mm: brk: downgrade mmap_sem to read when shrinking
brk might be used to shrink memory mapping too other than munmap(). So, it may hold write mmap_sem for long time when shrinking large mapping, as what commit ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap") described. The brk() will not manipulate vmas anymore after __do_munmap() call for the mapping shrink use case. But, it may set mm->brk after __do_munmap(), which needs hold write mmap_sem. However, a simple trick can workaround this by setting mm->brk before __do_munmap(). Then restore the original value if __do_munmap() fails. With this trick, it is safe to downgrade to read mmap_sem. So, the same optimization, which downgrades mmap_sem to read for zapping pages, is also feasible and reasonable to this case. The period of holding exclusive mmap_sem for shrinking large mapping would be reduced significantly with this optimization. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment] [yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: fix unsigned compare against 0 issue] ...
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