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authorSuren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>2025-07-19 18:28:54 +0000
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2025-07-25 02:12:37 +0000
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parentfs/proc/task_mmu: remove conversion of seq_file position to unsigned (diff)
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fs/proc/task_mmu: read proc/pid/maps under per-vma lock
With maple_tree supporting vma tree traversal under RCU and per-vma locks, /proc/pid/maps can be read while holding individual vma locks instead of locking the entire address space. A completely lockless approach (walking vma tree under RCU) would be quite complex with the main issue being get_vma_name() using callbacks which might not work correctly with a stable vma copy, requiring original (unstable) vma - see special_mapping_name() for example. When per-vma lock acquisition fails, we take the mmap_lock for reading, lock the vma, release the mmap_lock and continue. This fallback to mmap read lock guarantees the reader to make forward progress even during lock contention. This will interfere with the writer but for a very short time while we are acquiring the per-vma lock and only when there was contention on the vma reader is interested in. We shouldn't see a repeated fallback to mmap read locks in practice, as this require a very unlikely series of lock contentions (for instance due to repeated vma split operations). However even if this did somehow happen, we would still progress. One case requiring special handling is when a vma changes between the time it was found and the time it got locked. A problematic case would be if a vma got shrunk so that its vm_start moved higher in the address space and a new vma was installed at the beginning: reader found: |--------VMA A--------| VMA is modified: |-VMA B-|----VMA A----| reader locks modified VMA A reader reports VMA A: | gap |----VMA A----| This would result in reporting a gap in the address space that does not exist. To prevent this we retry the lookup after locking the vma, however we do that only when we identify a gap and detect that the address space was changed after we found the vma. This change is designed to reduce mmap_lock contention and prevent a process reading /proc/pid/maps files (often a low priority task, such as monitoring/data collection services) from blocking address space updates. Note that this change has a userspace visible disadvantage: it allows for sub-page data tearing as opposed to the previous mechanism where data tearing could happen only between pages of generated output data. Since current userspace considers data tearing between pages to be acceptable, we assume is will be able to handle sub-page data tearing as well. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]> Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]> Cc: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]> Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]> Cc: Jeongjun Park <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Josef Bacik <[email protected]> Cc: Kalesh Singh <[email protected]> Cc: Liam Howlett <[email protected]> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Xu <[email protected]> Cc: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]> Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]> Cc: T.J. Mercier <[email protected]> Cc: Ye Bin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap_lock.c')
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diff --git a/mm/mmap_lock.c b/mm/mmap_lock.c
index 5f725cc67334..729fb7d0dd59 100644
--- a/mm/mmap_lock.c
+++ b/mm/mmap_lock.c
@@ -178,6 +178,99 @@ inval:
count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_ABORT);
return NULL;
}
+
+static struct vm_area_struct *lock_next_vma_under_mmap_lock(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ struct vma_iterator *vmi,
+ unsigned long from_addr)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = mmap_read_lock_killable(mm);
+ if (ret)
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
+
+ /* Lookup the vma at the last position again under mmap_read_lock */
+ vma_iter_set(vmi, from_addr);
+ vma = vma_next(vmi);
+ if (vma) {
+ /* Very unlikely vma->vm_refcnt overflow case */
+ if (unlikely(!vma_start_read_locked(vma)))
+ vma = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
+ }
+
+ mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+
+ return vma;
+}
+
+struct vm_area_struct *lock_next_vma(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ struct vma_iterator *vmi,
+ unsigned long from_addr)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ unsigned int mm_wr_seq;
+ bool mmap_unlocked;
+
+ RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_held(), "no rcu read lock held");
+retry:
+ /* Start mmap_lock speculation in case we need to verify the vma later */
+ mmap_unlocked = mmap_lock_speculate_try_begin(mm, &mm_wr_seq);
+ vma = vma_next(vmi);
+ if (!vma)
+ return NULL;
+
+ vma = vma_start_read(mm, vma);
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(vma)) {
+ /*
+ * Retry immediately if the vma gets detached from under us.
+ * Infinite loop should not happen because the vma we find will
+ * have to be constantly knocked out from under us.
+ */
+ if (PTR_ERR(vma) == -EAGAIN) {
+ /* reset to search from the last address */
+ vma_iter_set(vmi, from_addr);
+ goto retry;
+ }
+
+ goto fallback;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Verify the vma we locked belongs to the same address space and it's
+ * not behind of the last search position.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(vma->vm_mm != mm || from_addr >= vma->vm_end))
+ goto fallback_unlock;
+
+ /*
+ * vma can be ahead of the last search position but we need to verify
+ * it was not shrunk after we found it and another vma has not been
+ * installed ahead of it. Otherwise we might observe a gap that should
+ * not be there.
+ */
+ if (from_addr < vma->vm_start) {
+ /* Verify only if the address space might have changed since vma lookup. */
+ if (!mmap_unlocked || mmap_lock_speculate_retry(mm, mm_wr_seq)) {
+ vma_iter_set(vmi, from_addr);
+ if (vma != vma_next(vmi))
+ goto fallback_unlock;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return vma;
+
+fallback_unlock:
+ vma_end_read(vma);
+fallback:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ vma = lock_next_vma_under_mmap_lock(mm, vmi, from_addr);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ /* Reinitialize the iterator after re-entering rcu read section */
+ vma_iter_set(vmi, IS_ERR_OR_NULL(vma) ? from_addr : vma->vm_end);
+
+ return vma;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA