mm/huge_memory: only split PMD mapping when necessary in unmap_folio()
Patch series "Split a folio to any lower order folios", v5. File folio supports any order and multi-size THP is upstreamed[1], so both file and anonymous folios can be >0 order. Currently, split_huge_page() only splits a huge page to order-0 pages, but splitting to orders higher than 0 might better utilize large folios, if done properly. In addition, Large Block Sizes in XFS support would benefit from it during truncate[2]. This patchset adds support for splitting a large folio to any lower order folios. In addition to this implementation of split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(), a possible optimization could be splitting a large folio to arbitrary smaller folios instead of a single order. As both Hugh and Ryan pointed out [3,5] that split to a single order might not be optimal, an order-9 folio might be better split into 1 order-8, 1 order-7, ..., 1 order-1, and 2 order-0 folios, depending on subsequent folio operations. Leave this as future work. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231207161211.2374093-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240226094936.2677493-1-kernel@pankajraghav.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/9dd96da-efa2-5123-20d4-4992136ef3ad@google.com/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cbb1d6a0-66dd-47d0-8733-f836fe050374@arm.com/ [5] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240213215520.1048625-1-zi.yan@sent.com/ This patch (of 8): As multi-size THP support is added, not all THPs are PMD-mapped, thus during a huge page split, there is no need to always split PMD mapping in unmap_folio(). Make it conditional. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240226205534.1603748-1-zi.yan@sent.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240226205534.1603748-2-zi.yan@sent.comSigned-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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