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| author |   Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> | 2018-10-26 15:08:50 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-10-26 16:26:35 -0700 |
| commit | 85a06835f6f1ba79f0f00838ccd5ad840dd1eafb (patch) | |
| tree | 91ec31587d1e465de5d5940a11f469695c7320a3 /mm/mmap.c | |
| parent | mm/filemap.c: use vmf_error() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-85a06835f6f1ba79f0f00838ccd5ad840dd1eafb.tar.xz linux-dev-85a06835f6f1ba79f0f00838ccd5ad840dd1eafb.zip | |
mm: mremap: downgrade mmap_sem to read when shrinking
Other than munmap, mremap might be used to shrink memory mapping too.
So, it may hold write mmap_sem for long time when shrinking large
mapping, as what commit ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in
munmap") described.
The mremap() will not manipulate vmas anymore after __do_munmap() call for
the mapping shrink use case, so it is safe to downgrade to read mmap_sem.
So, the same optimization, which downgrades mmap_sem to read for zapping
pages, is also feasible and reasonable to this case.
The period of holding exclusive mmap_sem for shrinking large mapping
would be reduced significantly with this optimization.
MREMAP_FIXED and MREMAP_MAYMOVE are more complicated to adopt this
optimization since they need manipulate vmas after do_munmap(),
downgrading mmap_sem may create race window.
Simple mapping shrink is the low hanging fruit, and it may cover the
most cases of unmap with munmap together.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
[yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: fix unsigned compare against 0 issue]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538687672-17795-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538067582-60038-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 58e323c92c8e..1bfd12032664 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2687,8 +2687,8 @@ int split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, * work. This now handles partial unmappings. * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> */ -static int __do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len, - struct list_head *uf, bool downgrade) +int __do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len, + struct list_head *uf, bool downgrade) { unsigned long end; struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev, *last; |