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linux/mm/vmacache.c
Davidlohr Bueso 6b4ebc3a90 mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing
For single threaded workloads, we can avoid flushing and iterating through
the entire list of tasks, making the whole function a lot faster,
requiring only a single atomic read for the mm_users.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2014 Davidlohr Bueso.
*/
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/vmacache.h>
/*
* Flush vma caches for threads that share a given mm.
*
* The operation is safe because the caller holds the mmap_sem
* exclusively and other threads accessing the vma cache will
* have mmap_sem held at least for read, so no extra locking
* is required to maintain the vma cache.
*/
void vmacache_flush_all(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct task_struct *g, *p;
/*
* Single threaded tasks need not iterate the entire
* list of process. We can avoid the flushing as well
* since the mm's seqnum was increased and don't have
* to worry about other threads' seqnum. Current's
* flush will occur upon the next lookup.
*/
if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1)
return;
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_process_thread(g, p) {
/*
* Only flush the vmacache pointers as the
* mm seqnum is already set and curr's will
* be set upon invalidation when the next
* lookup is done.
*/
if (mm == p->mm)
vmacache_flush(p);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
}
/*
* 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 use_mm().
* That kernel thread's vmacache is not applicable to this mm.
*/
static 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[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 i;
if (!vmacache_valid(mm))
return NULL;
count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS);
for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) {
struct vm_area_struct *vma = current->vmacache[i];
if (!vma)
continue;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(vma->vm_mm != mm))
break;
if (vma->vm_start <= addr && vma->vm_end > addr) {
count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_HITS);
return vma;
}
}
return NULL;
}
#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find_exact(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start,
unsigned long end)
{
int i;
if (!vmacache_valid(mm))
return NULL;
count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS);
for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) {
struct vm_area_struct *vma = current->vmacache[i];
if (vma && vma->vm_start == start && vma->vm_end == end) {
count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_HITS);
return vma;
}
}
return NULL;
}
#endif