From: Dave Hansen tl;dr: lock_vma_under_rcu() is already a trylock. No need to do both it and mmap_read_trylock(). Long Version: == Background == Historically, binder used an mmap_read_trylock() in its shrinker code. This ensures that reclaim is not blocked on an mmap_lock. Commit 95bc2d4a9020 ("binder: use per-vma lock in page reclaiming") added support for the per-VMA lock, but but left mmap_read_trylock() as a fallback. This was presumably because the per-VMA locking can fail for several reasons and most (all?) lock_vma_under_rcu() callers have a fallback to mmap_read_trylock(). == Problem == The fallback is not worth the complexity here. lock_vma_under_rcu() is essentially already a non-blocking trylock. The main reason it fails is also the reason mmap_read_trylock() fails: something is holding mmap_write_lock(). The only remedy for a collision with mmap_write_lock() is to wait, which this code can not do. So the "fallback" after lock_vma_under_rcu() failure is not really a fallback: it is really likely to just be retrying in vain. That retry in an of itself isn't horrible. But it adds complexity. == Solution == Now that per-VMA locks are universally available, lock_vma_under_rcu() will not persistently fail. Rely on it alone and simplify the code. Full disclosure: I originally tried to do this with lock_vma_under_rcu_wait(), but it did not fit well with the mmap_lock trylock semantics. Claude caught this in a review and suggested the approach in this path. It seemed sane to me. So, Suggesed-by: Claude, I guess. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org --- b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 22 +++++----------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/android/binder_alloc.c~binder-try-vma-lock drivers/android/binder_alloc.c --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c~binder-try-vma-lock 2026-04-29 11:18:50.066607065 -0700 +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c 2026-04-29 11:18:50.069607180 -0700 @@ -1142,7 +1142,6 @@ enum lru_status binder_alloc_free_page(s struct vm_area_struct *vma; struct page *page_to_free; unsigned long page_addr; - int mm_locked = 0; size_t index; if (!mmget_not_zero(mm)) @@ -1151,15 +1150,10 @@ enum lru_status binder_alloc_free_page(s index = mdata->page_index; page_addr = alloc->vm_start + index * PAGE_SIZE; - /* attempt per-vma lock first */ + /* attempt per-vma lock */ vma = lock_vma_under_rcu(mm, page_addr); - if (!vma) { - /* fall back to mmap_lock */ - if (!mmap_read_trylock(mm)) - goto err_mmap_read_lock_failed; - mm_locked = 1; - vma = vma_lookup(mm, page_addr); - } + if (!vma) + goto err_mmap_read_lock_failed; if (!mutex_trylock(&alloc->mutex)) goto err_get_alloc_mutex_failed; @@ -1191,10 +1185,7 @@ enum lru_status binder_alloc_free_page(s } mutex_unlock(&alloc->mutex); - if (mm_locked) - mmap_read_unlock(mm); - else - vma_end_read(vma); + vma_end_read(vma); mmput_async(mm); binder_free_page(page_to_free); @@ -1203,10 +1194,7 @@ enum lru_status binder_alloc_free_page(s err_invalid_vma: mutex_unlock(&alloc->mutex); err_get_alloc_mutex_failed: - if (mm_locked) - mmap_read_unlock(mm); - else - vma_end_read(vma); + vma_end_read(vma); err_mmap_read_lock_failed: mmput_async(mm); err_mmget: _