linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 03/11] mm/gup: Applies counting method to monitor gup_pgd

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Message-Id: <20190920195047.7703-4-leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:50:39 -0300
From:   Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 03/11] mm/gup: Applies counting method to monitor gup_pgd_range

As decribed, gup_pgd_range is a lockless pagetable walk. So, in order to
monitor against THP split/collapse with the couting method, it's necessary
to bound it with {start,end}_lockless_pgtbl_walk.

There are dummy functions, so it is not going to add any overhead on archs
that don't use this method.

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 98f13ab37bac..675e4be27082 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2404,6 +2404,7 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages,
 			unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages)
 {
 	unsigned long addr, len, end;
+	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	int nr = 0, ret = 0;
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM)))
@@ -2421,9 +2422,12 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages,
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP) &&
 	    gup_fast_permitted(start, end)) {
+		mm = current->mm;
+		start_lockless_pgtbl_walk(mm);
 		local_irq_disable();
 		gup_pgd_range(addr, end, gup_flags, pages, &nr);
 		local_irq_enable();
+		end_lockless_pgtbl_walk(mm);
 		ret = nr;
 	}
 
-- 
2.20.1