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Commit 9740ca4e authored by Michel Lespinasse's avatar Michel Lespinasse Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mmap locking API: initial implementation as rwsem wrappers

This patch series adds a new mmap locking API replacing the existing
mmap_sem lock and unlocks.  Initially the API is just implemente in terms
of inlined rwsem calls, so it doesn't provide any new functionality.

There are two justifications for the new API:

- At first, it provides an easy hooking point to instrument mmap_sem
  locking latencies independently of any other rwsems.

- In the future, it may be a starting point for replacing the rwsem
  implementation with a different one, such as range locks.  This is
  something that is being explored, even though there is no wide concensus
  about this possible direction yet.  (see
  https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11401483/

)

This patch (of 12):

This change wraps the existing mmap_sem related rwsem calls into a new
mmap locking API.  There are two justifications for the new API:

- At first, it provides an easy hooking point to instrument mmap_sem
  locking latencies independently of any other rwsems.

- In the future, it may be a starting point for replacing the rwsem
  implementation with a different one, such as range locks.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLaurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-1-walken@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-2-walken@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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