* [PATCH] Put modules into linear mapping
@ 2002-09-27 14:09 Andi Kleen
2002-09-27 14:43 ` Roman Zippel
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From: Andi Kleen @ 2002-09-27 14:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel, torvalds
Now that kksymoops is in this can be safely merged:
In some cases there is a benchmarkable difference (in the several percent
range) between a compiled in driver and a modular driver. The reason is
the compiled in driver is mapped in 2/4MB pages in the direct mapping,
while modules are mapped wit 4K pages in the vmalloc area. The resulting
TLB misses can make that much difference.
This patch fixes it by just putting the modules into the linear mapping
if possible. This needs unfragmented memory, but modules tend to be loaded
at bootup when there is still plenty of this. When it fails it just falls
back to vmalloc.
It has one drawback in that it makes the load address of modules much more
random than they were previously: you have a bigger chance that
the module is loaded somewhere else after reboot and then ksymoops wouldn't
be able to decode an module oops correctly anymore. With kksymoops this
shouldn't be a problem anymore, so it can be safely merged.
To avoid too much memory wastage it adds a new interface alloc_exact/free_exact
that allocates pages from the page allocator but doesn't round the area size
to the next power of two.
Variants of this patch have run successfully for several years in the -aa
kernels and in the SuSE kernels.
Patch for 2.5.38. Please apply.
-Andi
--- linux-2.5.38-work/include/linux/gfp.h-MODULE 2002-09-25 00:59:27.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.5.38-work/include/linux/gfp.h 2002-09-27 15:30:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -85,4 +85,7 @@
#define __free_page(page) __free_pages((page), 0)
#define free_page(addr) free_pages((addr),0)
+extern void *alloc_exact(unsigned int size);
+extern void free_exact(void * addr, unsigned int size);
+
#endif /* __LINUX_GFP_H */
--- linux-2.5.38-work/include/asm-i386/module.h-MODULE 2002-09-25 00:59:28.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.5.38-work/include/asm-i386/module.h 2002-09-27 15:30:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -3,9 +3,31 @@
/*
* This file contains the i386 architecture specific module code.
*/
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>
+
+/*
+ * Try to allocate in the linear large page mapping first to conserve
+ * TLB entries.
+ */
+static inline void *module_map(unsigned long size)
+{
+ void *p = alloc_exact(size);
+ if (!p)
+ p = vmalloc(size);
+ return p;
+}
+
+static inline void module_unmap (struct module *mod)
+{
+ unsigned long mptr = (unsigned long)mod;
+ if (mptr >= VMALLOC_START && mptr+mod->size <= VMALLOC_END)
+ vfree(mod);
+ else
+ free_exact(mod, mod->size);
+}
-#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
-#define module_unmap(x) vfree(x)
#define module_arch_init(x) (0)
#define arch_init_modules(x) do { } while (0)
--- linux-2.5.38-work/mm/page_alloc.c-MODULE 2002-09-25 00:59:29.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.5.38-work/mm/page_alloc.c 2002-09-27 15:34:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -464,6 +464,38 @@
__free_pages(virt_to_page(addr), order);
}
}
+
+void *alloc_exact(unsigned int size)
+{
+ struct page *p, *w;
+ int order = get_order(size);
+
+ p = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
+ if (p) {
+ struct page *end = p + (1UL << order);
+ for (w = p+1; w < end; ++w)
+ set_page_count(w, 1);
+ for (w = p + (size>>PAGE_SHIFT)+1; w < end; ++w)
+ __free_pages(w, 0);
+ return (void *) page_address(p);
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+void free_exact(void * addr, unsigned int size)
+{
+ struct page * w;
+ unsigned long mptr = (unsigned long) addr;
+ int sz;
+
+ w = virt_to_page(addr);
+ for (sz = size; sz > 0; sz -= PAGE_SIZE, ++w) {
+ if (atomic_read(&w->count) != 1)
+ BUG();
+ __free_pages(w, 0);
+ }
+}
/*
* Total amount of free (allocatable) RAM:
--- linux-2.5.38-work/kernel/ksyms.c-MODULE 2002-09-25 00:59:29.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.5.38-work/kernel/ksyms.c 2002-09-27 15:51:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_zeroed_page);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_cache_release);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__free_pages);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_exact);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_exact);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_pages);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(num_physpages);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_find_general_cachep);
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* Re: [PATCH] Put modules into linear mapping
2002-09-27 14:09 [PATCH] Put modules into linear mapping Andi Kleen
@ 2002-09-27 14:43 ` Roman Zippel
2002-09-27 15:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-28 13:47 ` Keith Owens
2 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Roman Zippel @ 2002-09-27 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andi Kleen; +Cc: linux-kernel, torvalds
Hi,
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> --- linux-2.5.38-work/include/asm-i386/module.h-MODULE 2002-09-25 00:59:28.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.5.38-work/include/asm-i386/module.h 2002-09-27 15:30:35.000000000 +0200
> +/*
> + * Try to allocate in the linear large page mapping first to conserve
> + * TLB entries.
> + */
> +static inline void *module_map(unsigned long size)
> +{
> + void *p = alloc_exact(size);
> + if (!p)
> + p = vmalloc(size);
> + return p;
> +}
Why is i386 only? This is generic code and other archs will benefit from
it as well (or at least it won't hurt).
$ grep module_map include/asm-*/*.h
include/asm-alpha/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-arm/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-cris/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-i386/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-ia64/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-m68k/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-mips/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-mips64/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-parisc/pgtable.h:#define module_map vmalloc
include/asm-ppc/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-ppc64/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-s390/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-s390x/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-sh/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-sparc/module.h:#define module_map(x) vmalloc(x)
include/asm-sparc64/module.h:extern void * module_map (unsigned long size);
include/asm-x86_64/module.h:extern void *module_map(unsigned long);
The x86_64 version is currently broken, as it uses vmalloc_area_pages
which doesn't exist anymore, but it did the same as vmalloc. The sparc64
version also looks like vmalloc reimplementation.
> +
> +void *alloc_exact(unsigned int size)
> +{
> + struct page *p, *w;
> + int order = get_order(size);
> +
> + p = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
Wouldn't it be better to add a gfp argument?
bye, Roman
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* Re: [PATCH] Put modules into linear mapping
2002-09-27 14:09 [PATCH] Put modules into linear mapping Andi Kleen
2002-09-27 14:43 ` Roman Zippel
@ 2002-09-27 15:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-28 13:47 ` Keith Owens
2 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2002-09-27 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andi Kleen; +Cc: linux-kernel, torvalds
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:09:30PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> + unsigned long mptr = (unsigned long)mod;
> + if (mptr >= VMALLOC_START && mptr+mod->size <= VMALLOC_END)
Any chance you could add is is_vmalloc() macro to vmalloc.h for this?
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* Re: [PATCH] Put modules into linear mapping
2002-09-27 14:09 [PATCH] Put modules into linear mapping Andi Kleen
2002-09-27 14:43 ` Roman Zippel
2002-09-27 15:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
@ 2002-09-28 13:47 ` Keith Owens
2 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Keith Owens @ 2002-09-28 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:09:30 +0200,
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>It has one drawback in that it makes the load address of modules much more
>random than they were previously: you have a bigger chance that
>the module is loaded somewhere else after reboot and then ksymoops wouldn't
>be able to decode an module oops correctly anymore. With kksymoops this
>shouldn't be a problem anymore, so it can be safely merged.
man insmod. See 'ksymoops assistance'. mkdir /var/log/ksymoops.
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