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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:42:33 +0800
From: Chinwen Chang <chinwen.chang@...iatek.com>
To: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>,
Chinwen Chang <chinwen.chang@...iatek.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
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Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@...il.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Try to release mmap_lock temporarily in smaps_rollup
Recently, we have observed some janky issues caused by unpleasantly long
contention on mmap_lock which is held by smaps_rollup when probing large
processes. To address the problem, we let smaps_rollup detect if anyone
wants to acquire mmap_lock for write attempts. If yes, just release the
lock temporarily to ease the contention.
smaps_rollup is a procfs interface which allows users to summarize the
process's memory usage without the overhead of seq_* calls. Android uses
it to sample the memory usage of various processes to balance its memory
pool sizes. If no one wants to take the lock for write requests, smaps_rollup
with this patch will behave like the original one.
Although there are on-going mmap_lock optimizations like range-based locks,
the lock applied to smaps_rollup would be the coarse one, which is hard to
avoid the occurrence of aforementioned issues. So the detection and temporary
release for write attempts on mmap_lock in smaps_rollup is still necessary.
Chinwen Chang (2):
mmap locking API: add mmap_lock_is_contended()
mm: proc: smaps_rollup: do not stall write attempts on mmap_lock
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/mmap_lock.h | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
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