Re: [RESEND PATCH] fs: avoid mmap sem relocks when coredumping with many missing pages

[David Hildenbrand]

On 19.01.25 11:32, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> Dumping processes with large allocated and mostly not-faulted areas is
> very slow.
>
> Borrowing a test case from Tavian Barnes:
>
> int main(void) {
>      char *mem = mmap(NULL, 1ULL << 40, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
>              MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
>      printf("%p %m\n", mem);
>      if (mem != MAP_FAILED) {
>              mem[0] = 1;
>      }
>      abort();
> }
>
> That's 1TB of almost completely not-populated area.
>
> On my test box it takes 13-14 seconds to dump.
>
> The profile shows:
> -   99.89%     0.00%  a.out
>       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
>       do_syscall_64
>       syscall_exit_to_user_mode
>       arch_do_signal_or_restart
>     - get_signal
>        - 99.89% do_coredump
>           - 99.88% elf_core_dump
>              - dump_user_range
>                 - 98.12% get_dump_page
>                    - 64.19% __get_user_pages
>                       - 40.92% gup_vma_lookup
>                          - find_vma
>                             - mt_find
>                                  4.21% __rcu_read_lock
>                                  1.33% __rcu_read_unlock
>                       - 3.14% check_vma_flags
>                            0.68% vma_is_secretmem
>                         0.61% __cond_resched
>                         0.60% vma_pgtable_walk_end
>                         0.59% vma_pgtable_walk_begin
>                         0.58% no_page_table
>                    - 15.13% down_read_killable
>                         0.69% __cond_resched
>                      13.84% up_read
>                   0.58% __cond_resched
>
> Almost 29% of the time is spent relocking the mmap semaphore between
> calls to get_dump_page() which find nothing.
>
> Whacking that results in times of 10 seconds (down from 13-14).
>
> While here make the thing killable.
>
> The real problem is the page-sized iteration and the real fix would
> patch it up instead. It is left as an exercise for the mm-familiar
> reader.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Minimally tested, very plausible I missed something.
>
> sent again because the previous thing has myself in To -- i failed to
> fix up the oneliner suggested by lore.kernel.org. it seem the original
> got lost.
>
>   arch/arm64/kernel/elfcore.c |  3 ++-
>   fs/coredump.c               | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>   include/linux/mm.h          |  2 +-
>   mm/gup.c                    |  5 ++---
>   4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

MM side LGTM

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb