[PATCH v2 0/4] Speed up boot with faster linear map creation

Itaru Kitayama itaru.kitayama at linux.dev
Tue Apr 9 16:30:41 PDT 2024


Hi David,

> On Apr 9, 2024, at 23:45, David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 09.04.24 16:39, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> On 09/04/2024 15:29, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 09.04.24 16:13, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>>> On 09/04/2024 12:51, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>> On 09.04.24 13:29, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>>> On 09.04.24 13:22, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>>>> On 09.04.24 12:13, Itaru Kitayama wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 9, 2024, at 19:04, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 09/04/2024 01:10, Itaru Kitayama wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Ryan,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 8, 2024, at 16:30, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On 06/04/2024 11:31, Itaru Kitayama wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Ryan,
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 09:32:34AM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Itaru,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 05/04/2024 08:39, Itaru Kitayama wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 03:33:04PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It turns out that creating the linear map can take a significant
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> proportion of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the total boot time, especially when rodata=full. And most of the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> time is spent
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> waiting on superfluous tlb invalidation and memory barriers. This
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> series reworks
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the kernel pgtable generation code to significantly reduce the number
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of those
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> TLBIs, ISBs and DSBs. See each patch for details.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The below shows the execution time of map_mem() across a couple of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> different
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> systems with different RAM configurations. We measure after applying
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> each patch
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and show the improvement relative to base (v6.9-rc2):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                    | Apple M2 VM | Ampere Altra| Ampere Altra| Ampere
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Altra
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                    | VM, 16G     | VM, 64G     | VM, 256G    | Metal,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 512G
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ---------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                    |   ms    (%) |   ms    (%) |   ms    (%) |
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ms    (%)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ---------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> base           |  153   (0%) | 2227   (0%) | 8798   (0%) | 17442
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (0%)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> no-cont-remap  |   77 (-49%) |  431 (-81%) | 1727 (-80%) |  3796
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (-78%)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> batch-barriers |   13 (-92%) |  162 (-93%) |  655 (-93%) |  1656
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (-91%)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> no-alloc-remap |   11 (-93%) |  109 (-95%) |  449 (-95%) |  1257
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (-93%)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lazy-unmap     |    6 (-96%) |   61 (-97%) |  257 (-97%) |   838
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (-95%)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This series applies on top of v6.9-rc2. All mm selftests pass. I've
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> compile and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> boot tested various PAGE_SIZE and VA size configs.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Changes since v1 [1]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ====================
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       - Added Tested-by tags (thanks to Eric and Itaru)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       - Renamed ___set_pte() -> __set_pte_nosync() (per Ard)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       - Reordered patches (biggest impact & least controversial first)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       - Reordered alloc/map/unmap functions in mmu.c to aid reader
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       - pte_clear() -> __pte_clear() in clear_fixmap_nosync()
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       - Reverted generic p4d_index() which caused x86 build error.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Replaced with
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>         unconditional p4d_index() define under arm64.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20240326101448.3453626-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/<https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20240326101448.3453626-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ryan
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ryan Roberts (4):
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       arm64: mm: Don't remap pgtables per-cont(pte|pmd) block
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       arm64: mm: Batch dsb and isb when populating pgtables
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       arm64: mm: Don't remap pgtables for allocate vs populate
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>       arm64: mm: Lazily clear pte table mappings from fixmap
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h  |   5 +-
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h     |   8 +
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |  13 +-
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c   |  10 +-
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> arch/arm64/mm/fixmap.c           |  11 +
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c              | 377 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 6 files changed, 319 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2.25.1
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I've build and boot tested the v2 on FVP, base is taken from your
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> linux-rr repo. Running run_vmtests.sh on v2 left some gup longterm not
