From: Suren Baghdasaryan To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: jirislaby@kernel.org, jacobly.alt@gmail.com, holger@applied-asynchrony.com, hdegoede@redhat.com, michel@lespinasse.org, jglisse@google.com, mhocko@suse.com, vbabka@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, dave@stgolabs.net, willy@infradead.org, liam.howlett@oracle.com, peterz@infradead.org, ldufour@linux.ibm.com, paulmck@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, will@kernel.org, luto@kernel.org, songliubraving@fb.com, peterx@redhat.com, david@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com, hughd@google.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, kent.overstreet@linux.dev, punit.agrawal@bytedance.com, lstoakes@gmail.com, peterjung1337@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com, chriscli@google.com, axelrasmussen@google.com, joelaf@google.com, minchan@google.com, rppt@kernel.org, jannh@google.com, shakeelb@google.com, tatashin@google.com, edumazet@google.com, gthelen@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Suren Baghdasaryan Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] fork: lock VMAs of the parent process when forking Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 18:13:59 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20230706011400.2949242-2-surenb@google.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20230706011400.2949242-1-surenb@google.com> When forking a child process, parent write-protects an anonymous page and COW-shares it with the child being forked using copy_present_pte(). Parent's TLB is flushed right before we drop the parent's mmap_lock in dup_mmap(). If we get a write-fault before that TLB flush in the parent, and we end up replacing that anonymous page in the parent process in do_wp_page() (because, COW-shared with the child), this might lead to some stale writable TLB entries targeting the wrong (old) page. Similar issue happened in the past with userfaultfd (see flush_tlb_page() call inside do_wp_page()). Lock VMAs of the parent process when forking a child, which prevents concurrent page faults during fork operation and avoids this issue. This fix can potentially regress some fork-heavy workloads. Kernel build time did not show noticeable regression on a 56-core machine while a stress test mapping 10000 VMAs and forking 5000 times in a tight loop shows ~7% regression. If such fork time regression is unacceptable, disabling CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK should restore its performance. Further optimizations are possible if this regression proves to be problematic. Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Reported-by: Jiri Slaby Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dbdef34c-3a07-5951-e1ae-e9c6e3cdf51b@kernel.org/ Reported-by: Holger Hoffstätte Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b198d649-f4bf-b971-31d0-e8433ec2a34c@applied-asynchrony.com/ Reported-by: Jacob Young Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217624 Fixes: 0bff0aaea03e ("x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan --- kernel/fork.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index b85814e614a5..2ba918f83bde 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -658,6 +658,12 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, retval = -EINTR; goto fail_uprobe_end; } +#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK + /* Disallow any page faults before calling flush_cache_dup_mm */ + for_each_vma(old_vmi, mpnt) + vma_start_write(mpnt); + vma_iter_set(&old_vmi, 0); +#endif flush_cache_dup_mm(oldmm); uprobe_dup_mmap(oldmm, mm); /* -- 2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog