mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter

Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among
threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path.

This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter.  RSS value will be
counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at
events.

Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault.
Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls.

 rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows
 [before]
     4.5 cache-miss/faults
 [after]
     4.0 cache-miss/faults
 Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 45ed043b8bf5..10d3c5d5ae44 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -952,7 +952,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
                                 preempt_count());
 
         acct_update_integrals(tsk);
-
+        /* sync mm's RSS info before statistics gathering */
+        sync_mm_rss(tsk, tsk->mm);
         group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
         if (group_dead) {
                 hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer);