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Suren Baghdasaryan 5e31275cc9 mm: add per-VMA lock and helper functions to control it
Introduce per-VMA locking.  The lock implementation relies on a per-vma
and per-mm sequence counters to note exclusive locking:

  - read lock - (implemented by vma_start_read) requires the vma
    (vm_lock_seq) and mm (mm_lock_seq) sequence counters to differ.
    If they match then there must be a vma exclusive lock held somewhere.
  - read unlock - (implemented by vma_end_read) is a trivial vma->lock
    unlock.
  - write lock - (vma_start_write) requires the mmap_lock to be held
    exclusively and the current mm counter is assigned to the vma counter.
    This will allow multiple vmas to be locked under a single mmap_lock
    write lock (e.g. during vma merging). The vma counter is modified
    under exclusive vma lock.
  - write unlock - (vma_end_write_all) is a batch release of all vma
    locks held. It doesn't pair with a specific vma_start_write! It is
    done before exclusive mmap_lock is released by incrementing mm
    sequence counter (mm_lock_seq).
  - write downgrade - if the mmap_lock is downgraded to the read lock, all
    vma write locks are released as well (effectivelly same as write
    unlock).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-13-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-05 20:02:57 -07:00
arch mips: fix comment about pgtable_init() 2023-04-05 19:42:52 -07:00
block block: remove obsolete config BLOCK_COMPAT 2023-03-16 09:35:44 -06:00
certs Kbuild updates for v6.3 2023-02-26 11:53:25 -08:00
crypto asymmetric_keys: log on fatal failures in PE/pkcs7 2023-03-21 16:23:56 +00:00
Documentation mm: hold the RCU read lock over calls to ->map_pages 2023-04-05 19:43:00 -07:00
drivers drm/ttm: remove comment referencing now-removed vmf_insert_mixed_prot() 2023-04-05 19:42:56 -07:00
fs afs: split afs_pagecache_valid() out of afs_validate() 2023-04-05 19:43:00 -07:00
include mm: add per-VMA lock and helper functions to control it 2023-04-05 20:02:57 -07:00
init init,mm: fold late call to page_ext_init() to page_alloc_init_late() 2023-04-05 19:42:54 -07:00
io_uring block-6.3-2023-03-24 2023-03-24 14:10:39 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel mm: add per-VMA lock and helper functions to control it 2023-04-05 20:02:57 -07:00
lib iov_iter: add copy_page_to_iter_nofault() 2023-04-05 19:42:57 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: add per-VMA lock and helper functions to control it 2023-04-05 20:02:57 -07:00
net mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
rust Rust fixes for 6.3-rc1 2023-03-03 14:51:15 -08:00
samples LoongArch changes for v6.3 2023-03-01 09:27:00 -08:00
scripts checksyscalls: ignore fstat to silence build warning on LoongArch 2023-03-23 17:18:32 -07:00
security mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/ca0132: fixup buffer overrun at tuning_ctl_set() 2023-03-14 17:04:53 +01:00
tools selftests/mm: set overcommit_policy as OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS 2023-04-05 19:42:59 -07:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM/riscv changes for 6.3 2023-02-15 12:33:28 -05:00
.clang-format cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations 2023-03-05 14:30:34 -08:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: move source components to rpmbuild/SOURCES 2023-03-16 22:45:56 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: add an entry for Leonard Crestez 2023-03-28 15:24:32 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS There is no particular theme here - mainly quick hits all over the tree. 2023-02-23 17:55:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: extend memblock entry to include MM initialization 2023-04-05 19:42:55 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.3-rc4 2023-03-26 14:40:20 -07:00
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