PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED and separate page flags for Head and Tail

Having separate page flags for the head and the tail of a compound page allows
the compiler to use bitops instead of operations on a word to check for a tail
page.  That is f.e.  important for virt_to_head_page() which is used in
various critical code paths (kfree for example):

Code for PageTail(page)

Before:

 mov    (%rdi),%rdx		page->flags
 mov    %rdx,%rax		3 bytes
 and    $0x12000,%eax		5 bytes
 cmp    $0x12000,%rax		6 bytes
 je     897 <kfree+0xa7>

After:

 mov    (%rdi),%rax
 test   $0x40,%ah			(3 bytes)
 jne    887 <kfree+0x97>

So we go from 14 bytes to 3 bytes and from 3 instructions to one.  From the
use of 2 registers we go to none.

We can only use page flags for this if we have page flags available.  This
patch introduces CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED that is set if pageflags are not
scarce due to SPARSEMEM using page flags for its sectionid on 32 bit NUMA
platforms.

Additional page flag definitions can be added to the CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
section in page-flags.h if the functionality depends on PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED or
if more page flag overlapping tricks are used for the !PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
fallback (the upcoming virtual compound patch may hook in here and Rik's/Lee's
additional page flags to solve the reclaim issues could also be added there
[hint...  hint...  where are these patchsets?]).

Avoiding the overlaying of Pg_reclaim also clears the way for possible use of
compound pages for the pagecache or on the LRU.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index d16efa9066d9..590cff32415d 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -83,7 +83,12 @@ enum pageflags {
 	PG_reserved,
 	PG_private,		/* If pagecache, has fs-private data */
 	PG_writeback,		/* Page is under writeback */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
+	PG_head,		/* A head page */
+	PG_tail,		/* A tail page */
+#else
 	PG_compound,		/* A compound page */
+#endif
 	PG_swapcache,		/* Swap page: swp_entry_t in private */
 	PG_mappedtodisk,	/* Has blocks allocated on-disk */
 	PG_reclaim,		/* To be reclaimed asap */
@@ -248,6 +253,28 @@ static inline void set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 	test_set_page_writeback(page);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
+/*
+ * System with lots of page flags available. This allows separate
+ * flags for PageHead() and PageTail() checks of compound pages so that bit
+ * tests can be used in performance sensitive paths. PageCompound is
+ * generally not used in hot code paths.
+ */
+__PAGEFLAG(Head, head)
+__PAGEFLAG(Tail, tail)
+
+static inline int PageCompound(struct page *page)
+{
+	return page->flags & ((1L << PG_head) | (1L << PG_tail));
+
+}
+#else
+/*
+ * Reduce page flag use as much as possible by overlapping
+ * compound page flags with the flags used for page cache pages. Possible
+ * because PageCompound is always set for compound pages and not for
+ * pages on the LRU and/or pagecache.
+ */
 TESTPAGEFLAG(Compound, compound)
 __PAGEFLAG(Head, compound)
 
@@ -278,5 +305,6 @@ static inline void __ClearPageTail(struct page *page)
 	page->flags &= ~PG_head_tail_mask;
 }
 
+#endif /* !PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED */
 #endif /* !__GENERATING_BOUNDS_H */
 #endif	/* PAGE_FLAGS_H */