[PATCH v4 4/5] arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()

Baolin Wang posted 5 patches 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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[PATCH v4 4/5] arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
Posted by Baolin Wang 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Implement the Arm64 architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes() to enable
batched checking of young flags and TLB flushing, improving performance during
large folio reclamation.

Performance testing:
Allocate 10G clean file-backed folios by mmap() in a memory cgroup, and try to
reclaim 8G file-backed folios via the memory.reclaim interface. I can observe
33% performance improvement on my Arm64 32-core server (and 10%+ improvement
on my X86 machine). Meanwhile, the hotspot folio_check_references() dropped
from approximately 35% to around 5%.

W/o patchset:
real	0m1.518s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.518s

W/ patchset:
real	0m1.018s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m1.018s

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index d5fbe72e820a..84a6bdabb1f9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1838,6 +1838,17 @@ static inline int ptep_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return contpte_clear_flush_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, CONT_PTES);
 }
 
+#define clear_flush_young_ptes clear_flush_young_ptes
+static inline int clear_flush_young_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
+					unsigned int nr)
+{
+	if (likely(nr == 1 && !pte_cont(__ptep_get(ptep))))
+		return __ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, addr, ptep);
+
+	return contpte_clear_flush_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, nr);
+}
+
 #define wrprotect_ptes wrprotect_ptes
 static __always_inline void wrprotect_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm,
 				unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr)
-- 
2.47.3
Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
Posted by Ryan Roberts 1 month, 2 weeks ago
On 23/12/2025 05:48, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Implement the Arm64 architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes() to enable
> batched checking of young flags and TLB flushing, improving performance during
> large folio reclamation.
> 
> Performance testing:
> Allocate 10G clean file-backed folios by mmap() in a memory cgroup, and try to
> reclaim 8G file-backed folios via the memory.reclaim interface. I can observe
> 33% performance improvement on my Arm64 32-core server (and 10%+ improvement
> on my X86 machine). Meanwhile, the hotspot folio_check_references() dropped
> from approximately 35% to around 5%.
> 
> W/o patchset:
> real	0m1.518s
> user	0m0.000s
> sys	0m1.518s
> 
> W/ patchset:
> real	0m1.018s
> user	0m0.000s
> sys	0m1.018s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index d5fbe72e820a..84a6bdabb1f9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -1838,6 +1838,17 @@ static inline int ptep_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	return contpte_clear_flush_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, CONT_PTES);
>  }
>  
> +#define clear_flush_young_ptes clear_flush_young_ptes
> +static inline int clear_flush_young_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +					unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
> +					unsigned int nr)
> +{
> +	if (likely(nr == 1 && !pte_cont(__ptep_get(ptep))))
> +		return __ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, addr, ptep);
> +
> +	return contpte_clear_flush_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, nr);
> +}
> +
>  #define wrprotect_ptes wrprotect_ptes
>  static __always_inline void wrprotect_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  				unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr)