Recently, we have observed some janky issues caused by unpleasantly long
contention on mmap_lock which is held by smaps_rollup when probing large
processes. To address the problem, we let smaps_rollup detect if anyone
wants to acquire mmap_lock for write attempts. If yes, just release the
lock temporarily to ease the contention.

smaps_rollup is a procfs interface which allows users to summarize the
process's memory usage without the overhead of seq_* calls. Android uses
it to sample the memory usage of various processes to balance its memory
pool sizes. If no one wants to take the lock for write requests, smaps_rollup
with this patch will behave like the original one.

Although there are on-going mmap_lock optimizations like range-based locks,
the lock applied to smaps_rollup would be the coarse one, which is hard to
avoid the occurrence of aforementioned issues. So the detection and temporary
release for write attempts on mmap_lock in smaps_rollup is still necessary.


Chinwen Chang (2):
  mmap locking API: add mmap_lock_is_contended()
  mm: proc: smaps_rollup: do not stall write attempts on mmap_lock

 fs/proc/task_mmu.c        | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/mmap_lock.h |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
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