mm: batch unlink_file_vma calls in free_pgd_range

Execs of dynamically linked binaries at 20-ish cores are bottlenecked on
the i_mmap_rwsem semaphore, while the biggest singular contributor is
free_pgd_range inducing the lock acquire back-to-back for all consecutive
mappings of a given file.

Tracing the count of said acquires while building the kernel shows:
[1, 2)     799579 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[2, 3)          0 |                                                    |
[3, 4)       3009 |                                                    |
[4, 5)       3009 |                                                    |
[5, 6)     326442 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                               |

So in particular there were 326442 opportunities to coalesce 5 acquires
into 1.

Doing so increases execs per second by 4% (~50k to ~52k) when running
the benchmark linked below.

The lock remains the main bottleneck, I have not looked at other spots
yet.

Bench can be found here:
http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/doexec.c

$ cc -O2 -o shared-doexec doexec.c
$ ./shared-doexec $(nproc)

Note this particular test makes sure binaries are separate, but the
loader is shared.

Stats collected on the patched kernel (+ "noinline") with:
bpftrace -e 'kprobe:unlink_file_vma_batch_process
{ @ = lhist(((struct unlink_vma_file_batch *)arg0)->count, 0, 8, 1); }'

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240521234321.359501-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index edf2004fcdf9..1411edbb55d0 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -365,6 +365,8 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
 		   struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long floor,
 		   unsigned long ceiling, bool mm_wr_locked)
 {
+	struct unlink_vma_file_batch vb;
+
 	do {
 		unsigned long addr = vma->vm_start;
 		struct vm_area_struct *next;
@@ -384,12 +386,15 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
 		if (mm_wr_locked)
 			vma_start_write(vma);
 		unlink_anon_vmas(vma);
-		unlink_file_vma(vma);
 
 		if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
+			unlink_file_vma(vma);
 			hugetlb_free_pgd_range(tlb, addr, vma->vm_end,
 				floor, next ? next->vm_start : ceiling);
 		} else {
+			unlink_file_vma_batch_init(&vb);
+			unlink_file_vma_batch_add(&vb, vma);
+
 			/*
 			 * Optimization: gather nearby vmas into one call down
 			 */
@@ -402,8 +407,9 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
 				if (mm_wr_locked)
 					vma_start_write(vma);
 				unlink_anon_vmas(vma);
-				unlink_file_vma(vma);
+				unlink_file_vma_batch_add(&vb, vma);
 			}
+			unlink_file_vma_batch_final(&vb);
 			free_pgd_range(tlb, addr, vma->vm_end,
 				floor, next ? next->vm_start : ceiling);
 		}