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* [PATCH 0/9] Avoid populating unbounded num of ptes with mmap_sem held
@ 2012-12-21  0:49 Michel Lespinasse
  2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: make mlockall preserve flags other than VM_LOCKED in def_flags Michel Lespinasse
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  0 siblings, 12 replies; 40+ messages in thread
From: Michel Lespinasse @ 2012-12-21  0:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar, Al Viro, Hugh Dickins, Jorn_Engel,
	Rik van Riel
  Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, linux-kernel

We have many vma manipulation functions that are fast in the typical case,
but can optionally be instructed to populate an unbounded number of ptes
within the region they work on:
- mmap with MAP_POPULATE or MAP_LOCKED flags;
- remap_file_pages() with MAP_NONBLOCK not set or when working on a
  VM_LOCKED vma;
- mmap_region() and all its wrappers when mlock(MCL_FUTURE) is in effect;
- brk() when mlock(MCL_FUTURE) is in effect.

Current code handles these pte operations locally, while the sourrounding
code has to hold the mmap_sem write side since it's manipulating vmas.
This means we're doing an unbounded amount of pte population work with
mmap_sem held, and this causes problems as Andy Lutomirski reported
(we've hit this at Google as well, though it's not entirely clear why
people keep trying to use mlock(MCL_FUTURE) in the first place).

I propose introducing a new mm_populate() function to do this pte
population work after the mmap_sem has been released. mm_populate()
does need to acquire the mmap_sem read side, but critically, it
doesn't need to hold continuously for the entire duration of the
operation - it can drop it whenever things take too long (such as when
hitting disk for a file read) and re-acquire it later on.

The following patches are against v3.7:

- Patches 1-2 fix some issues I noticed while working on the existing code.
  If needed, they could potentially go in before the rest of the patches.

- Patch 3 introduces the new mm_populate() function and changes
  mmap_region() call sites to use it after they drop mmap_sem. This is
  inspired from Andy Lutomirski's proposal and is built as an extension
  of the work I had previously done for mlock() and mlockall() around
  v2.6.38-rc1. I had tried doing something similar at the time but had
  given up as there were so many do_mmap() call sites; the recent cleanups
  by Linus and Viro are a tremendous help here.

- Patches 4-6 convert some of the less-obvious places doing unbounded
  pte populates to the new mm_populate() mechanism.

- Patches 7-8 are code cleanups that are made possible by the
  mm_populate() work. In particular, they remove more code than the
  entire patch series added, which should be a good thing :)

- Patch 9 is optional to this entire series. It only helps to deal more
  nicely with racy userspace programs that might modify their mappings
  while we're trying to populate them. It adds a new VM_POPULATE flag
  on the mappings we do want to populate, so that if userspace replaces
  them with mappings it doesn't want populated, mm_populate() won't
  populate those replacement mappings.

Michel Lespinasse (9):
  mm: make mlockall preserve flags other than VM_LOCKED in def_flags
  mm: remap_file_pages() fixes
  mm: introduce mm_populate() for populating new vmas
  mm: use mm_populate() for blocking remap_file_pages()
  mm: use mm_populate() when adjusting brk with MCL_FUTURE in effect.
  mm: use mm_populate() for mremap() of VM_LOCKED vmas
  mm: remove flags argument to mmap_region
  mm: directly use __mlock_vma_pages_range() in find_extend_vma()
  mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs

 arch/tile/mm/elf.c   |    1 -
 fs/aio.c             |    6 +++-
 include/linux/mm.h   |   23 +++++++++---
 include/linux/mman.h |    4 ++-
 ipc/shm.c            |   12 ++++---
 mm/fremap.c          |   51 ++++++++++++++-------------
 mm/internal.h        |    4 +-
 mm/memory.c          |   24 -------------
 mm/mlock.c           |   94 +++++++++++++------------------------------------
 mm/mmap.c            |   77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 mm/mremap.c          |   25 +++++++------
 mm/nommu.c           |    5 ++-
 mm/util.c            |    6 +++-
 13 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-)

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1.7.7.3

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2012-12-21  0:49 [PATCH 0/9] Avoid populating unbounded num of ptes with mmap_sem held Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: make mlockall preserve flags other than VM_LOCKED in def_flags Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-22  4:25   ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm: remap_file_pages() fixes Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  0:31   ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm: introduce mm_populate() for populating new vmas Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  2:14   ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm: use mm_populate() for blocking remap_file_pages() Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  2:25   ` Rik van Riel
2013-03-10 18:55   ` Tommi Rantala
2013-03-11 23:03     ` Andrew Morton
2013-03-12  0:24       ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-03-12  4:23         ` Hillf Danton
2013-03-12  5:01           ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-03-12 20:47         ` Andrew Morton
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 5/9] mm: use mm_populate() when adjusting brk with MCL_FUTURE in effect Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  2:56   ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm: use mm_populate() for mremap() of VM_LOCKED vmas Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  5:47   ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 7/9] mm: remove flags argument to mmap_region Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  5:49   ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: directly use __mlock_vma_pages_range() in find_extend_vma() Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  5:50   ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-21  0:49 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  6:20   ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-21 10:46 ` [PATCH 0/9] Avoid populating unbounded num of ptes with mmap_sem held Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-22 15:02   ` Greg Ungerer
2013-01-23 13:37   ` Greg Ungerer
2012-12-22  0:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-12-22  0:59   ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-22  1:09     ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-12-22  1:59       ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-22  2:16         ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-12-22  9:37           ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-22  9:45             ` [PATCH 10/9] mm: make do_mmap_pgoff return populate as a size in bytes, not as a bool Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-03  6:21               ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-03 18:54               ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-01-03 18:56             ` [PATCH 0/9] Avoid populating unbounded num of ptes with mmap_sem held Andy Lutomirski
2013-01-04 18:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-01-04 22:58   ` Michel Lespinasse

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