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| author | Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> | 2020-09-25 18:25:57 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-09-27 11:21:35 -0700 |
| commit | 008cfe4418b3dbda2ff820cdd7b1a5ce458ae444 (patch) | |
| tree | fecd1175184b14d889738d6491a1cccf0b0a8ae5 /include/linux | |
| parent | a1bffa48745afbb54cb4f873bba783b2ae8be042 (diff) | |
mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned
(Commit message majorly collected from Jason Gunthorpe)
Reduce the chance of false positive from page_maybe_dma_pinned() by
keeping track if the mm_struct has ever been used with pin_user_pages().
This allows cases that might drive up the page ref_count to avoid any
penalty from handling dma_pinned pages.
Future work is planned, to provide a more sophisticated solution, likely
to turn it into a real counter. For now, make it atomic_t but use it as
a boolean for simplicity.
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm_types.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 496c3ff97cce..ed028af3cb19 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -436,6 +436,16 @@ struct mm_struct { */ atomic_t mm_count; + /** + * @has_pinned: Whether this mm has pinned any pages. This can + * be either replaced in the future by @pinned_vm when it + * becomes stable, or grow into a counter on its own. We're + * aggresive on this bit now - even if the pinned pages were + * unpinned later on, we'll still keep this bit set for the + * lifecycle of this mm just for simplicity. + */ + atomic_t has_pinned; + #ifdef CONFIG_MMU atomic_long_t pgtables_bytes; /* PTE page table pages */ #endif |