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Currently, the binder driver always uses the mmap lock to make changes to its vma. Because the mmap lock is global to the process, this can involve significant contention. However, the kernel has a feature called per-vma locks, which can significantly reduce contention. For example, you can take a vma lock in parallel with an mmap write lock. This is important because contention on the mmap lock has been a long-term recurring challenge for the Binder driver. This patch introduces support for using `lock_vma_under_rcu` from Rust. The Rust Binder driver will be able to use this to reduce contention on the mmap lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-4-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.