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Patch series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd", v7. Performing userfaultfd operations (like copy/move etc.) in critical section of mmap_lock (read-mode) causes significant contention on the lock when operations requiring the lock in write-mode are taking place concurrently. We can use per-vma locks instead to significantly reduce the contention issue. Android runtime's Garbage Collector uses userfaultfd for concurrent compaction. mmap-lock contention during compaction potentially causes jittery experience for the user. During one such reproducible scenario, we observed the following improvements with this patch-set: - Wall clock time of compaction phase came down from ~3s to <500ms - Uninterruptible sleep time (across all threads in the process) was ~10ms (none in mmap_lock) during compaction, instead of >20s This patch (of 4): Move the struct to userfaultfd_k.h to be accessible from mm/userfaultfd.c. There are no other changes in the struct. This is required to prepare for using per-vma locks in userfaultfd operations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215182756.3448972-1-lokeshgidra@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215182756.3448972-2-lokeshgidra@google.com Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nicolas Geoffray <ngeoffray@google.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.