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Patch series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault", v7. It was observed at [1] and [2] that the current kernel behaviour of shattering a hugezeropage is inconsistent and suboptimal. For a VMA with a THP allowable order, when we write-fault on it, the kernel installs a PMD-mapped THP. On the other hand, if we first get a read fault, we get a PMD pointing to the hugezeropage; subsequent write will trigger a write-protection fault, shattering the hugezeropage into one writable page, and all the other PTEs write-protected. The conclusion being, as compared to the case of a single write-fault, applications have to suffer 512 extra page faults if they were to use the VMA as such, plus we get the overhead of khugepaged trying to replace that area with a THP anyway. Instead, replace the hugezeropage with a THP on wp-fault. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/3743d7e1-0b79-4eaf-82d5-d1ca29fe347d@arm.com/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1cfae0c0-96a2-4308-9c62-f7a640520242@arm.com/ This patch (of 2): In preparation for the second patch, abstract away the THP allocation logic present in the create_huge_pmd() path, which corresponds to the faulting case when no page is present. There should be no functional change as a result of applying this patch, except that, as David notes at [1], a PMD-aligned address should be passed to update_mmu_cache_pmd(). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ddd3fcd2-48b3-4170-bcaa-2fe66e093f43@redhat.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241008061746.285961-1-dev.jain@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241008061746.285961-2-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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