On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 8:02 PM Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com> wrote:
>
> The main focus of these patches is to improve the performance of binder
> page installations, primarily by reducing contention on the mmap_lock.
> The idea is to allow concurrent page insertion by leveraging per-vma
> locking and get_user_pages_remote().
>
> Unfortunately, this required reverting the alloc->lock spinlock back
> into a mutex in order to serialize with the shrinker. At least until
> finding a better solution e.g. support page zapping with a spinlock.
> The trade off is still quite worth it though.
>
> Other patches are also included that remove unsafe and redundant things
> such as the alloc->vma pointer or the struct binder_lru_page concept.
>
> Note: I'll work on setting up a page fault handler for binder next.
> I believe an idea from Alice Ryhl to deferred the page insertions will
> make this finally feasible. I only need to figure out a few performance
> bits but if/when done most of the manual page insertion code in binder
> could be dropped. :)
>
> Changelog:
>
> v2:
> * fix locking order when upgrading from vma lock to mmap lock
> * switch folio_walk_start() for get_user_pages_remote()
> * release vma/mmap locks and mmput() right after vm_insert_page()
> * add binder_page_alloc() helper for binder_install_single_page()
>
> v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105200258.2380168-1-cmllamas@google.com/
>
> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
> Cc: Viktor Martensson <vmartensson@google.com>
> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Some nits but overall looks quite good.
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
>
> Carlos Llamas (8):
> Revert "binder: switch alloc->mutex to spinlock_t"
> binder: concurrent page installation
> binder: select correct nid for pages in LRU
> binder: remove struct binder_lru_page
> binder: use alloc->mapped to save the vma state
> binder: remove cached alloc->vma pointer
> binder: rename alloc->buffer to vm_start
> binder: use per-vma lock in page installation
>
> drivers/android/binder.c | 2 +-
> drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 322 ++++++++++++++----------
> drivers/android/binder_alloc.h | 35 +--
> drivers/android/binder_alloc_selftest.c | 18 +-
> drivers/android/binder_trace.h | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.47.0.199.ga7371fff76-goog
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