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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-09-12 23:57:48 -1000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-09-19 22:49:00 +0200 |
| commit | 88d6918401a4ecdc50fe77df3e1e77c1e49d8579 (patch) | |
| tree | 828b981af881d945a1d6f3384df2645832d18425 /include/linux/vmacache.h | |
| parent | e29c75d4fb491a7b1890293302f7ab40be7ce586 (diff) | |
mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely
commit 7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2 upstream.
Jann Horn points out that the vmacache_flush_all() function is not only
potentially expensive, it's buggy too. It also happens to be entirely
unnecessary, because the sequence number overflow case can be avoided by
simply making the sequence number be 64-bit. That doesn't even grow the
data structures in question, because the other adjacent fields are
already 64-bit.
So simplify the whole thing by just making the sequence number overflow
case go away entirely, which gets rid of all the complications and makes
the code faster too. Win-win.
[ Oleg Nesterov points out that the VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES statistics
also just goes away entirely with this ]
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/vmacache.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/vmacache.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmacache.h b/include/linux/vmacache.h index c3fa0fd43949..4f58ff2dacd6 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmacache.h +++ b/include/linux/vmacache.h @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ static inline void vmacache_flush(struct task_struct *tsk) memset(tsk->vmacache, 0, sizeof(tsk->vmacache)); } -extern void vmacache_flush_all(struct mm_struct *mm); extern void vmacache_update(unsigned long addr, struct vm_area_struct *newvma); extern struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr); @@ -29,10 +28,6 @@ extern struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find_exact(struct mm_struct *mm, static inline void vmacache_invalidate(struct mm_struct *mm) { mm->vmacache_seqnum++; - - /* deal with overflows */ - if (unlikely(mm->vmacache_seqnum == 0)) - vmacache_flush_all(mm); } #endif /* __LINUX_VMACACHE_H */ |