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Commit 0d2ebf9c authored by Suren Baghdasaryan's avatar Suren Baghdasaryan Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/mmap: free vm_area_struct without call_rcu in exit_mmap

call_rcu() can take a long time when callback offloading is enabled.  Its
use in the vm_area_free can cause regressions in the exit path when
multiple VMAs are being freed.

Because exit_mmap() is called only after the last mm user drops its
refcount, the page fault handlers can't be racing with it.  Any other
possible user like oom-reaper or process_mrelease are already synchronized
using mmap_lock.  Therefore exit_mmap() can free VMAs directly, without
the use of call_rcu().

Expose __vm_area_free() and use it from exit_mmap() to avoid possible
call_rcu() floods and performance regressions caused by it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-33-surenb@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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