The patch titled Subject: mm: munlock use mapcount to avoid terrible overhead has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-munlock-use-mapcount-to-avoid-terrible-overhead.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: munlock use mapcount to avoid terrible overhead A process spent 30 minutes exiting, just munlocking the pages of a large anonymous area that had been alternately mprotected into page-sized vmas: for every single page there's an anon_vma walk through all the other little vmas to find the right one. A general fix to that would be a lot more complicated (use prio_tree on anon_vma?), but there's one very simple thing we can do to speed up the common case: if a page to be munlocked is mapped only once, then it is our vma that it is mapped into, and there's no need whatever to walk through all the others. Okay, there is a very remote race in munlock_vma_pages_range(), if between its follow_page() and lock_page(), another process were to munlock the same page, then page reclaim remove it from our vma, then another process mlock it again. We would find it with page_mapcount 1, yet it's still mlocked in another process. But never mind, that's much less likely than the down_read_trylock() failure which munlocking already tolerates (in try_to_unmap_one()): in due course page reclaim will discover and move the page to unevictable instead. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: add comment] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mlock.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/mlock.c~mm-munlock-use-mapcount-to-avoid-terrible-overhead mm/mlock.c --- a/mm/mlock.c~mm-munlock-use-mapcount-to-avoid-terrible-overhead +++ a/mm/mlock.c @@ -110,7 +110,15 @@ void munlock_vma_page(struct page *page) if (TestClearPageMlocked(page)) { dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_MLOCK); if (!isolate_lru_page(page)) { - int ret = try_to_munlock(page); + int ret = SWAP_AGAIN; + + /* + * Optimization: if the page was mapped just once, + * that's our mapping and we don't need to check all the + * other vmas. + */ + if (page_mapcount(page) > 1) + ret = try_to_munlock(page); /* * did try_to_unlock() succeed or punt? */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch drm-avoid-switching-to-text-console-if-there-is-no-panic-timeout.patch thp-tail-page-refcounting-fix-5.patch powerpc-remove-superfluous-pagetail-checks-on-the-pte-gup_fast.patch powerpc-get_hugepte-dont-put_page-the-wrong-page.patch powerpc-gup_hugepte-avoid-to-free-the-head-page-too-many-times.patch powerpc-gup_hugepte-support-thp-based-tail-recounting.patch powerpc-gup_huge_pmd-return-0-if-pte-changes.patch s390-gup_huge_pmd-support-thp-tail-recounting.patch s390-gup_huge_pmd-return-0-if-pte-changes.patch sparc-gup_pte_range-support-thp-based-tail-recounting.patch thp-share-get_huge_page_tail.patch prio_tree-debugging-patch.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