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[v3,08/10] mm: Run the fault-around code under the VMA lock

Message ID 20230724185410.1124082-9-willy@infradead.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Handle most file-backed faults under the VMA lock | expand

Commit Message

Matthew Wilcox July 24, 2023, 6:54 p.m. UTC 
The map_pages fs method should be safe to run under the VMA lock instead
of the mmap lock.  This should have a measurable reduction in contention
on the mmap lock.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
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 mm/memory.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 627a2abb969b..cf28afe7a416 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4661,11 +4661,6 @@  static vm_fault_t do_read_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	vm_fault_t ret = 0;
 	struct folio *folio;
 
-	if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
-		vma_end_read(vmf->vma);
-		return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Let's call ->map_pages() first and use ->fault() as fallback
 	 * if page by the offset is not ready to be mapped (cold cache or
@@ -4677,6 +4672,11 @@  static vm_fault_t do_read_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 			return ret;
 	}
 
+	if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
+		vma_end_read(vmf->vma);
+		return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
+	}
+
 	ret = __do_fault(vmf);
 	if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY)))
 		return ret;