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Patch series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount", v10. Back when per-vma locks were introduces, vm_lock was moved out of vm_area_struct in [1] because of the performance regression caused by false cacheline sharing. Recent investigation [2] revealed that the regressions is limited to a rather old Broadwell microarchitecture and even there it can be mitigated by disabling adjacent cacheline prefetching, see [3]. Splitting single logical structure into multiple ones leads to more complicated management, extra pointer dereferences and overall less maintainable code. When that split-away part is a lock, it complicates things even further. With no performance benefits, there are no reasons for this split. Merging the vm_lock back into vm_area_struct also allows vm_area_struct to use SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU later in this patchset. This patchset: 1. moves vm_lock back into vm_area_struct, aligning it at the cacheline boundary and changing the cache to be cacheline-aligned to minimize cacheline sharing; 2. changes vm_area_struct initialization to mark new vma as detached until it is inserted into vma tree; 3. replaces vm_lock and vma->detached flag with a reference counter; 4. regroups vm_area_struct members to fit them into 3 cachelines; 5. changes vm_area_struct cache to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU to allow for their reuse and to minimize call_rcu() calls. Pagefault microbenchmarks show performance improvement: Hmean faults/cpu-1 507926.5547 ( 0.00%) 506519.3692 * -0.28%* Hmean faults/cpu-4 479119.7051 ( 0.00%) 481333.6802 * 0.46%* Hmean faults/cpu-7 452880.2961 ( 0.00%) 455845.6211 * 0.65%* Hmean faults/cpu-12 347639.1021 ( 0.00%) 352004.2254 * 1.26%* Hmean faults/cpu-21 200061.2238 ( 0.00%) 229597.0317 * 14.76%* Hmean faults/cpu-30 145251.2001 ( 0.00%) 164202.5067 * 13.05%* Hmean faults/cpu-48 106848.4434 ( 0.00%) 120641.5504 * 12.91%* Hmean faults/cpu-56 92472.3835 ( 0.00%) 103464.7916 * 11.89%* Hmean faults/sec-1 507566.1468 ( 0.00%) 506139.0811 * -0.28%* Hmean faults/sec-4 1880478.2402 ( 0.00%) 1886795.6329 * 0.34%* Hmean faults/sec-7 3106394.3438 ( 0.00%) 3140550.7485 * 1.10%* Hmean faults/sec-12 4061358.4795 ( 0.00%) 4112477.0206 * 1.26%* Hmean faults/sec-21 3988619.1169 ( 0.00%) 4577747.1436 * 14.77%* Hmean faults/sec-30 3909839.5449 ( 0.00%) 4311052.2787 * 10.26%* Hmean faults/sec-48 4761108.4691 ( 0.00%) 5283790.5026 * 10.98%* Hmean faults/sec-56 4885561.4590 ( 0.00%) 5415839.4045 * 10.85%* This patch (of 18): Introduce helper functions which can be used to read-lock a VMA when holding mmap_lock for read. Replace direct accesses to vma->vm_lock with these new helpers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-1-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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