On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote: > diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c > index faf85699f1a1..5898255d0aeb 100644 > --- a/mm/mmap.c > +++ b/mm/mmap.c > @@ -558,6 +558,10 @@ void __vma_link_rb(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, > else > mm->highest_vm_end = vm_end_gap(vma); > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT > + seqcount_init(&vma->vm_sequence); > +#endif > + > /* > * vma->vm_prev wasn't known when we followed the rbtree to find the > * correct insertion point for that vma. As a result, we could not > @@ -692,6 +696,30 @@ int __vma_adjust(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, > long adjust_next = 0; > int remove_next = 0; > > + /* > + * Why using vm_raw_write*() functions here to avoid lockdep's warning ? > + * > + * Locked is complaining about a theoretical lock dependency, involving > + * 3 locks: > + * mapping->i_mmap_rwsem --> vma->vm_sequence --> fs_reclaim > + * > + * Here are the major path leading to this dependency : > + * 1. __vma_adjust() mmap_sem -> vm_sequence -> i_mmap_rwsem > + * 2. move_vmap() mmap_sem -> vm_sequence -> fs_reclaim > + * 3. __alloc_pages_nodemask() fs_reclaim -> i_mmap_rwsem > + * 4. unmap_mapping_range() i_mmap_rwsem -> vm_sequence > + * > + * So there is no way to solve this easily, especially because in > + * unmap_mapping_range() the i_mmap_rwsem is grab while the impacted > + * VMAs are not yet known. > + * However, the way the vm_seq is used is guarantying that we will > + * never block on it since we just check for its value and never wait > + * for it to move, see vma_has_changed() and handle_speculative_fault(). > + */ > + vm_raw_write_begin(vma); > + if (next) > + vm_raw_write_begin(next); > + > if (next && !insert) { > struct vm_area_struct *exporter = NULL, *importer = NULL; > Eek, what about later on: /* * Easily overlooked: when mprotect shifts the boundary, * make sure the expanding vma has anon_vma set if the * shrinking vma had, to cover any anon pages imported. */ if (exporter && exporter->anon_vma && !importer->anon_vma) { int error; importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma; error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter); if (error) return error; } This needs if (error) { if (next && next != vma) vm_raw_write_end(next); vm_raw_write_end(vma); return error; }