On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 11:15:14AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:07:07PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > > I also want to point out that lately we've seen several changes sent
> > > out that relax locking with no accompanying explanation of why the
> > > relaxed locking would be safe. Please don't do that - having a lot of
> > > performance data is worthless if you can't explain why the new locking
> > > is safe.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > > And I'm not asking to prove a negative ('lack of any possible
> > > races') there, but at least in this case one could dig out why the
> > > root anon vma locking was introduced and if they think that this
> > > reason doesn't apply anymore, explain why...
> >
> > It was introduced by commit 2b575eb6(And, BTW, I'm sorry that this commit
> > log
> > about bb4aa39676f is wrong)
> >
> > commit 2b575eb64f7a9c701fb4bfdb12388ac547f6c2b6
> > Author: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> > Date: Tue May 24 17:12:11 2011 -0700
> >
> > mm: convert anon_vma->lock to a mutex
> >
> > Straightforward conversion of anon_vma->lock to a mutex.
> >
> > As you can see, Peter didn't tell why before. Honestly speaking, that
> > was my originaly concern as well. I tried to find some possible races;
> > I guess I may miss something.
>
> Bullshit; I didn't change the locking. I only changed the lock primitive
> from a spinlock to a mutex. The anon_vma->root->lock is completely
> unrelated to this change.
Oops, sorry for that. Just made a *horrible* mistake: it was commit
012f18004da33ba672e3c60838cc4898126174d3.
commit 012f18004da33ba672e3c60838cc4898126174d3
Author: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Aug 9 17:18:40 2010 -0700
mm: always lock the root (oldest) anon_vma
Always (and only) lock the root (oldest) anon_vma whenever we do something
in an anon_vma. The recently introduced anon_vma scalability is due to
the rmap code scanning only the VMAs that need to be scanned. Many common
operations still took the anon_vma lock on the root anon_vma, so always
taking that lock is not expected to introduce any scalability issues.
However, always taking the same lock does mean we only need to take one
lock, which means rmap_walk on pages from any anon_vma in the vma is
excluded from occurring during an munmap, expand_stack or other operation
that needs to exclude rmap_walk and similar functions.
Also add the proper locking to vma_adjust.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Larry Woodman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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