Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] secretmem: optimize page_is_secretmem()

From: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:16:11 +0300

From: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>

Kernel test robot reported -4.2% regression of will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
due to commit "mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret"
memory areas".

The perf profile of the test indicated that the regression is caused by
page_is_secretmem() called from gup_pte_range() (inlined by gup_pgd_range):

 27.76  +2.5  30.23       perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.gup_pgd_range
  0.00  +3.2   3.19 ± 2%  perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.page_mapping
  0.00  +3.7   3.66 ± 2%  perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.page_is_secretmem

Further analysis showed that the slow down happens because neither
page_is_secretmem() nor page_mapping() are not inline and moreover,
multiple page flags checks in page_mapping() involve calling
compound_head() several times for the same page.

Make page_is_secretmem() inline and replace page_mapping() with page flag
checks that do not imply page-to-head conversion.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email-masked]>
---
 include/linux/secretmem.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/secretmem.c            | 12 +-----------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/secretmem.h b/include/linux/secretmem.h
index 907a6734059c..b842b38cbeb1 100644
--- a/include/linux/secretmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/secretmem.h
@@ -4,8 +4,32 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECRETMEM
 
+extern const struct address_space_operations secretmem_aops;
+
+static inline bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping;
+
+	/*
+	 * Using page_mapping() is quite slow because of the actual call
+	 * instruction and repeated compound_head(page) inside the
+	 * page_mapping() function.
+	 * We know that secretmem pages are not compound and LRU so we can
+	 * save a couple of cycles here.
+	 */
+	if (PageCompound(page) || !PageLRU(page))
+		return false;
+
+	mapping = (struct address_space *)
+		((unsigned long)page->mapping & ~PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS);
+
+	if (mapping != page->mapping)
+		return false;
+
+	return page->mapping->a_ops == &secretmem_aops;
+}
+
 bool vma_is_secretmem(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
-bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page);
 bool secretmem_active(void);
 
 #else
diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c
index 3b1ba3991964..0bcd15e1b549 100644
--- a/mm/secretmem.c
+++ b/mm/secretmem.c
@@ -151,22 +151,12 @@ static void secretmem_freepage(struct page *page)
 	clear_highpage(page);
 }
 
-static const struct address_space_operations secretmem_aops = {
+const struct address_space_operations secretmem_aops = {
 	.freepage	= secretmem_freepage,
 	.migratepage	= secretmem_migratepage,
 	.isolate_page	= secretmem_isolate_page,
 };
 
-bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page)
-{
-	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
-
-	if (!mapping)
-		return false;
-
-	return mapping->a_ops == &secretmem_aops;
-}
-
 static struct vfsmount *secretmem_mnt;
 
 static struct file *secretmem_file_create(unsigned long flags)
-- 
2.28.0

_______________________________________________
linux-arm-kernel mailing list
[email-masked]
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel