[PATCH v2 19/70] mm: Remove vmacache

Liam R. Howlett Liam.Howlett at Oracle.com
Tue Jan 12 11:11:49 EST 2021


The maple tree is able to find a VMA quick enough to no longer need the
vma cache.  Remove the vmacache to reduce work in keeping it up to date
and code complexity.

Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett at Oracle.com>
---
 fs/exec.c                     |   3 -
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c            |   1 -
 include/linux/mm_types.h      |   1 -
 include/linux/mm_types_task.h |   5 --
 include/linux/sched.h         |   1 -
 include/linux/vmacache.h      |  28 --------
 kernel/debug/debug_core.c     |  12 ----
 kernel/fork.c                 |   5 --
 mm/Makefile                   |   2 +-
 mm/debug.c                    |   4 +-
 mm/mmap.c                     |  20 ------
 mm/vmacache.c                 | 117 ----------------------------------
 12 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 196 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/vmacache.h
 delete mode 100644 mm/vmacache.c

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 547a2390baf54..aa466921d6a97 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/fdtable.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/vmacache.h>
 #include <linux/stat.h>
 #include <linux/fcntl.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
@@ -1019,8 +1018,6 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	activate_mm(active_mm, mm);
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM))
 		local_irq_enable();
-	tsk->mm->vmacache_seqnum = 0;
-	vmacache_flush(tsk);
 	task_unlock(tsk);
 	if (old_mm) {
 		mmap_read_unlock(old_mm);
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index ee5a235b30562..1ec2dd34ebffd 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #include <linux/pagewalk.h>
-#include <linux/vmacache.h>
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 #include <linux/huge_mm.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index fa3cf29f01f21..5a85b76bb9b9a 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -380,7 +380,6 @@ struct mm_struct {
 	struct {
 		struct vm_area_struct *mmap;		/* list of VMAs */
 		struct maple_tree mm_mt;
-		u64 vmacache_seqnum;                   /* per-thread vmacache */
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 		unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area) (struct file *filp,
 				unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types_task.h b/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
index c1bc6731125cb..33c9fa4d4f66a 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types_task.h
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@
 #define VMACACHE_SIZE (1U << VMACACHE_BITS)
 #define VMACACHE_MASK (VMACACHE_SIZE - 1)
 
-struct vmacache {
-	u64 seqnum;
-	struct vm_area_struct *vmas[VMACACHE_SIZE];
-};
-
 /*
  * When updating this, please also update struct resident_page_types[] in
  * kernel/fork.c
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 76cd21fa55016..418a44dabc37e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -758,7 +758,6 @@ struct task_struct {
 	struct mm_struct		*active_mm;
 
 	/* Per-thread vma caching: */
-	struct vmacache			vmacache;
 
 #ifdef SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
 	struct task_rss_stat		rss_stat;
diff --git a/include/linux/vmacache.h b/include/linux/vmacache.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fce268a4588e..0000000000000
--- a/include/linux/vmacache.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-#ifndef __LINUX_VMACACHE_H
-#define __LINUX_VMACACHE_H
-
-#include <linux/sched.h>
-#include <linux/mm.h>
-
-static inline void vmacache_flush(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-	memset(tsk->vmacache.vmas, 0, sizeof(tsk->vmacache.vmas));
-}
-
-extern void vmacache_update(unsigned long addr, struct vm_area_struct *newvma);
-extern struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find(struct mm_struct *mm,
-						    unsigned long addr);
-
-#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
-extern struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find_exact(struct mm_struct *mm,
-						  unsigned long start,
-						  unsigned long end);
-#endif
-
-static inline void vmacache_invalidate(struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
-	mm->vmacache_seqnum++;
-}
-
-#endif /* __LINUX_VMACACHE_H */
diff --git a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
index 1e75a8923a8d1..f6e7156088ea7 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
 #include <linux/pid.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/vmacache.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/irq.h>
 
