1. 12 12月, 2012 1 次提交
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      mm: support more pagesizes for MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB · 42d7395f
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      There was some desire in large applications using MAP_HUGETLB or
      SHM_HUGETLB to use 1GB huge pages on some mappings, and stay with 2MB on
      others.  This is useful together with NUMA policy: use 2MB interleaving
      on some mappings, but 1GB on local mappings.
      
      This patch extends the IPC/SHM syscall interfaces slightly to allow
      specifying the page size.
      
      It borrows some upper bits in the existing flag arguments and allows
      encoding the log of the desired page size in addition to the *_HUGETLB
      flag.  When 0 is specified the default size is used, this makes the
      change fully compatible.
      
      Extending the internal hugetlb code to handle this is straight forward.
      Instead of a single mount it just keeps an array of them and selects the
      right mount based on the specified page size.  When no page size is
      specified it uses the mount of the default page size.
      
      The change is not visible in /proc/mounts because internal mounts don't
      appear there.  It also has very little overhead: the additional mounts
      just consume a super block, but not more memory when not used.
      
      I also exported the new flags to the user headers (they were previously
      under __KERNEL__).  Right now only symbols for x86 and some other
      architecture for 1GB and 2MB are defined.  The interface should already
      work for all other architectures though.  Only architectures that define
      multiple hugetlb sizes actually need it (that is currently x86, tile,
      powerpc).  However tile and powerpc have user configurable hugetlb
      sizes, so it's not easy to add defines.  A program on those
      architectures would need to query sysfs and use the appropiate log2.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
      [rientjes@google.com: fix build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      42d7395f
  2. 17 10月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 24 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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      coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP · accb61fe
      Jason Baron 提交于
      Since we no longer need the VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag, let's use the freed bit
      for 'VM_NODUMP' flag.  The idea is is to add a new madvise() flag:
      MADV_DONTDUMP, which can be set by applications to specifically request
      memory regions which should not dump core.
      
      The specific application I have in mind is qemu: we can add a flag there
      that wouldn't dump all of guest memory when qemu dumps core.  This flag
      might also be useful for security sensitive apps that want to absolutely
      make sure that parts of memory are not dumped.  To clear the flag use:
      MADV_DODUMP.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/MADV_NODUMP/MADV_DONTDUMP/, s/MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP/MADV_DODUMP/, per Roland]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up the architectures which broke]
      Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      accb61fe
  4. 14 1月, 2011 2 次提交
  5. 22 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions · 90f72aa5
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
      will look like anonymous memory to user space.  This is accomplished by
      using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
      MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
      the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.
      
      The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only
      on some architectures but not on others.  Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a
      hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific
      meaning to it.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      90f72aa5
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      ksm: define MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE · d19f3524
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      The out-of-tree KSM used ioctls on fds cloned from /dev/ksm to register a
      memory area for merging: we prefer now to use an madvise(2) interface.
      
      This patch just defines MADV_MERGEABLE (to tell KSM it may merge pages in
      this area found identical to pages in other mergeable areas) and
      MADV_UNMERGEABLE (to undo that).
      
      Most architectures use asm-generic, but alpha, mips, parisc, xtensa need
      their own definitions: included here for mmotm convenience, but we'll
      probably want to split this and feed pieces to arch maintainers.
      
      Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIzik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d19f3524
  6. 11 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  7. 12 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  8. 16 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 15 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK · f8225661
      Michael S. Tsirkin 提交于
      Currently, copy-on-write may change the physical address of a page even if the
      user requested that the page is pinned in memory (either by mlock or by
      get_user_pages).  This happens if the process forks meanwhile, and the parent
      writes to that page.  As a result, the page is orphaned: in case of
      get_user_pages, the application will never see any data hardware DMA's into
      this page after the COW.  In case of mlock'd memory, the parent is not getting
      the realtime/security benefits of mlock.
      
      In particular, this affects the Infiniband modules which do DMA from and into
      user pages all the time.
      
      This patch adds madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited
      across fork.  Useful e.g.  for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these
      pages.  Could also be useful to an application wanting to speed up its forks
      by cutting large areas out of consideration.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
      Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f8225661
  10. 07 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store · f6b3ec23
      Badari Pulavarty 提交于
      Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a
      given range of pages & its associated backing store.  Current
      implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return
      -ENOSYS.
      
      "Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some
      client disconnect, some memory can be released.  However the only way to
      release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli
      
      Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool
      (shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space.
      
      This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML.
      
      Concerns raised by Andrew Morton:
      
      - "We have no plan for holepunching!  If we _do_ have such a plan (or
        might in the future) then what would the API look like?  I think
        sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that."
      
      - Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to
        mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?"
      
      - None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this
        manner.  A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a
        filesytem operation?  truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation
        which sometimes has MM side-effects.  madvise is an mm operation and with
        this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really
        significant ones."
      
      Comments:
      
      - Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to
        have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't
        immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range.  It's possible to
        fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive,
        the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them.
      
      Short term plan &  Future Direction:
      
      - We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short
        term.  We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and
        completeness.  This is what this patch does.
      
      - In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also.  This
        also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented.
      
      - Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in
        the future.
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f6b3ec23
  11. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4