mm/rmap: basic MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb)

For small folios, we traditionally use the mapcount to decide whether it
was "certainly mapped exclusively" by a single MM (mapcount == 1) or
whether it "maybe mapped shared" by multiple MMs (mapcount > 1).  For
PMD-sized folios that were PMD-mapped, we were able to use a similar
mechanism (single PMD mapping), but for PTE-mapped folios and in the
future folios that span multiple PMDs, this does not work.

So we need a different mechanism to handle large folios.  Let's add a new
mechanism to detect whether a large folio is "certainly mapped
exclusively", or whether it is "maybe mapped shared".

We'll use this information next to optimize CoW reuse for PTE-mapped
anonymous THP, and to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to
folio_maybe_mapped_shared(), independent of per-page mapcounts.

For each large folio, we'll have two slots, whereby a slot stores:
 (1) an MM id: unique id assigned to each MM
 (2) a per-MM mapcount

If a slot is unoccupied, it can be taken by the next MM that maps folio
page.

In addition, we'll remember the current state -- "mapped exclusively" vs. 
"maybe mapped shared" -- and use a bit spinlock to sync on updates and to
reduce the total number of atomic accesses on updates.  In the future, it
might be possible to squeeze a proper spinlock into "struct folio".  For
now, keep it simple, as we require the whole thing with THP only, that is
incompatible with RT.

As we have to squeeze this information into the "struct folio" of even
folios of order-1 (2 pages), and we generally want to reduce the required
metadata, we'll assign each MM a unique ID that can fit into an int.  In
total, we can squeeze everything into 4x int (2x long) on 64bit.

32bit support is a bit challenging, because we only have 2x long == 2x int
in order-1 folios.  But we can make it work for now, because we neither
expect many MMs nor very large folios on 32bit.

We will reliably detect folios as "mapped exclusively" vs.  "mapped
shared" as long as only two MMs map pages of a folio at one point in time
-- for example with fork() and short-lived child processes, or with apps
that hand over state from one instance to another.

As soon as three MMs are involved at the same time, we might detect "maybe
mapped shared" although the folio is "mapped exclusively".

Example 1:

(1) App1 faults in a (shmem/file-backed) folio page -> Tracked as MM0
(2) App2 faults in a folio page -> Tracked as MM1
(4) App1 unmaps all folio pages

 -> We will detect "mapped exclusively".

Example 2:

(1) App1 faults in a (shmem/file-backed) folio page -> Tracked as MM0
(2) App2 faults in a folio page -> Tracked as MM1
(3) App3 faults in a folio page -> No slot available, tracked as "unknown"
(4) App1 and App2 unmap all folio pages

 -> We will detect "maybe mapped shared".

Make use of __always_inline to keep possible performance degradation when
(un)mapping large folios to a minimum.

Note: by squeezing the two flags into the "unsigned long" that stores the
MM ids, we can use non-atomic __bit_spin_unlock() and non-atomic
setting/clearing of the "maybe mapped shared" bit, effectively not adding
any new atomics on the hot path when updating the large mapcount + new
metadata, which further helps reduce the runtime overhead in
micro-benchmarks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-13-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e456a43811fd..c8daa3e64266 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -955,6 +955,16 @@ static int free_tail_page_prepare(struct page *head_page, struct page *page)
 			bad_page(page, "nonzero nr_pages_mapped");
 			goto out;
 		}
+		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MM_ID)) {
+			if (unlikely(folio->_mm_id_mapcount[0] != -1)) {
+				bad_page(page, "nonzero mm mapcount 0");
+				goto out;
+			}
+			if (unlikely(folio->_mm_id_mapcount[1] != -1)) {
+				bad_page(page, "nonzero mm mapcount 1");
+				goto out;
+			}
+		}
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT)) {
 			if (unlikely(atomic_read(&folio->_entire_mapcount) + 1)) {
 				bad_page(page, "nonzero entire_mapcount");