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    mmap: avoid unnecessary anon_vma lock · 5f70b962
    Shaohua Li 提交于
    If we only change vma->vm_end, we can avoid taking anon_vma lock even if
    'insert' isn't NULL, which is the case of split_vma.
    
    As I understand it, we need the lock before because rmap must get the
    'insert' VMA when we adjust old VMA's vm_end (the 'insert' VMA is linked
    to anon_vma list in __insert_vm_struct before).
    
    But now this isn't true any more.  The 'insert' VMA is already linked to
    anon_vma list in __split_vma(with anon_vma_clone()) instead of
    __insert_vm_struct.  There is no race rmap can't get required VMAs.  So
    the anon_vma lock is unnecessary, and this can reduce one locking in brk
    case and improve scalability.
    
    Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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