Patch series "mm: free retracted page table by RCU", v3.

Some mmap_lock avoidance i.e.  latency reduction.  Initially just for the
case of collapsing shmem or file pages to THPs: the usefulness of
MADV_COLLAPSE on shmem is being limited by that mmap_write_lock it
currently requires.

Likely to be relied upon later in other contexts e.g.  freeing of empty
page tables (but that's not work I'm doing).  mmap_write_lock avoidance
when collapsing to anon THPs?  Perhaps, but again that's not work I've
done: a quick attempt was not as easy as the shmem/file case.

These changes (though of course not these exact patches) have been in
Google's data centre kernel for three years now: we do rely upon them.


This patch (of 13):

Before putting them to use (several commits later), add rcu_read_lock() to
pte_offset_map(), and rcu_read_unlock() to pte_unmap().  Make this a
separate commit, since it risks exposing imbalances: prior commits have
fixed all the known imbalances, but we may find some have been missed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7cd843a9-aa80-14f-5eb2-33427363c20@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d3b01da5-2a6-833c-6681-67a3e024a16f@google.comSigned-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>