[PATCH] arm64: mm: fix linear mapping mem access performace degradation

guanghui.fgh guanghuifeng at linux.alibaba.com
Mon Jun 27 20:22:48 PDT 2022


Thanks.

在 2022/6/28 9:50, Kefeng Wang 写道:
> 
> On 2022/6/28 0:49, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 06:46:50PM +0800, guanghui.fgh wrote:
>>> 在 2022/6/27 17:49, Mike Rapoport 写道:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 05:24:10PM +0800, guanghui.fgh wrote:
>>>>> 在 2022/6/27 14:34, Mike Rapoport 写道:
>>>>>
>>>>>       On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 07:10:15PM +0800, Guanghui Feng wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           The arm64 can build 2M/1G block/sectiion mapping. When 
>>>>> using DMA/DMA32 zone
>>>>>           (enable crashkernel, disable rodata full, disable 
>>>>> kfence), the mem_map will
>>>>>           use non block/section mapping(for crashkernel requires to 
>>>>> shrink the region
>>>>>           in page granularity). But it will degrade performance 
>>>>> when doing larging
>>>>>           continuous mem access in kernel(memcpy/memmove, etc).
>>>>>
>>>>>           There are many changes and discussions:
>>>>>           commit 031495635b46
>>>>>           commit 1a8e1cef7603
>>>>>           commit 8424ecdde7df
>>>>>           commit 0a30c53573b0
>>>>>           commit 2687275a5843
>>>>>
>>>>>       Please include oneline summary of the commit. (See section 
>>>>> "Describe your
>>>>>       changes" in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst)
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, I will add oneline summary in the git commit messages.
>>>>>
>>>>>           This patch changes mem_map to use block/section mapping 
>>>>> with crashkernel.
>>>>>           Firstly, do block/section mapping(normally 2M or 1G) for 
>>>>> all avail mem at
>>>>>           mem_map, reserve crashkernel memory. And then walking 
>>>>> pagetable to split
>>>>>           block/section mapping to non block/section 
>>>>> mapping(normally 4K) [[[only]]]
>>>>>           for crashkernel mem.
>>>>>
>>>>>       This already happens when ZONE_DMA/ZONE_DMA32 are disabled. 
>>>>> Please explain
>>>>>       why is it Ok to change the way the memory is mapped with
>>>>>       ZONE_DMA/ZONE_DMA32 enabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> In short:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.building all avail mem with block/section mapping(normally 
>>>>> 1G/2M) without
>>>>> inspecting crashkernel
>>>>> 2. Reserve crashkernel mem as same as previous doing
>>>>> 3. only change the crashkernle mem mapping to normal 
>>>>> mapping(normally 4k).
>>>>> With this method, there are block/section mapping as more as possible.
>>>> This does not answer the question why changing the way the memory is 
>>>> mapped
>>>> when there is ZONE_DMA/DMA32 and crashkernel won't cause a regression.
>>>>
>>> 1.Quoted messages from arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>>
>>> "Memory reservation for crash kernel either done early or deferred
>>> depending on DMA memory zones configs (ZONE_DMA) --
>>>
>>> In absence of ZONE_DMA configs arm64_dma_phys_limit initialized
>>> here instead of max_zone_phys().  This lets early reservation of
>>> crash kernel memory which has a dependency on arm64_dma_phys_limit.
>>> Reserving memory early for crash kernel allows linear creation of block
>>> mappings (greater than page-granularity) for all the memory bank rangs.
>>> In this scheme a comparatively quicker boot is observed.
>>>
>>> If ZONE_DMA configs are defined, crash kernel memory reservation
>>> is delayed until DMA zone memory range size initialization performed in
>>> zone_sizes_init().  The defer is necessary to steer clear of DMA zone
>>> memory range to avoid overlap allocation.  So crash kernel memory 
>>> boundaries
>>> are not known when mapping all bank memory ranges, which otherwise 
>>> means not
>>> possible to exclude crash kernel range from creating block mappings so
>>> page-granularity mappings are created for the entire memory range."
