"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> As we start supporting larger address space (>128TB), we want to give
> architecture a control on max task size of an application which is different
> from the TASK_SIZE. For ex: ppc64 needs to track the base page size of a segment
> and it is copied from mm_context_t to PACA on each context switch. If we know that
> application has not used an address range above 128TB we only need to copy
> details about 128TB range to PACA. This will help in improving context switch
> performance by avoiding larger copy operation.
>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/exec.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
I'll need an ACK at least on this from someone in mm land.
I assume there's no way I can merge patch 17 without this?
> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index 65145a3df065..5550a56d03c3 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1308,6 +1308,14 @@ void would_dump(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct file *file)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(would_dump);
>
> +#ifndef arch_init_task_size
> +static inline void arch_init_task_size(void)
> +{
> + current->mm->task_size = TASK_SIZE;
> +}
> +#define arch_init_task_size arch_init_task_size
I don't think you need to do the #define in the fallback case, it's
just extra noise.
> +#endif
> +
> void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
> {
> arch_pick_mmap_layout(current->mm);
cheers
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