[PATCH v3 20/35] mm: conditionally write-lock VMA in free_pgtables

From: Suren Baghdasaryan
Date: Thu Feb 16 2023 - 00:20:17 EST


Normally free_pgtables needs to lock affected VMAs except for the case
when VMAs were isolated under VMA write-lock. munmap() does just that,
isolating while holding appropriate locks and then downgrading mmap_lock
and dropping per-VMA locks before freeing page tables.
Add a parameter to free_pgtables for such scenario.

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/internal.h | 2 +-
mm/memory.c | 6 +++++-
mm/mmap.c | 5 +++--
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index fc01fd092ea5..400c302fbf47 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ void folio_activate(struct folio *folio);

void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct maple_tree *mt,
struct vm_area_struct *start_vma, unsigned long floor,
- unsigned long ceiling);
+ unsigned long ceiling, bool mm_wr_locked);
void pmd_install(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd, pgtable_t *pte);

struct zap_details;
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f456f3b5049c..8177c59ffd2d 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ void free_pgd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,

void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct maple_tree *mt,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long floor,
- unsigned long ceiling)
+ unsigned long ceiling, bool mm_wr_locked)
{
MA_STATE(mas, mt, vma->vm_end, vma->vm_end);

@@ -366,6 +366,8 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct maple_tree *mt,
* Hide vma from rmap and truncate_pagecache before freeing
* pgtables
*/
+ if (mm_wr_locked)
+ vma_start_write(vma);
unlink_anon_vmas(vma);
unlink_file_vma(vma);

@@ -380,6 +382,8 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct maple_tree *mt,
&& !is_vm_hugetlb_page(next)) {
vma = next;
next = mas_find(&mas, ceiling - 1);
+ if (mm_wr_locked)
+ vma_start_write(vma);
unlink_anon_vmas(vma);
unlink_file_vma(vma);
}
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index aaa359a147b2..118b2246bba9 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2157,7 +2157,8 @@ static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm, struct maple_tree *mt,
update_hiwater_rss(mm);
unmap_vmas(&tlb, mt, vma, start, end, mm_wr_locked);
free_pgtables(&tlb, mt, vma, prev ? prev->vm_end : FIRST_USER_ADDRESS,
- next ? next->vm_start : USER_PGTABLES_CEILING);
+ next ? next->vm_start : USER_PGTABLES_CEILING,
+ mm_wr_locked);
tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb);
}

@@ -3069,7 +3070,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
mmap_write_lock(mm);
mt_clear_in_rcu(&mm->mm_mt);
free_pgtables(&tlb, &mm->mm_mt, vma, FIRST_USER_ADDRESS,
- USER_PGTABLES_CEILING);
+ USER_PGTABLES_CEILING, true);
tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb);

/*
--
2.39.1