>>>
>>> Namely, the init order: memblock init--->linear mem mapping(4k 
>>> mapping for
>>> crashkernel, requirinig page-granularity changing))--->zone dma
>>> limit--->reserve crashkernel.
>>> So when enable ZONE DMA and using crashkernel, the mem mapping using 4k
>>> mapping.
>>>
>>> 2.As mentioned above, when linear mem use 4k mapping simply, there is 
>>> high
>>> dtlb miss(degrade performance).
>>> This patch use block/section mapping as far as possible with performance
>>> improvement.
>>>
>>> 3.This patch reserve crashkernel as same as the history(ZONE DMA &
>>> crashkernel reserving order), and only change the linear mem mapping to
>>> block/section mapping.
>> Thank you for the explanation.
>>
>> So if I understand correctly, you suggest to reserve the crash kernel
>> memory late regardless of ZONE_DMA/32 configuration and then map that 
>> memory
>> using page level mappings after the memory is reserved.
>>
>> This makes sense, but I think the patch has a few shortcomings than 
>> need to
>> be addressed.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Guanghui Feng <guanghuifeng at linux.alibaba.com>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h |   1 +
>>>   arch/arm64/mm/init.c         |   8 +-
>>>   arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c          | 274 
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>   3 files changed, 253 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
>>> index 48f8466..df113cc 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
>>> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static inline bool arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0(void)
>>>   extern void arm64_memblock_init(void);
>>>   extern void paging_init(void);
>>>   extern void bootmem_init(void);
>>> +extern void mapping_crashkernel(void);
>> I think map_crashkernel() would be a better name.
> 
> Or a more generic naming (and for other helpers),  it's used in 
> crashkernel for now,
> 
> but maybe more cases.
> 
> 
>>
>>>   extern void __iomem *early_io_map(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long 
>>> virt);
>>>   extern void init_mem_pgprot(void);
>>>   extern void create_pgd_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm, phys_addr_t phys,
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>> index 339ee84..0e7540b 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>> @@ -388,10 +388,6 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
>>>       }
>>>       early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
>>> -
>>> -    if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32))
>>> -        reserve_crashkernel();
>>> -
>>>       high_memory = __va(memblock_end_of_DRAM() - 1) + 1;
>>>   }
>>> @@ -438,8 +434,8 @@ void __init bootmem_init(void)
>>>        * request_standard_resources() depends on crashkernel's memory 
>>> being
>>>        * reserved, so do it here.
>>>        */
>>> -    if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32))
>>> -        reserve_crashkernel();
>>> +    reserve_crashkernel();
>>> +    mapping_crashkernel();
>> This can be called from reserve_crashkernel() directly.
>>>       memblock_dump_all();
>>>   }
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>> index 626ec32..0672afd 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>> @@ -498,6 +498,256 @@ static int __init enable_crash_mem_map(char *arg)
>>>   }
>>>   early_param("crashkernel", enable_crash_mem_map);
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
>>> +static phys_addr_t __init early_crashkernel_pgtable_alloc(int shift)
>>> +{
>>> +    phys_addr_t phys;
>>> +    void *ptr;
>>> +
>>> +    phys = memblock_phys_alloc_range(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, 0,
>>> +                     MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE);
>>> +    if (!phys)
>>> +        panic("Failed to allocate page table page\n");
>>> +
>>> +    ptr = (void *)__phys_to_virt(phys);
>>> +    memset(ptr, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
> add dsb() to ensure page is visible to page table walk?
I had consulted from alloc_init_cont_pte. There maybe no need dsb actually.
