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authorSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>2023-02-27 09:36:11 -0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-04-05 20:02:57 -0700
commit5e31275cc997f8ec5d9e8d65fe9840ebed89db19 (patch)
tree0afeeee12442b0781c3b29c5e0227aded0d8fee2 /kernel/fork.c
parent438b6e12cd603a9416ca7c5462ab75b2a8c4d5b9 (diff)
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mm: add per-VMA lock and helper functions to control it
Introduce per-VMA locking. The lock implementation relies on a per-vma and per-mm sequence counters to note exclusive locking: - read lock - (implemented by vma_start_read) requires the vma (vm_lock_seq) and mm (mm_lock_seq) sequence counters to differ. If they match then there must be a vma exclusive lock held somewhere. - read unlock - (implemented by vma_end_read) is a trivial vma->lock unlock. - write lock - (vma_start_write) requires the mmap_lock to be held exclusively and the current mm counter is assigned to the vma counter. This will allow multiple vmas to be locked under a single mmap_lock write lock (e.g. during vma merging). The vma counter is modified under exclusive vma lock. - write unlock - (vma_end_write_all) is a batch release of all vma locks held. It doesn't pair with a specific vma_start_write! It is done before exclusive mmap_lock is released by incrementing mm sequence counter (mm_lock_seq). - write downgrade - if the mmap_lock is downgraded to the read lock, all vma write locks are released as well (effectivelly same as write unlock). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-13-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 93ec6e14bb65..0907776d8ed4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *orig)
*/
data_race(memcpy(new, orig, sizeof(*new)));
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new->anon_vma_chain);
+ vma_init_lock(new);
dup_anon_vma_name(orig, new);
}
return new;
@@ -1208,6 +1209,9 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
seqcount_init(&mm->write_protect_seq);
mmap_init_lock(mm);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+ mm->mm_lock_seq = 0;
+#endif
mm_pgtables_bytes_init(mm);
mm->map_count = 0;
mm->locked_vm = 0;