@@ -286,17 +285,6 @@ static void kgdb_flush_swbreak_addr(unsigned long addr)
 	if (!CACHE_FLUSH_IS_SAFE)
 		return;
 
-	if (current->mm) {
-		int i;
-
-		for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) {
-			if (!current->vmacache.vmas[i])
-				continue;
-			flush_cache_range(current->vmacache.vmas[i],
-					  addr, addr + BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
-		}
-	}
-
 	/* Force flush instruction cache if it was outside the mm */
 	flush_icache_range(addr, addr + BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
 }
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 0ef4c4fa66c1b..b8c25c2e9587f 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 #include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/vmacache.h>
 #include <linux/nsproxy.h>
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
@@ -1011,7 +1010,6 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
 {
 	mm->mmap = NULL;
 	mt_init_flags(&mm->mm_mt, MAPLE_ALLOC_RANGE);
-	mm->vmacache_seqnum = 0;
 	atomic_set(&mm->mm_users, 1);
 	atomic_set(&mm->mm_count, 1);
 	mmap_init_lock(mm);
@@ -1408,9 +1406,6 @@ static int copy_mm(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (!oldmm)
 		return 0;
 
-	/* initialize the new vmacache entries */
-	vmacache_flush(tsk);
-
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_VM) {
 		mmget(oldmm);
 		mm = oldmm;
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index d73aed0fc99c1..ca05b84ac738b 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ obj-y			:= filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
 			   readahead.o swap.o truncate.o vmscan.o shmem.o \
 			   util.o mmzone.o vmstat.o backing-dev.o \
 			   mm_init.o percpu.o slab_common.o \
-			   compaction.o vmacache.o \
+			   compaction.o \
 			   interval_tree.o list_lru.o workingset.o \
 			   debug.o gup.o $(mmu-y)
 
diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
index ccca576b28990..d8ed9d7383267 100644
--- a/mm/debug.c
+++ b/mm/debug.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_vma);
 
 void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-	pr_emerg("mm %px mmap %px seqnum %llu task_size %lu\n"
+	pr_emerg("mm %px mmap %px task_size %lu\n"
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 		"get_unmapped_area %px\n"
 #endif
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
 		"tlb_flush_pending %d\n"
 		"def_flags: %#lx(%pGv)\n",
 
-		mm, mm->mmap, (long long) mm->vmacache_seqnum, mm->task_size,
+		mm, mm->mmap, mm->task_size,
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 		mm->get_unmapped_area,
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 1cef158c31909..cc9d0c524d575 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/vmacache.h>
 #include <linux/shm.h>
 #include <linux/mman.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
@@ -705,9 +704,6 @@ inline int vma_expand(struct ma_state *mas, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		/* Remove from mm linked list - also updates highest_vm_end */
 		__vma_unlink_list(mm, next);
 
-		/* Kill the cache */
-		vmacache_invalidate(mm);
-
 		if (file)
 			__remove_shared_vm_struct(next, file, mapping);
 
@@ -921,8 +917,6 @@ int __vma_adjust(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 
 	if (remove_next) {
 		__vma_unlink_list(mm, next);
-		/* Kill the cache */
-		vmacache_invalidate(mm);
 		if (file)
 			__remove_shared_vm_struct(next, file, mapping);
 	} else if (insert) {
@@ -2220,19 +2214,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma_intersection(struct mm_struct *mm,
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	MA_STATE(mas, &mm->mm_mt, start_addr, start_addr);
-
-	/* Check the cache first. */
-	vma = vmacache_find(mm, start_addr);
-	if (likely(vma))
-		return vma;
-
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	vma = mas_find(&mas, end_addr - 1);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-
-	if (vma)
-		vmacache_update(start_addr, vma);
-
 	return vma;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_vma_intersection);
@@ -2627,9 +2611,6 @@ detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		mm->highest_vm_end = prev ? vm_end_gap(prev) : 0;
 	tail_vma->vm_next = NULL;
 