>>> +    return phys;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void init_crashkernel_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
>>> +                 unsigned long end,
>>> +                 phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t prot)
>>> +{
>>> +    pte_t *ptep;
>>> +    ptep = pte_offset_kernel(pmdp, addr);
>>> +    do {
>>> +        set_pte(ptep, pfn_pte(__phys_to_pfn(phys), prot));
>>> +        phys += PAGE_SIZE;
>>> +    } while (ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void alloc_crashkernel_cont_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
>>> +                       unsigned long end, phys_addr_t phys,
>>> +                       pgprot_t prot,
>>> +                       phys_addr_t (*pgtable_alloc)(int),
>>> +                       int flags)
>>> +{
>>> +    unsigned long next;
>>> +    pmd_t pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp);
>>> +
>>> +    BUG_ON(pmd_sect(pmd));
>>> +    if (pmd_none(pmd)) {
>>> +        pmdval_t pmdval = PMD_TYPE_TABLE | PMD_TABLE_UXN;
>>> +        phys_addr_t pte_phys;
>>> +
>>> +        if (flags & NO_EXEC_MAPPINGS)
>>> +            pmdval |= PMD_TABLE_PXN;
>>> +        BUG_ON(!pgtable_alloc);
>>> +        pte_phys = pgtable_alloc(PAGE_SHIFT);
>>> +        __pmd_populate(pmdp, pte_phys, pmdval);
>>> +        pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp);
>>> +    }
>>> +    BUG_ON(pmd_bad(pmd));
>>> +
>>> +    do {
>>> +        pgprot_t __prot = prot;
>>> +        next = pte_cont_addr_end(addr, end);
>>> +        init_crashkernel_pte(pmdp, addr, next, phys, __prot);
>>> +        phys += next - addr;
>>> +    } while (addr = next, addr != end);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void init_crashkernel_pmd(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr,
>>> +                 unsigned long end, phys_addr_t phys,
>>> +                 pgprot_t prot,
>>> +                 phys_addr_t (*pgtable_alloc)(int), int flags)
>>> +{
>>> +    phys_addr_t map_offset;
>>> +    unsigned long next;
>>> +    pmd_t *pmdp;
>>> +    pmdval_t pmdval;
>>> +
>>> +    pmdp = pmd_offset(pudp, addr);
>>> +    do {
>>> +        next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
>>> +        if (!pmd_none(*pmdp) && pmd_sect(*pmdp)) {
>>> +            phys_addr_t pte_phys = pgtable_alloc(PAGE_SHIFT);
>>> +            pmd_clear(pmdp);
>>> +            pmdval = PMD_TYPE_TABLE | PMD_TABLE_UXN;
>>> +            if (flags & NO_EXEC_MAPPINGS)
>>> +                pmdval |= PMD_TABLE_PXN;
>>> +            __pmd_populate(pmdp, pte_phys, pmdval);
>>> +            flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
>>> +
>>> +            map_offset = addr - (addr & PMD_MASK);
>>> +            if (map_offset)
>>> +                alloc_init_cont_pte(pmdp, addr & PMD_MASK, addr,
>>> +                        phys - map_offset, prot,
>>> +                        pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +
>>> +            if (next < (addr & PMD_MASK) + PMD_SIZE)
>>> +                alloc_init_cont_pte(pmdp, next, (addr & PUD_MASK) +
>>> +                        PUD_SIZE, next - addr + phys,
>>> +                        prot, pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +        }
>>> +        alloc_crashkernel_cont_pte(pmdp, addr, next, phys, prot,
>>> +                       pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +        phys += next - addr;
>>> +    } while (pmdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void alloc_crashkernel_cont_pmd(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr,
>>> +                       unsigned long end, phys_addr_t phys,
>>> +                       pgprot_t prot,
>>> +                       phys_addr_t (*pgtable_alloc)(int),
>>> +                       int flags)
>>> +{
>>> +    unsigned long next;
>>> +    pud_t pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp);
>>> +
>>> +    /*
>>> +     * Check for initial section mappings in the pgd/pud.
