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mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
Add support for MADV_COLLAPSE to collapse shmem-backed and file-backed memory into THPs (requires CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS=y). On success, the backing memory will be a hugepage. For the memory range and process provided, the page tables will synchronously have a huge pmd installed, mapping the THP. Other mappings of the file extent mapped by the memory range may be added to a set of entries that khugepaged will later process and attempt update their page tables to map the THP by a pmd. This functionality unlocks two important uses: (1) Immediately back executable text by THPs. Current support provided by CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS may take a long time on a large system which might impair services from serving at their full rated load after (re)starting. Tricks like mremap(2)'ing text onto anonymous memory to immediately realize iTLB performance prevents page sharing and demand paging, both of which increase steady state memory footprint. Now, we can have the best of both worlds: Peak upfront performance and lower RAM footprints. (2) userfaultfd-based live migration of virtual machines satisfy UFFD faults by fetching native-sized pages over the network (to avoid latency of transferring an entire hugepage). However, after guest memory has been fully copied to the new host, MADV_COLLAPSE can be used to immediately increase guest performance. Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
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