mm/mmu_notifier: avoid call to invalidate_range() in range_end()

This is an optimization patch that only affect mmu_notifier users which
rely on the invalidate_range() callback.  This patch avoids calling that
callback twice in a row from inside __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end

Existing pattern (before this patch):
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
        pte/pmd/pud_clear_flush_notify()
            mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end()
        mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()

New pattern (after this patch):
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
        pte/pmd/pud_clear_flush_notify()
            mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_only_end()

We call the invalidate_range callback after clearing the page table
under the page table lock and we skip the call to invalidate_range
inside the __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() function.

Idea from Andrea Arcangeli

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Alistair Popple <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Donnellan <[email protected]>
Cc: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Jérôme Glisse 2017-11-15 17:34:11 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 4645b9fe84
5 changed files with 83 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -2089,7 +2089,11 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
set_page_owner_migrate_reason(new_page, MR_NUMA_MISPLACED);
spin_unlock(ptl);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
/*
* No need to double call mmu_notifier->invalidate_range() callback as
* the above pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify() did already call it.
*/
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_only_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
/* Take an "isolate" reference and put new page on the LRU. */
get_page(new_page);
@ -2805,9 +2809,14 @@ static void migrate_vma_pages(struct migrate_vma *migrate)
migrate->src[i] &= ~MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE;
}
/*
* No need to double call mmu_notifier->invalidate_range() callback as
* the above ptep_clear_flush_notify() inside migrate_vma_insert_page()
* did already call it.
*/
if (notified)
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmu_start,
migrate->end);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_only_end(mm, mmu_start,
migrate->end);
}
/*