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Now follow_page() is ready to handle hugetlb pages in whatever form, and over all architectures. Switch to the generic code path. Time to retire hugetlb_follow_page_mask(), following the previous retirement of follow_hugetlb_page() in4849807114. There may be a slight difference of how the loops run when processing slow GUP over a large hugetlb range on cont_pte/cont_pmd supported archs: each loop of __get_user_pages() will resolve one pgtable entry with the patch applied, rather than relying on the size of hugetlb hstate, the latter may cover multiple entries in one loop. A quick performance test on an aarch64 VM on M1 chip shows 15% degrade over a tight loop of slow gup after the path switched. That shouldn't be a problem because slow-gup should not be a hot path for GUP in general: when page is commonly present, fast-gup will already succeed, while when the page is indeed missing and require a follow up page fault, the slow gup degrade will probably buried in the fault paths anyway. It also explains why slow gup for THP used to be very slow before57edfcfd34("mm/gup: accelerate thp gup even for "pages != NULL"") lands, the latter not part of a performance analysis but a side benefit. If the performance will be a concern, we can consider handle CONT_PTE in follow_page(). Before that is justified to be necessary, keep everything clean and simple. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240327152332.950956-14-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (IBM) <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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