Update documentation about design, implementation and API usages
for page_frag.
CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
---
Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++-
include/linux/page_frag_cache.h | 250 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
mm/page_frag_cache.c | 26 +++-
3 files changed, 441 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
index 503ca6cdb804..7fd9398aca4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
==============
Page fragments
==============
@@ -40,4 +42,176 @@ page via a single call. The advantage to doing this is that it allows for
cleaning up the multiple references that were added to a page in order to
avoid calling get_page per allocation.
-Alexander Duyck, Nov 29, 2016.
+
+Architecture overview
+=====================
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+ +----------------------+
+ | page_frag API caller |
+ +----------------------+
+ |
+ |
+ v
+ +------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | request page fragment |
+ +------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | | |
+ | | |
+ | Cache not enough |
+ | | |
+ | +-----------------+ |
+ | | reuse old cache |--Usable-->|
+ | +-----------------+ |
+ | | |
+ | Not usable |
+ | | |
+ | v |
+ Cache empty +-----------------+ |
+ | | drain old cache | |
+ | +-----------------+ |
+ | | |
+ v_________________________________v |
+ | |
+ | |
+ _________________v_______________ |
+ | | Cache is enough
+ | | |
+ PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE | |
+ | | |
+ | PAGE_SIZE >= PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE |
+ v | |
+ +----------------------------------+ | |
+ | refill cache with order > 0 page | | |
+ +----------------------------------+ | |
+ | | | |
+ | | | |
+ | Refill failed | |
+ | | | |
+ | v v |
+ | +------------------------------------+ |
+ | | refill cache with order 0 page | |
+ | +----------------------------------=-+ |
+ | | |
+ Refill succeed | |
+ | Refill succeed |
+ | | |
+ v v v
+ +------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | allocate fragment from cache |
+ +------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+API interface
+=============
+As the design and implementation of page_frag API implies, the allocation side
+does not allow concurrent calling. Instead it is assumed that the caller must
+ensure there is not concurrent alloc calling to the same page_frag_cache
+instance by using its own lock or rely on some lockless guarantee like NAPI
+softirq.
+
+Depending on different aligning requirement, the page_frag API caller may call
+page_frag_*_align*() to ensure the returned virtual address or offset of the
+page is aligned according to the 'align/alignment' parameter. Note the size of
+the allocated fragment is not aligned, the caller needs to provide an aligned
+fragsz if there is an alignment requirement for the size of the fragment.
+
+Depending on different use cases, callers expecting to deal with va, page or
+both va and page for them may call page_frag_alloc, page_frag_refill, or
+page_frag_alloc_refill API accordingly.
+
+There is also a use case that needs minimum memory in order for forward progress,
+but more performant if more memory is available. Using page_frag_*_prepare() and
+page_frag_commit*() related API, the caller requests the minimum memory it needs
+and the prepare API will return the maximum size of the fragment returned. The
+caller needs to either call the commit API to report how much memory it actually
+uses, or not do so if deciding to not use any memory.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
+ :identifiers: page_frag_cache_init page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc
+ __page_frag_alloc_align page_frag_alloc_align page_frag_alloc
+ __page_frag_refill_align page_frag_refill_align
+ page_frag_refill __page_frag_refill_prepare_align
+ page_frag_refill_prepare_align page_frag_refill_prepare
+ __page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align
+ page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align
+ page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare page_frag_alloc_refill_probe
+ page_frag_refill_probe page_frag_commit
+ page_frag_commit_noref page_frag_alloc_abort
+
+.. kernel-doc:: mm/page_frag_cache.c
+ :identifiers: page_frag_cache_drain page_frag_free
+ __page_frag_alloc_refill_probe_align
+
+Coding examples
+===============
+
+Initialization and draining API
+-------------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ page_frag_cache_init(nc);
+ ...
+ page_frag_cache_drain(nc);
+
+
+Allocation & freeing API
+------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ void *va;
+
+ va = page_frag_alloc_align(nc, size, gfp, align);
+ if (!va)
+ goto do_error;
+
+ err = do_something(va, size);
+ if (err) {
+ page_frag_abort(nc, size);
+ goto do_error;
+ }
+
+ ...
