The patch titled
Subject: mm/rmap.c: don't reuse anon_vma if we just want a copy
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-rmapc-dont-reuse-anon_vma-if-we-just-want-a-copy.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-rmapc-dont-reuse-anon_vma-if-we-just-want-a-copy.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-rmapc-dont-reuse-anon_vma-if-we-just-want-a-copy.patch
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From: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/rmap.c: don't reuse anon_vma if we just want a copy
Before commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma
hierarchy"), anon_vma_clone() doesn't change dst->anon_vma. While after
this commit, anon_vma_clone() will try to reuse an exist one on forking.
But this commit go a little bit further for the case not forking.
anon_vma_clone() is called from __vma_split(), __split_vma(), copy_vma()
and anon_vma_fork(). For the first three places, the purpose here is get
a copy of src and we don't expect to touch dst->anon_vma even it is NULL.
While after that commit, it is possible to reuse an anon_vma when
dst->anon_vma is NULL. This is not we intend to have.
This patch stops reuse of anon_vma for non-fork cases.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011072256.16275-1-richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/rmap.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/rmap.c~mm-rmapc-dont-reuse-anon_vma-if-we-just-want-a-copy
+++ a/mm/rmap.c
@@ -250,13 +250,19 @@ static inline void unlock_anon_vma_root(
* Attach the anon_vmas from src to dst.
* Returns 0 on success, -ENOMEM on failure.
*
- * If dst->anon_vma is NULL this function tries to find and reuse existing
- * anon_vma which has no vmas and only one child anon_vma. This prevents
- * degradation of anon_vma hierarchy to endless linear chain in case of
- * constantly forking task. On the other hand, an anon_vma with more than one
- * child isn't reused even if there was no alive vma, thus rmap walker has a
- * good chance of avoiding scanning the whole hierarchy when it searches where
- * page is mapped.
+ * anon_vma_clone() is called by __vma_split(), __split_vma(), copy_vma() and
+ * anon_vma_fork(). The first three want an exact copy of src, while the last
+ * one, anon_vma_fork(), may try to reuse an existing anon_vma to prevent
+ * endless growth of anon_vma. Since dst->anon_vma is set to NULL before call,
+ * we can identify this case by checking (!dst->anon_vma && src->anon_vma).
+ *
+ * If (!dst->anon_vma && src->anon_vma) is true, this function tries to find
+ * and reuse existing anon_vma which has no vmas and only one child anon_vma.
+ * This prevents degradation of anon_vma hierarchy to endless linear chain in
+ * case of constantly forking task. On the other hand, an anon_vma with more
+ * than one child isn't reused even if there was no alive vma, thus rmap
+ * walker has a good chance of avoiding scanning the whole hierarchy when it
+ * searches where page is mapped.
*/
int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
{
@@ -286,8 +292,8 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct
* will always reuse it. Root anon_vma is never reused:
* it has self-parent reference and at least one child.
*/
- if (!dst->anon_vma && anon_vma != src->anon_vma &&
- anon_vma->degree < 2)
+ if (!dst->anon_vma && src->anon_vma &&
+ anon_vma != src->anon_vma && anon_vma->degree < 2)
dst->anon_vma = anon_vma;
}
if (dst->anon_vma)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-mmapc-remove-a-never-trigger-warning-in-__vma_adjust.patch
mm-mmapc-prev-could-be-retrieved-from-vma-vm_prev.patch
mm-mmapc-__vma_unlink_prev-is-not-necessary-now.patch
mm-mmapc-extract-__vma_unlink_list-as-counter-part-for-__vma_link_list.patch
mm-mmapc-rb_parent-is-not-necessary-in-__vma_link_list.patch
mm-rmapc-dont-reuse-anon_vma-if-we-just-want-a-copy.patch
mm-rmapc-reuse-mergeable-anon_vma-as-parent-when-fork.patch
hugetlb-remove-unused-hstate-in-hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash.patch
userfaultfd-use-vma_pagesize-for-all-huge-page-size-calculation.patch
userfaultfd-remove-unnecessary-warn_on-in-__mcopy_atomic_hugetlb.patch
userfaultfd-wrap-the-common-dst_vma-check-into-an-inlined-function.patch
mm-fix-typo-in-the-comment-when-calling-function-__setpageuptodate.patch
