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Commit d7c0e68d authored by David Hildenbrand's avatar David Hildenbrand Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/ksm: convert break_ksm() to use walk_page_range_vma()

FOLL_MIGRATION exists only for the purpose of break_ksm(), and actually,
there is not even the need to wait for the migration to finish, we only
want to know if we're dealing with a KSM page.

Using follow_page() just to identify a KSM page overcomplicates GUP code. 
Let's use walk_page_range_vma() instead, because we don't actually care
about the page itself, we only need to know a single property -- no need
to even grab a reference.

So, get rid of follow_page() usage such that we can get rid of
FOLL_MIGRATION now and eventually be able to get rid of follow_page() in
the future.

In my setup (AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge
performance on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in
a performance degradation of ~2% (old: ~5010 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s).  I
don't think we particularly care for now.

Interestingly, the benchmark reduction is due to the single callback. 
Adding a second callback (e.g., pud_entry()) reduces the benchmark by
another 100-200 MiB/s.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-9-david@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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