From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: change lookup_node() to use get_user_pages_fast() The purpose of calling get_user_pages_locked() from lookup_node() was to allow for unlocking the mmap_lock when reading a page from the disk during a page fault (hidden behind VM_FAULT_RETRY). The idea was to reduce contention on the heavily-used mmap_lock. (Thanks to Jan Kara for clearly pointing that out, and in fact I've used some of his wording here.) However, it is unlikely for lookup_node() to take a page fault. With that in mind, change over to calling get_user_pages_fast(). This simplifies the code, runs a little faster in the expected case, and allows removing get_user_pages_locked() entirely, in a subsequent patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220204020010.68930-5-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-change-lookup_node-to-use-get_user_pages_fast +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -907,17 +907,14 @@ static void get_policy_nodemask(struct m static int lookup_node(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) { struct page *p = NULL; - int err; + int ret; - int locked = 1; - err = get_user_pages_locked(addr & PAGE_MASK, 1, 0, &p, &locked); - if (err > 0) { - err = page_to_nid(p); + ret = get_user_pages_fast(addr & PAGE_MASK, 1, 0, &p); + if (ret > 0) { + ret = page_to_nid(p); put_page(p); } - if (locked) - mmap_read_unlock(mm); - return err; + return ret; } /* Retrieve NUMA policy */ @@ -968,14 +965,14 @@ static long do_get_mempolicy(int *policy if (flags & MPOL_F_NODE) { if (flags & MPOL_F_ADDR) { /* - * Take a refcount on the mpol, lookup_node() - * will drop the mmap_lock, so after calling - * lookup_node() only "pol" remains valid, "vma" - * is stale. + * Take a refcount on the mpol, because we are about to + * drop the mmap_lock, after which only "pol" remains + * valid, "vma" is stale. */ pol_refcount = pol; vma = NULL; mpol_get(pol); + mmap_read_unlock(mm); err = lookup_node(mm, addr); if (err < 0) goto out; _
