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[09/75] mm/gup: Handle page split race more efficiently

Message ID 20220204195852.1751729-10-willy@infradead.org (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series MM folio patches for 5.18 | expand

Commit Message

Matthew Wilcox Feb. 4, 2022, 7:57 p.m. UTC 
If we hit the page split race, the current code returns NULL which will
presumably trigger a retry under the mmap_lock.  This isn't necessary;
we can just retry the compound_head() lookup.  This is a very minor
optimisation of an unlikely path, but conceptually it matches (eg)
the page cache RCU-protected lookup.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index fa75b71820a2..923a0d44203c 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@  static void put_page_refs(struct page *page, int refs)
  */
 static inline struct page *try_get_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs)
 {
-	struct page *head = compound_head(page);
+	struct page *head;
+
+retry:
+	head = compound_head(page);
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_ref_count(head) < 0))
 		return NULL;
@@ -86,7 +89,7 @@  static inline struct page *try_get_compound_head(struct page *page, int refs)
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(compound_head(page) != head)) {
 		put_page_refs(head, refs);
-		return NULL;
+		goto retry;
 	}
 
 	return head;