>>> +     */
>>> +    BUG_ON(pud_sect(pud));
>>> +    if (pud_none(pud)) {
>>> +        pudval_t pudval = PUD_TYPE_TABLE | PUD_TABLE_UXN;
>>> +        phys_addr_t pmd_phys;
>>> +
>>> +        if (flags & NO_EXEC_MAPPINGS)
>>> +            pudval |= PUD_TABLE_PXN;
>>> +        BUG_ON(!pgtable_alloc);
>>> +        pmd_phys = pgtable_alloc(PMD_SHIFT);
>>> +        __pud_populate(pudp, pmd_phys, pudval);
>>> +        pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp);
>>> +    }
>>> +    BUG_ON(pud_bad(pud));
>>> +
>>> +    do {
>>> +        pgprot_t __prot = prot;
>>> +        next = pmd_cont_addr_end(addr, end);
>>> +        init_crashkernel_pmd(pudp, addr, next, phys, __prot,
>>> +                     pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +        phys += next - addr;
>>> +    } while (addr = next, addr != end);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void alloc_crashkernel_pud(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long addr,
>>> +                  unsigned long end, phys_addr_t phys,
>>> +                  pgprot_t prot,
>>> +                  phys_addr_t (*pgtable_alloc)(int),
>>> +                  int flags)
>>> +{
>>> +    phys_addr_t map_offset;
>>> +    unsigned long next;
>>> +    pud_t *pudp;
>>> +    p4d_t *p4dp = p4d_offset(pgdp, addr);
>>> +    p4d_t p4d = READ_ONCE(*p4dp);
>>> +    pudval_t pudval;
>>> +
>>> +    if (p4d_none(p4d)) {
>>> +        p4dval_t p4dval = P4D_TYPE_TABLE | P4D_TABLE_UXN;
>>> +        phys_addr_t pud_phys;
>>> +
>>> +        if (flags & NO_EXEC_MAPPINGS)
>>> +            p4dval |= P4D_TABLE_PXN;
>>> +        BUG_ON(!pgtable_alloc);
>>> +        pud_phys = pgtable_alloc(PUD_SHIFT);
>>> +        __p4d_populate(p4dp, pud_phys, p4dval);
>>> +        p4d = READ_ONCE(*p4dp);
>>> +    }
>>> +    BUG_ON(p4d_bad(p4d));
>>> +
>>> +    /*
>>> +     * No need for locking during early boot. And it doesn't work as
>>> +     * expected with KASLR enabled.
>>> +     */
>>> +    if (system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING)
>>> +        mutex_lock(&fixmap_lock);
> It seems that no need to use fixmap_lock.
Yes, it's that.
>>> +    pudp = pud_offset(p4dp, addr);
>>> +    do {
>>> +        next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
>>> +        if (!pud_none(*pudp) && pud_sect(*pudp)) {
>>> +            phys_addr_t pmd_phys = pgtable_alloc(PMD_SHIFT);
>>> +            pud_clear(pudp);
>>> +
>>> +            pudval = PUD_TYPE_TABLE | PUD_TABLE_UXN;
>>> +            if (flags & NO_EXEC_MAPPINGS)
>>> +                pudval |= PUD_TABLE_PXN;
>>> +            __pud_populate(pudp, pmd_phys, pudval);
>>> +            flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
>>> +
>>> +            map_offset = addr - (addr & PUD_MASK);
>>> +            if (map_offset)
>>> +                alloc_init_cont_pmd(pudp, addr & PUD_MASK, addr,
>>> +                        phys - map_offset, prot,
>>> +                        pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +
>>> +            if (next < (addr & PUD_MASK) + PUD_SIZE)
>>> +                alloc_init_cont_pmd(pudp, next, (addr & PUD_MASK) +
>>> +                        PUD_SIZE, next - addr + phys,
>>> +                        prot, pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +        }
>>> +        alloc_crashkernel_cont_pmd(pudp, addr, next, phys, prot,
>>> +                       pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +        phys += next - addr;
>>> +    } while (pudp++, addr = next, addr != end);
>>> +
>>> +    if (system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING)
>>> +        mutex_unlock(&fixmap_lock);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void __create_crashkernel_mapping(pgd_t *pgdir, phys_addr_t 
>>> phys,
>>> +                     unsigned long virt, phys_addr_t size,
>>> +                     pgprot_t prot,
>>> +                     phys_addr_t (*pgtable_alloc)(int),
>>> +                     int flags)
>>> +{
>>> +    unsigned long addr, end, next;
>>> +    pgd_t *pgdp = pgd_offset_pgd(pgdir, virt);
>>> +
>>> +    /*
>>> +     * If the virtual and physical address don't have the same offset
>>> +     * within a page, we cannot map the region as the caller expects.