+
+ page_frag_free(va);
+
+
+Preparation & committing API
+----------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ struct page_frag page_frag, *pfrag;
+ bool merge = true;
+ void *va;
+
+ pfrag = &page_frag;
+ va = page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare(nc, 32U, pfrag, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!va)
+ goto wait_for_space;
+
+ copy = min_t(unsigned int, copy, pfrag->size);
+ if (!skb_can_coalesce(skb, i, pfrag->page, pfrag->offset)) {
+ if (i >= max_skb_frags)
+ goto new_segment;
+
+ merge = false;
+ }
+
+ copy = mem_schedule(copy);
+ if (!copy)
+ goto wait_for_space;
+
+ err = copy_from_iter_full_nocache(va, copy, iter);
+ if (err)
+ goto do_error;
+
+ if (merge) {
+ skb_frag_size_add(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i - 1], copy);
+ page_frag_commit_noref(nc, pfrag, copy);
+ } else {
+ skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, pfrag->page, pfrag->offset, copy);
+ page_frag_commit(nc, pfrag, copy);
+ }
diff --git a/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h b/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
index 1c0c11250b66..806d4b8d4bed 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
@@ -28,11 +28,29 @@ static inline bool encoded_page_decode_pfmemalloc(unsigned long encoded_page)
return !!(encoded_page & PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_PFMEMALLOC_BIT);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_cache_init() - Init page_frag cache.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to init
+ *
+ * Inline helper to initialize the page_frag cache.
+ */
static inline void page_frag_cache_init(struct page_frag_cache *nc)
{
nc->encoded_page = 0;
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc() - Check for pfmemalloc.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to check
+ *
+ * Used to check if the current page in page_frag cache is allocated from the
+ * pfmemalloc reserves. It has the same calling context expectation as the
+ * allocation API.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * true if the current page in page_frag cache is allocated from the pfmemalloc
+ * reserves, otherwise return false.
+ */
static inline bool page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc(struct page_frag_cache *nc)
{
return encoded_page_decode_pfmemalloc(nc->encoded_page);
@@ -61,6 +79,19 @@ static inline unsigned int __page_frag_cache_commit(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return __page_frag_cache_commit_noref(nc, pfrag, used_sz);
}
+/**
+ * __page_frag_alloc_align() - Alloc a page fragment with aligning
+ * requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the 'va'
+ *
+ * Allocate a page fragment from page_frag cache with aligning requirement.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * Virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
+ */
static inline void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int align_mask)
@@ -78,6 +109,19 @@ static inline void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return va;
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_alloc_align() - Allocate a page fragment with aligning requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache needs to be refilled
+ * @align: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment
+ *
+ * WARN_ON_ONCE() checking for @align before allocating a page fragment from
+ * page_frag cache with aligning requirement.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
+ */
static inline void *page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int align)
@@ -86,12 +130,36 @@ static inline void *page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return __page_frag_alloc_align(nc, fragsz, gfp_mask, -align);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_alloc() - Allocate a page fragment.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ *
+ * Alloc a page fragment from page_frag cache.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
+ */
static inline void *page_frag_alloc(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
return __page_frag_alloc_align(nc, fragsz, gfp_mask, ~0u);
}
+/**
+ * __page_frag_refill_align() - Refill a page_frag with aligning requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment
+ *
+ * Refill a page_frag from page_frag cache with aligning requirement.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * True if refill succeeds, otherwise return false.
+ */
static inline bool __page_frag_refill_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -106,6 +174,20 @@ static inline bool __page_frag_refill_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return true;
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_refill_align() - Refill a page_frag with aligning requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache needs to be refilled
+ * @align: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment
+ *
+ * WARN_ON_ONCE() checking for @align before refilling a page_frag from
+ * page_frag cache with aligning requirement.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * True if refill succeeds, otherwise return false.
+ */
static inline bool page_frag_refill_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -115,6 +197,18 @@ static inline bool page_frag_refill_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return __page_frag_refill_align(nc, fragsz, pfrag, gfp_mask, -align);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_refill() - Refill a page_frag.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ *
+ * Refill a page_frag from page_frag cache.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * True if refill succeeds, otherwise return false.
+ */
static inline bool page_frag_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag, gfp_t gfp_mask)
@@ -122,6 +216,20 @@ static inline bool page_frag_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return __page_frag_refill_align(nc, fragsz, pfrag, gfp_mask, ~0u);
}
+/**
+ * __page_frag_refill_prepare_align() - Prepare refilling a page_frag with
+ * aligning requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment
+ *
+ * Prepare refill a page_frag from page_frag cache with aligning requirement.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * True if prepare refilling succeeds, otherwise return false.
