linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ANDROID: binder: change down_write to down

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Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:59:41 -0700
From:   Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ANDROID: binder: change down_write to down_read

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:
> binder_update_page_range needs down_write of mmap_sem because
> vm_insert_page need to change vma->vm_flags to VM_MIXEDMAP unless
> it is set. However, when I profile binder working, it seems
> every binder buffers should be mapped in advance by binder_mmap.
> It means we could set VM_MIXEDMAP in bider_mmap time which is
> already hold a mmap_sem as down_write so binder_update_page_range
> doesn't need to hold a mmap_sem as down_write.
>
> Android suffers from mmap_sem contention so let's reduce mmap_sem
> down_write.
>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> ---
> From v1:
>   * remove WARN_ON_ONCE - Greg
>   * add reviewed-by - Martijn
>
> Martijn, I took your LGTM of v1 as Reviewed-by. If you don't like it
> or want to change it to acked-by, please, tell me.
>
>  drivers/android/binder.c       | 2 +-
>  drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index 764b63a5aade..9a14c6dd60c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -4722,7 +4722,7 @@ static int binder_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>                 failure_string = "bad vm_flags";
>                 goto err_bad_arg;
>         }
> -       vma->vm_flags = (vma->vm_flags | VM_DONTCOPY) & ~VM_MAYWRITE;
> +       vma->vm_flags |= (VM_DONTCOPY | VM_MIXEDMAP) & ~VM_MAYWRITE;

Why did you change this to |=? You are no longer clearing VM_MAYWRITE.

>         vma->vm_ops = &binder_vm_ops;
>         vma->vm_private_data = proc;
>
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
> index 5a426c877dfb..4f382d51def1 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c
> @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int allocate,
>                 mm = alloc->vma_vm_mm;
>
>         if (mm) {
> -               down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +               down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>                 vma = alloc->vma;
>         }
>
> @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int allocate,
>                 /* vm_insert_page does not seem to increment the refcount */
>         }
>         if (mm) {
> -               up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +               up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>                 mmput(mm);
>         }
>         return 0;
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int allocate,
>         }
>  err_no_vma:
>         if (mm) {
> -               up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> +               up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>                 mmput(mm);
>         }
>         return vma ? -ENOMEM : -ESRCH;
> --
> 2.17.0.rc1.321.gba9d0f2565-goog
>



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Arve Hjønnevåg