linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: move per-vma lock into vm_area

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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:08:47 -0800
From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: move per-vma lock into vm_area_struct

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 7:57 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> On 11/11/24 21:55, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > @@ -511,7 +476,6 @@ void __vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> >  {
> >       vma_numab_state_free(vma);
> >       free_anon_vma_name(vma);
> > -     vma_lock_free(vma);
> >       kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
> >  }
>
> Have you investigated if this allows to perform vma_numab_state_free() and
> free_anon_vma_name() immediately, and only kfree_rcu() the vma itself,
> instead of performing all this in a call_rcu() callback?

Yes, it should be fine to free them immediately. lock_vma_under_rcu()
does not use neither vma->numab_state, nor vma->anon_name.

>
> Of course if we succeed converting vma's to SLAB_TYPESAFE_RCU this immediate
> freeing of numab state and anon_vma_name would be implied, but maybe it's an
> useful intermediate step on its own.

I'm thinking maybe I should post SLAB_TYPESAFE_RCU conversion before
anything else. It's simple and quite uncontroversial. I will probably
do that today.