Re: [PATCH 04/13] mm/munlock: rmap call mlock_vma_page() munlock_vma_page()

Vlastimil Babka
2022-02-11T10:29:55Z

On 2/6/22 22:36, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Add vma argument to mlock_vma_page() and munlock_vma_page(), make them
> inline functions which check (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) before calling
> mlock_page() and munlock_page() in mm/mlock.c.
>
> Add bool compound to mlock_vma_page() and munlock_vma_page(): this is
> because we have understandable difficulty in accounting pte maps of THPs,
> and if passed a PageHead page, mlock_page() and munlock_page() cannot
> tell whether it's a pmd map to be counted or a pte map to be ignored.
>
> Add vma arg to page_add_file_rmap() and page_remove_rmap(), like the
> others, and use that to call mlock_vma_page() at the end of the page
> adds, and munlock_vma_page() at the end of page_remove_rmap() (end or
> beginning? unimportant, but end was easier for assertions in testing).
>
> No page lock is required (although almost all adds happen to hold it):
> delete the "Serialize with page migration" BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page))s.
> Certainly page lock did serialize with page migration, but I'm having
> difficulty explaining why that was ever important.
>
> Mlock accounting on THPs has been hard to define, differed between anon
> and file, involved PageDoubleMap in some places and not others, required
> clear_page_mlock() at some points. Keep it simple now: just count the
> pmds and ignore the ptes, there is no reason for ptes to undo pmd mlocks.
>
> page_add_new_anon_rmap() callers unchanged: they have long been calling
> lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable(), which does its own VM_LOCKED
> handling (it also checks for not VM_SPECIAL: I think that's overcautious,
> and inconsistent with other checks, that mmap_region() already prevents
> VM_LOCKED on VM_SPECIAL; but haven't quite convinced myself to change it).
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

Yeah, much better when most of the sites are encapsulated in rmap operations
like this.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>