[PATCH V2 2/2] arm64/mm: Enable THP migration

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Wed Sep 9 00:53:03 EDT 2020


In certain page migration situations, a THP page can be migrated without
being split into it's constituent subpages. This saves time required to
split a THP and put it back together when required. But it also saves an
wider address range translation covered by a single TLB entry, reducing
future page fault costs.

A previous patch changed platform THP helpers per generic memory semantics,
clearing the path for THP migration support. This adds two more THP helpers
required to create PMD migration swap entries. Now enable THP migration via
ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig               | 4 ++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 6d232837cbee..e21b94061780 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1876,6 +1876,10 @@ config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
 	def_bool y
 	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION
 
+config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
+	def_bool y
+	depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+
 menu "Power management options"
 
 source "kernel/power/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index d8258ae8fce0..bc68da9f5706 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -875,6 +875,11 @@ static inline pmd_t pmdp_establish(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define __pte_to_swp_entry(pte)	((swp_entry_t) { pte_val(pte) })
 #define __swp_entry_to_pte(swp)	((pte_t) { (swp).val })
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
+#define __pmd_to_swp_entry(pmd)		((swp_entry_t) { pmd_val(pmd) })
+#define __swp_entry_to_pmd(swp)		__pmd((swp).val)
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION */
+
 /*
  * Ensure that there are not more swap files than can be encoded in the kernel
  * PTEs.
-- 
2.20.1




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