rw_semaphore is a sizable structure of 40 bytes and consumes considerable
space for each vm_area_struct. However vma_lock has two important
specifics which can be used to replace rw_semaphore with a simpler
structure:
1. Readers never wait. They try to take the vma_lock and fall back to
mmap_lock if that fails.
2. Only one writer at a time will ever try to write-lock a vma_lock
because writers first take mmap_lock in write mode. Because of these
requirements, full rw_semaphore functionality is not needed and we can
replace rw_semaphore and the vma->detached flag with a refcount
(vm_refcnt).
When vma is in detached state, vm_refcnt is 0 and only a call to
vma_mark_attached() can take it out of this state. Note that unlike
before, now we enforce both vma_mark_attached() and vma_mark_detached() to
be done only after vma has been write-locked. vma_mark_attached() changes
vm_refcnt to 1 to indicate that it has been attached to the vma tree.
When a reader takes read lock, it increments vm_refcnt, unless the top
usable bit of vm_refcnt (0x40000000) is set, indicating presence of a
writer. When writer takes write lock, it sets the top usable bit to
indicate its presence. If there are readers, writer will wait using newly
introduced mm->vma_writer_wait. Since all writers take mmap_lock in write
mode first, there can be only one writer at a time. The last reader to
release the lock will signal the writer to wake up. refcount might
overflow if there are many competing readers, in which case read-locking
will fail. Readers are expected to handle such failures.
In summary:
1. all readers increment the vm_refcnt;
2. writer sets top usable (writer) bit of vm_refcnt;
3. readers cannot increment the vm_refcnt if the writer bit is set;
4. in the presence of readers, writer must wait for the vm_refcnt to drop
to 1 (plus the VMA_LOCK_OFFSET writer bit), indicating an attached vma
with no readers;
5. vm_refcnt overflow is handled by the readers.
While this vm_lock replacement does not yet result in a smaller
vm_area_struct (it stays at 256 bytes due to cacheline alignment), it
allows for further size optimization by structure member regrouping to
bring the size of vm_area_struct below 192 bytes.
[surenb@google.com: fix a crash due to vma_end_read() that should have been removed]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250220200208.323769-1-surenb@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-13-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently vma test is failing because of the new vma_assert_attached()
assertion. The check is failing because previous refcount_set() inside
vma_mark_attached() is a NoOp. Fix the definition of atomic_set() to
correctly set the value of the atomic.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241227222220.1726384-1-surenb@google.com
Fixes: 9325b8b5a1 ("tools: add skeleton code for userland testing of VMA logic")
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Establish a new userland VMA unit testing implementation under
tools/testing which utilises existing logic providing maple tree support
in userland utilising the now-shared code previously exclusive to radix
tree testing.
This provides fundamental VMA operations whose API is defined in mm/vma.h,
while stubbing out superfluous functionality.
This exists as a proof-of-concept, with the test implementation functional
and sufficient to allow userland compilation of vma.c, but containing only
cursory tests to demonstrate basic functionality.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/533ffa2eec771cbe6b387dd049a7f128a53eb616.1722251717.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Tested-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Suren Baghdasaryan