+ */
static inline bool __page_frag_refill_prepare_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -132,6 +240,21 @@ static inline bool __page_frag_refill_prepare_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
align_mask);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_refill_prepare_align() - Prepare refilling a page_frag with
+ * aligning requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache needs to be refilled
+ * @align: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment
+ *
+ * WARN_ON_ONCE() checking for @align before prepare refilling a page_frag from
+ * page_frag cache with aligning requirement.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * True if prepare refilling succeeds, otherwise return false.
+ */
static inline bool page_frag_refill_prepare_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -143,6 +266,18 @@ static inline bool page_frag_refill_prepare_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
-align);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_refill_prepare() - Prepare refilling a page_frag.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ *
+ * Prepare refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * True if refill succeeds, otherwise return false.
+ */
static inline bool page_frag_refill_prepare(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -152,6 +287,20 @@ static inline bool page_frag_refill_prepare(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
~0u);
}
+/**
+ * __page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align() - Prepare allocating a fragment and
+ * refilling a page_frag with aligning requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate and refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment.
+ *
+ * Prepare allocating a fragment and refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
+ */
static inline void *__page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -161,6 +310,21 @@ static inline void *__page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align(struct page_frag_cach
return __page_frag_cache_prepare(nc, fragsz, pfrag, gfp_mask, align_mask);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align() - Prepare allocating a fragment and
+ * refilling a page_frag with aligning requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate and refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ * @align: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment.
+ *
+ * WARN_ON_ONCE() checking for @align before prepare allocating a fragment and
+ * refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
+ */
static inline void *page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -172,6 +336,19 @@ static inline void *page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align(struct page_frag_cache
gfp_mask, -align);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare() - Prepare allocating a fragment and
+ * refilling a page_frag.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate and refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
+ *
+ * Prepare allocating a fragment and refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
+ */
static inline void *page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -181,6 +358,18 @@ static inline void *page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
gfp_mask, ~0u);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_alloc_refill_probe() - Probe allocating a fragment and refilling
+ * a page_frag.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate and refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled
+ *
+ * Probe allocating a fragment and refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
+ */
static inline void *page_frag_alloc_refill_probe(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag)
@@ -188,6 +377,17 @@ static inline void *page_frag_alloc_refill_probe(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return __page_frag_alloc_refill_probe_align(nc, fragsz, pfrag, ~0u);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_refill_probe() - Probe refilling a page_frag.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled
+ *
+ * Probe refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * True if refill succeeds, otherwise return false.
+ */
static inline bool page_frag_refill_probe(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag)
@@ -195,20 +395,54 @@ static inline bool page_frag_refill_probe(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return !!page_frag_alloc_refill_probe(nc, fragsz, pfrag);
}
-static inline void page_frag_commit(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
- struct page_frag *pfrag,
- unsigned int used_sz)
+/**
+ * page_frag_commit - Commit a prepared page fragment.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to commit
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be committed
+ * @used_sz: size of the page fragment has been used
+ *
+ * Commit the actual used size for the allocation that was either prepared
+ * or probed.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * The true size of the fragment considering the offset alignment.
+ */
+static inline unsigned int page_frag_commit(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
+ struct page_frag *pfrag,
+ unsigned int used_sz)
{
- __page_frag_cache_commit(nc, pfrag, used_sz);
+ return __page_frag_cache_commit(nc, pfrag, used_sz);
}
-static inline void page_frag_commit_noref(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
- struct page_frag *pfrag,
- unsigned int used_sz)
+/**
+ * page_frag_commit_noref - Commit a prepared page fragment without taking
+ * page refcount.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to commit
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be committed
+ * @used_sz: size of the page fragment has been used
+ *
+ * Commit the prepared or probed fragment by passing the actual used size, but
+ * not taking refcount. Mostly used for fragmemt coalescing case when the
+ * current fragment can share the same refcount with previous fragment.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * The true size of the fragment considering the offset alignment.
