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[v3,0/3] per-vma locks in userfaultfd

Message ID 20240206010919.1109005-1-lokeshgidra@google.com (mailing list archive)
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Lokesh Gidra Feb. 6, 2024, 1:09 a.m. UTC 
Performing userfaultfd operations (like copy/move etc.) in critical
section of mmap_lock (read-mode) causes significant contention on the
lock when operations requiring the lock in write-mode are taking place
concurrently. We can use per-vma locks instead to significantly reduce
the contention issue.

Android runtime's Garbage Collector uses userfaultfd for concurrent
compaction. mmap-lock contention during compaction potentially causes
jittery experience for the user. During one such reproducible scenario,
we observed the following improvements with this patch-set:

- Wall clock time of compaction phase came down from ~3s to <500ms
- Uninterruptible sleep time (across all threads in the process) was
  ~10ms (none in mmap_lock) during compaction, instead of >20s


Changes since v2 [2]:
- Implement and use lock_vma() which uses mmap_lock critical section
  to lock the VMA using per-vma lock if lock_vma_under_rcu() fails,
  per Liam R. Howlett. This helps simplify the code and also avoids
  performing the entire userfaultfd operation under mmap_lock.

Changes since v1 [1]:
- rebase patches on 'mm-unstable' branch

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240126182647.2748949-1-lokeshgidra@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240129193512.123145-1-lokeshgidra@google.com/

Lokesh Gidra (3):
  userfaultfd: move userfaultfd_ctx struct to header file
  userfaultfd: protect mmap_changing with rw_sem in userfaulfd_ctx
  userfaultfd: use per-vma locks in userfaultfd operations

 fs/userfaultfd.c              |  86 +++-------
 include/linux/mm.h            |  16 ++
 include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h |  75 +++++++--
 mm/memory.c                   |  48 ++++++
 mm/userfaultfd.c              | 300 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 5 files changed, 331 insertions(+), 194 deletions(-)