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Commit 95599ef6 authored by Yu Zhao's avatar Yu Zhao Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/codetag: fix pgalloc_tag_split()

The current assumption is that a large folio can only be split into
order-0 folios.  That is not the case for hugeTLB demotion, nor for THP
split: see commit c010d47f ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower
order pages").

When a large folio is split into ones of a lower non-zero order, only the
new head pages should be tagged.  Tagging tail pages can cause imbalanced
"calls" counters, since only head pages are untagged by pgalloc_tag_sub()
and the "calls" counts on tail pages are leaked, e.g.,

  # echo 2048kB >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/demote_size
  # echo 700 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
  # time echo 700 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/demote
  # echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
  # grep alloc_gigantic_folio /proc/allocinfo

Before this patch:
  0  549427200  mm/hugetlb.c:1549 func:alloc_gigantic_folio

  real  0m2.057s
  user  0m0.000s
  sys   0m2.051s

After this patch:
  0          0  mm/hugetlb.c:1549 func:alloc_gigantic_folio

  real  0m1.711s
  user  0m0.000s
  sys   0m1.704s

Not tagging tail pages also improves the splitting time, e.g., by about
15% when demoting 1GB hugeTLB folios to 2MB ones, as shown above.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240906042108.1150526-2-yuzhao@google.com


Fixes: be25d1d4 ("mm: create new codetag references during page splitting")
Signed-off-by: default avatarYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent eebc0f48
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