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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/ksm.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/ksm.c | 68 |
2 files changed, 79 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt b/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt index f34a8ee6f860..0c64a81d6808 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt @@ -80,6 +80,20 @@ run - set 0 to stop ksmd from running but keep merged pages, Default: 0 (must be changed to 1 to activate KSM, except if CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled) +use_zero_pages - specifies whether empty pages (i.e. allocated pages + that only contain zeroes) should be treated specially. + When set to 1, empty pages are merged with the kernel + zero page(s) instead of with each other as it would + happen normally. This can improve the performance on + architectures with coloured zero pages, depending on + the workload. Care should be taken when enabling this + setting, as it can potentially degrade the performance + of KSM for some workloads, for example if the checksums + of pages candidate for merging match the checksum of + an empty page. This setting can be changed at any time, + it is only effective for pages merged after the change. + Default: 0 (normal KSM behaviour as in earlier releases) + The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: pages_shared - how many shared pages are being used @@ -223,6 +223,12 @@ static unsigned int ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = 100; /* Milliseconds ksmd should sleep between batches */ static unsigned int ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs = 20; +/* Checksum of an empty (zeroed) page */ +static unsigned int zero_checksum __read_mostly; + +/* Whether to merge empty (zeroed) pages with actual zero pages */ +static bool ksm_use_zero_pages __read_mostly; + #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA /* Zeroed when merging across nodes is not allowed */ static unsigned int ksm_merge_across_nodes = 1; @@ -926,6 +932,7 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; pmd_t *pmd; pte_t *ptep; + pte_t newpte; spinlock_t *ptl; unsigned long addr; int err = -EFAULT; @@ -950,12 +957,22 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, goto out_mn; } - get_page(kpage); - page_add_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr, false); + /* + * No need to check ksm_use_zero_pages here: we can only have a + * zero_page here if ksm_use_zero_pages was enabled alreaady. + */ + if (!is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(kpage))) { + get_page(kpage); + page_add_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr, false); + newpte = mk_pte(kpage, vma->vm_page_prot); + } else { + newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(kpage), + vma->vm_page_prot)); + } flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(*ptep)); ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, addr, ptep); - set_pte_at_notify(mm, addr, ptep, mk_pte(kpage, vma->vm_page_prot)); + set_pte_at_notify(mm, addr, ptep, newpte); page_remove_rmap(page, false); if (!page_mapped(page)) @@ -1467,6 +1484,23 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item) return; } + /* + * Same checksum as an empty page. We attempt to merge it with the + * appropriate zero page if the user enabled this via sysfs. + */ + if (ksm_use_zero_pages && (checksum == zero_checksum)) { + struct vm_area_struct *vma; + + vma = find_mergeable_vma(rmap_item->mm, rmap_item->address); + err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page, + ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address)); + /* + * In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we + * need to continue. Otherwise we're done. + */ + if (!err) + return; + } tree_rmap_item = unstable_tree_search_insert(rmap_item, page, &tree_page); if (tree_rmap_item) { @@ -2233,6 +2267,28 @@ static ssize_t merge_across_nodes_store(struct kobject *kobj, KSM_ATTR(merge_across_nodes); #endif +static ssize_t use_zero_pages_show(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) +{ + return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", ksm_use_zero_pages); +} +static ssize_t use_zero_pages_store(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count) +{ + int err; + bool value; + + err = kstrtobool(buf, &value); + if (err) + return -EINVAL; + + ksm_use_zero_pages = value; + + return count; +} +KSM_ATTR(use_zero_pages); + static ssize_t pages_shared_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) { @@ -2290,6 +2346,7 @@ static struct attribute *ksm_attrs[] = { #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA &merge_across_nodes_attr.attr, #endif + &use_zero_pages_attr.attr, NULL, }; @@ -2304,6 +2361,11 @@ static int __init ksm_init(void) struct task_struct *ksm_thread; int err; + /* The correct value depends on page size and endianness */ + zero_checksum = calc_checksum(ZERO_PAGE(0)); + /* Default to false for backwards compatibility */ + ksm_use_zero_pages = false; + err = ksm_slab_init(); if (err) goto out; |
