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arm64, mm: avoid always making PTE dirty in pte_mkwrite()
Current pte_mkwrite_novma() makes PTE dirty unconditionally. This may mark some pages that are never written dirty wrongly. For example, do_swap_page() may map the exclusive pages with writable and clean PTEs if the VMA is writable and the page fault is for read access. However, current pte_mkwrite_novma() implementation always dirties the PTE. This may cause unnecessary disk writing if the pages are never written before being reclaimed. So, change pte_mkwrite_novma() to clear the PTE_RDONLY bit only if the PTE_DIRTY bit is set to make it possible to make the PTE writable and clean. The current behavior was introduced in commit 73e86cb ("arm64: Move PTE_RDONLY bit handling out of set_pte_at()"). Before that, pte_mkwrite() only sets the PTE_WRITE bit, while set_pte_at() only clears the PTE_RDONLY bit if both the PTE_WRITE and the PTE_DIRTY bits are set. To test the performance impact of the patch, on an arm64 server machine, run 16 redis-server processes on socket 1 and 16 memtier_benchmark processes on socket 0 with mostly get transactions (that is, redis-server will mostly read memory only). The memory footprint of redis-server is larger than the available memory, so swap out/in will be triggered. Test results show that the patch can avoid most swapping out because the pages are mostly clean. And the benchmark throughput improves ~23.9% in the test. Fixes: 73e86cb ("arm64: Move PTE_RDONLY bit handling out of set_pte_at()") Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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@@ -293,7 +293,8 @@ static inline pmd_t set_pmd_bit(pmd_t pmd, pgprot_t prot)
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static inline pte_t pte_mkwrite_novma(pte_t pte)
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{
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pte = set_pte_bit(pte, __pgprot(PTE_WRITE));
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pte = clear_pte_bit(pte, __pgprot(PTE_RDONLY));
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if (pte_sw_dirty(pte))
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pte = clear_pte_bit(pte, __pgprot(PTE_RDONLY));
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return pte;
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}
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