[PATCH v2 10/61] kernel/fork: Use maple tree for dup_mmap() during forking

Liam Howlett liam.howlett at oracle.com
Tue Aug 17 08:47:11 PDT 2021


From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett at Oracle.com>

The maple tree was already tracking VMAs in this function by an earlier
commit, but the rbtree iterator was being used to iterate the list.
Change the iterator to use a maple tree native iterator, rcu locking,
and switch to the maple tree advanced API to avoid multiple walks of the
tree during insert operations.

anon_vma_fork() may enter the slow path and cause a schedule() call to
cause rcu issues.  Drop the rcu lock and reacquiring the lock.  There is
no harm in this approach as the mmap_sem is taken for write/read and
held across the schedule() call so the VMAs will not change.

Note that the bulk allocation of nodes is also happening here for
performance reasons.  The node calculations are done internally to the
tree and use the VMA count and assume the worst-case node requirements.
The VM_DONT_COPY flag does not allow for the most efficient copy method
of the tree and so a bulk loading algorithm is used.

Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett at Oracle.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h       |  2 --
 include/linux/sched/mm.h |  9 +++++++++
 kernel/fork.c            | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 mm/mmap.c                |  4 ----
 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 80b7af9e725c..ce8fc0fd6d6e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2596,8 +2596,6 @@ extern bool arch_has_descending_max_zone_pfns(void);
 /* nommu.c */
 extern atomic_long_t mmap_pages_allocated;
 extern int nommu_shrink_inode_mappings(struct inode *, size_t, size_t);
-/* maple_tree */
-void vma_store(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 
 /* interval_tree.c */
 void vma_interval_tree_insert(struct vm_area_struct *node,
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
index fd6e4d14f477..0b8a4f07f3f8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm_types.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
 #include <linux/sync_core.h>
+#include <linux/maple_tree.h>
 
 /*
  * Routines for handling mm_structs
@@ -88,11 +89,19 @@ static inline void mmdrop_lazy_tlb(struct mm_struct *mm)
  */
 static inline void mmget(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
+	mt_set_in_rcu(&mm->mm_mt);
 	atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users);
 }
 
 static inline bool mmget_not_zero(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
+	/*
+	 * There is a race below during task tear down that can cause the maple
+	 * tree to enter rcu mode with only a single user.  If this race
+	 * happens, the result would be that the maple tree nodes would remain
+	 * active for an extra RCU read cycle.
+	 */
+	mt_set_in_rcu(&mm->mm_mt);
 	return atomic_inc_not_zero(&mm->mm_users);
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 1da5c1b20a60..9ef5661abbd1 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -477,7 +477,9 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	struct vm_area_struct *mpnt, *tmp, *prev, **pprev;
 	struct rb_node **rb_link, *rb_parent;
 	int retval;
-	unsigned long charge;
+	unsigned long charge = 0;
+	MA_STATE(old_mas, &oldmm->mm_mt, 0, 0);
+	MA_STATE(mas, &mm->mm_mt, 0, 0);
 	LIST_HEAD(uf);
 
 	uprobe_start_dup_mmap();
@@ -511,11 +513,19 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		goto out;
 
 	prev = NULL;
-	for (mpnt = oldmm->mmap; mpnt; mpnt = mpnt->vm_next) {
+
+	retval = mas_entry_count(&mas, oldmm->map_count);
+	if (retval)
+		goto out;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	mas_for_each(&old_mas, mpnt, ULONG_MAX) {
 		struct file *file;
 
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		if (mpnt->vm_flags & VM_DONTCOPY) {
 			vm_stat_account(mm, mpnt->vm_flags, -vma_pages(mpnt));
+			rcu_read_lock();
 			continue;
 		}
 		charge = 0;
@@ -525,7 +535,7 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		 */
 		if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
 			retval = -EINTR;
-			goto out;
+			goto loop_out;
 		}
 		if (mpnt->vm_flags & VM_ACCOUNT) {
 			unsigned long len = vma_pages(mpnt);
@@ -553,6 +563,7 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			tmp->anon_vma = NULL;
 		} else if (anon_vma_fork(tmp, mpnt))
 			goto fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork;
+
 		tmp->vm_flags &= ~(VM_LOCKED | VM_LOCKONFAULT);
 		file = tmp->vm_file;
 		if (file) {
@@ -594,7 +605,11 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		rb_parent = &tmp->vm_rb;
 
 		/* Link the vma into the MT */
-		vma_store(mm, tmp);
+		mas_lock(&mas);
+		mas.index = tmp->vm_start;
+		mas.last = tmp->vm_end - 1;
+		mas_store(&mas, tmp);
+		mas_unlock(&mas);
 
 		mm->map_count++;
 		if (!(tmp->vm_flags & VM_WIPEONFORK))
@@ -604,10 +619,17 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			tmp->vm_ops->open(tmp);
 
 		if (retval)
-			goto out;
+			goto loop_out;
+
+		rcu_read_lock();
 	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	/* a new mm has just been created */
 	retval = arch_dup_mmap(oldmm, mm);
+loop_out:
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	mas_destroy(&mas);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 out:
 	mmap_write_unlock(mm);
 	flush_tlb_mm(oldmm);
@@ -623,7 +645,7 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 fail_nomem:
 	retval = -ENOMEM;
 	vm_unacct_memory(charge);
-	goto out;
+	goto loop_out;
 }
 
 static inline int mm_alloc_pgd(struct mm_struct *mm)
@@ -1149,6 +1171,7 @@ static inline void __mmput(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&mm->mm_users));
 
+	mt_clear_in_rcu(&mm->mm_mt);
 	uprobe_clear_state(mm);
 	exit_aio(mm);
 	ksm_exit(mm);
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index fac6e2554351..cec8ba0b598f 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -786,10 +786,6 @@ void vma_mt_store(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
-void vma_store(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma) {
-	vma_mt_store(mm, vma);
-}
-
 static void
 __vma_link(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	struct vm_area_struct *prev, struct rb_node **rb_link,
-- 
2.30.2



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