[PATCH v2 3/5] mm: Default implementation of arch_wants_pte_order()

From: Ryan Roberts
Date: Mon Jul 03 2023 - 09:54:10 EST


arch_wants_pte_order() can be overridden by the arch to return the
preferred folio order for pte-mapped memory. This is useful as some
architectures (e.g. arm64) can coalesce TLB entries when the physical
memory is suitably contiguous.

The first user for this hint will be FLEXIBLE_THP, which aims to
allocate large folios for anonymous memory to reduce page faults and
other per-page operation costs.

Here we add the default implementation of the function, used when the
architecture does not define it, which returns the order corresponding
to 64K.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/pgtable.h | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index a661a17173fa..f7e38598f20b 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <asm-generic/pgtable_uffd.h>
#include <linux/page_table_check.h>
+#include <linux/sizes.h>

#if 5 - defined(__PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED) - defined(__PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED) - \
defined(__PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED) != CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS
@@ -336,6 +337,18 @@ static inline bool arch_has_hw_pte_young(void)
}
#endif

+#ifndef arch_wants_pte_order
+/*
+ * Returns preferred folio order for pte-mapped memory. Must be in range [0,
+ * PMD_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT) and must not be order-1 since THP requires large folios
+ * to be at least order-2.
+ */
+static inline int arch_wants_pte_order(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ return ilog2(SZ_64K >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+}
+#endif
+
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_GET_AND_CLEAR
static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long address,
--
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