[PATCH 0/3] mm: __access_remote_vm with per-VMA lock

[Rik van Riel]

Sometimes processes can get stuck with the mmap_lock held for
a long time. This slows down, and can even prevent system monitoring
tools from assessing and logging the situation, because they themselves
end up getting stuck on the mmap_lock.

However, with the introduction of per-VMA locks, we can improve the
reliability of system monitoring, and generally speed up __access_remote_vm
under mmap_loc contention, by adding a fast path that does not require
the process-wide mmap_lock.

This fast path is only compiled in and used when it is safe to do so,
meaning a kernel with per-VMA locks, RCU pgae table freeing, the VMA
is not hugetlbfs, iomap, pfnmap, etc...

The code seems to work, but could still use some more cleaning up
and benchmarking.