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mmap: avoid merging cloned VMAs
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Avoid merging a VMA with another VMA which is cloned from the parent process.

The cloned VMA shares the anon_vma lock with the parent process's VMA.  If
we do the merge, more vmas (even the new range is only for current
process) use the perent process's anon_vma lock.  This introduces
scalability issues.  find_mergeable_anon_vma() already considers this
case.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shaohua Li authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 25, 2011
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18 changes: 13 additions & 5 deletions mm/mmap.c
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Expand Up @@ -703,9 +703,17 @@ static inline int is_mergeable_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}

static inline int is_mergeable_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma1,
struct anon_vma *anon_vma2)
struct anon_vma *anon_vma2,
struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
return !anon_vma1 || !anon_vma2 || (anon_vma1 == anon_vma2);
/*
* The list_is_singular() test is to avoid merging VMA cloned from
* parents. This can improve scalability caused by anon_vma lock.
*/
if ((!anon_vma1 || !anon_vma2) && (!vma ||
list_is_singular(&vma->anon_vma_chain)))
return 1;
return anon_vma1 == anon_vma2;
}

/*
Expand All @@ -724,7 +732,7 @@ can_vma_merge_before(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long vm_flags,
struct anon_vma *anon_vma, struct file *file, pgoff_t vm_pgoff)
{
if (is_mergeable_vma(vma, file, vm_flags) &&
is_mergeable_anon_vma(anon_vma, vma->anon_vma)) {
is_mergeable_anon_vma(anon_vma, vma->anon_vma, vma)) {
if (vma->vm_pgoff == vm_pgoff)
return 1;
}
Expand All @@ -743,7 +751,7 @@ can_vma_merge_after(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long vm_flags,
struct anon_vma *anon_vma, struct file *file, pgoff_t vm_pgoff)
{
if (is_mergeable_vma(vma, file, vm_flags) &&
is_mergeable_anon_vma(anon_vma, vma->anon_vma)) {
is_mergeable_anon_vma(anon_vma, vma->anon_vma, vma)) {
pgoff_t vm_pglen;
vm_pglen = (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if (vma->vm_pgoff + vm_pglen == vm_pgoff)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -821,7 +829,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vma_merge(struct mm_struct *mm,
can_vma_merge_before(next, vm_flags,
anon_vma, file, pgoff+pglen) &&
is_mergeable_anon_vma(prev->anon_vma,
next->anon_vma)) {
next->anon_vma, NULL)) {
/* cases 1, 6 */
err = vma_adjust(prev, prev->vm_start,
next->vm_end, prev->vm_pgoff, NULL);
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