-	/* Kill the cache */
-	vmacache_invalidate(mm);
-
 	/*
 	 * Do not downgrade mmap_lock if we are next to VM_GROWSDOWN or
 	 * VM_GROWSUP VMA. Such VMAs can change their size under
@@ -3026,7 +3007,6 @@ static int do_brk_munmap(struct ma_state *mas, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (vma_mas_remove(&unmap, mas))
 		goto mas_store_fail;
 
-	vmacache_invalidate(vma->vm_mm);
 	if (vma->anon_vma) {
 		anon_vma_interval_tree_post_update_vma(vma);
 		anon_vma_unlock_write(vma->anon_vma);
diff --git a/mm/vmacache.c b/mm/vmacache.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 01a6e6688ec1f..0000000000000
--- a/mm/vmacache.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2014 Davidlohr Bueso.
- */
-#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
-#include <linux/sched/task.h>
-#include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/vmacache.h>
-
-/*
- * Hash based on the pmd of addr if configured with MMU, which provides a good
- * hit rate for workloads with spatial locality.  Otherwise, use pages.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-#define VMACACHE_SHIFT	PMD_SHIFT
-#else
-#define VMACACHE_SHIFT	PAGE_SHIFT
-#endif
-#define VMACACHE_HASH(addr) ((addr >> VMACACHE_SHIFT) & VMACACHE_MASK)
-
-/*
- * This task may be accessing a foreign mm via (for example)
- * get_user_pages()->find_vma().  The vmacache is task-local and this
- * task's vmacache pertains to a different mm (ie, its own).  There is
- * nothing we can do here.
- *
- * Also handle the case where a kernel thread has adopted this mm via
- * kthread_use_mm(). That kernel thread's vmacache is not applicable to this mm.
- */
-static inline bool vmacache_valid_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
-	return current->mm == mm && !(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD);
-}
-
-void vmacache_update(unsigned long addr, struct vm_area_struct *newvma)
-{
-	if (vmacache_valid_mm(newvma->vm_mm))
-		current->vmacache.vmas[VMACACHE_HASH(addr)] = newvma;
-}
-
-static bool vmacache_valid(struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
-	struct task_struct *curr;
-
-	if (!vmacache_valid_mm(mm))
-		return false;
-
-	curr = current;
-	if (mm->vmacache_seqnum != curr->vmacache.seqnum) {
-		/*
-		 * First attempt will always be invalid, initialize
-		 * the new cache for this task here.
-		 */
-		curr->vmacache.seqnum = mm->vmacache_seqnum;
-		vmacache_flush(curr);
-		return false;
-	}
-	return true;
-}
-
-struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
-{
-	int idx = VMACACHE_HASH(addr);
-	int i;
-
-	count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS);
-
-	if (!vmacache_valid(mm))
-		return NULL;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) {
-		struct vm_area_struct *vma = current->vmacache.vmas[idx];
-
-		if (vma) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
-			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(vma->vm_mm != mm))
-				break;
-#endif
-			if (vma->vm_start <= addr && vma->vm_end > addr) {
-				count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_HITS);
-				return vma;
-			}
-		}
-		if (++idx == VMACACHE_SIZE)
-			idx = 0;
-	}
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
-struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find_exact(struct mm_struct *mm,
-					   unsigned long start,
-					   unsigned long end)
-{
-	int idx = VMACACHE_HASH(start);
-	int i;
-
-	count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS);
-
-	if (!vmacache_valid(mm))
-		return NULL;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) {
-		struct vm_area_struct *vma = current->vmacache.vmas[idx];
-
-		if (vma && vma->vm_start == start && vma->vm_end == end) {
-			count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_HITS);
-			return vma;
-		}
-		if (++idx == VMACACHE_SIZE)
-			idx = 0;
-	}
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-#endif
-- 
2.28.0




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