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Let's implement PTE batching when consecutive (present) PTEs map consecutive pages of the same large folio, and all other PTE bits besides the PFNs are equal. We will optimize folio_pte_batch() separately, to ignore selected PTE bits. This patch is based on work by Ryan Roberts. Use __always_inline for __copy_present_ptes() and keep the handling for single PTEs completely separate from the multi-PTE case: we really want the compiler to optimize for the single-PTE case with small folios, to not degrade performance. Note that PTE batching will never exceed a single page table and will always stay within VMA boundaries. Further, processing PTE-mapped THP that maybe pinned and have PageAnonExclusive set on at least one subpage should work as expected, but there is room for improvement: We will repeatedly (1) detect a PTE batch (2) detect that we have to copy a page (3) fall back and allocate a single page to copy a single page. For now we won't care as pinned pages are a corner case, and we should rather look into maintaining only a single PageAnonExclusive bit for large folios. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129124649.189745-14-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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