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Commit 164b06f2 authored by Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)'s avatar Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm: call wp_page_copy() under the VMA lock



It is usually safe to call wp_page_copy() under the VMA lock.  The only
unsafe situation is when no anon_vma has been allocated for this VMA, and
we have to look at adjacent VMAs to determine if their anon_vma can be
shared.  Since this happens only for the first COW of a page in this VMA,
the majority of calls to wp_page_copy() do not need to fall back to the
mmap_sem.

Add vmf_anon_prepare() as an alternative to anon_vma_prepare() which will
return RETRY if we currently hold the VMA lock and need to allocate an
anon_vma.  This lets us drop the check in do_wp_page().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006195318.4087158-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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