mm: add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order

Problem: On large page size configurations (16KiB, 64KiB), the CMA
alignment requirement (CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES) increases considerably,
and this causes the CMA reservations to be larger than necessary.  This
means that system will have less available MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE and
MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE page blocks since MIGRATE_CMA can't fallback to them.

The CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES increases because it depends on MAX_PAGE_ORDER
which depends on ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER.  The value of ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
increases on 16k and 64k kernels.

For example, in ARM, the CMA alignment requirement when:

- CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER default value is used
- CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is set:

PAGE_SIZE | MAX_PAGE_ORDER | pageblock_order | CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
   4KiB   |      10        |       9         |  4KiB * (2 ^  9) =   2MiB
  16Kib   |      11        |      11         | 16KiB * (2 ^ 11) =  32MiB
  64KiB   |      13        |      13         | 64KiB * (2 ^ 13) = 512MiB

There are some extreme cases for the CMA alignment requirement when:

- CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER maximum value is set
- CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is NOT set:
- CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is NOT set

PAGE_SIZE | MAX_PAGE_ORDER | pageblock_order |  CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
------------------------------------------------------------------------
   4KiB   |      15        |      15         |  4KiB * (2 ^ 15) = 128MiB
  16Kib   |      13        |      13         | 16KiB * (2 ^ 13) = 128MiB
  64KiB   |      13        |      13         | 64KiB * (2 ^ 13) = 512MiB

This affects the CMA reservations for the drivers. If a driver in a
4KiB kernel needs 4MiB of CMA memory, in a 16KiB kernel, the minimal
reservation has to be 32MiB due to the alignment requirements:

reserved-memory {
    ...
    cma_test_reserve: cma_test_reserve {
        compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
        size = <0x0 0x400000>; /* 4 MiB */
        ...
    };
};

reserved-memory {
    ...
    cma_test_reserve: cma_test_reserve {
        compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
        size = <0x0 0x2000000>; /* 32 MiB */
        ...
    };
};

Solution: Add a new config CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER that allows to set the
page block order in all the architectures.  The maximum page block order
will be given by ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER.

By default, CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER will have the same value that
ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER.  This will make sure that current kernel
configurations won't be affected by this change.  It is a opt-in change.

This patch will allow to have the same CMA alignment requirements for
large page sizes (16KiB, 64KiB) as that in 4kb kernels by setting a lower
pageblock_order.

Tests:

- Verified that HugeTLB pages work when pageblock_order is 1, 7, 10 on
  4k and 16k kernels.

- Verified that Transparent Huge Pages work when pageblock_order is 1,
  7, 10 on 4k and 16k kernels.

- Verified that dma-buf heaps allocations work when pageblock_order is
  1, 7, 10 on 4k and 16k kernels.

Benchmarks:

The benchmarks compare 16kb kernels with pageblock_order 10 and 7.  The
reason for the pageblock_order 7 is because this value makes the min CMA
alignment requirement the same as that in 4kb kernels (2MB).

- Perform 100K dma-buf heaps (/dev/dma_heap/system) allocations of
  SZ_8M, SZ_4M, SZ_2M, SZ_1M, SZ_64, SZ_8, SZ_4.  Use simpleperf
  (https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/simpleperf) to measure the #
  of instructions and page-faults on 16k kernels.  The benchmark was
  executed 10 times.  The averages are below:

           # instructions         |     #page-faults
    order 10     |  order 7       | order 10 | order 7
--------------------------------------------------------
 13,891,765,770	 | 11,425,777,314 |    220   |   217
 14,456,293,487	 | 12,660,819,302 |    224   |   219
 13,924,261,018	 | 13,243,970,736 |    217   |   221
 13,910,886,504	 | 13,845,519,630 |    217   |   221
 14,388,071,190	 | 13,498,583,098 |    223   |   224
 13,656,442,167	 | 12,915,831,681 |    216   |   218
 13,300,268,343	 | 12,930,484,776 |    222   |   218
 13,625,470,223	 | 14,234,092,777 |    219   |   218
 13,508,964,965	 | 13,432,689,094 |    225   |   219
 13,368,950,667	 | 13,683,587,37  |    219   |   225
-------------------------------------------------------------------
 13,803,137,433  | 13,131,974,268 |    220   |   220    Averages

There were 4.85% #instructions when order was 7, in comparison with order
10.

     13,803,137,433 - 13,131,974,268 = -671,163,166 (-4.86%)

The number of page faults in order 7 and 10 were the same.

These results didn't show any significant regression when the
pageblock_order is set to 7 on 16kb kernels.

- Run speedometer 3.1 (https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/) 5 times
  on the 16k kernels with pageblock_order 7 and 10.

order 10 | order 7  | order 7 - order 10 | (order 7 - order 10) %
-------------------------------------------------------------------
  15.8	 |  16.4    |         0.6        |     3.80%
  16.4	 |  16.2    |        -0.2        |    -1.22%
  16.6	 |  16.3    |        -0.3        |    -1.81%
  16.8	 |  16.3    |        -0.5        |    -2.98%
  16.6	 |  16.8    |         0.2        |     1.20%
-------------------------------------------------------------------
  16.44     16.4            -0.04	          -0.24%   Averages

The results didn't show any significant regression when the
pageblock_order is set to 7 on 16kb kernels.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250521215807.1860663-1-jyescas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Juan Yescas <jyescas@google.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index bd08e151fa1b..f8bb8f070d0d 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -993,6 +993,40 @@ config CMA_AREAS
 
 	  If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA.
 
+#
+# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if available, to set
+# the max page order for physically contiguous allocations.
+#
+config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
+	int
+
+#
+# When ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER is not defined,
+# the default page block order is MAX_PAGE_ORDER (10) as per
+# include/linux/mmzone.h.
+#
+config PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER
+	int "Page Block Order"
+	range 1 10 if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER = 0
+	default 10 if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER = 0
+	range 1 ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER != 0
+	default ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER != 0
+	help
+	  The page block order refers to the power of two number of pages that
+	  are physically contiguous and can have a migrate type associated to
+	  them. The maximum size of the page block order is limited by
+	  ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER.
+
+	  This config allows overriding the default page block order when the
+	  page block order is required to be smaller than ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
+	  or MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
+
+	  Reducing pageblock order can negatively impact THP generation
+	  success rate. If your workloads uses THP heavily, please use this
+	  option with caution.
+
+	  Don't change if unsure.
+
 config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
 	bool "Track memory changes"
 	depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index 1c5444e188f8..8684fa851b84 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ static inline void setup_usemap(struct zone *zone) {}
 /* Initialise the number of pages represented by NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS */
 void __init set_pageblock_order(void)
 {
-	unsigned int order = MAX_PAGE_ORDER;
+	unsigned int order = PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER;
 
 	/* Check that pageblock_nr_pages has not already been setup */
 	if (pageblock_order)