+ */
+static inline unsigned int page_frag_commit_noref(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
+ struct page_frag *pfrag,
+ unsigned int used_sz)
{
- __page_frag_cache_commit_noref(nc, pfrag, used_sz);
+ return __page_frag_cache_commit_noref(nc, pfrag, used_sz);
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_alloc_abort - Abort the page fragment allocation.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache to which the page fragment is aborted back
+ * @fragsz: size of the page fragment to be aborted
+ *
+ * It is expected to be called from the same context as the allocation API.
+ * Mostly used for error handling cases where the fragment is no longer needed.
+ */
static inline void page_frag_alloc_abort(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz)
{
diff --git a/mm/page_frag_cache.c b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
index 5ea4b663ab8e..51f4eb4b2169 100644
--- a/mm/page_frag_cache.c
+++ b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ static struct page *__page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
return page;
}
+/**
+ * page_frag_cache_drain - Drain the current page from page_frag cache.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to drain
+ */
void page_frag_cache_drain(struct page_frag_cache *nc)
{
if (!nc->encoded_page)
@@ -112,6 +116,20 @@ unsigned int __page_frag_cache_commit_noref(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_frag_cache_commit_noref);
+/**
+ * __page_frag_alloc_refill_probe_align() - Probe allocing a fragment and
+ * refilling a page_frag with aligning requirement.
+ * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate and refill
+ * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
+ * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
+ * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment.
+ *
+ * Probe allocing a fragment and refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache with
+ * aligning requirement.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
+ */
void *__page_frag_alloc_refill_probe_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz,
struct page_frag *pfrag,
@@ -203,8 +221,12 @@ void *__page_frag_cache_prepare(struct page_frag_cache *nc, unsigned int fragsz,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_frag_cache_prepare);
-/*
- * Frees a page fragment allocated out of either a compound or order 0 page.
+/**
+ * page_frag_free - Free a page fragment.
+ * @addr: va of page fragment to be freed
+ *
+ * Free a page fragment allocated out of either a compound or order 0 page by
+ * virtual address.
*/
void page_frag_free(void *addr)
{
--
2.33.0On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 06:53:50PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
> index 503ca6cdb804..7fd9398aca4e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> ==============
> Page fragments
> ==============
> @@ -40,4 +42,176 @@ page via a single call. The advantage to doing this is that it allows for
> cleaning up the multiple references that were added to a page in order to
> avoid calling get_page per allocation.
>
> -Alexander Duyck, Nov 29, 2016.
> +
> +Architecture overview
> +=====================
> +
> +.. code-block:: none
> +
> + +----------------------+
> + | page_frag API caller |
> + +----------------------+
> + |
> + |
> + v
> + +------------------------------------------------------------------+
> + | request page fragment |
> + +------------------------------------------------------------------+
> + | | |
> + | | |
> + | Cache not enough |
> + | | |
> + | +-----------------+ |
> + | | reuse old cache |--Usable-->|
> + | +-----------------+ |
> + | | |
> + | Not usable |
> + | | |
> + | v |
> + Cache empty +-----------------+ |
> + | | drain old cache | |
> + | +-----------------+ |
> + | | |
> + v_________________________________v |
> + | |
> + | |
> + _________________v_______________ |
> + | | Cache is enough
> + | | |
> + PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE | |
> + | | |
> + | PAGE_SIZE >= PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE |
> + v | |
> + +----------------------------------+ | |
> + | refill cache with order > 0 page | | |
> + +----------------------------------+ | |
> + | | | |
> + | | | |
> + | Refill failed | |
> + | | | |
> + | v v |
> + | +------------------------------------+ |
> + | | refill cache with order 0 page | |
> + | +----------------------------------=-+ |
> + | | |
> + Refill succeed | |
> + | Refill succeed |
> + | | |
> + v v v
> + +------------------------------------------------------------------+
> + | allocate fragment from cache |
> + +------------------------------------------------------------------+
> +
> +API interface
> +=============
> +As the design and implementation of page_frag API implies, the allocation side
> +does not allow concurrent calling. Instead it is assumed that the caller must
> +ensure there is not concurrent alloc calling to the same page_frag_cache
> +instance by using its own lock or rely on some lockless guarantee like NAPI
> +softirq.
