From 0d2ebf9c3f7822e7ba3e4792ea3b6b19aa2da34a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suren Baghdasaryan Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:36:31 -0800 Subject: mm/mmap: free vm_area_struct without call_rcu in exit_mmap call_rcu() can take a long time when callback offloading is enabled. Its use in the vm_area_free can cause regressions in the exit path when multiple VMAs are being freed. Because exit_mmap() is called only after the last mm user drops its refcount, the page fault handlers can't be racing with it. Any other possible user like oom-reaper or process_mrelease are already synchronized using mmap_lock. Therefore exit_mmap() can free VMAs directly, without the use of call_rcu(). Expose __vm_area_free() and use it from exit_mmap() to avoid possible call_rcu() floods and performance regressions caused by it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-33-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 1876825d6700..f31c75dc190e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ void setup_initial_init_mm(void *start_code, void *end_code, struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *); struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *); void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *); +/* Use only if VMA has no other users */ +void __vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma); #ifndef CONFIG_MMU extern struct rb_root nommu_region_tree; -- cgit v1.2.3