The cost of faulting in all memory to be locked can be very high when working with large mappings. If only portions of the mapping will be used this can incur a high penalty for locking.
For the example of a large file, this is the usage pattern for a large statical language model (probably applies to other statical or graphical models as well). For the security example, any application transacting in data that cannot be swapped out (credit card data, medical records, etc).
This patch introduces the ability to request that pages are not pre-faulted, but are placed on the unevictable LRU when they are finally faulted in. The VM_LOCKONFAULT flag will be used together with VM_LOCKED and has no effect when set without VM_LOCKED. Setting the VM_LOCKONFAULT flag for a VMA will cause pages faulted into that VMA to be added to the unevictable LRU when they are faulted or if they are already present, but will not cause any missing pages to be faulted in.
Exposing this new lock state means that we cannot overload the meaning of the FOLL_POPULATE flag any longer. Prior to this patch it was used to mean that the VMA for a fault was locked. This means we need the new FOLL_MLOCK flag to communicate the locked state of a VMA. FOLL_POPULATE will now only control if the VMA should be populated and in the case of VM_LOCKONFAULT, it will not be set.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson emunson@akamai.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.cz Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" kirill@shutemov.name Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org --- Changes from V8: * Do not expose VM_LOCKONFAULT flag to the rmap code because there is no consumer for this information
include/linux/mm.h | 5 +++++ kernel/fork.c | 3 ++- mm/debug.c | 1 + mm/gup.c | 10 ++++++++-- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++-- mm/mlock.c | 2 +- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- 8 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 8b257c4..b794a00 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
#define VM_DONTCOPY 0x00020000 /* Do not copy this vma on fork */ #define VM_DONTEXPAND 0x00040000 /* Cannot expand with mremap() */ +#define VM_LOCKONFAULT 0x00080000 /* Lock the pages covered when they are faulted in */ #define VM_ACCOUNT 0x00100000 /* Is a VM accounted object */ #define VM_NORESERVE 0x00200000 /* should the VM suppress accounting */ #define VM_HUGETLB 0x00400000 /* Huge TLB Page VM */ @@ -201,6 +202,9 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); /* This mask defines which mm->def_flags a process can inherit its parent */ #define VM_INIT_DEF_MASK VM_NOHUGEPAGE
+/* This mask is used to clear all the VMA flags used by mlock */ +#define VM_LOCKED_CLEAR_MASK (~(VM_LOCKED | VM_LOCKONFAULT)) + /* * mapping from the currently active vm_flags protection bits (the * low four bits) to a page protection mask.. @@ -2074,6 +2078,7 @@ static inline struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, #define FOLL_NUMA 0x200 /* force NUMA hinting page fault */ #define FOLL_MIGRATION 0x400 /* wait for page to replace migration entry */ #define FOLL_TRIED 0x800 /* a retry, previous pass started an IO */ +#define FOLL_MLOCK 0x1000 /* lock present pages */
typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t token, unsigned long addr, void *data); diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 7d5f0f1..66a1571 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -454,7 +454,8 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm) tmp->vm_mm = mm; if (anon_vma_fork(tmp, mpnt)) goto fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork; - tmp->vm_flags &= ~(VM_LOCKED|VM_UFFD_MISSING|VM_UFFD_WP); + tmp->vm_flags &= + ~(VM_LOCKED|VM_LOCKONFAULT|VM_UFFD_MISSING|VM_UFFD_WP); tmp->vm_next = tmp->vm_prev = NULL; tmp->vm_userfaultfd_ctx = NULL_VM_UFFD_CTX; file = tmp->vm_file; diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c index 76089dd..25176bb 100644 --- a/mm/debug.c +++ b/mm/debug.c @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ static const struct trace_print_flags vmaflags_names[] = { {VM_GROWSDOWN, "growsdown" }, {VM_PFNMAP, "pfnmap" }, {VM_DENYWRITE, "denywrite" }, + {VM_LOCKONFAULT, "lockonfault" }, {VM_LOCKED, "locked" }, {VM_IO, "io" }, {VM_SEQ_READ, "seqread" }, diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index a798293..deafa2c 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ retry: */ mark_page_accessed(page); } - if ((flags & FOLL_POPULATE) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) { + if ((flags & FOLL_MLOCK) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) { /* * The preliminary mapping check is mainly to avoid the * pointless overhead of lock_page on the ZERO_PAGE @@ -299,6 +299,9 @@ static int faultin_page(struct task_struct *tsk, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned int fault_flags = 0; int ret;
+ /* mlock all present pages, but do not fault in new pages */ + if ((*flags & (FOLL_POPULATE | FOLL_MLOCK)) == FOLL_MLOCK) + return -ENOENT; /* For mm_populate(), just skip the stack guard page. */ if ((*flags & FOLL_POPULATE) && (stack_guard_page_start(vma, address) || @@ -890,7 +893,10 @@ long populate_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, VM_BUG_ON_VMA(end > vma->vm_end, vma); VM_BUG_ON_MM(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem), mm);
- gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_POPULATE; + gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_POPULATE | FOLL_MLOCK; + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKONFAULT) + gup_flags &= ~FOLL_POPULATE; + /* * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 279a818..00a6066 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd, _pmd, 1)) update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, addr, pmd); } - if ((flags & FOLL_POPULATE) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) { + if ((flags & FOLL_MLOCK) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) { if (page->mapping && trylock_page(page)) { lru_add_drain(); if (page->mapping) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 51ae41d..634dcf1 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -3764,8 +3764,8 @@ static unsigned long page_table_shareable(struct vm_area_struct *svma, unsigned long s_end = sbase + PUD_SIZE;
/* Allow segments to share if only one is marked locked */ - unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED; - unsigned long svm_flags = svma->vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED; + unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED_CLEAR_MASK; + unsigned long svm_flags = svma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED_CLEAR_MASK;
/* * match the virtual addresses, permission and the alignment of the diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c index a23a533..ffcec2e 100644 --- a/mm/mlock.c +++ b/mm/mlock.c @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static unsigned long __munlock_pagevec_fill(struct pagevec *pvec, void munlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { - vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_LOCKED; + vma->vm_flags &= VM_LOCKED_CLEAR_MASK;
while (start < end) { struct page *page = NULL; diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 82db4fc..5a75db9 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ out: vma == get_gate_vma(current->mm))) mm->locked_vm += (len >> PAGE_SHIFT); else - vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_LOCKED; + vma->vm_flags &= VM_LOCKED_CLEAR_MASK; }
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