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Baolin Wang 4df65651f7 mm: mincore: use pte_batch_hint() to batch process large folios
When I tested the mincore() syscall, I observed that it takes longer with
64K mTHP enabled on my Arm64 server.  The reason is the
mincore_pte_range() still checks each PTE individually, even when the PTEs
are contiguous, which is not efficient.

Thus we can use pte_batch_hint() to get the batch number of the present
contiguous PTEs, which can improve the performance.  I tested the
mincore() syscall with 1G anonymous memory populated with 64K mTHP, and
observed an obvious performance improvement:

w/o patch		w/ patch		changes
6022us			549us			+91%

Moreover, I also tested mincore() with disabling mTHP/THP, and did not see
any obvious regression for base pages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/99cb00ee626ceb6e788102ca36821815cd832237.1746697240.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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