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Commit 974e6d66 authored by Huang Ying's avatar Huang Ying Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, hugetlbfs: pass fault address to cow handler

This is to take better advantage of the general huge page copying
optimization.  Where, the target subpage will be copied last to avoid
the cache lines of target subpage to be evicted when copying other
subpages.  This works better if the address of the target subpage is
available when copying huge page.  So hugetlbfs page fault handlers are
changed to pass that information to hugetlb_cow().  This will benefit
workloads which don't access the begin of the hugetlbfs huge page after
the page fault under heavy cache contention.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180524005851.4079-5-ying.huang@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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