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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>2012-10-08 16:29:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 16:22:19 +0900
commit314e51b9851b4f4e8ab302243ff5a6fc6147f379 (patch)
treef757b89206355fd129830782566768693eed23ce /mm/memory.c
parent0103bd16fb90bc741c7a03fd1ea4e8a505abad23 (diff)
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mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter
A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA, currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects: | effect | alternative flags -+------------------------+--------------------------------------------- 1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO 2| skip in core dump | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP 3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP 4| do not mlock | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct. Seems like nobody cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only reduces total_vm showed in proc. Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP. remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP. remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 7b1e4feaec06..e09c04813186 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2297,14 +2297,13 @@ int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
* rest of the world about it:
* VM_IO tells people not to look at these pages
* (accesses can have side effects).
- * VM_RESERVED is specified all over the place, because
- * in 2.4 it kept swapout's vma scan off this vma; but
- * in 2.6 the LRU scan won't even find its pages, so this
- * flag means no more than count its pages in reserved_vm,
- * and omit it from core dump, even when VM_IO turned off.
* VM_PFNMAP tells the core MM that the base pages are just
* raw PFN mappings, and do not have a "struct page" associated
* with them.
+ * VM_DONTEXPAND
+ * Disable vma merging and expanding with mremap().
+ * VM_DONTDUMP
+ * Omit vma from core dump, even when VM_IO turned off.
*
* There's a horrible special case to handle copy-on-write
* behaviour that some programs depend on. We mark the "original"
@@ -2321,7 +2320,7 @@ int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
if (err)
return -EINVAL;
- vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP;
+ vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
BUG_ON(addr >= end);
pfn -= addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;