> +
> +Depending on different aligning requirement, the page_frag API caller may call
> +page_frag_*_align*() to ensure the returned virtual address or offset of the
> +page is aligned according to the 'align/alignment' parameter. Note the size of
> +the allocated fragment is not aligned, the caller needs to provide an aligned
> +fragsz if there is an alignment requirement for the size of the fragment.
> +
> +Depending on different use cases, callers expecting to deal with va, page or
> +both va and page for them may call page_frag_alloc, page_frag_refill, or
> +page_frag_alloc_refill API accordingly.
> +
> +There is also a use case that needs minimum memory in order for forward progress,
> +but more performant if more memory is available. Using page_frag_*_prepare() and
> +page_frag_commit*() related API, the caller requests the minimum memory it needs
> +and the prepare API will return the maximum size of the fragment returned. The
> +caller needs to either call the commit API to report how much memory it actually
> +uses, or not do so if deciding to not use any memory.
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
> + :identifiers: page_frag_cache_init page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc
> + __page_frag_alloc_align page_frag_alloc_align page_frag_alloc
> + __page_frag_refill_align page_frag_refill_align
> + page_frag_refill __page_frag_refill_prepare_align
> + page_frag_refill_prepare_align page_frag_refill_prepare
> + __page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align
> + page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align
> + page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare page_frag_alloc_refill_probe
> + page_frag_refill_probe page_frag_commit
> + page_frag_commit_noref page_frag_alloc_abort
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: mm/page_frag_cache.c
> + :identifiers: page_frag_cache_drain page_frag_free
> + __page_frag_alloc_refill_probe_align
> +
> +Coding examples
> +===============
> +
> +Initialization and draining API
> +-------------------------------
> +
> +.. code-block:: c
> +
> + page_frag_cache_init(nc);
> + ...
> + page_frag_cache_drain(nc);
> +
> +
> +Allocation & freeing API
> +------------------------
> +
> +.. code-block:: c
> +
> + void *va;
> +
> + va = page_frag_alloc_align(nc, size, gfp, align);
> + if (!va)
> + goto do_error;
> +
> + err = do_something(va, size);
> + if (err) {
> + page_frag_abort(nc, size);
> + goto do_error;
> + }
> +
> + ...
> +
> + page_frag_free(va);
> +
> +
> +Preparation & committing API
> +----------------------------
> +
> +.. code-block:: c
> +
> + struct page_frag page_frag, *pfrag;
> + bool merge = true;
> + void *va;
> +
> + pfrag = &page_frag;
> + va = page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare(nc, 32U, pfrag, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!va)
> + goto wait_for_space;
> +
> + copy = min_t(unsigned int, copy, pfrag->size);
> + if (!skb_can_coalesce(skb, i, pfrag->page, pfrag->offset)) {
> + if (i >= max_skb_frags)
> + goto new_segment;
> +
> + merge = false;
> + }
> +
> + copy = mem_schedule(copy);
> + if (!copy)
> + goto wait_for_space;
> +
> + err = copy_from_iter_full_nocache(va, copy, iter);
> + if (err)
> + goto do_error;
> +
> + if (merge) {
> + skb_frag_size_add(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i - 1], copy);
> + page_frag_commit_noref(nc, pfrag, copy);
> + } else {
> + skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, pfrag->page, pfrag->offset, copy);
> + page_frag_commit(nc, pfrag, copy);
> + }
Looks good.
> +/**
> + * page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc() - Check for pfmemalloc.
> + * @nc: page_frag cache from which to check
> + *
> + * Used to check if the current page in page_frag cache is allocated from the
"Check if ..."
> + * pfmemalloc reserves. It has the same calling context expectation as the
> + * allocation API.
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * true if the current page in page_frag cache is allocated from the pfmemalloc
> + * reserves, otherwise return false.
> + */
> <snipped>...
> +/**
> + * page_frag_alloc() - Allocate a page fragment.
> + * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate
> + * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
> + * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
> + *
> + * Alloc a page fragment from page_frag cache.
"Allocate a page fragment ..."
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
> + */
> static inline void *page_frag_alloc(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
> <snipped>...
> +/**
> + * __page_frag_refill_prepare_align() - Prepare refilling a page_frag with
> + * aligning requirement.
> + * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
> + * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
> + * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
> + * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
> + * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment
> + *
> + * Prepare refill a page_frag from page_frag cache with aligning requirement.
"Prepare refilling ..."
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * True if prepare refilling succeeds, otherwise return false.
