[PATCH v3] powerpc/64s/radix: Enable huge vmalloc mappings

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Mon May 3 19:17:55 AEST 2021


This reduces TLB misses by nearly 30x on a `git diff` workload on a
2-node POWER9 (59,800 -> 2,100) and reduces CPU cycles by 0.54%, due
to vfs hashes being allocated with 2MB pages.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
Since v2:
- Fix ppc32 compile bug.

Since v1:
- Don't define MODULES_VADDR which has some other side effect (e.g.,
  ptdump).
- Fixed (hopefully) kbuild warning.
- Keep __vmalloc_node_range call on 3 lines.

 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt          |  2 ++
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                           |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c                   | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1c0a3cf6fcc9..1be38b25c485 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3250,6 +3250,8 @@
 
 	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
 
+	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
+
 	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
 			Equivalent to smt=1.
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 1e6230bea09d..c547a9d6a2dd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ config PPC
 	select GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
 	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP		if PPC_BOOK3S_64 && PPC_RADIX_MMU
+	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC		if HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN			if PPC32 && PPC_PAGE_SHIFT <= 14
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
index fab84024650c..3f35c8d20be7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/moduleloader.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <asm/module.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -88,17 +89,22 @@ int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#ifdef MODULES_VADDR
 static __always_inline void *
 __module_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
-	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, start, end, GFP_KERNEL,
-				    PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, NUMA_NO_NODE,
-				    __builtin_return_address(0));
+	/*
+	 * Don't do huge page allocations for modules yet until more testing
+	 * is done. STRICT_MODULE_RWX may require extra work to support this
+	 * too.
+	 */
+	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, start, end, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC,
+				    VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS | VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP,
+				    NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
 }
 
 void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
 {
+#ifdef MODULES_VADDR
 	unsigned long limit = (unsigned long)_etext - SZ_32M;
 	void *ptr = NULL;
 
@@ -112,5 +118,7 @@ void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
 		ptr = __module_alloc(size, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END);
 
 	return ptr;
-}
+#else
+	return __module_alloc(size, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END);
 #endif
+}
-- 
2.23.0



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