linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 11/35] mm: rcu safe vma freeing

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Date:   Fri, 28 Jan 2022 05:09:42 -0800
From:   Michel Lespinasse <michel@...pinasse.org>
To:     Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     kernel-team@...com, Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@...cle.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Michel Lespinasse <michel@...pinasse.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 11/35] mm: rcu safe vma freeing

This prepares for speculative page faults looking up and copying vmas
under protection of an rcu read lock, instead of the usual mmap read lock.

Note - it might also be feasible to just use SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU when
creating the vm_area_cachep, but that's probably too subtle to consider here.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <michel@...pinasse.org>
---
 include/linux/mm_types.h | 16 +++++++++++-----
 kernel/fork.c            | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index e4965a6f34f2..b6678578a729 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -374,12 +374,18 @@ struct anon_vma_name {
 struct vm_area_struct {
 	/* The first cache line has the info for VMA tree walking. */
 
-	unsigned long vm_start;		/* Our start address within vm_mm. */
-	unsigned long vm_end;		/* The first byte after our end address
-					   within vm_mm. */
+	union {
+		struct {
+			/* VMA covers [vm_start; vm_end) addresses within mm */
+			unsigned long vm_start, vm_end;
 
-	/* linked list of VM areas per task, sorted by address */
-	struct vm_area_struct *vm_next, *vm_prev;
+			/* linked list of VMAs per task, sorted by address */
+			struct vm_area_struct *vm_next, *vm_prev;
+		};
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+		struct rcu_head vm_rcu;	/* Used for deferred freeing. */
+#endif
+	};
 
 	struct rb_node vm_rb;
 
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index d75a528f7b21..2e5f2e8de31a 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -371,10 +371,23 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *orig)
 	return new;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+static void __vm_area_free(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma = container_of(head, struct vm_area_struct,
+						  vm_rcu);
+	kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+}
+#endif
+
 void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	free_vma_anon_name(vma);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+	call_rcu(&vma->vm_rcu, __vm_area_free);
+#else
 	kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+#endif
 }
 
 static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
-- 
2.20.1