> + */
> <snipped>...
> +/**
> + * __page_frag_alloc_refill_probe_align() - Probe allocing a fragment and
> + * refilling a page_frag with aligning requirement.
> + * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate and refill
> + * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
> + * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
> + * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment.
> + *
> + * Probe allocing a fragment and refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache with
"Probe allocating..."
> + * aligning requirement.
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
> + */
Thanks.
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On 2024/10/20 18:02, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
Thanks, will try my best to not miss any 'alloc' typo for doc patch
next version:(
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 06:53:50PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
>> index 503ca6cdb804..7fd9398aca4e 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_frags.rst
>> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
>> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +
>> ==============
>> Page fragments
>> ==============
>> @@ -40,4 +42,176 @@ page via a single call. The advantage to doing this is that it allows for
>> cleaning up the multiple references that were added to a page in order to
>> avoid calling get_page per allocation.
>>
>> -Alexander Duyck, Nov 29, 2016.
>> +
>> +Architecture overview
>> +=====================
>> +
>> +.. code-block:: none
>> +
>> + +----------------------+
>> + | page_frag API caller |
>> + +----------------------+
>> + |
>> + |
>> + v
>> + +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> + | request page fragment |
>> + +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> + | | |
>> + | | |
>> + | Cache not enough |
>> + | | |
>> + | +-----------------+ |
>> + | | reuse old cache |--Usable-->|
>> + | +-----------------+ |
>> + | | |
>> + | Not usable |
>> + | | |
>> + | v |
>> + Cache empty +-----------------+ |
>> + | | drain old cache | |
>> + | +-----------------+ |
>> + | | |
>> + v_________________________________v |
>> + | |
>> + | |
>> + _________________v_______________ |
>> + | | Cache is enough
>> + | | |
>> + PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE | |
>> + | | |
>> + | PAGE_SIZE >= PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE |
>> + v | |
>> + +----------------------------------+ | |
>> + | refill cache with order > 0 page | | |
>> + +----------------------------------+ | |
>> + | | | |
>> + | | | |
>> + | Refill failed | |
>> + | | | |
>> + | v v |
>> + | +------------------------------------+ |
>> + | | refill cache with order 0 page | |
>> + | +----------------------------------=-+ |
>> + | | |
>> + Refill succeed | |
>> + | Refill succeed |
>> + | | |
>> + v v v
>> + +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> + | allocate fragment from cache |
>> + +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> +
>> +API interface
>> +=============
>> +As the design and implementation of page_frag API implies, the allocation side
>> +does not allow concurrent calling. Instead it is assumed that the caller must
>> +ensure there is not concurrent alloc calling to the same page_frag_cache
>> +instance by using its own lock or rely on some lockless guarantee like NAPI
>> +softirq.
>> +
>> +Depending on different aligning requirement, the page_frag API caller may call
>> +page_frag_*_align*() to ensure the returned virtual address or offset of the
>> +page is aligned according to the 'align/alignment' parameter. Note the size of
>> +the allocated fragment is not aligned, the caller needs to provide an aligned
>> +fragsz if there is an alignment requirement for the size of the fragment.
>> +
>> +Depending on different use cases, callers expecting to deal with va, page or
>> +both va and page for them may call page_frag_alloc, page_frag_refill, or
>> +page_frag_alloc_refill API accordingly.
>> +
>> +There is also a use case that needs minimum memory in order for forward progress,
>> +but more performant if more memory is available. Using page_frag_*_prepare() and
>> +page_frag_commit*() related API, the caller requests the minimum memory it needs
>> +and the prepare API will return the maximum size of the fragment returned. The
>> +caller needs to either call the commit API to report how much memory it actually
>> +uses, or not do so if deciding to not use any memory.
>> +
>> +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
>> + :identifiers: page_frag_cache_init page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc
>> + __page_frag_alloc_align page_frag_alloc_align page_frag_alloc
>> + __page_frag_refill_align page_frag_refill_align
>> + page_frag_refill __page_frag_refill_prepare_align
>> + page_frag_refill_prepare_align page_frag_refill_prepare
>> + __page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align
>> + page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare_align
>> + page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare page_frag_alloc_refill_probe
>> + page_frag_refill_probe page_frag_commit
>> + page_frag_commit_noref page_frag_alloc_abort
>> +
>> +.. kernel-doc:: mm/page_frag_cache.c
>> + :identifiers: page_frag_cache_drain page_frag_free
>> + __page_frag_alloc_refill_probe_align
>> +
>> +Coding examples
>> +===============
>> +
>> +Initialization and draining API
>> +-------------------------------
>> +
>> +.. code-block:: c
>> +
>> + page_frag_cache_init(nc);
>> + ...
