On Fri, 2025-12-05 at 22:35 +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
> One functional fix, one performance regression fix, and two related
> comment fixes.
>
> I cleaned up my prototype I recently shared [1] for the performance
> fix,
> deferring most of the cleanups I had in the prototype to a later
> point.
> While doing that I identified the other things.
>
> The goal of this patch set is to be backported to stable trees
> "fairly"
> easily. At least patch #1 and #4.
>
> Patch #1 fixes hugetlb_pmd_shared() not detecting any sharing
> Patch #2 + #3 are simple comment fixes that patch #4 interacts with.
> Patch #4 is a fix for the reported performance regression due to
> excessive
> IPI broadcasts during fork()+exit().
>
> The last patch is all about TLB flushes, IPIs and mmu_gather.
> Read: complicated
>
> I added as much comments + description that I possibly could, and I
> am
> hoping for review from Jann.
>
> There are plenty of cleanups in the future to be had + one reasonable
> optimization on x86. But that's all out of scope for this series.
>
> Compile tested on plenty of architectures.
>
> Runtime tested, with a focus on fixing the performance regression
> using
> the original reproducer [2] on x86.
>
> I'm still busy with more testing (making sure that my TLB flushing
> changes
> are good), but sending this out already so people can test and review
> while I am soon heading for LPC.
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/8cab934d-4a56-44aa-b641-bfd7e23bd673@kernel.org/
> [2]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/8cab934d-4a56-44aa-b641-bfd7e23bd673@kernel.org/
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
> Cc: Uschakow, Stanislav" <suschako@amazon.de>
> Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
> Cc: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
>
> David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) (4):
> mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb_pmd_shared()
> mm/hugetlb: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare()
> mm/rmap: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare()
> mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables
> using mmu_gather
>
> include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 69 +++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 21 ++++---
> mm/hugetlb.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> --
> mm/mmu_gather.c | 6 ++
> mm/mprotect.c | 2 +-
> mm/rmap.c | 45 +++++++------
> 6 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
>
For the Series passed generic testing with a focus on the CVE
regression and looks good.
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>