We have a usecase to use tmpfs as QEMU memory backend and we would like
to take the advantage of THP as well. But, our test shows the EPT is
not PMD mapped even though the underlying THP are PMD mapped on host.
The number showed by /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/largepage is much less than
the number of PMD mapped shmem pages as the below:
7f2778200000-7f2878200000 rw-s 00000000 00:14 262232 /dev/shm/qemu_back_mem.mem.Hz2hSf (deleted)
Size: 4194304 kB
[snip]
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped: 579584 kB
[snip]
Locked: 0 kB
cat /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/largepages
12
And some benchmarks do worse than with anonymous THPs.
By digging into the code we figured out that commit 127393fbe5 ("mm:
thp: kvm: fix memory corruption in KVM with THP enabled") checks if
there is a single PTE mapping on the page for anonymous THP when setting
up EPT map. But the _mapcount < 0 check doesn't work for page cache THP
since every subpage of page cache THP would get _mapcount inc'ed once it
is PMD mapped, so PageTransCompoundMap() always returns false for page
cache THP. This would prevent KVM from setting up PMD mapped EPT entry.
So we need handle page cache THP correctly. However, when page cache
THP's PMD gets split, kernel just remove the map instead of setting up
PTE map like what anonymous THP does. Before KVM calls get_user_pages()
the subpages may get PTE mapped even though it is still a THP since the
page cache THP may be mapped by other processes at the mean time.
Checking its _mapcount and whether the THP has PTE mapped or not.
Although this may report some false negative cases (PTE mapped by other
processes), it looks not trivial to make this accurate.
With this fix /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/largepage would show reasonable
pages are PMD mapped by EPT as the below:
7fbeaee00000-7fbfaee00000 rw-s 00000000 00:14 275464 /dev/shm/qemu_back_mem.mem.SKUvat (deleted)
Size: 4194304 kB
[snip]
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped: 557056 kB
[snip]
Locked: 0 kB
cat /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/largepages
271
And the benchmarks are as same as anonymous THPs.
[yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: v4]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571865575-42913-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571769577-89735-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: dd78fedde4 ("rmap: support file thp")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Gang Deng <gavin.dg@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Gang Deng <gavin.dg@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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