Dev Jain 94dab12d86 mm: call pointers to ptes as ptep
Patch series "Optimize mremap() for large folios", v4.

Currently move_ptes() iterates through ptes one by one.  If the underlying
folio mapped by the ptes is large, we can process those ptes in a batch
using folio_pte_batch(), thus clearing and setting the PTEs in one go. 
For arm64 specifically, this results in a 16x reduction in the number of
ptep_get() calls (since on a contig block, ptep_get() on arm64 will
iterate through all 16 entries to collect a/d bits), and we also elide
extra TLBIs through get_and_clear_full_ptes, replacing ptep_get_and_clear.

Mapping 1M of memory with 64K folios, memsetting it, remapping it to src +
1M, and munmapping it 10,000 times, the average execution time reduces
from 1.9 to 1.2 seconds, giving a 37% performance optimization, on Apple
M3 (arm64).  No regression is observed for small folios.

Test program for reference:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

#define SIZE (1UL << 20) // 1M

int main(void) {
    void *new_addr, *addr;

    for (int i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) {
        addr = mmap((void *)(1UL << 30), SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                    MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
                perror("mmap");
                return 1;
        }
        memset(addr, 0xAA, SIZE);

        new_addr = mremap(addr, SIZE, SIZE, MREMAP_MAYMOVE | MREMAP_FIXED, addr + SIZE);
        if (new_addr != (addr + SIZE)) {
                perror("mremap");
                return 1;
        }
        munmap(new_addr, SIZE);
    }

}


This patch (of 2):

Avoid confusion between pte_t* and pte_t data types by suffixing pointer
type variables with p.  No functional change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610035043.75448-1-dev.jain@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610035043.75448-2-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Bang Li <libang.li@antgroup.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: bibo mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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