rmap: move exclusively owned pages to own anon_vma in do_wp_page()

When the parent process breaks the COW on a page, both the original which
is mapped at child and the new page which is mapped parent end up in that
same anon_vma.  Generally this won't be a problem, but for some workloads
it could preserve the O(N) rmap scanning complexity.

A simple fix is to ensure that, when a page which is mapped child gets
reused in do_wp_page, because we already are the exclusive owner, the page
gets moved to our own exclusive child's anon_vma.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index dc785b4..d1153e3 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2138,6 +2138,13 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			page_cache_release(old_page);
 		}
 		reuse = reuse_swap_page(old_page);
+		if (reuse)
+			/*
+			 * The page is all ours.  Move it to our anon_vma so
+			 * the rmap code will not search our parent or siblings.
+			 * Protected against the rmap code by the page lock.
+			 */
+			page_move_anon_rmap(old_page, vma, address);
 		unlock_page(old_page);
 	} else if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) ==
 					(VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) {
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 23ecd0a..28bcdc4 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -716,6 +716,30 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_mkclean);
 
 /**
+ * page_move_anon_rmap - move a page to our anon_vma
+ * @page:	the page to move to our anon_vma
+ * @vma:	the vma the page belongs to
+ * @address:	the user virtual address mapped
+ *
+ * When a page belongs exclusively to one process after a COW event,
+ * that page can be moved into the anon_vma that belongs to just that
+ * process, so the rmap code will not search the parent or sibling
+ * processes.
+ */
+void page_move_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
+{
+	struct anon_vma *anon_vma = vma->anon_vma;
+
+	VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+	VM_BUG_ON(!anon_vma);
+	VM_BUG_ON(page->index != linear_page_index(vma, address));
+
+	anon_vma = (void *) anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON;
+	page->mapping = (struct address_space *) anon_vma;
+}
+
+/**
  * __page_set_anon_rmap - setup new anonymous rmap
  * @page:	the page to add the mapping to
  * @vma:	the vm area in which the mapping is added