linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 03/11] mm/gup: Applies counting method to monitor gup_pgd

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Date:   Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:40:00 -0300
From:   Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.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>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 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 | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 98f13ab37bac..7105c829cf44 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2325,6 +2325,7 @@ static bool gup_fast_permitted(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 			  struct page **pages)
 {
+	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	unsigned long len, end;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int nr = 0;
@@ -2352,9 +2353,12 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP) &&
 	    gup_fast_permitted(start, end)) {
+		mm = current->mm;
+		start_lockless_pgtbl_walk(mm);
 		local_irq_save(flags);
 		gup_pgd_range(start, end, write ? FOLL_WRITE : 0, pages, &nr);
 		local_irq_restore(flags);
+		end_lockless_pgtbl_walk(mm);
 	}
 
 	return nr;
@@ -2404,6 +2408,7 @@ 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 +2426,12 @@ 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