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    SHM_UNLOCK: fix long unpreemptible section · 85046579
    Hugh Dickins authored
    
    
    scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() is used to make SysV SHM_LOCKed pages
    evictable again once the shared memory is unlocked.  It does this with
    pagevec_lookup()s across the whole object (which might occupy most of
    memory), and takes 300ms to unlock 7GB here.  A cond_resched() every
    PAGEVEC_SIZE pages would be good.
    
    However, KOSAKI-san points out that this is called under shmem.c's
    info->lock, and it's also under shm.c's shm_lock(), both spinlocks.
    There is no strong reason for that: we need to take these pages off the
    unevictable list soonish, but those locks are not required for it.
    
    So move the call to scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() from shmem.c's
    unlock handling up to shm.c's unlock handling.  Remove the recently
    added barrier, not needed now we have spin_unlock() before the scan.
    
    Use get_file(), with subsequent fput(), to make sure we have a reference
    to mapping throughout scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(): that's something
    that was previously guaranteed by the shm_lock().
    
    Remove shmctl's lru_add_drain_all(): we don't fault in pages at SHM_LOCK
    time, and we lazily discover them to be Unevictable later, so it serves
    no purpose for SHM_LOCK; and serves no purpose for SHM_UNLOCK, since
    pages still on pagevec are not marked Unevictable.
    
    The original code avoided redundant rescans by checking VM_LOCKED flag
    at its level: now avoid them by checking shp's SHM_LOCKED.
    
    The original code called scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() on a locked
    area at shm_destroy() time: perhaps we once had accounting cross-checks
    which required that, but not now, so skip the overhead and just let
    inode eviction deal with them.
    
    Put check_move_unevictable_page() and scan_mapping_unevictable_pages()
    under CONFIG_SHMEM (with stub for the TINY case when ramfs is used),
    more as comment than to save space; comment them used for SHM_UNLOCK.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
    Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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