[PATCH v6 0/5] mm: Unconditional per-VMA locks and cleanups

Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
v2 version of this patchset [1] was written by Dave Hansen and per his
request, I'm taking over this series.

tl;dr: Make per-VMA locks available in all configs. Simplify some
of the per-VMA lock users now that they can rely on them being
always available.

Binder and networking folks: Your code is the target of the cleanups.
I'm cc'ing you now on v2 because there's emerging consensus on the mm
side that the approach here is sane. I'm not quite sure how this pile
would get merged, but ack/review tags would be appreciated if this
looks good to you.

Longer version:

When working on some x86 shadow stack code, it was a real pain to
avoid causing recursive locking problems with mmap_lock. One way
to avoid those was to avoid mmap_lock and use per-VMA locks instead.
They are great, but they are not available in all configs which
makes them unusable in generic code, or if you want to completely
avoid mmap_lock.

Make per-VMA locks available in all configs. Right now, they are
only available on select architectures when SMP and MMU are enabled.
But all of the primitives that per-VMA locks are built on (RCU, maple
trees, refcounts) work just fine without SMP or MMU.

The only real downside is that making VMAs a wee bit bigger on !MMU
and !SMP builds.

The upside is much cleaner code, lower complexity and less #ifdeffery.

Clean up a binder VMA locking site now that it can rely on per-VMA
locks.

Building on top of universally-available per-VMA locks, introduce a
new helper. Since the new API does not require callers to have a
fallback to mmap_lock, it's much easier to use. Callers can
potentially replace this very common kernel idiom:

	mmap_read_lock(mm);
	vma = vma_lookup()
	// fiddle with vma
	mmap_read_unlock(mm);

with:

	vma = vma_start_read_unlocked(mm, address);
	// fiddle with vma
	vma_end_read(vma);

Which avoids mmap_lock entirely in the fast path.

Use that new API for another binder site and one in the TCP code.

Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <[email protected]>
Cc: Todd Kjos <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Carlos Llamas <[email protected]>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]

Changes since v5 [2]:
Patch 2:
- Removed dead code, per  Alice Ryhl
- Rebased over mm-unstable

Applies cleanly over mm-unstable

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Dave Hansen (5):
  mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  binder: Make shrinker rely solely on per-VMA lock
  mm: Add RCU-based VMA lookup helper that waits for writers
  binder: Remove mmap_lock fallback
  tcp: Remove mmap_lock fallback path

 arch/arm/Kconfig                       |  1 -
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                     |  1 -
 arch/loongarch/Kconfig                 |  1 -
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/Kconfig |  1 -
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig |  1 -
 arch/riscv/Kconfig                     |  1 -
 arch/s390/Kconfig                      |  1 -
 arch/x86/Kconfig                       |  2 -
 drivers/android/binder/page_range.rs   | 19 +-----
 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c         | 63 +++++++----------
 fs/proc/internal.h                     |  2 -
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c                     | 93 -------------------------
 include/linux/mm.h                     | 12 ----
 include/linux/mm_types.h               |  8 +--
 include/linux/mmap_lock.h              | 94 +++++++++++---------------
 kernel/bpf/stackmap.c                  | 17 ++---
 kernel/bpf/task_iter.c                 |  2 +-
 kernel/fork.c                          |  2 -
 mm/Kconfig                             | 12 ----
 mm/Kconfig.debug                       |  1 -
 mm/debug.c                             |  4 --
 mm/init-mm.c                           |  2 -
 mm/memory.c                            |  2 -
 mm/mmap_lock.c                         | 61 ++++++++++-------
 mm/pagewalk.c                          |  2 -
 mm/rmap.c                              |  2 -
 mm/userfaultfd.c                       | 61 ++---------------
 net/ipv4/tcp.c                         | 31 +++------
 rust/kernel/mm.rs                      | 57 ++++++++++------
 tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h        |  5 +-
 tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h       |  1 -
 31 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 396 deletions(-)


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