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Patch series "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory", v7.
Two checks in do_sync_mmap_readahead() limit large-folio readahead:
1. The mmap_miss heuristic is meant to throttle wasteful speculative
readahead. It is currently also applied to the VM_EXEC readahead
path, which is targeted rather than speculative. Once mmap_miss exceeds
MMAP_LOTSAMISS, exec readahead - including the large-folio
order requested by exec_folio_order() - is disabled. On
configurations where the mmap_miss decrement paths are not
active (see patch 1) the counter only grows, so exec readahead
is permanently disabled after the first 100 faults.
2. The force_thp_readahead path is gated only on
HPAGE_PMD_ORDER <= MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER and always drives the
readahead at HPAGE_PMD_ORDER. Configurations where
HPAGE_PMD_ORDER exceeds MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER never reach this
path, even when the mapping itself supports usefully large
folios well below the cap.
Both issues are most visible on arm64 with a 64K base page size, where
HPAGE_PMD_ORDER is 13 (512MB) -- above MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER (11) -- and
where fault_around_pages collapses to 1 disabling should_fault_around()
(one of the two mmap_miss decrement sites). However the fixes are
architecture-agnostic: patch 1 reflects the nature of VM_EXEC readahead
regardless of base page size, and patch 2 generalises the gate so any
mapping advertising a usefully large maximum folio order can benefit.
I created a benchmark that mmaps a large executable file madvises it as
huge and calls RET-stub functions at PAGE_SIZE offsets across it. "Cold"
measures fault + readahead cost. "Random" first faults in all pages with
a sequential sweep (not measured), then measures time for calling random
offsets, isolating iTLB miss cost for scattered execution.
The benchmark results on Neoverse V2 (Grace), arm64 with 64K base pages,
512MB executable file on ext4, averaged over 3 runs:
Phase | Baseline | Patched | Improvement
-----------|--------------|--------------|------------------
Cold fault | 83.4 ms | 41.3 ms | 50% faster
Random | 76.0 ms | 58.3 ms | 23% faster
This patch (of 2):
The mmap_miss heuristic is intended to stop speculative mmap readahead
when a file looks like a random-access workload. That does not fit the
VM_EXEC path very well.
VM_EXEC readahead is already constrained differently from ordinary mmap
read-around: it is bounded by the VMA, uses exec_folio_order() to choose
an order useful for executable mappings, and sets async_size to 0 so it
does not create follow-on readahead. When VM_HUGEPAGE is also present,
the larger readahead is an explicit userspace opt-in.
The mmap_miss counter is decremented from cache-hit paths in
do_async_mmap_readahead() and filemap_map_pages(). Those paths are not
always enough to balance the synchronous miss increments for executable
mappings. In particular, when fault-around is effectively disabled, such
as configurations where fault_around_pages is 1, filemap_map_pages() is
not reached from the fault path. The counter can then become a stale
throttle for VM_EXEC mappings and suppress the readahead behavior that the
executable-specific path is trying to provide.
Skip both mmap_miss increments and decrements for VM_EXEC mappings,
matching the existing VM_SEQ_READ treatment and keeping the counter
accounting symmetric.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260601102205.3985788-1-usama.arif@linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260601102205.3985788-2-usama.arif@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador (SUSE) <osalvador@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Heiher <r@hev.cc>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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