[v3,10/10] mm: Handle faults that merely update the accessed bit under the VMA lock

Commit Message

Matthew Wilcox July 24, 2023, 6:54 p.m. UTC

Move FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK check out of handle_pte_fault().  This should
have a significant performance improvement for mmaped files.  Write faults
(on read-only shared pages) still take the mmap lock as we do not want
to audit all the implementations of ->pfn_mkwrite() and ->page_mkwrite().
However write-faults on private mappings are handled under the VMA lock.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[e-mail]>
---
 mm/memory.c | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index ad77ac7f8c9b..20a2e9ed4aeb 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3393,6 +3393,11 @@  static vm_fault_t wp_pfn_shared(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 		vm_fault_t ret;
 
 		pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
+		if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
+			vma_end_read(vmf->vma);
+			return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
+		}
+
 		vmf->flags |= FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE;
 		ret = vma->vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite(vmf);
 		if (ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE))
@@ -3415,6 +3420,12 @@  static vm_fault_t wp_page_shared(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio)
 		vm_fault_t tmp;
 
 		pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
+		if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
+			folio_put(folio);
+			vma_end_read(vmf->vma);
+			return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
+		}
+
 		tmp = do_page_mkwrite(vmf, folio);
 		if (unlikely(!tmp || (tmp &
 				      (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))) {
@@ -5113,12 +5124,6 @@  static vm_fault_t handle_pte_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	if (pte_protnone(vmf->orig_pte) && vma_is_accessible(vmf->vma))
 		return do_numa_page(vmf);
 
-	if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) && !vma_is_anonymous(vmf->vma)) {
-		pte_unmap(vmf->pte);
-		vma_end_read(vmf->vma);
-		return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
-	}
-
 	spin_lock(vmf->ptl);
 	entry = vmf->orig_pte;
 	if (unlikely(!pte_same(ptep_get(vmf->pte), entry))) {