Re: [RFC v8 PATCH 3/5] mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:16:06PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> (not even compiled, and I can see a good opportunity for combining the
> VM_LOCKED loop with the has_uprobes loop)

I was rushing to get that sent earlier.  Here it is tidied up to
actually compile.

Note the diffstat:

 mmap.c |   71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

I think that's a pretty small extra price to pay for having this improved
scalability.

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index de699523c0b7..b77bb3908f8c 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2802,7 +2802,9 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
 	      struct list_head *uf)
 {
 	unsigned long end;
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev, *last;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev, *last, *tmp;
+	int res = 0;
+	bool downgrade = false;
 
 	if ((offset_in_page(start)) || start > TASK_SIZE || len > TASK_SIZE-start)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -2811,17 +2813,20 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
 	if (len == 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
+		return -EINTR;
+
 	/* Find the first overlapping VMA */
 	vma = find_vma(mm, start);
 	if (!vma)
-		return 0;
+		goto unlock;
 	prev = vma->vm_prev;
-	/* we have  start < vma->vm_end  */
+	/* we have start < vma->vm_end  */
 
 	/* if it doesn't overlap, we have nothing.. */
 	end = start + len;
 	if (vma->vm_start >= end)
-		return 0;
+		goto unlock;
 
 	/*
 	 * If we need to split any vma, do it now to save pain later.
@@ -2831,28 +2836,27 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
 	 * places tmp vma above, and higher split_vma places tmp vma below.
 	 */
 	if (start > vma->vm_start) {
-		int error;
-
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that map_count on return from munmap() will
 		 * not exceed its limit; but let map_count go just above
 		 * its limit temporarily, to help free resources as expected.
 		 */
+		res = -ENOMEM;
 		if (end < vma->vm_end && mm->map_count >= sysctl_max_map_count)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+			goto unlock;
 
-		error = __split_vma(mm, vma, start, 0);
-		if (error)
-			return error;
+		res = __split_vma(mm, vma, start, 0);
+		if (res)
+			goto unlock;
 		prev = vma;
 	}
 
 	/* Does it split the last one? */
 	last = find_vma(mm, end);
 	if (last && end > last->vm_start) {
-		int error = __split_vma(mm, last, end, 1);
-		if (error)
-			return error;
+		res = __split_vma(mm, last, end, 1);
+		if (res)
+			goto unlock;
 	}
 	vma = prev ? prev->vm_next : mm->mmap;
 
@@ -2866,25 +2870,31 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
 		 * split, despite we could. This is unlikely enough
 		 * failure that it's not worth optimizing it for.
 		 */
-		int error = userfaultfd_unmap_prep(vma, start, end, uf);
-		if (error)
-			return error;
+		res = userfaultfd_unmap_prep(vma, start, end, uf);
+		if (res)
+			goto unlock;
 	}
 
 	/*
 	 * unlock any mlock()ed ranges before detaching vmas
+	 * and check to see if there's any reason we might have to hold
+	 * the mmap_sem write-locked while unmapping regions.
 	 */
-	if (mm->locked_vm) {
-		struct vm_area_struct *tmp = vma;
-		while (tmp && tmp->vm_start < end) {
-			if (tmp->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
-				mm->locked_vm -= vma_pages(tmp);
-				munlock_vma_pages_all(tmp);
-			}
-			tmp = tmp->vm_next;
+	downgrade = true;
+
+	for (tmp = vma; tmp && tmp->vm_start < end; tmp = tmp->vm_next) {
+		if (tmp->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
+			mm->locked_vm -= vma_pages(tmp);
+			munlock_vma_pages_all(tmp);
 		}
+		if (tmp->vm_file &&
+				has_uprobes(tmp, tmp->vm_start, tmp->vm_end))
+			downgrade = false;
 	}
 
+	if (downgrade)
+		downgrade_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
 	/*
 	 * Remove the vma's, and unmap the actual pages
 	 */
@@ -2896,7 +2906,14 @@ int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, size_t len,
 	/* Fix up all other VM information */
 	remove_vma_list(mm, vma);
 
-	return 0;
+	res = 0;
+unlock:
+	if (downgrade) {
+		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	} else {
+		up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	}
+	return res;
 }
 
 int vm_munmap(unsigned long start, size_t len)
@@ -2905,11 +2922,7 @@ int vm_munmap(unsigned long start, size_t len)
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 	LIST_HEAD(uf);
 
-	if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
-		return -EINTR;
-
 	ret = do_munmap(mm, start, len, &uf);
-	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	userfaultfd_unmap_complete(mm, &uf);
 	return ret;
 }