The patch titled
Subject: userfaultfd: allocate the userfaultfd_ctx cacheline aligned
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
userfaultfd-allocate-the-userfaultfd_ctx-cacheline-aligned.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/userfaultfd-allocate-the-userfaultfd_ctx-cacheline-aligned.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/userfaultfd-allocate-the-userfaultfd_ctx-cacheline-aligned.patch
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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: userfaultfd: allocate the userfaultfd_ctx cacheline aligned
Use proper slab to guarantee alignment.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zhang.zhanghailiang@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/userfaultfd.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-allocate-the-userfaultfd_ctx-cacheline-aligned fs/userfaultfd.c
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-allocate-the-userfaultfd_ctx-cacheline-aligned
+++ a/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -27,20 +27,26 @@
#include <linux/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
+static struct kmem_cache *userfaultfd_ctx_cachep __read_mostly;
+
enum userfaultfd_state {
UFFD_STATE_WAIT_API,
UFFD_STATE_RUNNING,
};
+/*
+ * Start with fault_pending_wqh and fault_wqh so they're more likely
+ * to be in the same cacheline.
+ */
struct userfaultfd_ctx {
- /* pseudo fd refcounting */
- atomic_t refcount;
/* waitqueue head for the pending (i.e. not read) userfaults */
wait_queue_head_t fault_pending_wqh;
/* waitqueue head for the userfaults */
wait_queue_head_t fault_wqh;
/* waitqueue head for the pseudo fd to wakeup poll/read */
wait_queue_head_t fd_wqh;
+ /* pseudo fd refcounting */
+ atomic_t refcount;
/* userfaultfd syscall flags */
unsigned int flags;
/* state machine */
@@ -117,7 +123,7 @@ static void userfaultfd_ctx_put(struct u
VM_BUG_ON(spin_is_locked(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock));
VM_BUG_ON(waitqueue_active(&ctx->fd_wqh));
mmput(ctx->mm);
- kfree(ctx);
+ kmem_cache_free(userfaultfd_ctx_cachep, ctx);
}
}
@@ -1002,6 +1008,15 @@ static const struct file_operations user
.llseek = noop_llseek,
};
+static void init_once_userfaultfd_ctx(void *mem)
+{
+ struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx = (struct userfaultfd_ctx *) mem;
+
+ init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh);
+ init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->fault_wqh);
+ init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->fd_wqh);
+}
+
/**
* userfaultfd_file_create - Creates an userfaultfd file pointer.
* @flags: Flags for the userfaultfd file.
@@ -1032,14 +1047,11 @@ static struct file *userfaultfd_file_cre
goto out;
file = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
+ ctx = kmem_cache_alloc(userfaultfd_ctx_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ctx)
goto out;
atomic_set(&ctx->refcount, 1);
- init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh);
- init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->fault_wqh);
- init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->fd_wqh);
ctx->flags = flags;
ctx->state = UFFD_STATE_WAIT_API;
ctx->released = false;
@@ -1050,7 +1062,7 @@ static struct file *userfaultfd_file_cre
file = anon_inode_getfile("[userfaultfd]", &userfaultfd_fops, ctx,
O_RDWR | (flags & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS));
if (IS_ERR(file))
- kfree(ctx);
+ kmem_cache_free(userfaultfd_ctx_cachep, ctx);
out:
return file;
}
@@ -1079,3 +1091,14 @@ err_put_unused_fd:
return error;
}
+
+static int __init userfaultfd_init(void)
+{
+ userfaultfd_ctx_cachep = kmem_cache_create("userfaultfd_ctx_cache",
+ sizeof(struct userfaultfd_ctx),
+ 0,
+ SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC,
+ init_once_userfaultfd_ctx);
+ return 0;
+}
+__initcall(userfaultfd_init);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are
thp-cleanup-how-khugepaged-enters-freezer.patch
mm-drop-bogus-vm_bug_on_page-assert-in-put_page-codepath.patch
mm-avoid-tail-page-refcounting-on-non-thp-compound-pages.patch
mm-thp-split-out-pmd-collpase-flush-into-a-separate-functions.patch
mm-thp-split-out-pmd-collpase-flush-into-a-separate-functions-fix.patch
powerpc-mm-use-generic-version-of-pmdp_clear_flush.patch
mm-clarify-that-the-function-operateds-on-hugepage-pte.patch
userfaultfd-linux-documentation-vm-userfaultfdtxt.patch
userfaultfd-waitqueue-add-nr-wake-parameter-to-__wake_up_locked_key.patch
userfaultfd-uapi.patch
userfaultfd-linux-userfaultfd_kh.patch
userfaultfd-add-vm_userfaultfd_ctx-to-the-vm_area_struct.patch
userfaultfd-add-vm_uffd_missing-and-vm_uffd_wp.patch
userfaultfd-call-handle_userfault-for-userfaultfd_missing-faults.patch
userfaultfd-teach-vma_merge-to-merge-across-vma-vm_userfaultfd_ctx.patch
userfaultfd-prevent-khugepaged-to-merge-if-userfaultfd-is-armed.patch
userfaultfd-add-new-syscall-to-provide-memory-externalization.patch
userfaultfd-add-new-syscall-to-provide-memory-externalization-fix.patch
userfaultfd-rename-uffd_apibits-into-features.patch
userfaultfd-rename-uffd_apibits-into-features-fixup.patch
userfaultfd-change-the-read-api-to-return-a-uffd_msg.patch
userfaultfd-wake-pending-userfaults.patch
userfaultfd-optimize-read-and-poll-to-be-o1.patch
userfaultfd-allocate-the-userfaultfd_ctx-cacheline-aligned.patch
userfaultfd-solve-the-race-between-uffdio_copyzeropage-and-read.patch
userfaultfd-buildsystem-activation.patch
userfaultfd-activate-syscall.patch
userfaultfd-uffdio_copyuffdio_zeropage-uapi.patch
userfaultfd-mcopy_atomicmfill_zeropage-uffdio_copyuffdio_zeropage-preparation.patch
userfaultfd-avoid-mmap_sem-read-recursion-in-mcopy_atomic.patch
userfaultfd-uffdio_copy-and-uffdio_zeropage.patch
page-flags-trivial-cleanup-for-pagetrans-helpers.patch
page-flags-introduce-page-flags-policies-wrt-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_locked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-fs-io-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-lru-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_reserved-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapbacked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapcache-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_mlocked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uncached-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uptodate-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-look-on-head-page-if-the-flag-is-encoded-in-page-mapping.patch
mm-sanitize-page-mapping-for-tail-pages.patch
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