commit 85a06835f6f1ba79f0f00838ccd5ad840dd1eafb
author Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Fri Oct 26 15:08:50 2018 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Fri Oct 26 16:26:35 2018 -0700
tree 91ec31587d1e465de5d5940a11f469695c7320a3
parent 3c0513243a4a07ebad2d59f3d972bef483818ec6

mm: mremap: downgrade mmap_sem to read when shrinking

Other than munmap, mremap might be used to shrink memory mapping too.
So, it may hold write mmap_sem for long time when shrinking large
mapping, as what commit ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in
munmap") described.

The mremap() will not manipulate vmas anymore after __do_munmap() call for
the mapping shrink use case, so it is safe to downgrade to read mmap_sem.

So, the same optimization, which downgrades mmap_sem to read for zapping
pages, is also feasible and reasonable to this case.

The period of holding exclusive mmap_sem for shrinking large mapping
would be reduced significantly with this optimization.

MREMAP_FIXED and MREMAP_MAYMOVE are more complicated to adopt this
optimization since they need manipulate vmas after do_munmap(),
downgrading mmap_sem may create race window.

Simple mapping shrink is the low hanging fruit, and it may cover the
most cases of unmap with munmap together.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
[yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: fix unsigned compare against 0 issue]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538687672-17795-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538067582-60038-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

mm/mremap.c

diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index a9617e7..7f9f918 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mremap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, old_len,
 	unsigned long ret = -EINVAL;
 	unsigned long charged = 0;
 	bool locked = false;
+	bool downgraded = false;
 	struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx uf = NULL_VM_UFFD_CTX;
 	LIST_HEAD(uf_unmap_early);
 	LIST_HEAD(uf_unmap);
@@ -557,12 +558,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mremap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, old_len,
 	/*
 	 * Always allow a shrinking remap: that just unmaps
 	 * the unnecessary pages..
-	 * do_munmap does all the needed commit accounting
+	 * __do_munmap does all the needed commit accounting, and
+	 * downgrades mmap_sem to read if so directed.
 	 */
 	if (old_len >= new_len) {
-		ret = do_munmap(mm, addr+new_len, old_len - new_len, &uf_unmap);
-		if (ret && old_len != new_len)
+		int retval;
+
+		retval = __do_munmap(mm, addr+new_len, old_len - new_len,
+				  &uf_unmap, true);
+		if (retval < 0 && old_len != new_len) {
+			ret = retval;
 			goto out;
+		/* Returning 1 indicates mmap_sem is downgraded to read. */
+		} else if (retval == 1)
+			downgraded = true;
 		ret = addr;
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -627,7 +636,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mremap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, old_len,
 		vm_unacct_memory(charged);
 		locked = 0;
 	}
-	up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+	if (downgraded)
+		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+	else
+		up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 	if (locked && new_len > old_len)
 		mm_populate(new_addr + old_len, new_len - old_len);
 	userfaultfd_unmap_complete(mm, &uf_unmap_early);