From 8b1645685acf3c7e0b93611fb4b328ef45c47e92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:27:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, THP: don't hold mmap_sem in khugepaged when allocating THP When allocating huge page for collapsing, khugepaged currently holds mmap_sem for reading on the mm where collapsing occurs. Afterwards the read lock is dropped before write lock is taken on the same mmap_sem. Holding mmap_sem during whole huge page allocation is therefore useless, the vma needs to be rechecked after taking the write lock anyway. Furthemore, huge page allocation might involve a rather long sync compaction, and thus block any mmap_sem writers and i.e. affect workloads that perform frequent m(un)map or mprotect oterations. This patch simply releases the read lock before allocating a huge page. It also deletes an outdated comment that assumed vma must be stable, as it was using alloc_hugepage_vma(). This is no longer true since commit 9f1b868a13ac ("mm: thp: khugepaged: add policy for finding target node"). Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Rik van Riel Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/huge_memory.c | 20 +++++++------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index f8ffd9412ec5..55ab569c31b4 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2322,23 +2322,17 @@ static struct page int node) { VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(*hpage, *hpage); + /* - * Allocate the page while the vma is still valid and under - * the mmap_sem read mode so there is no memory allocation - * later when we take the mmap_sem in write mode. This is more - * friendly behavior (OTOH it may actually hide bugs) to - * filesystems in userland with daemons allocating memory in - * the userland I/O paths. Allocating memory with the - * mmap_sem in read mode is good idea also to allow greater - * scalability. + * Before allocating the hugepage, release the mmap_sem read lock. + * The allocation can take potentially a long time if it involves + * sync compaction, and we do not need to hold the mmap_sem during + * that. We will recheck the vma after taking it again in write mode. */ + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + *hpage = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, alloc_hugepage_gfpmask( khugepaged_defrag(), __GFP_OTHER_NODE), HPAGE_PMD_ORDER); - /* - * After allocating the hugepage, release the mmap_sem read lock in - * preparation for taking it in write mode. - */ - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); if (unlikely(!*hpage)) { count_vm_event(THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED); *hpage = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.20.1