[PATCH v4 2/7] malloc: Add THP/madvise support for sbrk

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Mon Aug 30 18:52:10 GMT 2021


For the main arena, the sbrk() is used as default instead of mmap()
and the granularity used when increasing the program segment is the
default page size.

To increase effectiveness with Transparent Huge Page with madvise, the
large page size is use instead.  This is enabled by setting the value
'1' to the new huge pages tunable 'glibc.malloc.hugetlb'.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
---
 include/libc-pointer-arith.h | 10 ++++++++++
 malloc/malloc.c              | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/libc-pointer-arith.h b/include/libc-pointer-arith.h
index 04ba537617..f592cbafec 100644
--- a/include/libc-pointer-arith.h
+++ b/include/libc-pointer-arith.h
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@
 /* Cast an integer or a pointer VAL to integer with proper type.  */
 # define cast_to_integer(val) ((__integer_if_pointer_type (val)) (val))
 
+/* Check if SIZE is aligned on SIZE  */
+#define IS_ALIGNED(base, size) \
+  (((base) & (size - 1)) == 0)
+
+#define PTR_IS_ALIGNED(base, size) \
+  ((((uintptr_t) (base)) & (size - 1)) == 0)
+
+#define PTR_DIFF(p1, p2) \
+  ((ptrdiff_t)((uintptr_t)(p1) - (uintptr_t)(p2)))
+
 /* Cast an integer VAL to void * pointer.  */
 # define cast_to_pointer(val) ((void *) (uintptr_t) (val))
 
diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c
index 81d3411560..f65e448130 100644
--- a/malloc/malloc.c
+++ b/malloc/malloc.c
@@ -2024,6 +2024,17 @@ madvise_thp (void *p, INTERNAL_SIZE_T size)
      not active.  */
   if (mp_.thp_pagesize == 0 || size < mp_.thp_pagesize)
     return;
+
+  /* madvise() requires at least the input to be aligned to system page and
+     MADV_HUGEPAGE should handle unaligned address.  Also unaligned inputs
+     should happen only for the initial data segment.  */
+  if (__glibc_unlikely (!PTR_IS_ALIGNED (p, GLRO (dl_pagesize))))
+    {
+      void *q = PTR_ALIGN_DOWN (p, GLRO (dl_pagesize));
+      size += PTR_DIFF (p, q);
+      p = q;
+    }
+
   __madvise (p, size, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
 #endif
 }
@@ -2610,14 +2621,25 @@ sysmalloc (INTERNAL_SIZE_T nb, mstate av)
         size -= old_size;
 
       /*
-         Round to a multiple of page size.
+         Round to a multiple of page size or huge page size.
          If MORECORE is not contiguous, this ensures that we only call it
          with whole-page arguments.  And if MORECORE is contiguous and
          this is not first time through, this preserves page-alignment of
          previous calls. Otherwise, we correct to page-align below.
        */
 
-      size = ALIGN_UP (size, pagesize);
+#if HAVE_TUNABLES && defined (MADV_HUGEPAGE)
+      /* Defined in brk.c.  */
+      extern void *__curbrk;
+      if (mp_.thp_pagesize != 0)
+	{
+	  uintptr_t top = ALIGN_UP ((uintptr_t) __curbrk + size,
+				    mp_.thp_pagesize);
+	  size = top - (uintptr_t) __curbrk;
+	}
+      else
+#endif
+	size = ALIGN_UP (size, GLRO(dl_pagesize));
 
       /*
          Don't try to call MORECORE if argument is so big as to appear
@@ -2900,10 +2922,8 @@ systrim (size_t pad, mstate av)
   long released;         /* Amount actually released */
   char *current_brk;     /* address returned by pre-check sbrk call */
   char *new_brk;         /* address returned by post-check sbrk call */
-  size_t pagesize;
   long top_area;
 
-  pagesize = GLRO (dl_pagesize);
   top_size = chunksize (av->top);
 
   top_area = top_size - MINSIZE - 1;
@@ -2911,7 +2931,12 @@ systrim (size_t pad, mstate av)
     return 0;
 
   /* Release in pagesize units and round down to the nearest page.  */
-  extra = ALIGN_DOWN(top_area - pad, pagesize);
+#if HAVE_TUNABLES && defined (MADV_HUGEPAGE)
+  if (mp_.thp_pagesize != 0)
+    extra = ALIGN_DOWN (top_area - pad, mp_.thp_pagesize);
+  else
+#endif
+    extra = ALIGN_DOWN (top_area - pad, GLRO(dl_pagesize));
 
   if (extra == 0)
     return 0;
-- 
2.30.2



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