From 88d6918401a4ecdc50fe77df3e1e77c1e49d8579 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 23:57:48 -1000 Subject: mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely commit 7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2 upstream. Jann Horn points out that the vmacache_flush_all() function is not only potentially expensive, it's buggy too. It also happens to be entirely unnecessary, because the sequence number overflow case can be avoided by simply making the sequence number be 64-bit. That doesn't even grow the data structures in question, because the other adjacent fields are already 64-bit. So simplify the whole thing by just making the sequence number overflow case go away entirely, which gets rid of all the complications and makes the code faster too. Win-win. [ Oleg Nesterov points out that the VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES statistics also just goes away entirely with this ] Reported-by: Jann Horn Suggested-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 725498cc5d30..b30540d6d125 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ struct task_struct { struct mm_struct *mm, *active_mm; /* per-thread vma caching */ - u32 vmacache_seqnum; + u64 vmacache_seqnum; struct vm_area_struct *vmacache[VMACACHE_SIZE]; #if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING) struct task_rss_stat rss_stat; -- cgit v1.2.3