                cmp    $0xffffff80,%eax
  182:   0f 4e c1                cmovle %ecx,%eax


Same code length, one more instruction. No jumps.


I can switch to the above (essentially inlining
page_type_has_type()) for now and look into different sanity checks --
and extending the documentation around page_mapcount() behavior for
underflows -- separately.

... unless you insist that we really have to change that immediately.

Thanks!

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-10  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-09 19:22 [PATCH v1 00/18] mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 01/18] mm: allow for detecting underflows with page_mapcount() again David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 20:06   ` Zi Yan
2024-04-09 21:42   ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-10  8:10     ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2024-04-24  9:38   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 02/18] mm/rmap: always inline anon/file rmap duplication of a single PTE David Hildenbrand
2024-04-19  2:25   ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-04-19  9:14     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-19 14:01   ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 03/18] mm/rmap: add fast-path for small folios when adding/removing/duplicating David Hildenbrand
2024-04-19 14:02   ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 04/18] mm: track mapcount of large folios in single value David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 20:13   ` Zi Yan
2024-04-10  8:20     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-18 14:50   ` Lance Yang
2024-04-18 15:09     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-19  0:31       ` Lance Yang
2024-04-19 14:02   ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 05/18] mm: improve folio_likely_mapped_shared() using the mapcount of large folios David Hildenbrand
2024-04-16 10:40   ` Lance Yang
2024-04-16 10:47     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-16 10:52       ` Lance Yang
2024-04-16 10:53         ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-19  2:29   ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-04-19  9:19     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-19 13:47       ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-04-19 13:48         ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-19 14:03   ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 06/18] mm: make folio_mapcount() return 0 for small typed folios David Hildenbrand
2024-04-24  9:40   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 07/18] mm/memory: use folio_mapcount() in zap_present_folio_ptes() David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 08/18] mm/huge_memory: use folio_mapcount() in zap_huge_pmd() sanity check David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 09/18] mm/memory-failure: use folio_mapcount() in hwpoison_user_mappings() David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 10/18] mm/page_alloc: use folio_mapped() in __alloc_contig_migrate_range() David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 11/18] mm/migrate: use folio_likely_mapped_shared() in add_page_for_migration() David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 12/18] sh/mm/cache: use folio_mapped() in copy_from_user_page() David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 13/18] mm/filemap: use folio_mapcount() in filemap_unaccount_folio() David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 14/18] mm/migrate_device: use folio_mapcount() in migrate_vma_check_page() David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 15/18] trace/events/page_ref: trace the raw page mapcount value David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:22 ` [PATCH v1 16/18] xtensa/mm: convert check_tlb_entry() to sanity check folios David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v1 17/18] mm/debug: print only page mapcount (excluding folio entire mapcount) in __dump_folio() David Hildenbrand
2024-04-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v1 18/18] Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst: don't reference page_mapcount() David Hildenbrand

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