On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 06:29:32PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>On 10/10/2019 16.58, Wei Yang wrote:
>> Before commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma
>> hierarchy"), anon_vma_clone() doesn't change dst->anon_vma. While after
>> this commit, anon_vma_clone() will try to reuse an exist one on forking.
>>
>> But this commit go a little bit further for the case not forking.
>> anon_vma_clone() is called from __vma_split(), __split_vma(), copy_vma()
>> and anon_vma_fork(). For the first three places, the purpose here is get
>> a copy of src and we don't expect to touch dst->anon_vma even it is
>> NULL. While after that commit, it is possible to reuse an anon_vma when
>> dst->anon_vma is NULL. This is not we intend to have.
>
>In all these cases dst->anon_vma is a copy of src->anon_vma except
>anon_vma_fork where dst_>anon_vma explicitly set to NULL before call.
>
>So reuse == true iff (!dst->anon_vma && src->anon_vma)
>
What if src->anon_vma is NULL?
>>
>> This patch stop reuse anon_vma for non-fork cases.
>>
>> Fix commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma
>> hierarchy")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.y...@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>> include/linux/rmap.h | 3 ++-
>> mm/mmap.c | 6 +++---
>> mm/rmap.c | 7 ++++---
>> 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
>> index 988d176472df..963e6ab09b9b 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/rmap.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
>> @@ -142,7 +142,8 @@ static inline void anon_vma_unlock_read(struct anon_vma
>> *anon_vma)
>> void anon_vma_init(void); /* create anon_vma_cachep */
>> int __anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *);
>> void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *);
>> -int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
>> +int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src,
>> + bool reuse);
>> int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
>> static inline int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
>> index 93f221785956..21e94f8ac4c7 100644
>> --- a/mm/mmap.c
>> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
>> @@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ int __vma_adjust(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned
>> long start,
>> int error;
>> importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma;
>> - error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter);
>> + error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter, false);
>> if (error)
>> return error;
>> }
>> @@ -2666,7 +2666,7 @@ int __split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct
>> vm_area_struct *vma,
>> if (err)
>> goto out_free_vma;
>> - err = anon_vma_clone(new, vma);
>> + err = anon_vma_clone(new, vma, false);
>> if (err)
>> goto out_free_mpol;
>> @@ -3247,7 +3247,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct
>> **vmap,
>> new_vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
>> if (vma_dup_policy(vma, new_vma))
>> goto out_free_vma;
>> - if (anon_vma_clone(new_vma, vma))
>> + if (anon_vma_clone(new_vma, vma, false))
>> goto out_free_mempol;
>> if (new_vma->vm_file)
>> get_file(new_vma->vm_file);
>> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
>> index d9a23bb773bf..f729e4013613 100644
>> --- a/mm/rmap.c
>> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
>> @@ -258,7 +258,8 @@ static inline void unlock_anon_vma_root(struct anon_vma
>> *root)
>> * good chance of avoiding scanning the whole hierarchy when it searches
>> where
>> * page is mapped.
>> */
>> -int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
>> +int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src,
>> + bool reuse)
>> {
>> struct anon_vma_chain *avc, *pavc;
>> struct anon_vma *root = NULL;
>> @@ -286,7 +287,7 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct
>> vm_area_struct *src)
>> * will always reuse it. Root anon_vma is never reused:
>> * it has self-parent reference and at least one child.
>> */
>> - if (!dst->anon_vma && anon_vma != src->anon_vma &&
>> + if (reuse && !dst->anon_vma && anon_vma != src->anon_vma &&
>> anon_vma->degree < 2)
>> dst->anon_vma = anon_vma;
>> }
>> @@ -329,7 +330,7 @@ int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct
>> vm_area_struct *pvma)
>> * First, attach the new VMA to the parent VMA's anon_vmas,
>> * so rmap can find non-COWed pages in child processes.
>> */
>> - error = anon_vma_clone(vma, pvma);
>> + error = anon_vma_clone(vma, pvma, true);
>> if (error)
>> return error;
>>
--
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