Subject: [PATCH v2 20/22] powerpc/mm/book3s64: Avoid sending IPI on clearing PMD

From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:26:07 +0530

Now that all the lockless page table walk is careful w.r.t the PTE
address returned, we can now revert
commit: 13bd817bb884 ("powerpc/thp: Serialize pmd clear against a linux page table walk.")

We also drop the equivalent IPI from other pte updates routines. We still keep
IPI in hash pmdp collapse and that is to take care of parallel hash page table
insert. The radix pmdp collapse flush can possibly be removed once I am sure
generic code doesn't have the any expectations around parallel gup walk.

This speeds up Qemu guest RAM del/unplug time as below

128 core, 496GB guest:

Without patch:
munmap start: timer = 13162 ms, PID=7684
munmap finish: timer = 95312 ms, PID=7684 - delta = 82150 ms

With patch:
munmap start: timer = 196449 ms, PID=6681
munmap finish: timer = 196488 ms, PID=6681 - delta = 39ms

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c  | 11 -----------
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c       |  8 --------
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c | 19 +++++++------------
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c
index 64733b9cb20a..64ca375278dc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_pgtable.c
@@ -363,17 +363,6 @@ pmd_t hash__pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	 * hash fault look at them.
 	 */
 	memset(pgtable, 0, PTE_FRAG_SIZE);
-	/*
-	 * Serialize against find_current_mm_pte variants which does lock-less
-	 * lookup in page tables with local interrupts disabled. For huge pages
-	 * it casts pmd_t to pte_t. Since format of pte_t is different from
-	 * pmd_t we want to prevent transit from pmd pointing to page table
-	 * to pmd pointing to huge page (and back) while interrupts are disabled.
-	 * We clear pmd to possibly replace it with page table pointer in
-	 * different code paths. So make sure we wait for the parallel
-	 * find_curren_mm_pte to finish.
-	 */
-	serialize_against_pte_lookup(mm);
 	return old_pmd;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
index 2bf7e1b4fd82..93fc3be41ed9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
@@ -109,14 +109,6 @@ pmd_t pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 
 	old_pmd = pmd_hugepage_update(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, _PAGE_PRESENT, _PAGE_INVALID);
 	flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
-	/*
-	 * This ensures that generic code that rely on IRQ disabling
-	 * to prevent a parallel THP split work as expected.
-	 *
-	 * Marking the entry with _PAGE_INVALID && ~_PAGE_PRESENT requires
-	 * a special case check in pmd_access_permitted.
-	 */
-	serialize_against_pte_lookup(vma->vm_mm);
 	return __pmd(old_pmd);
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
index dd1bea45325c..0a78b10c256c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
@@ -957,7 +957,13 @@ pmd_t radix__pmdp_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addre
 	pmd = *pmdp;
 	pmd_clear(pmdp);
 
-	/*FIXME!!  Verify whether we need this kick below */
+	/*
+	 * pmdp collapse_flush need to ensure that there are no parallel gup
+	 * walk after this call. This is needed so that we can have stable
+	 * page ref count when collapsing a page. We don't allow a collapse page
+	 * if we have gup taken on the page. We can ensure that by sending IPI
+	 * because gup walk happens with IRQ disabled.
+	 */
 	serialize_against_pte_lookup(vma->vm_mm);
 
 	radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd(vma->vm_mm, address);
@@ -1018,17 +1024,6 @@ pmd_t radix__pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 	old = radix__pmd_hugepage_update(mm, addr, pmdp, ~0UL, 0);
 	old_pmd = __pmd(old);
-	/*
-	 * Serialize against find_current_mm_pte which does lock-less
-	 * lookup in page tables with local interrupts disabled. For huge pages
-	 * it casts pmd_t to pte_t. Since format of pte_t is different from
-	 * pmd_t we want to prevent transit from pmd pointing to page table
-	 * to pmd pointing to huge page (and back) while interrupts are disabled.
-	 * We clear pmd to possibly replace it with page table pointer in
-	 * different code paths. So make sure we wait for the parallel
-	 * find_current_mm_pte to finish.
-	 */
-	serialize_against_pte_lookup(mm);
 	return old_pmd;
 }
 
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