Re: REGRESSION: Performance regressions from switching anon_vma->lockto mutex

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> something like so I guess, completely untested etc..

Having gone over it a bit more, I actually think I prefer to just
special-case the allocation instead.

We already have to drop the anon_vma lock for the "out of memory"
case, and a slight re-organization of clone_anon_vma() makes it easy
to just first try a NOIO allocation with the lock still held, and then
if that fails do the "drop lock, retry, and hard-fail" case.

IOW, something like the attached (on top of the patches already posted
except for your memory reclaim thing)

Hugh, does this fix the lockdep issue?

                        Linus
 mm/rmap.c |   20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 68756a77ef87..27dfd3b82b0f 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ static inline void anon_vma_free(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
 	kmem_cache_free(anon_vma_cachep, anon_vma);
 }
 
-static inline struct anon_vma_chain *anon_vma_chain_alloc(void)
+static inline struct anon_vma_chain *anon_vma_chain_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
 {
-	return kmem_cache_alloc(anon_vma_chain_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	return kmem_cache_alloc(anon_vma_chain_cachep, gfp);
 }
 
 static void anon_vma_chain_free(struct anon_vma_chain *anon_vma_chain)
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 		struct anon_vma *allocated;
 
-		avc = anon_vma_chain_alloc();
+		avc = anon_vma_chain_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!avc)
 			goto out_enomem;
 
@@ -253,9 +253,14 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
 	list_for_each_entry_reverse(pavc, &src->anon_vma_chain, same_vma) {
 		struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
 
-		avc = anon_vma_chain_alloc();
-		if (!avc)
-			goto enomem_failure;
+		avc = anon_vma_chain_alloc(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		if (unlikely(!avc)) {
+			unlock_anon_vma_root(root);
+			root = NULL;
+			avc = anon_vma_chain_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!avc)
+				goto enomem_failure;
+		}
 		anon_vma = pavc->anon_vma;
 		root = lock_anon_vma_root(root, anon_vma);
 		anon_vma_chain_link(dst, avc, anon_vma);
@@ -264,7 +269,6 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
 	return 0;
 
  enomem_failure:
-	unlock_anon_vma_root(root);
 	unlink_anon_vmas(dst);
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
@@ -294,7 +298,7 @@ int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *pvma)
 	anon_vma = anon_vma_alloc();
 	if (!anon_vma)
 		goto out_error;
-	avc = anon_vma_chain_alloc();
+	avc = anon_vma_chain_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!avc)
 		goto out_error_free_anon_vma;