Re: [mm PATCH v3 1/6] mm: Use mm_zero_struct_page from SPARC on all 64b architectures

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Mon 15-10-18 13:26:56, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This change makes it so that we use the same approach that was already in
> use on Sparc on all the archtectures that support a 64b long.
> 
> This is mostly motivated by the fact that 8 to 10 store/move instructions
> are likely always going to be faster than having to call into a function
> that is not specialized for handling page init.
> 
> An added advantage to doing it this way is that the compiler can get away
> with combining writes in the __init_single_page call. As a result the
> memset call will be reduced to only about 4 write operations, or at least
> that is what I am seeing with GCC 6.2 as the flags, LRU poitners, and
> count/mapcount seem to be cancelling out at least 4 of the 8 assignments on
> my system.
> 
> One change I had to make to the function was to reduce the minimum page
> size to 56 to support some powerpc64 configurations.

This really begs for numbers. I do not mind the change itself with some
minor comments below.

[...]
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index bb0de406f8e7..ec6e57a0c14e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -102,8 +102,42 @@ static inline void set_max_mapnr(unsigned long limit) { }
>   * zeroing by defining this macro in <asm/pgtable.h>.
>   */
>  #ifndef mm_zero_struct_page

Do we still need this ifdef? I guess we can wait for an arch which
doesn't like this change and then add the override. I would rather go
simple if possible.

> +#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64
> +/* This function must be updated when the size of struct page grows above 80
> + * or reduces below 64. The idea that compiler optimizes out switch()
> + * statement, and only leaves move/store instructions
> + */
> +#define	mm_zero_struct_page(pp) __mm_zero_struct_page(pp)
> +static inline void __mm_zero_struct_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> +	unsigned long *_pp = (void *)page;
> +
> +	 /* Check that struct page is either 56, 64, 72, or 80 bytes */
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) & 7);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) < 56);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) > 80);
> +
> +	switch (sizeof(struct page)) {
> +	case 80:
> +		_pp[9] = 0;	/* fallthrough */
> +	case 72:
> +		_pp[8] = 0;	/* fallthrough */
> +	default:
> +		_pp[7] = 0;	/* fallthrough */
> +	case 56:
> +		_pp[6] = 0;
> +		_pp[5] = 0;
> +		_pp[4] = 0;
> +		_pp[3] = 0;
> +		_pp[2] = 0;
> +		_pp[1] = 0;
> +		_pp[0] = 0;
> +	}

This just hit my eyes. I have to confess I have never seen default: to
be not the last one in the switch. Can we have case 64 instead or does gcc
complain? I would be surprised with the set of BUILD_BUG_ONs.

> +}
> +#else
>  #define mm_zero_struct_page(pp)  ((void)memset((pp), 0, sizeof(struct page)))
>  #endif
> +#endif
>  
>  /*
>   * Default maximum number of active map areas, this limits the number of vmas
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs