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>
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 413bbc6..c63aacb 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -64,6 +64,29 @@ static int madvise_need_mmap_write(int behavior)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME
+static struct anon_vma_name *anon_vma_name_alloc(const char *name)
+{
+ struct anon_vma_name *anon_name;
+ size_t count;
+
+ /* Add 1 for NUL terminator at the end of the anon_name->name */
+ count = strlen(name) + 1;
+ anon_name = kmalloc(struct_size(anon_name, name, count), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (anon_name) {
+ kref_init(&anon_name->kref);
+ memcpy(anon_name->name, name, count);
+ }
+
+ return anon_name;
+}
+
+static void vma_anon_name_free(struct kref *kref)
+{
+ struct anon_vma_name *anon_name =
+ container_of(kref, struct anon_vma_name, kref);
+ kfree(anon_name);
+}
+
static inline bool has_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
return !vma->vm_file && vma->anon_name;
@@ -76,7 +99,7 @@ const char *vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
mmap_assert_locked(vma->vm_mm);
- return vma->anon_name;
+ return vma->anon_name->name;
}
void dup_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *orig_vma,
@@ -85,34 +108,41 @@ void dup_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *orig_vma,
if (!has_vma_anon_name(orig_vma))
return;
- new_vma->anon_name = kstrdup(orig_vma->anon_name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kref_get(&orig_vma->anon_name->kref);
+ new_vma->anon_name = orig_vma->anon_name;
}
void free_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
+ struct anon_vma_name *anon_name;
+
if (!has_vma_anon_name(vma))
return;
- kfree(vma->anon_name);
+ anon_name = vma->anon_name;
vma->anon_name = NULL;
+ kref_put(&anon_name->kref, vma_anon_name_free);
}
/* mmap_lock should be write-locked */
static int replace_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma, const char *name)
{
+ const char *anon_name;
+
if (!name) {
free_vma_anon_name(vma);
return 0;
}
- if (vma->anon_name) {
+ anon_name = vma_anon_name(vma);
+ if (anon_name) {
/* Same name, nothing to do here */
- if (!strcmp(name, vma->anon_name))
+ if (!strcmp(name, anon_name))
return 0;
free_vma_anon_name(vma);
}
- vma->anon_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vma->anon_name = anon_vma_name_alloc(name);
if (!vma->anon_name)
return -ENOMEM;