mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned
(Commit message majorly collected from Jason Gunthorpe)
Reduce the chance of false positive from page_maybe_dma_pinned() by
keeping track if the mm_struct has ever been used with pin_user_pages().
This allows cases that might drive up the page ref_count to avoid any
penalty from handling dma_pinned pages.
Future work is planned, to provide a more sophisticated solution, likely
to turn it into a real counter. For now, make it atomic_t but use it as
a boolean for simplicity.
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 49677d6..e65d8192 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1011,6 +1011,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
mm_pgtables_bytes_init(mm);
mm->map_count = 0;
mm->locked_vm = 0;
+ atomic_set(&mm->has_pinned, 0);
atomic64_set(&mm->pinned_vm, 0);
memset(&mm->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(mm->rss_stat));
spin_lock_init(&mm->page_table_lock);