mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

This configuration variable will be used to build the code needed to
handle speculative page fault.

By default it is turned off, and activated depending on architecture
support, SMP and MMU.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Change-Id: I17123124ec0667a0f0af741a740e5219d278620c
Patch-mainline: linux-mm @ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:33:07
[vinmenon@codeaurora.org: disable the feature by default]
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
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Laurent Dufour 2018-04-17 16:33:07 +02:00 • committed by Vinayak Menon
commit f783633cc8

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@ -769,6 +769,29 @@ config HAVE_USERSPACE_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER
when the OOM killer and userspace memory killer both have the
potential to run).
config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
def_bool n
config SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
bool "Speculative page faults"
default y
depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
depends on MMU && SMP
depends on QGKI
help
Try to handle user space page faults without holding the mmap_sem.
This should allow better concurrency for massively threaded process
since the page fault handler will not wait for other threads memory
layout change to be done, assuming that this change is done in another
part of the process's memory space. This type of page fault is named
speculative page fault.
If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is
detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet
allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault
is then tried.
config GUP_BENCHMARK
bool "Enable infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking"
help