mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault

Protecting a PTE to trap a NUMA hinting fault clears the writable bit
and further faults are needed after trapping a NUMA hinting fault to set
the writable bit again.  This patch preserves the writable bit when
trapping NUMA hinting faults.  The impact is obvious from the number of
minor faults trapped during the basis balancing benchmark and the system
CPU usage;

  autonumabench
                                             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4
                                              baseline              preserve
  Time System-NUMA01                  107.13 (  0.00%)      103.13 (  3.73%)
  Time System-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL       131.87 (  0.00%)       83.30 ( 36.83%)
  Time System-NUMA02                    8.95 (  0.00%)       10.72 (-19.78%)
  Time System-NUMA02_SMT                4.57 (  0.00%)        3.99 ( 12.69%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA01                 515.78 (  0.00%)      517.26 ( -0.29%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL      384.10 (  0.00%)      384.31 ( -0.05%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA02                  48.86 (  0.00%)       48.78 (  0.16%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA02_SMT              47.98 (  0.00%)       48.12 ( -0.29%)

               4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4
                baseline    preserve
  User          44383.95    43971.89
  System          252.61      201.24
  Elapsed         998.68     1000.94

  Minor Faults   2597249     1981230
  Major Faults       365         364

There is a similar drop in system CPU usage using Dave Chinner's xfsrepair
workload

                                      4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4
                                       baseline              preserve
  Amean    real-xfsrepair      454.14 (  0.00%)      442.36 (  2.60%)
  Amean    syst-xfsrepair      277.20 (  0.00%)      204.68 ( 26.16%)

The patch looks hacky but the alternatives looked worse.  The tidest was
to rewalk the page tables after a hinting fault but it was more complex
than this approach and the performance was worse.  It's not generally
safe to just mark the page writable during the fault if it's a write
fault as it may have been read-only for COW so that approach was
discarded.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 20beb6647dba..d20e12da3a3c 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3035,6 +3035,7 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	int last_cpupid;
 	int target_nid;
 	bool migrated = false;
+	bool was_writable = pte_write(pte);
 	int flags = 0;
 
 	/* A PROT_NONE fault should not end up here */
@@ -3059,6 +3060,8 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	/* Make it present again */
 	pte = pte_modify(pte, vma->vm_page_prot);
 	pte = pte_mkyoung(pte);
+	if (was_writable)
+		pte = pte_mkwrite(pte);
 	set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, pte);
 	update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, ptep);
 
@@ -3075,11 +3078,6 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	 * to it but pte_write gets cleared during protection updates and
 	 * pte_dirty has unpredictable behaviour between PTE scan updates,
 	 * background writeback, dirty balancing and application behaviour.
-	 *
-	 * TODO: Note that the ideal here would be to avoid a situation where a
-	 * NUMA fault is taken immediately followed by a write fault in
-	 * some cases which would have lower overhead overall but would be
-	 * invasive as the fault paths would need to be unified.
 	 */
 	if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
 		flags |= TNF_NO_GROUP;