Re: [PATCH 1/2 -mm] mm: mremap: dwongrade mmap_sem to read when shrinking

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Wed 26-09-18 08:46:55, Yang Shi wrote:
> Other than munmap, mremap might be used to shrink memory mapping too.
> Use __do_munmap() to shrink mapping with downgrading mmap_sem to read.

Please be more explicit about _why_ this is OK. It wouldn't hurt to call
out benefits explicitly as well. You write about downgrate to the shared
lock which suggests what is this about but we can be less cryptic ;)

> MREMAP_FIXED and MREMAP_MAYMOVE are more complicated to adopt this
> optimization since they need manipulate vmas after do_munmap(),
> downgrading mmap_sem may create race window.
> 
> Simple mapping shrink is the low hanging fruit, and it may cover the
> most cases of unmap with munmap.
> 
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h |  2 ++
>  mm/mmap.c          |  4 ++--
>  mm/mremap.c        | 16 ++++++++++++----
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index a61ebe8..3028028 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -2286,6 +2286,8 @@ extern unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
>  	unsigned long len, unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
>  	vm_flags_t vm_flags, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long *populate,
>  	struct list_head *uf);
> +extern int __do_munmap(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long, size_t,
> +		       struct list_head *uf, bool downgrade);
>  extern int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long, size_t,
>  		     struct list_head *uf);
>  
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index 847a17d..017bcfa 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -2687,8 +2687,8 @@ int split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>   * work.  This now handles partial unmappings.
>   * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
>   */
> -static int __do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
> -		       struct list_head *uf, bool downgrade)
> +int __do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
> +		struct list_head *uf, bool downgrade)
>  {
>  	unsigned long end;
>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev, *last;
> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
> index 5c2e185..e608e92 100644
> --- a/mm/mremap.c
> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
> @@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ static int vma_expandable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long delta)
>  	unsigned long ret = -EINVAL;
>  	unsigned long charged = 0;
>  	bool locked = false;
> +	bool downgrade = false;
>  	struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx uf = NULL_VM_UFFD_CTX;
>  	LIST_HEAD(uf_unmap_early);
>  	LIST_HEAD(uf_unmap);
> @@ -561,12 +562,16 @@ static int vma_expandable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long delta)
>  	/*
>  	 * Always allow a shrinking remap: that just unmaps
>  	 * the unnecessary pages..
> -	 * do_munmap does all the needed commit accounting
> +	 * __do_munmap does all the needed commit accounting
>  	 */
>  	if (old_len >= new_len) {
> -		ret = do_munmap(mm, addr+new_len, old_len - new_len, &uf_unmap);
> -		if (ret && old_len != new_len)
> +		ret = __do_munmap(mm, addr+new_len, old_len - new_len,
> +				  &uf_unmap, true);
> +		if (ret < 0 && old_len != new_len)
>  			goto out;
> +		/* Returning 1 indicates mmap_sem is downgraded to read. */
> +		else if (ret == 1)
> +			downgrade = true;
>  		ret = addr;
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> @@ -631,7 +636,10 @@ static int vma_expandable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long delta)
>  		vm_unacct_memory(charged);
>  		locked = 0;
>  	}
> -	up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> +	if (downgrade)
> +		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> +	else
> +		up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
>  	if (locked && new_len > old_len)
>  		mm_populate(new_addr + old_len, new_len - old_len);
>  	userfaultfd_unmap_complete(mm, &uf_unmap_early);
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs