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author | Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> | 2014-04-07 15:37:10 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-04-07 16:35:52 -0700 |
commit | a0715cc22601e8830ace98366c0c2bd8da52af52 (patch) | |
tree | 4444c61a4685d10d683e1f29177a9e7cfbccae73 | |
parent | 1e1836e84f87d12feac6dd225fcef5eba1ca724b (diff) | |
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mm, thp: add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK and PRCTL_THP_DISABLE
Add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK, to allow us to set the default flags for VMs. It
also adds a prctl control which allows us to set the THP disable bit in
mm->def_flags so that VMs will pick up the setting as they are created.
Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 15 |
4 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 35300f390eb6..c270fa68a32b 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); */ #define VM_SPECIAL (VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP) +/* This mask defines which mm->def_flags a process can inherit its parent */ +#define VM_INIT_DEF_MASK VM_NOHUGEPAGE + /* * mapping from the currently active vm_flags protection bits (the * low four bits) to a page protection mask.. diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h index 289760f424aa..58afc04c107e 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h @@ -149,4 +149,7 @@ #define PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS 40 +#define PR_SET_THP_DISABLE 41 +#define PR_GET_THP_DISABLE 42 + #endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */ diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index abc45890f0a5..e40c0a01d5a6 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -530,8 +530,6 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p) atomic_set(&mm->mm_count, 1); init_rwsem(&mm->mmap_sem); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist); - mm->flags = (current->mm) ? - (current->mm->flags & MMF_INIT_MASK) : default_dump_filter; mm->core_state = NULL; atomic_long_set(&mm->nr_ptes, 0); memset(&mm->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(mm->rss_stat)); @@ -540,8 +538,15 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p) mm_init_owner(mm, p); clear_tlb_flush_pending(mm); - if (likely(!mm_alloc_pgd(mm))) { + if (current->mm) { + mm->flags = current->mm->flags & MMF_INIT_MASK; + mm->def_flags = current->mm->def_flags & VM_INIT_DEF_MASK; + } else { + mm->flags = default_dump_filter; mm->def_flags = 0; + } + + if (likely(!mm_alloc_pgd(mm))) { mmu_notifier_mm_init(mm); return mm; } diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index adaeab6f7a87..fba0f29401ea 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1996,6 +1996,21 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3, if (arg2 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5) return -EINVAL; return current->no_new_privs ? 1 : 0; + case PR_GET_THP_DISABLE: + if (arg2 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5) + return -EINVAL; + error = !!(me->mm->def_flags & VM_NOHUGEPAGE); + break; + case PR_SET_THP_DISABLE: + if (arg3 || arg4 || arg5) + return -EINVAL; + down_write(&me->mm->mmap_sem); + if (arg2) + me->mm->def_flags |= VM_NOHUGEPAGE; + else + me->mm->def_flags &= ~VM_NOHUGEPAGE; + up_write(&me->mm->mmap_sem); + break; default: error = -EINVAL; break; |