The patch titled mmap: avoid merging cloned VMAs has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mmap-avoid-merging-cloned-vmas.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mmap: avoid merging cloned VMAs From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> Avoid merging a VMA with another VMA which is cloned from the parent process. The cloned VMA shares the anon_vma lock with the parent process's VMA. If we do the merge, more vmas (even the new range is only for current process) use the perent process's anon_vma lock. This introduces scalability issues. find_mergeable_anon_vma() already considers this case. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/mmap.c~mmap-avoid-merging-cloned-vmas mm/mmap.c --- a/mm/mmap.c~mmap-avoid-merging-cloned-vmas +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -703,9 +703,17 @@ static inline int is_mergeable_vma(struc } static inline int is_mergeable_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma1, - struct anon_vma *anon_vma2) + struct anon_vma *anon_vma2, + struct vm_area_struct *vma) { - return !anon_vma1 || !anon_vma2 || (anon_vma1 == anon_vma2); + /* + * The list_is_singular() test is to avoid merging VMA cloned from + * parents. This can improve scalability caused by anon_vma lock. + */ + if ((!anon_vma1 || !anon_vma2) && (!vma || + list_is_singular(&vma->anon_vma_chain))) + return 1; + return anon_vma1 == anon_vma2; } /* @@ -724,7 +732,7 @@ can_vma_merge_before(struct vm_area_stru struct anon_vma *anon_vma, struct file *file, pgoff_t vm_pgoff) { if (is_mergeable_vma(vma, file, vm_flags) && - is_mergeable_anon_vma(anon_vma, vma->anon_vma)) { + is_mergeable_anon_vma(anon_vma, vma->anon_vma, vma)) { if (vma->vm_pgoff == vm_pgoff) return 1; } @@ -743,7 +751,7 @@ can_vma_merge_after(struct vm_area_struc struct anon_vma *anon_vma, struct file *file, pgoff_t vm_pgoff) { if (is_mergeable_vma(vma, file, vm_flags) && - is_mergeable_anon_vma(anon_vma, vma->anon_vma)) { + is_mergeable_anon_vma(anon_vma, vma->anon_vma, vma)) { pgoff_t vm_pglen; vm_pglen = (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT; if (vma->vm_pgoff + vm_pglen == vm_pgoff) @@ -821,7 +829,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vma_merge(struct can_vma_merge_before(next, vm_flags, anon_vma, file, pgoff+pglen) && is_mergeable_anon_vma(prev->anon_vma, - next->anon_vma)) { + next->anon_vma, NULL)) { /* cases 1, 6 */ err = vma_adjust(prev, prev->vm_start, next->vm_end, prev->vm_pgoff, NULL); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html