The patch titled Subject: mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()s has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-pgtable-add-rcu_read_lock-and-rcu_read_unlocks.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-pgtable-add-rcu_read_lock-and-rcu_read_unlocks.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()s Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 21:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Patch series "mm: free retracted page table by RCU", v3. Some mmap_lock avoidance i.e. latency reduction. Initially just for the case of collapsing shmem or file pages to THPs: the usefulness of MADV_COLLAPSE on shmem is being limited by that mmap_write_lock it currently requires. Likely to be relied upon later in other contexts e.g. freeing of empty page tables (but that's not work I'm doing). mmap_write_lock avoidance when collapsing to anon THPs? Perhaps, but again that's not work I've done: a quick attempt was not as easy as the shmem/file case. These changes (though of course not these exact patches) have been in Google's data centre kernel for three years now: we do rely upon them. This patch (of 13): Before putting them to use (several commits later), add rcu_read_lock() to pte_offset_map(), and rcu_read_unlock() to pte_unmap(). Make this a separate commit, since it risks exposing imbalances: prior commits have fixed all the known imbalances, but we may find some have been missed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7cd843a9-aa80-14f-5eb2-33427363c20@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d3b01da5-2a6-833c-6681-67a3e024a16f@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/pgtable.h | 4 ++-- mm/pgtable-generic.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/pgtable.h~mm-pgtable-add-rcu_read_lock-and-rcu_read_unlocks +++ a/include/linux/pgtable.h @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static inline pte_t *pte_offset_kernel(p ((pte_t *)kmap_local_page(pmd_page(*(pmd))) + pte_index((address))) #define pte_unmap(pte) do { \ kunmap_local((pte)); \ - /* rcu_read_unlock() to be added later */ \ + rcu_read_unlock(); \ } while (0) #else static inline pte_t *__pte_map(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long address) @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static inline pte_t *__pte_map(pmd_t *pm } static inline void pte_unmap(pte_t *pte) { - /* rcu_read_unlock() to be added later */ + rcu_read_unlock(); } #endif --- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c~mm-pgtable-add-rcu_read_lock-and-rcu_read_unlocks +++ a/mm/pgtable-generic.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ pte_t *__pte_offset_map(pmd_t *pmd, unsi { pmd_t pmdval; - /* rcu_read_lock() to be added later */ + rcu_read_lock(); pmdval = pmdp_get_lockless(pmd); if (pmdvalp) *pmdvalp = pmdval; @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ pte_t *__pte_offset_map(pmd_t *pmd, unsi } return __pte_map(&pmdval, addr); nomap: - /* rcu_read_unlock() to be added later */ + rcu_read_unlock(); return NULL; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-userfaultfd-add-new-uffdio_poison-ioctl-fix.patch mm-pgtable-add-rcu_read_lock-and-rcu_read_unlocks.patch mm-pgtable-add-pae-safety-to-__pte_offset_map.patch arm-adjust_pte-use-pte_offset_map_nolock.patch powerpc-assert_pte_locked-use-pte_offset_map_nolock.patch powerpc-add-pte_free_defer-for-pgtables-sharing-page.patch sparc-add-pte_free_defer-for-pte_t-pgtable_t.patch s390-add-pte_free_defer-for-pgtables-sharing-page.patch mm-pgtable-add-pte_free_defer-for-pgtable-as-page.patch mm-khugepaged-retract_page_tables-without-mmap-or-vma-lock.patch mm-khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-with-mmap_read_lock.patch mm-khugepaged-delete-khugepaged_collapse_pte_mapped_thps.patch mm-delete-mmap_write_trylock-and-vma_try_start_write.patch mm-pgtable-notes-on-pte_offset_map.patch