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> oks, would you take a look at it? The mm ksefltests used is from your
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> linux-rr repo too.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for taking a look at this.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I can't reproduce your issue unfortunately; steps as follows on Apple
>>>>>>>>>>>>> M2 VM:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Config: arm64 defconfig + the following:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> # Squashfs for snaps, xfs for large file folios.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZ4
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XZ
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_SQUASHFS_ZSTD
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_XFS_FS
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> # For general mm debug.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_MAPLE_TREE
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> # For mm selftests.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_USERFAULTFD
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ./scripts/config --enable CONFIG_GUP_TEST
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Running on VM with 12G memory, split across 2 (emulated) NUMA nodes
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (needed by
>>>>>>>>>>>>> some mm selftests), with kernel command line to reserve hugetlbs and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>>>>>> features required by some mm selftests:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> "
>>>>>>>>>>>>> transparent_hugepage=madvise earlycon root=/dev/vda2 secretmem.enable
>>>>>>>>>>>>> hugepagesz=1G hugepages=0:2,1:2 hugepagesz=32M hugepages=0:2,1:2
>>>>>>>>>>>>> default_hugepagesz=2M hugepages=0:64,1:64 hugepagesz=64K
>>>>>>>>>>>>> hugepages=0:2,1:2
>>>>>>>>>>>>> "
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ubuntu userspace running off XFS rootfs. Build and run mm selftests
>>>>>>>>>>>>> from same
>>>>>>>>>>>>> git tree.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Although I don't think any of this config should make a difference to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> gup_longterm.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Looks like your errors are all "ftruncate() failed". I've seen this
>>>>>>>>>>>>> problem on
>>>>>>>>>>>>> our CI system. There it is due to running the tests from NFS file
>>>>>>>>>>>>> system. What
>>>>>>>>>>>>> filesystem are you using? Perhaps you are sharing into the FVP using
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 9p? That
>>>>>>>>>>>>> might also be problematic.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> That was it. This time I booted up the kernel including your series on
>>>>>>>>>>>> QEMU on my M1 and executed the gup_longterm program without the ftruncate
>>>>>>>>>>>> failures. When testing your kernel on FVP, I was executing the script
>>>>>>>>>>>> from the FVP's host filesystem using 9p.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm not sure exactly what the root cause is. Perhaps there isn't enough
>>>>>>>>>>> space on
>>>>>>>>>>> the disk? It might be worth enhancing the error log to provide the
>>>>>>>>>>> errno in
>>>>>>>>>>> tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Attached is the strace’d gup_longterm executiong log on your
>>>>>>>>>> pgtable-boot-speedup-v2 kernel.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Sorry are you saying that it only fails with the pgtable-boot-speedup-v2
>>>>>>>>> patch
>>>>>>>>> set applied? I thought we previously concluded that it was independent of
>>>>>>>>> that?
>>>>>>>>> I was under the impression that it was filesystem related and not something
>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>> I was planning to investigate.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> No, irrespective of the kernel, if using 9p on FVP the test program fails.
>>>>>>>> It is indeed 9p filesystem related, as I switched to using NFS all the
>>>>>>>> issues are gone.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Did it never work on 9p? If so, we might have to SKIP that test.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> openat(AT_FDCWD, "gup_longterm.c_tmpfile_BLboOt", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,
>>>>>>> 0600) = 3
>>>>>>> unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "gup_longterm.c_tmpfile_BLboOt", 0) = 0
>>>>>>> fstatfs(3, 0xffffe505a840)              = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not
>>>>>>> supported)
>>>>>>> ftruncate(3, 4096)                      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
>>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Note: I'm wondering if the unlinkat here is the problem that makes
>>>>>> ftruncate() with 9p result in weird errors (e.g., the hypervisor
>>>>>> unlinked the file and cannot reopen it for the fstatfs/ftruncate. ...
>>>>>> which gives us weird errors here).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Then, we should lookup the fs type in run_with_local_tmpfile() before
>>>>>> the unlink() and simply skip the test if it is 9p.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The unlink with 9p most certainly was a known issue in the past:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/103
>>>>> 
>>>>> Maybe it's still an issue with older hypervisors (QEMU?)? Or it was never
>>>>> completely resolved?
>>>> 
>>>> I believe Itaru is running on FVP (Fixed Virtual Platform - "fast model" -
>>>> Arm's architecture emulator). So QEMU won't be involved here. The FVP emulates
>>>> a 9p device, so perhaps the bug is in there.
>>> 
>>> Very likely.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Note that I see lots of "fallocate() failed" failures in gup_longterm when
>>>> running on our CI system. This is a completely different setup; Real HW with
>>>> Linux running bare metal using an NFS rootfs. I'm not sure if this is related.
>>>> Logs show it failing consistently for the "tmpfile" and "local tmpfile" test
>>>> configs. I also see a couple of these fails in the cow tests.
>>> 
>>> What is the fallocate() errno you are getting? strace log would help (to see if
>>> statfs also fails already)! Likely a similar NFS issue.
>> Unfortunately this is a system I don't have access to. I've requested some of
>> this triage to be done, but its fairly low priority unfortunately.
> 
> To work around these BUGs (?) elsewhere, we could simply skip the test if get_fs_type() is not able to detect the FS type. Likely that's an early indicator that the unlink() messed something up.
> 
> ... doesn't feel right, though.

I think it’s a good idea so that the mm kselftests results look reasonable. Since you’re an expert on GUP-fast (or fast-GUP?), when you update the code, could you print out errno as well like the split_huge_page_test.c does?

Thanks,
Itaru.

> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> David / dhildenb
> 




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