The patch titled Subject: mm: handle faults that merely update the accessed bit under the VMA lock has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-handle-faults-that-merely-update-the-accessed-bit-under-the-vma-lock.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-handle-faults-that-merely-update-the-accessed-bit-under-the-vma-lock.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: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: handle faults that merely update the accessed bit under the VMA lock Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:54:10 +0100 Move FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK check out of handle_pte_fault(). This should have a significant performance improvement for mmaped files. Write faults (on read-only shared pages) still take the mmap lock as we do not want to audit all the implementations of ->pfn_mkwrite() and ->page_mkwrite(). However write-faults on private mappings are handled under the VMA lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724185410.1124082-11-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arjun Roy <arjunroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-handle-faults-that-merely-update-the-accessed-bit-under-the-vma-lock +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -3391,6 +3391,11 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_pfn_shared(struct v vm_fault_t ret; pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl); + if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) { + vma_end_read(vmf->vma); + return VM_FAULT_RETRY; + } + vmf->flags |= FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE; ret = vma->vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite(vmf); if (ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)) @@ -3413,6 +3418,12 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_shared(struct vm_fault_t tmp; pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl); + if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) { + folio_put(folio); + vma_end_read(vmf->vma); + return VM_FAULT_RETRY; + } + tmp = do_page_mkwrite(vmf, folio); if (unlikely(!tmp || (tmp & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))) { @@ -5111,12 +5122,6 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_fault(struc if (pte_protnone(vmf->orig_pte) && vma_is_accessible(vmf->vma)) return do_numa_page(vmf); - if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) && !vma_is_anonymous(vmf->vma)) { - pte_unmap(vmf->pte); - vma_end_read(vmf->vma); - return VM_FAULT_RETRY; - } - spin_lock(vmf->ptl); entry = vmf->orig_pte; if (unlikely(!pte_same(ptep_get(vmf->pte), entry))) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are rmap-pass-the-folio-to-__page_check_anon_rmap.patch highmem-add-memcpy_to_folio-and-memcpy_from_folio.patch affs-convert-affs_symlink_read_folio-to-use-the-folio.patch affs-convert-data-read-and-write-to-use-folios.patch migrate-use-folio_set_bh-instead-of-set_bh_page.patch ntfs3-convert-ntfs_get_block_vbo-to-use-a-folio.patch jbd2-use-a-folio-in-jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer.patch buffer-remove-set_bh_page.patch zswap-make-zswap_store-take-a-folio.patch memcg-convert-get_obj_cgroup_from_page-to-get_obj_cgroup_from_folio.patch swap-remove-some-calls-to-compound_head-in-swap_readpage.patch zswap-make-zswap_load-take-a-folio.patch mm-remove-config_per_vma_lock-ifdefs.patch mm-allow-per-vma-locks-on-file-backed-vmas.patch mm-move-fault_flag_vma_lock-check-from-handle_mm_fault.patch mm-handle-pud-faults-under-the-vma-lock.patch mm-handle-some-pmd-faults-under-the-vma-lock.patch mm-move-fault_flag_vma_lock-check-down-in-handle_pte_fault.patch mm-move-fault_flag_vma_lock-check-down-from-do_fault.patch mm-run-the-fault-around-code-under-the-vma-lock.patch mm-handle-swap-and-numa-pte-faults-under-the-vma-lock.patch mm-handle-faults-that-merely-update-the-accessed-bit-under-the-vma-lock.patch