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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 13:47:19 -0700
From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: willy@...radead.org, ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
kirill@...temov.name, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v6 PATCH 1/2] mm: refactor do_munmap() to extract the common
part
On 8/3/18 1:53 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 27-07-18 02:10:13, Yang Shi wrote:
>> Introduces three new helper functions:
>> * munmap_addr_sanity()
>> * munmap_lookup_vma()
>> * munmap_mlock_vma()
>>
>> They will be used by do_munmap() and the new do_munmap with zapping
>> large mapping early in the later patch.
>>
>> There is no functional change, just code refactor.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
>> ---
>> mm/mmap.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>> 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
>> index d1eb87e..2504094 100644
>> --- a/mm/mmap.c
>> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
>> @@ -2686,34 +2686,44 @@ int split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> return __split_vma(mm, vma, addr, new_below);
>> }
>>
>> -/* Munmap is split into 2 main parts -- this part which finds
>> - * what needs doing, and the areas themselves, which do the
>> - * work. This now handles partial unmappings.
>> - * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
>> - */
>> -int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
>> - struct list_head *uf)
>> +static inline bool munmap_addr_sanity(unsigned long start, size_t len)
> munmap_check_addr? Btw. why does this need to have munmap prefix at all?
> This is a general address space check.
Just because I extracted this from do_munmap, no special consideration.
It is definitely ok to use another name.
>
>> {
>> - unsigned long end;
>> - struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev, *last;
>> -
>> if ((offset_in_page(start)) || start > TASK_SIZE || len > TASK_SIZE-start)
>> - return -EINVAL;
>> + return false;
>>
>> - len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
>> - if (len == 0)
>> - return -EINVAL;
>> + if (PAGE_ALIGN(len) == 0)
>> + return false;
>> +
>> + return true;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * munmap_lookup_vma: find the first overlap vma and split overlap vmas.
>> + * @mm: mm_struct
>> + * @vma: the first overlapping vma
>> + * @prev: vma's prev
>> + * @start: start address
>> + * @end: end address
> This really doesn't help me to understand how to use the function.
> Why do we need both prev and vma etc...
prev will be used by unmap_region later.
>
>> + *
>> + * returns 1 if successful, 0 or errno otherwise
> This is a really weird calling convention. So what does 0 tell? /me
> checks the code. Ohh, it is nothing to do. Why cannot you simply return
> the vma. NULL implies nothing to do, ERR_PTR on error.
A couple of reasons why it is implemented as so:
* do_munmap returns 0 for both success and no suitable vma
* Since prev is needed by finding the start vma, and prev will be
used by unmap_region later too, so I just thought it would look clean to
have one function to return both start vma and prev. In this way, we can
share as much as possible common code.
* In this way, we just need return 0, 1 or error no just as same as
what do_munmap does currently. Then we know what is failure case exactly
to just bail out right away.
Actually, I tried the same approach as you suggested, but it had two
problems:
* If it returns the start vma, we have to re-find its prev later,
but the prev has been found during finding start vma. And, duplicate the
code in do_munmap_zap_rlock. It sounds not that ideal.
* If it returns prev, it might be null (start vma is the first
vma). We can't tell if null is a failure or success case
>
>> + */
>> +static int munmap_lookup_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct **vma,
>> + struct vm_area_struct **prev, unsigned long start,
>> + unsigned long end)
>> +{
>> + struct vm_area_struct *tmp, *last;
>>
>> /* Find the first overlapping VMA */
>> - vma = find_vma(mm, start);
>> - if (!vma)
>> + tmp = find_vma(mm, start);
>> + if (!tmp)
>> return 0;
>> - prev = vma->vm_prev;
>> - /* we have start < vma->vm_end */
>> +
>> + *prev = tmp->vm_prev;
> Why do you set prev here. We might "fail" with 0 right after this
No special reason, just copied from do_munmap. Yes, it is ideal to have
prev set here. It can be moved further down.
>
>> +
>> + /* we have start < vma->vm_end */
>>
>> /* if it doesn't overlap, we have nothing.. */
>> - end = start + len;
>> - if (vma->vm_start >= end)
>> + if (tmp->vm_start >= end)
>> return 0;
>>
>> /*
>> @@ -2723,7 +2733,7 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
>> * unmapped vm_area_struct will remain in use: so lower split_vma
>> * places tmp vma above, and higher split_vma places tmp vma below.
>> */
>> - if (start > vma->vm_start) {
>> + if (start > tmp->vm_start) {
>> int error;
>>
>> /*
>> @@ -2731,13 +2741,14 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
>> * not exceed its limit; but let map_count go just above
>> * its limit temporarily, to help free resources as expected.
>> */
>> - if (end < vma->vm_end && mm->map_count >= sysctl_max_map_count)
>> + if (end < tmp->vm_end &&
>> + mm->map_count > sysctl_max_map_count)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> - error = __split_vma(mm, vma, start, 0);
>> + error = __split_vma(mm, tmp, start, 0);
>> if (error)
>> return error;
>> - prev = vma;
>> + *prev = tmp;
>> }
>>
>> /* Does it split the last one? */
>> @@ -2747,7 +2758,48 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
>> if (error)
>> return error;
>> }
>> - vma = prev ? prev->vm_next : mm->mmap;
>> +
>> + *vma = *prev ? (*prev)->vm_next : mm->mmap;
>> +
>> + return 1;
>> +}
> the patch would be much more easier to read if you didn't do vma->tmp
> renaming.
Yes, I should used another name for the "vma" argument.
Thanks,
Yang
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