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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/vm/vmemmap_dedup.rst deleted file mode 100644 index c9c495f62d12..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/vm/vmemmap_dedup.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,223 +0,0 @@ -.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 - -========================================= -A vmemmap diet for HugeTLB and Device DAX -========================================= - -HugeTLB -======= - -The struct page structures (page structs) are used to describe a physical -page frame. By default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to -it's corresponding page struct. - -HugeTLB pages consist of multiple base page size pages and is supported by many -architectures. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for more -details. On the x86-64 architecture, HugeTLB pages of size 2MB and 1GB are -currently supported. Since the base page size on x86 is 4KB, a 2MB HugeTLB page -consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 4096 base pages. -For each base page, there is a corresponding page struct. - -Within the HugeTLB subsystem, only the first 4 page structs are used to -contain unique information about a HugeTLB page. __NR_USED_SUBPAGE provides -this upper limit. The only 'useful' information in the remaining page structs -is the compound_head field, and this field is the same for all tail pages. - -By removing redundant page structs for HugeTLB pages, memory can be returned -to the buddy allocator for other uses. - -Different architectures support different HugeTLB pages. For example, the -following table is the HugeTLB page size supported by x86 and arm64 -architectures. Because arm64 supports 4k, 16k, and 64k base pages and -supports contiguous entries, so it supports many kinds of sizes of HugeTLB -page. - -+--------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------+ -| Architecture | Page Size | HugeTLB Page Size | -+--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ -| x86-64 | 4KB | 2MB | 1GB | | | -+--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ -| | 4KB | 64KB | 2MB | 32MB | 1GB | -| +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ -| arm64 | 16KB | 2MB | 32MB | 1GB | | -| +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ -| | 64KB | 2MB | 512MB | 16GB | | -+--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ - -When the system boot up, every HugeTLB page has more than one struct page -structs which size is (unit: pages):: - - struct_size = HugeTLB_Size / PAGE_SIZE * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE - -Where HugeTLB_Size is the size of the HugeTLB page. We know that the size -of the HugeTLB page is always n times PAGE_SIZE. So we can get the following -relationship:: - - HugeTLB_Size = n * PAGE_SIZE - -Then:: - - struct_size = n * PAGE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE - = n * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE - -We can use huge mapping at the pud/pmd level for the HugeTLB page. - -For the HugeTLB page of the pmd level mapping, then:: - - struct_size = n * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE - = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pte_t) * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE - = sizeof(struct page) / sizeof(pte_t) - = 64 / 8 - = 8 (pages) - -Where n is how many pte entries which one page can contains. So the value of -n is (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pte_t)). - -This optimization only supports 64-bit system, so the value of sizeof(pte_t) -is 8. And this optimization also applicable only when the size of struct page -is a power of two. In most cases, the size of struct page is 64 bytes (e.g. -x86-64 and arm64). So if we use pmd level mapping for a HugeTLB page, the -size of struct page structs of it is 8 page frames which size depends on the -size of the base page. - -For the HugeTLB page of the pud level mapping, then:: - - struct_size = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pmd_t) * struct_size(pmd) - = PAGE_SIZE / 8 * 8 (pages) - = PAGE_SIZE (pages) - -Where the struct_size(pmd) is the size of the struct page structs of a -HugeTLB page of the pmd level mapping. - -E.g.: A 2MB HugeTLB page on x86_64 consists in 8 page frames while 1GB -HugeTLB page consists in 4096. - -Next, we take the pmd level mapping of the HugeTLB page as an example to -show the internal implementation of this optimization. There are 8 pages -struct page structs associated with a HugeTLB page which is pmd mapped. - -Here is how things look before optimization:: - - HugeTLB struct pages(8 pages) page frame(8 pages) - +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ - | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 2 | -------------> | 2 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 3 | -------------> | 3 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 4 | -------------> | 4 | - | PMD | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | level | | 5 | -------------> | 5 | - | mapping | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 6 | -------------> | 6 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 7 | -------------> | 7 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | - | | - | | - +-----------+ - -The value of page->compound_head is the same for all tail pages. The first -page of page structs (page 0) associated with the HugeTLB page contains the 4 -page structs necessary to describe the HugeTLB. The only use of the remaining -pages of page structs (page 1 to page 7) is to point to page->compound_head. -Therefore, we can remap pages 1 to 7 to page 0. Only 1 page of page structs -will be used for each HugeTLB page. This will allow us to free the remaining -7 pages to the buddy allocator. - -Here is how things look after remapping:: - - HugeTLB struct pages(8 pages) page frame(8 pages) - +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ - | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 1 | ---------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - | | +-----------+ | | | | | | - | | | 2 | -----------------+ | | | | | - | | +-----------+ | | | | | - | | | 3 | -------------------+ | | | | - | | +-----------+ | | | | - | | | 4 | ---------------------+ | | | - | PMD | +-----------+ | | | - | level | | 5 | -----------------------+ | | - | mapping | +-----------+ | | - | | | 6 | -------------------------+ | - | | +-----------+ | - | | | 7 | ---------------------------+ - | | +-----------+ - | | - | | - | | - +-----------+ - -When a HugeTLB is freed to the buddy system, we should allocate 7 pages for -vmemmap pages and restore the previous mapping relationship. - -For the HugeTLB page of the pud level mapping. It is similar to the former. -We also can use this approach to free (PAGE_SIZE - 1) vmemmap pages. - -Apart from the HugeTLB page of the pmd/pud level mapping, some architectures -(e.g. aarch64) provides a contiguous bit in the translation table entries -that hints to the MMU to indicate that it is one of a contiguous set of -entries that can be cached in a single TLB entry. - -The contiguous bit is used to increase the mapping size at the pmd and pte -(last) level. So this type of HugeTLB page can be optimized only when its -size of the struct page structs is greater than 1 page. - -Notice: The head vmemmap page is not freed to the buddy allocator and all -tail vmemmap pages are mapped to the head vmemmap page frame. So we can see -more than one struct page struct with PG_head (e.g. 8 per 2 MB HugeTLB page) -associated with each HugeTLB page. The compound_head() can handle this -correctly (more details refer to the comment above compound_head()). - -Device DAX -========== - -The device-dax interface uses the same tail deduplication technique explained -in the previous chapter, except when used with the vmemmap in -the device (altmap). - -The following page sizes are supported in DAX: PAGE_SIZE (4K on x86_64), -PMD_SIZE (2M on x86_64) and PUD_SIZE (1G on x86_64). - -The differences with HugeTLB are relatively minor. - -It only use 3 page structs for storing all information as opposed -to 4 on HugeTLB pages. - -There's no remapping of vmemmap given that device-dax memory is not part of -System RAM ranges initialized at boot. Thus the tail page deduplication -happens at a later stage when we populate the sections. HugeTLB reuses the -the head vmemmap page representing, whereas device-dax reuses the tail -vmemmap page. This results in only half of the savings compared to HugeTLB. - -Deduplicated tail pages are not mapped read-only. - -Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated:: - - +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ - | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 | - | | +-----------+ +-----------+ - | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - | | +-----------+ | | | | | - | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | | - | | +-----------+ | | | | - | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | | - | PMD | +-----------+ | | | - | level | | 5 | ----------------------+ | | - | mapping | +-----------+ | | - | | | 6 | ------------------------+ | - | | +-----------+ | - | | | 7 | --------------------------+ - | | +-----------+ - | | - | | - | | - +-----------+ |