* + mm-rcu-safe-vma-freeing.patch added to mm-unstable branch
@ 2023-02-27 22:06 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2023-02-27 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, surenb, michel, akpm
The patch titled
Subject: mm: rcu safe VMA freeing
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-rcu-safe-vma-freeing.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-rcu-safe-vma-freeing.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>
Subject: mm: rcu safe VMA freeing
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:36:09 -0800
This prepares for page faults handling under VMA lock, looking up VMAs
under protection of an rcu read lock, instead of the usual mmap read lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-11-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-rcu-safe-vma-freeing
+++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -480,9 +480,16 @@ struct anon_vma_name {
struct vm_area_struct {
/* The first cache line has the info for VMA tree walking. */
- unsigned long vm_start; /* Our start address within vm_mm. */
- unsigned long vm_end; /* The first byte after our end address
- within vm_mm. */
+ union {
+ struct {
+ /* VMA covers [vm_start; vm_end) addresses within mm */
+ unsigned long vm_start;
+ unsigned long vm_end;
+ };
+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+ struct rcu_head vm_rcu; /* Used for deferred freeing. */
+#endif
+ };
struct mm_struct *vm_mm; /* The address space we belong to. */
--- a/kernel/fork.c~mm-rcu-safe-vma-freeing
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -479,12 +479,30 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struc
return new;
}
-void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static void __vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
free_anon_vma_name(vma);
kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+static void vm_area_free_rcu_cb(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = container_of(head, struct vm_area_struct,
+ vm_rcu);
+ __vm_area_free(vma);
+}
+#endif
+
+void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+ call_rcu(&vma->vm_rcu, vm_area_free_rcu_cb);
+#else
+ __vm_area_free(vma);
+#endif
+}
+
static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
{
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from michel@lespinasse.org are
mm-rcu-safe-vma-freeing.patch
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