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ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages

From:  yang.yang29-AT-zte.com.cn
To:  <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>, <david-AT-redhat.com>
Subject:  [PATCH v8 0/6] ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages
Date:  Mon, 22 May 2023 18:42:58 +0800
Message-ID:  <202305221842587200002@zte.com.cn>
Cc:  <imbrenda-AT-linux.ibm.com>, <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm-AT-kvack.org>, <ran.xiaokai-AT-zte.com.cn>, <xu.xin.sc-AT-gmail.com>, <xu.xin16-AT-zte.com.cn>, <yang.yang29-AT-zte.com.cn>, <jiang.xuexin-AT-zte.com.cn>
Archive-link:  Article

From: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>

The core idea of this patch set is to enable users to perceive the number
of any pages merged by KSM, regardless of whether use_zero_page switch has
been turned on, so that users can know how much free memory increase is
really due to their madvise(MERGEABLE) actions. But the problem is, when
enabling use_zero_pages, all empty pages will be merged with kernel zero
pages instead of with each other as use_zero_pages is disabled, and then
these zero-pages are no longer monitored by KSM.

The motivations to do this is seen at:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202302100915227721315@zte.co...

In one word, we hope to implement the support for KSM-placed zero pages
tracking without affecting the feature of use_zero_pages, so that app
developer can also benefit from knowing the actual KSM profit by getting
KSM-placed zero pages to optimize applications eventually when
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/use_zero_pages is enabled.

Change log
----------
v7->v8:
(1) Since [1] which fix the bug of pte_mkdirty on sparc64 that makes pte
    writable, then we can remove the architechture restrictions of our
	features.
(2) Improve the scheme of update ksm_zero_pages: add the handling case when
    khugepaged replaces a shared zeropage by a THP. 

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230411141529.428991-2-david...

v6->v7:
This is an all-newed version which is different from v6 which relys on KSM's
rmap_item. The patch series don't rely on rmap_item but pte_dirty, so the
general handling of tracking KSM-placed zero-pages is simplified a lot.

For safety, we restrict this feature only to the tested and known-working
architechtures (ARM, ARM64, and X86) fow now.

xu xin (6):
  ksm: support unsharing KSM-placed zero pages
  ksm: count all zero pages placed by KSM
  ksm: add ksm zero pages for each process
  ksm: add documentation for ksm zero pages
  ksm: update the calculation of KSM profit
  selftest: add a testcase of ksm zero pages

 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst              | 26 +++++---
 fs/proc/base.c                                    |  1 +
 include/linux/ksm.h                               | 25 ++++++++
 include/linux/mm_types.h                          |  9 ++-
 mm/khugepaged.c                                   |  3 +
 mm/ksm.c                                          | 19 +++++-
 mm/memory.c                                       |  7 ++-
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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