Wrap the VMA modifications (vma_adjust/unmap_page_range) with sequence counts such that we can easily test if a VMA is changed. The unmap_page_range() one allows us to make assumptions about page-tables; when we find the seqcount hasn't changed we can assume page-tables are still valid. The flip side is that we cannot distinguish between a vma_adjust() and the unmap_page_range() -- where with the former we could have re-checked the vma bounds against the address. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 ++ mm/memory.c | 2 ++ mm/mmap.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -308,6 +309,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct { #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA struct mempolicy *vm_policy; /* NUMA policy for the VMA */ #endif + seqcount_t vm_sequence; }; struct core_thread { --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1293,6 +1293,7 @@ static void unmap_page_range(struct mmu_ details = NULL; BUG_ON(addr >= end); + write_seqcount_begin(&vma->vm_sequence); tlb_start_vma(tlb, vma); pgd = pgd_offset(vma->vm_mm, addr); do { @@ -1302,6 +1303,7 @@ static void unmap_page_range(struct mmu_ next = zap_pud_range(tlb, vma, pgd, addr, next, details); } while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end); tlb_end_vma(tlb, vma); + write_seqcount_end(&vma->vm_sequence); } --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -596,6 +596,8 @@ void __vma_link_rb(struct mm_struct *mm, else mm->highest_vm_end = vma->vm_end; + seqcount_init(&vma->vm_sequence); + /* * vma->vm_prev wasn't known when we followed the rbtree to find the * correct insertion point for that vma. As a result, we could not @@ -715,6 +717,10 @@ int vma_adjust(struct vm_area_struct *vm long adjust_next = 0; int remove_next = 0; + write_seqcount_begin(&vma->vm_sequence); + if (next) + write_seqcount_begin_nested(&next->vm_sequence, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); + if (next && !insert) { struct vm_area_struct *exporter = NULL; @@ -880,7 +886,10 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next-> * we must remove another next too. It would clutter * up the code too much to do both in one go. */ + write_seqcount_end(&next->vm_sequence); next = vma->vm_next; + write_seqcount_begin_nested(&next->vm_sequence, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); + if (remove_next == 2) goto again; else if (next) @@ -891,6 +900,10 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next-> if (insert && file) uprobe_mmap(insert); + if (next) + write_seqcount_end(&next->vm_sequence); + write_seqcount_end(&vma->vm_sequence); + validate_mm(mm); return 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/