linux/kernel
Suren Baghdasaryan fb49c45532 fork: lock VMAs of the parent process when forking
When forking a child process, the parent write-protects anonymous pages
and COW-shares them with the child being forked using copy_present_pte().

We must not take any concurrent page faults on the source vma's as they
are being processed, as we expect both the vma and the pte's behind it
to be stable.  For example, the anon_vma_fork() expects the parents
vma->anon_vma to not change during the vma copy.

A concurrent page fault on a page newly marked read-only by the page
copy might trigger wp_page_copy() and a anon_vma_prepare(vma) on the
source vma, defeating the anon_vma_clone() that wasn't done because the
parent vma originally didn't have an anon_vma, but we now might end up
copying a pte entry for a page that has one.

Before the per-vma lock based changes, the mmap_lock guaranteed
exclusion with concurrent page faults.  But now we need to do a
vma_start_write() to make sure no concurrent faults happen on this vma
while it is being processed.

This fix can potentially regress some fork-heavy workloads.  Kernel
build time did not show noticeable regression on a 56-core machine while
a stress test mapping 10000 VMAs and forking 5000 times in a tight loop
shows ~5% regression.  If such fork time regression is unacceptable,
disabling CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK should restore its performance.  Further
optimizations are possible if this regression proves to be problematic.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dbdef34c-3a07-5951-e1ae-e9c6e3cdf51b@kernel.org/
Reported-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b198d649-f4bf-b971-31d0-e8433ec2a34c@applied-asynchrony.com/
Reported-by: Jacob Young <jacobly.alt@gmail.com>
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217624
Fixes: 0bff0aaea0 ("x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2023-07-08 14:08:02 -07:00
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bpf bpf, btf: Warn but return no error for NULL btf from __register_btf_kfunc_id_set() 2023-07-03 18:48:09 +02:00
cgroup - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs. 2023-06-28 10:28:11 -07:00
configs mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED 2023-05-26 19:01:47 +02:00
debug kdb: move kdb_send_sig() declaration to a better header file 2023-07-03 09:27:12 +01:00
dma dma-mapping uodates for Linux 6.5 2023-06-29 21:12:20 -07:00
entry ptrace: Provide set/get interface for syscall user dispatch 2023-04-16 14:23:07 +02:00
events cxl for v6.5 2023-07-01 08:58:41 -07:00
futex
gcov
irq irqchip updates for 6.5 2023-06-26 11:05:49 +02:00
kcsan kcsan: Don't expect 64 bits atomic builtins from 32 bits architectures 2023-06-09 23:29:50 +10:00
livepatch livepatch: Make 'klp_stack_entries' static 2023-06-05 13:56:52 +02:00
locking - Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in 2023-06-28 10:59:38 -07:00
module module: fix init_module_from_file() error handling 2023-07-04 10:17:11 -07:00
power - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs. 2023-06-28 10:28:11 -07:00
printk seqlock/latch: Provide raw_read_seqcount_latch_retry() 2023-06-05 21:11:03 +02:00
rcu Merge branches 'doc.2023.05.10a', 'fixes.2023.05.11a', 'kvfree.2023.05.10a', 'nocb.2023.05.11a', 'rcu-tasks.2023.05.10a', 'torture.2023.05.15a' and 'rcu-urgent.2023.06.06a' into HEAD 2023-06-07 13:44:06 -07:00
sched cgroup: Changes for v6.5 2023-06-27 16:54:21 -07:00
time hardening updates for v6.5-rc1 2023-06-27 21:24:18 -07:00
trace Tracing fixes for 6.5: 2023-07-06 19:07:15 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit.c
audit.h audit: avoid missing-prototype warnings 2023-05-17 11:34:55 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c capability: fix kernel-doc warnings in capability.c 2023-05-22 14:30:52 -04:00
cfi.c
compat.c sched_getaffinity: don't assume 'cpumask_size()' is fully initialized 2023-03-14 19:32:38 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_<op>() 2023-06-05 09:57:20 +02:00
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask() 2023-05-23 18:06:40 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ 2023-04-18 16:39:34 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression 2023-06-01 17:15:33 -04:00
extable.c
fail_function.c
fork.c fork: lock VMAs of the parent process when forking 2023-07-08 14:08:02 -07:00
freezer.c
gen_kheaders.sh Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation" 2023-05-28 16:20:21 +09:00
groups.c
