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| author | Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> | 2022-01-14 14:06:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-01-15 16:30:27 +0200 |
| commit | 78db3412833dc9c479cd17412035f216cfd01a29 (patch) | |
| tree | 361770c978fb291ed9992e103b4c8c471caddb98 /include/linux/mm_types.h | |
| parent | 9a10064f5625d5572c3626c1516e0bebc6c9fe9b (diff) | |
mm: add anonymous vma name refcounting
While forking a process with high number (64K) of named anonymous vmas
the overhead caused by strdup() is noticeable. Experiments with ARM64
Android device show up to 40% performance regression when forking a
process with 64k unpopulated anonymous vmas using the max name lengths
vs the same process with the same number of anonymous vmas having no
name.
Introduce anon_vma_name refcounted structure to avoid the overhead of
copying vma names during fork() and when splitting named anonymous vmas.
When a vma is duplicated, instead of copying the name we increment the
refcount of this structure. Multiple vmas can point to the same
anon_vma_name as long as they increment the refcount. The name member
of anon_vma_name structure is assigned at structure allocation time and
is never changed. If vma name changes then the refcount of the original
structure is dropped, a new anon_vma_name structure is allocated to hold
the new name and the vma pointer is updated to point to the new
structure.
With this approach the fork() performance regressions is reduced 3-4x
times and with usecases using more reasonable number of VMAs (a few
thousand) the regressions is not measurable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019215511.3771969-3-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm_types.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm_types.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 799e2ee626b2..449b6eafc695 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include <linux/mm_types_task.h> #include <linux/auxvec.h> +#include <linux/kref.h> #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/rbtree.h> @@ -386,6 +387,12 @@ struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx { struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx {}; #endif /* CONFIG_USERFAULTFD */ +struct anon_vma_name { + struct kref kref; + /* The name needs to be at the end because it is dynamically sized. */ + char name[]; +}; + /* * This struct describes a virtual memory area. There is one of these * per VM-area/task. A VM area is any part of the process virtual memory @@ -437,7 +444,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct { unsigned long rb_subtree_last; } shared; /* Serialized by mmap_sem. */ - char *anon_name; + struct anon_vma_name *anon_name; }; /* |