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authorZhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@huawei.com>2025-07-31 20:23:05 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-09-13 16:54:42 -0700
commit849d5cff4d48be9146c2bf3c492fc7f434b5ffaa (patch)
tree89fd0f052b5e39e528235d3a11b96e987ff65fc6 /drivers/char/mem.c
parent337135e6124b6d37d7ef1cd5a6c0b9681938c5ee (diff)
/dev/zero: try to align PMD_SIZE for private mapping
Attempt to map aligned to huge page size for private mapping which could achieve performance gains, the mprot_tw4m in libMicro average execution time on arm64: - Test case: mprot_tw4m - Before the patch: 22 us - After the patch: 17 us If THP config is not set, we fall back to system page size mappings. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250731122305.2669090-1-zhangqilong3@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/mem.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/mem.c21
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 48839958b0b1..34b815901b20 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -512,11 +512,18 @@ static int mmap_zero(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return 0;
}
+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+static unsigned long get_unmapped_area_zero(struct file *file,
+ unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
+ unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags)
+{
+ return -ENOSYS;
+}
+#else
static unsigned long get_unmapped_area_zero(struct file *file,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
if (flags & MAP_SHARED) {
/*
* mmap_zero() will call shmem_zero_setup() to create a file,
@@ -527,12 +534,18 @@ static unsigned long get_unmapped_area_zero(struct file *file,
return shmem_get_unmapped_area(NULL, addr, len, pgoff, flags);
}
- /* Otherwise flags & MAP_PRIVATE: with no shmem object beneath it */
- return mm_get_unmapped_area(current->mm, file, addr, len, pgoff, flags);
+ /*
+ * Otherwise flags & MAP_PRIVATE: with no shmem object beneath it,
+ * attempt to map aligned to huge page size if possible, otherwise we
+ * fall back to system page size mappings.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ return thp_get_unmapped_area(file, addr, len, pgoff, flags);
#else
- return -ENOSYS;
+ return mm_get_unmapped_area(current->mm, file, addr, len, pgoff, flags);
#endif
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
static ssize_t write_full(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)