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: set some hung_task.c variables storage-class-specifier to static 2023-04-08 13:45:37 -07:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu() 2023-03-24 11:01:29 +01:00
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c v6.5-rc1-modules-next 2023-06-28 15:51:08 -07:00
kallsyms_internal.h
kallsyms_selftest.c kallsyms: Delete an unused parameter related to {module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol() 2023-03-19 13:27:19 -07:00
kallsyms_selftest.h
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: add prototypes for helper functions 2023-06-09 17:44:17 -07:00
kexec.c
kexec_core.c kexec: enable kexec_crash_size to support two crash kernel regions 2023-06-09 17:44:24 -07:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c - Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in 2023-06-28 10:59:38 -07:00
kexec_internal.h
kheaders.c kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char 2023-03-24 20:10:59 -07:00
kprobes.c fprobe: Pass return address to the handlers 2023-06-06 21:39:55 +09:00
ksyms_common.c kallsyms: make kallsyms_show_value() as generic function 2023-06-08 12:27:20 -07:00
ksysfs.c kernel/ksysfs.c: use sysfs_emit for sysfs show handlers 2023-03-24 17:09:14 +01:00
kthread.c - Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in 2023-06-28 10:59:38 -07:00
latencytop.c
Makefile v6.5-rc1-modules-next 2023-06-28 15:51:08 -07:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c notifiers: add tracepoints to the notifiers infrastructure 2023-04-08 13:45:38 -07:00
nsproxy.c convert setns(2) to fdget()/fdput() 2023-04-20 22:55:35 -04:00
padata.c padata: use alignment when calculating the number of worker threads 2023-03-14 17:06:44 +08:00
panic.c panic: hide unused global functions 2023-06-09 17:44:15 -07:00
params.c kallsyms: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy 2023-06-14 12:27:38 -07:00
pid.c pid: use struct_size_t() helper 2023-07-01 08:26:23 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid: use struct_size_t() helper 2023-07-01 08:26:23 -07:00
pid_sysctl.h kernel: pid_namespace: remove unused set_memfd_noexec_scope() 2023-06-19 16:19:28 -07:00
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: Provide set/get interface for syscall user dispatch 2023-04-16 14:23:07 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c
regset.c
relay.c relayfs: fix out-of-bounds access in relay_file_read 2023-05-02 17:23:27 -07:00
resource.c
resource_kunit.c
rseq.c
scftorture.c
scs.c
seccomp.c seccomp: simplify sysctls with register_sysctl_init() 2023-04-13 11:49:20 -07:00
signal.c v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next 2023-06-28 16:05:21 -07:00
smp.c trace,smp: Add tracepoints for scheduling remotelly called functions 2023-06-16 22:08:09 +02:00
smpboot.c cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions 2023-05-15 13:45:00 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c Revert "softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job" 2023-05-09 21:50:27 +02:00
stackleak.c stackleak: allow to specify arch specific stackleak poison function 2023-04-20 11:36:35 +02:00
stacktrace.c
static_call.c
static_call_inline.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c riscv: Add prctl controls for userspace vector management 2023-06-08 07:16:53 -07:00
sys_ni.c asm-generic updates for 6.5 2023-07-06 10:06:04 -07:00
sysctl-test.c
sysctl.c v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next 2023-06-28 16:05:21 -07:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c sysctl: fix unused proc_cap_handler() function warning 2023-06-29 15:19:43 -07:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
usermode_driver.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table 2023-04-13 11:49:35 -07:00
vhost_task.c vhost: Fix worker hangs due to missed wake up calls 2023-06-08 15:43:09 -04:00
watch_queue.c watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer 2023-06-06 10:47:04 +02:00
watchdog.c watchdog/sparc64: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64 2023-06-19 16:25:29 -07:00
watchdog_buddy.c watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code 2023-06-19 16:25:28 -07:00
watchdog_perf.c watchdog/perf: add a weak function for an arch to detect if perf can use NMIs 2023-06-09 17:44:21 -07:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Changes for v6.5 2023-06-27 16:32:52 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE 2023-05-17 17:02:08 -10:00