>>> +     */
>>> +    if (WARN_ON((phys ^ virt) & ~PAGE_MASK))
>>> +        return;
>>> +
>>> +    phys &= PAGE_MASK;
>>> +    addr = virt & PAGE_MASK;
>>> +    end = PAGE_ALIGN(virt + size);
>>> +
>>> +    do {
>>> +        next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
>>> +        alloc_crashkernel_pud(pgdp, addr, next, phys, prot,
>>> +                      pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +        phys += next - addr;
>>> +    } while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
>>> +}
>> __create_crashkernel_mapping() and the helpers it uses resemble very much
>> __create_pgd_mapping() and it's helpers. I think a cleaner way would 
>> be to
>> clear section mappings and than call __create_pgd_mapping() for crash
>> kernel memory with block/section mappings disabled.
> Yes, there are too much duplicated codes, if the handling of crash 
> reserve memory
> is acceptable, we could find a better way(as Mike said) to deal with the 
> repeat.
> Actually, we try something like this before, but I am not sure it is 
> right way,
> and we saw TLB conflict,  I will test this patch.
OK, I had test this patch and worked well.

>>> +static void __init map_crashkernel(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start,
>>> +                   phys_addr_t end, pgprot_t prot, int flags)
>>> +{
>>> +    __create_crashkernel_mapping(pgdp, start, __phys_to_virt(start),
>>> +                     end - start, prot,
>>> +                     early_crashkernel_pgtable_alloc, flags);
>>> +}
>> No need for this, you can call __create_crashkernel_mapping() directly 
>> from
>> mapping_crashkernel().
>>
>>> +
>>> +void __init mapping_crashkernel(void)
>>> +{
>>> +    if (can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE))
>>> +        return;
>>> +
>>> +    if (!crash_mem_map || !crashk_res.end)
>>> +        return;
>>> +
>>> +    map_crashkernel(swapper_pg_dir, crashk_res.start,
>>> +            crashk_res.end + 1, PAGE_KERNEL,
>>> +            NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
>>> +}
>>> +#else
>>> +void __init mapping_crashkernel(void) {}
>>> +#endif
>>> +
>>>   static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
>>>   {
>>>       static const u64 direct_map_end = _PAGE_END(VA_BITS_MIN);
>>> @@ -527,17 +777,6 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
>>>        */
>>>       memblock_mark_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
>>> -    if (crash_mem_map) {
>>> -        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) ||
>>> -            IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32))
>>> -            flags |= NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
>>> -        else if (crashk_res.end)
>>> -            memblock_mark_nomap(crashk_res.start,
>>> -                resource_size(&crashk_res));
>>> -    }
>>> -#endif
>>> -
>>>       /* map all the memory banks */
>>>       for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
>>>           if (start >= end)
>>> @@ -570,19 +809,6 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
>>>        * in page granularity and put back unused memory to buddy system
>>>        * through /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size interface.
>>>        */
>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
>>> -    if (crash_mem_map &&
>>> -        !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) && 
>>> !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32)) {
>>> -        if (crashk_res.end) {
>>> -            __map_memblock(pgdp, crashk_res.start,
>>> -                       crashk_res.end + 1,
>>> -                       PAGE_KERNEL,
>>> -                       NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
>>> -            memblock_clear_nomap(crashk_res.start,
>>> -                         resource_size(&crashk_res));
>>> -        }
>>> -    }
>>> -#endif
>>>   }
>>>   void mark_rodata_ro(void)
>>> -- 
>>> 1.8.3.1
>>



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