[uprobe,thp,v2,0/5] THP aware uprobe

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Song Liu June 4, 2019, 4:51 p.m. UTC

This set makes uprobe aware of THPs.

Currently, when uprobe is attached to text on THP, the page is split by
FOLL_SPLIT. As a result, uprobe eliminates the performance benefit of THP.

This set makes uprobe THP-aware. Instead of FOLL_SPLIT, we introduces
FOLL_SPLIT_PMD, which only split PMD for uprobe. After all uprobes within
the THP are removed, the PTEs are regrouped into huge PMD.

Note that, with uprobes attached, the process runs with PTEs for the huge
page. The performance benefit of THP is recovered _after_ all uprobes on
the huge page are detached.

This set (plus a few small debug patches) is also available at

   https://github.com/liu-song-6/linux/tree/uprobe-thp

Changes since v1:
1. introduces FOLL_SPLIT_PMD, instead of modifying split_huge_pmd*();
2. reuse pages_identical() from ksm.c;
3. rewrite most of try_collapse_huge_pmd().

Song Liu (5):
  mm: move memcmp_pages() and pages_identical()
  uprobe: use original page when all uprobes are removed
  mm, thp: introduce FOLL_SPLIT_PMD
  uprobe: use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD instead of FOLL_SPLIT
  uprobe: collapse THP pmd after removing all uprobes

 include/linux/huge_mm.h |  7 +++++
 include/linux/mm.h      |  8 +++++
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 mm/gup.c                | 15 +++++++--
 mm/huge_memory.c        | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/ksm.c                | 18 -----------
 mm/util.c               | 13 ++++++++
 7 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

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