>> + page_frag_cache_drain(nc);
>> +
>> +
>> +Allocation & freeing API
>> +------------------------
>> +
>> +.. code-block:: c
>> +
>> + void *va;
>> +
>> + va = page_frag_alloc_align(nc, size, gfp, align);
>> + if (!va)
>> + goto do_error;
>> +
>> + err = do_something(va, size);
>> + if (err) {
>> + page_frag_abort(nc, size);
>> + goto do_error;
>> + }
>> +
>> + ...
>> +
>> + page_frag_free(va);
>> +
>> +
>> +Preparation & committing API
>> +----------------------------
>> +
>> +.. code-block:: c
>> +
>> + struct page_frag page_frag, *pfrag;
>> + bool merge = true;
>> + void *va;
>> +
>> + pfrag = &page_frag;
>> + va = page_frag_alloc_refill_prepare(nc, 32U, pfrag, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + if (!va)
>> + goto wait_for_space;
>> +
>> + copy = min_t(unsigned int, copy, pfrag->size);
>> + if (!skb_can_coalesce(skb, i, pfrag->page, pfrag->offset)) {
>> + if (i >= max_skb_frags)
>> + goto new_segment;
>> +
>> + merge = false;
>> + }
>> +
>> + copy = mem_schedule(copy);
>> + if (!copy)
>> + goto wait_for_space;
>> +
>> + err = copy_from_iter_full_nocache(va, copy, iter);
>> + if (err)
>> + goto do_error;
>> +
>> + if (merge) {
>> + skb_frag_size_add(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i - 1], copy);
>> + page_frag_commit_noref(nc, pfrag, copy);
>> + } else {
>> + skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, pfrag->page, pfrag->offset, copy);
>> + page_frag_commit(nc, pfrag, copy);
>> + }
>
> Looks good.
>
>> +/**
>> + * page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc() - Check for pfmemalloc.
>> + * @nc: page_frag cache from which to check
>> + *
>> + * Used to check if the current page in page_frag cache is allocated from the
> "Check if ..."
>> + * pfmemalloc reserves. It has the same calling context expectation as the
>> + * allocation API.
>> + *
>> + * Return:
>> + * true if the current page in page_frag cache is allocated from the pfmemalloc
>> + * reserves, otherwise return false.
>> + */
>> <snipped>...
>> +/**
>> + * page_frag_alloc() - Allocate a page fragment.
>> + * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate
>> + * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
>> + * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
>> + *
>> + * Alloc a page fragment from page_frag cache.
> "Allocate a page fragment ..."
>> + *
>> + * Return:
>> + * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
>> + */
>> static inline void *page_frag_alloc(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
>> <snipped>...
>> +/**
>> + * __page_frag_refill_prepare_align() - Prepare refilling a page_frag with
>> + * aligning requirement.
>> + * @nc: page_frag cache from which to refill
>> + * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
>> + * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
>> + * @gfp_mask: the allocation gfp to use when cache need to be refilled
>> + * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment
>> + *
>> + * Prepare refill a page_frag from page_frag cache with aligning requirement.
> "Prepare refilling ..."
>> + *
>> + * Return:
>> + * True if prepare refilling succeeds, otherwise return false.
>> + */
>> <snipped>...
>> +/**
>> + * __page_frag_alloc_refill_probe_align() - Probe allocing a fragment and
>> + * refilling a page_frag with aligning requirement.
>> + * @nc: page_frag cache from which to allocate and refill
>> + * @fragsz: the requested fragment size
>> + * @pfrag: the page_frag to be refilled.
>> + * @align_mask: the requested aligning requirement for the fragment.
>> + *
>> + * Probe allocing a fragment and refilling a page_frag from page_frag cache with
> "Probe allocating..."
>> + * aligning requirement.
>> + *
>> + * Return:
>> + * virtual address of the page fragment, otherwise return NULL.
>> + */
>
> Thanks.
>
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