[RFC PATCH RESEND 01/28] mm: introduce CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK

Suren Baghdasaryan surenb at google.com
Thu Sep 1 10:34:49 PDT 2022


This configuration variable will be used to build the support for VMA
locking during page fault handling.

This is enabled by default on supported architectures with SMP and MMU
set.

The architecture support is needed since the page fault handler is called
from the architecture's page faulting code which needs modifications to
handle faults under VMA lock.

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 0331f1461f81..58c20fad9cf9 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1124,6 +1124,19 @@ config PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP
 	  purposes.  It is required to enable userfaultfd write protection on
 	  file-backed memory types like shmem and hugetlbfs.
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK
+       def_bool n
+
+config PER_VMA_LOCK
+	bool "Per-vma locking support"
+	default y
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK && MMU && SMP
+	help
+	  Allow per-vma locking during page fault handling.
+
+	  This feature allows locking each virtual memory area separately when
+	  handling page faults instead of taking mmap_lock.
+
 source "mm/damon/Kconfig"
 
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