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author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2012-01-11 03:08:05 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-11 04:30:44 +0400 |
commit | 948f017b093a9baac23855fcd920d3a970b71bb6 (patch) | |
tree | 4536a9cbe1077133e600da2072998f5e60c696c6 /include/linux/rmap.h | |
parent | df0a6daa01fa3856c08f4274d4f21a8092caa480 (diff) | |
download | linux-948f017b093a9baac23855fcd920d3a970b71bb6.tar.xz |
mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge() succeeding in copy_vma()
migrate was doing an rmap_walk with speculative lock-less access on
pagetables. That could lead it to not serializing properly against mremap
PT locks. But a second problem remains in the order of vmas in the
same_anon_vma list used by the rmap_walk.
If vma_merge succeeds in copy_vma, the src vma could be placed after the
dst vma in the same_anon_vma list. That could still lead to migrate
missing some pte.
This patch adds an anon_vma_moveto_tail() function to force the dst vma at
the end of the list before mremap starts to solve the problem.
If the mremap is very large and there are a lots of parents or childs
sharing the anon_vma root lock, this should still scale better than taking
the anon_vma root lock around every pte copy practically for the whole
duration of mremap.
Update: Hugh noticed special care is needed in the error path where
move_page_tables goes in the reverse direction, a second
anon_vma_moveto_tail() call is needed in the error path.
This program exercises the anon_vma_moveto_tail:
===
int main()
{
static struct timeval oldstamp, newstamp;
long diffsec;
char *p, *p2, *p3, *p4;
if (posix_memalign((void **)&p, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
perror("memalign"), exit(1);
if (posix_memalign((void **)&p2, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
perror("memalign"), exit(1);
if (posix_memalign((void **)&p3, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
perror("memalign"), exit(1);
memset(p, 0xff, SIZE);
printf("%p\n", p);
memset(p2, 0xff, SIZE);
memset(p3, 0x77, 4096);
if (memcmp(p, p2, SIZE))
printf("error\n");
p4 = mremap(p+SIZE/2, SIZE/2, SIZE/2, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p3);
if (p4 != p3)
perror("mremap"), exit(1);
p4 = mremap(p4, SIZE/2, SIZE/2, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p+SIZE/2);
if (p4 != p+SIZE/2)
perror("mremap"), exit(1);
if (memcmp(p, p2, SIZE))
printf("error\n");
printf("ok\n");
return 0;
}
===
$ perf probe -a anon_vma_moveto_tail
Add new event:
probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail (on anon_vma_moveto_tail)
You can now use it on all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail -aR sleep 1
$ perf record -e probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail -aR ./anon_vma_moveto_tail
0x7f2ca2800000
ok
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.043 MB perf.data (~1860 samples) ]
$ perf report --stdio
100.00% anon_vma_moveto [kernel.kallsyms] [k] anon_vma_moveto_tail
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Pawel Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rmap.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rmap.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h index 2148b122779b..1afb9954bbf1 100644 --- a/include/linux/rmap.h +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ void anon_vma_init(void); /* create anon_vma_cachep */ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *); void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *); int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *); +void anon_vma_moveto_tail(struct vm_area_struct *); int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *); void __anon_vma_link(struct vm_area_struct *); |