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Subject[RFC PATCH 02/28] mm: rcu safe VMA freeing
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From: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>

This prepares for page faults handling under VMA lock, looking up VMAs
under protection of an rcu read lock, instead of the usual mmap read lock.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
---
include/linux/mm_types.h | 16 +++++++++++-----
kernel/fork.c | 13 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index cf97f3884fda..bed25ef7c994 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -403,12 +403,18 @@ struct anon_vma_name {
struct vm_area_struct {
/* The first cache line has the info for VMA tree walking. */

- unsigned long vm_start; /* Our start address within vm_mm. */
- unsigned long vm_end; /* The first byte after our end address
- within vm_mm. */
+ union {
+ struct {
+ /* VMA covers [vm_start; vm_end) addresses within mm */
+ unsigned long vm_start, vm_end;

- /* linked list of VM areas per task, sorted by address */
- struct vm_area_struct *vm_next, *vm_prev;
+ /* linked list of VMAs per task, sorted by address */
+ struct vm_area_struct *vm_next, *vm_prev;
+ };
+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+ struct rcu_head vm_rcu; /* Used for deferred freeing. */
+#endif
+ };

struct rb_node vm_rb;

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 90c85b17bf69..614872438393 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -481,10 +481,23 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *orig)
return new;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+static void __vm_area_free(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = container_of(head, struct vm_area_struct,
+ vm_rcu);
+ kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+}
+#endif
+
void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
free_anon_vma_name(vma);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
+ call_rcu(&vma->vm_rcu, __vm_area_free);
+#else
kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+#endif
}

static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
--
2.37.2.672.g94769d06f0-goog
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