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Commit5c0a85fad9("mm: make faultaround produce old ptes") changed the "faultaround" behaviour to initialise prefaulted PTEs as 'old', since this avoids vmscan wrongly assuming that they are hot, despite having never been explicitly accessed by userspace. The change has been shown to benefit numerous arm64 micro-architectures (with hardware access flag) running Android, where both application launch latency and direct reclaim time are significantly reduced (by 10%+ and ~80% respectively). Unfortunately, commit315d09bf30("Revert "mm: make faultaround produce old ptes"") reverted the change due to it being identified as the cause of a ~6% regression in unixbench on x86. Experiments on a variety of recent arm64 micro-architectures indicate that unixbench is not affected by the original commit, which appears to yield a 0-1% performance improvement. Since one size does not fit all for the initial state of prefaulted PTEs, introduce arch_wants_old_prefaulted_pte(), which allows an architecture to opt-in to 'old' prefaulted PTEs at runtime based on whatever criteria it may have. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.