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Message-ID: <a1d78ca9-88cf-4b3f-8999-6307c39db0d9@lucifer.local>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 13:17:12 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@...cle.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>, Chris Li <chriscli@...gle.com>,
        Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm/rmap: skip unfaulted VMAs on anon_vma clone,
 unlink

On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 01:41:10PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM Liam R. Howlett
> <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com> wrote:
> >
> > * Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com> [251217 07:27]:
> > > For both anon_vma_clone() and unlink_anon_vmas(), if the source VMA or the
> > > VMA to be linked are unfaulted (e.g. !vma->anon_vma), then the functions do
> > > nothing. Simply exit early in these cases.
> > >
> > > In the unlink_anon_vmas() case we can also remove a conditional that checks
> > > whether vma->anon_vma is set.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> > > ---
> > >  mm/rmap.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
> > >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> > > index 0e34c0a69fbc..9332d1cbc643 100644
> > > --- a/mm/rmap.c
> > > +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> > > @@ -309,6 +309,9 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
> > >       struct anon_vma_chain *avc, *pavc;
> > >       struct anon_vma *root = NULL;
> > >
> > > +     if (!src->anon_vma)
> > > +             return 0;
> > > +
> > >       check_anon_vma_clone(dst, src);
>
> check_anon_vma_clone() is used only here and contains a couple of
> warnings with "!src->anon_vma && ..." conditions, which now will never
> be triggered even if the second part of those conditions was true.
> This seems like a regression (you are not checking conditions you were
> checking before this change). To avoid that, you can place this early
> exit after the call to check_anon_vma_clone(dst, src).

Yup am aware. Was because later on we do stuff that assumes src.

I guess I can move it and then change the later commit.

>
> > >
> > >       list_for_each_entry_reverse(pavc, &src->anon_vma_chain, same_vma) {
> > > @@ -441,7 +444,8 @@ void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > >       mmap_assert_locked(vma->vm_mm);
> > >
> > >       /* Unfaulted is a no-op. */
> > > -     VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!vma->anon_vma && !list_empty(&vma->anon_vma_chain));
> > > +     if (!vma->anon_vma)
> > > +             return;
> >
> > I guess it doesn't matter because you just added the !list_empty()
> > check, but did you mean to drop that part?
> >
> > >
> > >       /*
> > >        * Unlink each anon_vma chained to the VMA.  This list is ordered
> > > @@ -465,15 +469,13 @@ void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > >               list_del(&avc->same_vma);
> > >               anon_vma_chain_free(avc);
> > >       }
> > > -     if (vma->anon_vma) {
> > > -             vma->anon_vma->num_active_vmas--;
> > >
> > > -             /*
> > > -              * vma would still be needed after unlink, and anon_vma will be prepared
> > > -              * when handle fault.
> > > -              */
> > > -             vma->anon_vma = NULL;
> > > -     }
> > > +     vma->anon_vma->num_active_vmas--;
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * vma would still be needed after unlink, and anon_vma will be prepared
> > > +      * when handle fault.
> > > +      */
> > > +     vma->anon_vma = NULL;
> > >       unlock_anon_vma_root(root);
> > >
> > >       /*
> > > --
> > > 2.52.0
> > >