mm: avoid taking rmap locks in move_ptes()

During mremap(), the destination VMA is generally placed after the
original vma in rmap traversal order: in move_vma(), we always have
new_pgoff >= vma->vm_pgoff, and as a result new_vma->vm_pgoff >=
vma->vm_pgoff unless vma_merge() merged the new vma with an adjacent one.

When the destination VMA is placed after the original in rmap traversal
order, we can avoid taking the rmap locks in move_ptes().

Essentially, this reintroduces the optimization that had been disabled in
"mm anon rmap: remove anon_vma_moveto_tail".  The difference is that we
don't try to impose the rmap traversal order; instead we just rely on
things being in the desired order in the common case and fall back to
taking locks in the uncommon case.  Also we skip the i_mmap_mutex in
addition to the anon_vma lock: in both cases, the vmas are traversed in
increasing vm_pgoff order with ties resolved in tree insertion order.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 81248992120d..2d942353d681 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2371,7 +2371,8 @@ int insert_vm_struct(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
  * prior to moving page table entries, to effect an mremap move.
  */
 struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
-	unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, pgoff_t pgoff)
+	unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, pgoff_t pgoff,
+	bool *need_rmap_locks)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = *vmap;
 	unsigned long vma_start = vma->vm_start;
@@ -2413,8 +2414,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 			 * linear if there are no pages mapped yet.
 			 */
 			VM_BUG_ON(faulted_in_anon_vma);
-			*vmap = new_vma;
+			*vmap = vma = new_vma;
 		}
+		*need_rmap_locks = (new_vma->vm_pgoff <= vma->vm_pgoff);
 	} else {
 		new_vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (new_vma) {
@@ -2434,6 +2436,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 			if (new_vma->vm_ops && new_vma->vm_ops->open)
 				new_vma->vm_ops->open(new_vma);
 			vma_link(mm, new_vma, prev, rb_link, rb_parent);
+			*need_rmap_locks = false;
 		}
 	}
 	return new_vma;