linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] mm: Don't bother dropping mmap

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Date:   Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:16:12 -0800
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Robert Stupp <snazy@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] mm: Don't bother dropping mmap_sem for zero size readahead

From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

When handling a page fault, we drop mmap_sem to start async readahead so
that we don't block on IO submission with mmap_sem held.  However
there's no point to drop mmap_sem in case readahead is disabled. Handle
that case to avoid pointless dropping of mmap_sem and retrying the
fault. This was actually reported to block mlockall(MCL_CURRENT)
indefinitely.

Fixes: 6b4c9f446981 ("filemap: drop the mmap_sem for all blocking operations")
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Reported-by: Robert Stupp <snazy@....de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 1784478270e1..5bffaa2176cd 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2416,7 +2416,7 @@ static struct file *do_async_mmap_readahead(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	pgoff_t offset = vmf->pgoff;
 
 	/* If we don't want any read-ahead, don't bother */
-	if (vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_RAND_READ)
+	if (vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_RAND_READ || !ra->ra_pages)
 		return fpin;
 	if (ra->mmap_miss > 0)
 		ra->mmap_miss--;
-- 
2.25.0.225.g125e21ebc7-goog