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mm: madvise: use per_vma lock for MADV_FREE
authorBarry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:47:45 +0000 (22:47 +1200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:42:07 +0000 (22:42 -0700)
commit4f8ba33bbdfc475fdc1ac5de6a93f5de93203ed5
tree13b53a24d3a652abd7eafeb39c3ca9188e71590b
parentf822a9a81a31311d67f260aea96005540b18ab07
mm: madvise: use per_vma lock for MADV_FREE

MADV_FREE is another option, besides MADV_DONTNEED, for dynamic memory
freeing in user-space native or Java heap memory management.  For example,
jemalloc can be configured to use MADV_FREE, and recent versions of the
Android Java heap have also increasingly adopted MADV_FREE.  Supporting
per-VMA locking for MADV_FREE thus appears increasingly necessary.

We have replaced walk_page_range() with walk_page_range_vma().  Along with
the proposed madvise_lock_mode by Lorenzo, the necessary infrastructure is
now in place to begin exploring per-VMA locking support for MADV_FREE and
potentially other madvise using walk_page_range_vma().

This patch adds support for the PGWALK_VMA_RDLOCK walk_lock mode in
walk_page_range_vma(), and leverages madvise_lock_mode from madv_behavior
to select the appropriate walk_lock—either mmap_lock or per-VMA
lock—based on the context.

Because we now dynamically update the walk_ops->walk_lock field, we must
ensure this is thread-safe.  The madvise_free_walk_ops is now defined as a
stack variable instead of a global constant.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250611104745.57405-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tangquan Zheng <zhengtangquan@oppo.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/pagewalk.h
mm/madvise.c
mm/pagewalk.c