[PATCH] riscv: mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first

Jisheng Zhang jszhang at kernel.org
Tue May 23 09:59:42 PDT 2023


Attempt VMA lock-based page fault handling first, and fall back to the
existing mmap_lock-based handling if that fails.

A simple running the ebizzy benchmark on Lichee Pi 4A shows that
PER_VMA_LOCK can improve the ebizzy benchmark by about 32.68%. In
theory, the more CPUs, the bigger improvement, but I don't have any
HW platform which has more than 4 CPUs.

This is the riscv variant of "x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault
handling first".

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
---
Any performance numbers are welcome! Especially the numbers on HW
platforms with 8 or more CPUs.

 arch/riscv/Kconfig    |  1 +
 arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 62e84fee2cfd..b958f67f9a12 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ config RISCV
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC if MMU
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS if MMU
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK if MMU
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK if MMU
 	select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
 	select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS
 	select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT if MMU
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
index 8685f85a7474..eccdddf26f4b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -286,6 +286,36 @@ void handle_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
 	else if (cause == EXC_INST_PAGE_FAULT)
 		flags |= FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+	if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_USER))
+		goto lock_mmap;
+
+	vma = lock_vma_under_rcu(mm, addr);
+	if (!vma)
+		goto lock_mmap;
+
+	if (unlikely(access_error(cause, vma))) {
+		vma_end_read(vma);
+		goto lock_mmap;
+	}
+
+	fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, addr, flags | FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK, regs);
+	vma_end_read(vma);
+
+	if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)) {
+		count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_SUCCESS);
+		goto done;
+	}
+	count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_RETRY);
+
+	if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) {
+		if (!user_mode(regs))
+			no_context(regs, addr);
+		return;
+	}
+lock_mmap:
+#endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
+
 retry:
 	mmap_read_lock(mm);
 	vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
@@ -355,6 +385,9 @@ void handle_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	mmap_read_unlock(mm);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+done:
+#endif
 	if (unlikely(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR)) {
 		tsk->thread.bad_cause = cause;
 		mm_fault_error(regs, addr, fault);
-- 
2.40.1




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