There is usecase that System Management Software(SMS) want to give a memory hint like MADV_[COLD|PAGEEOUT] to other processes and in the case of Android, it is the ActivityManagerService. It's similar in spirit to madvise(MADV_WONTNEED), but the information required to make the reclaim decision is not known to the app. Instead, it is known to the centralized userspace daemon(ActivityManagerService), and that daemon must be able to initiate reclaim on its own without any app involvement. To solve the issue, this patch introduces a new syscall process_madvise(2). It uses pidfd of an external process to give the hint. int process_madvise(int pidfd, void *addr, size_t length, int advise, unsigned long flag); Since it could affect other process's address range, only privileged process(CAP_SYS_PTRACE) or something else(e.g., being the same UID) gives it the right to ptrace the process could use it successfully. The flag argument is reserved for future use if we need to extend the API. I think supporting all hints madvise has/will supported/support to process_madvise is rather risky. Because we are not sure all hints make sense from external process and implementation for the hint may rely on the caller being in the current context so it could be error-prone. Thus, I just limited hints as MADV_[COLD|PAGEOUT] in this patch. If someone want to add other hints, we could hear hear the usecase and review it for each hint. It's safer for maintenance rather than introducing a buggy syscall but hard to fix it later. Q.1 - Why does any external entity have better knowledge? Quote from Sandeep "For Android, every application (including the special SystemServer) are forked from Zygote. The reason of course is to share as many libraries and classes between the two as possible to benefit from the preloading during boot. After applications start, (almost) all of the APIs end up calling into this SystemServer process over IPC (binder) and back to the application. In a fully running system, the SystemServer monitors every single process periodically to calculate their PSS / RSS and also decides which process is "important" to the user for interactivity. So, because of how these processes start _and_ the fact that the SystemServer is looping to monitor each process, it does tend to *know* which address range of the application is not used / useful. Besides, we can never rely on applications to clean things up themselves. We've had the "hey app1, the system is low on memory, please trim your memory usage down" notifications for a long time[1]. They rely on applications honoring the broadcasts and very few do. So, if we want to avoid the inevitable killing of the application and restarting it, some way to be able to tell the OS about unimportant memory in these applications will be useful. - ssp Q.2 - How to guarantee the race(i.e., object validation) between when giving a hint from an external process and get the hint from the target process? process_madvise operates on the target process's address space as it exists at the instant that process_madvise is called. If the space target process can run between the time the process_madvise process inspects the target process address space and the time that process_madvise is actually called, process_madvise may operate on memory regions that the calling process does not expect. It's the responsibility of the process calling process_madvise to close this race condition. For example, the calling process can suspend the target process with ptrace, SIGSTOP, or the freezer cgroup so that it doesn't have an opportunity to change its own address space before process_madvise is called. Another option is to operate on memory regions that the caller knows a priori will be unchanged in the target process. Yet another option is to accept the race for certain process_madvise calls after reasoning that mistargeting will do no harm. The suggested API itself does not provide synchronization. It also apply other APIs like move_pages, process_vm_write. The race isn't really a problem though. Why is it so wrong to require that callers do their own synchronization in some manner? Nobody objects to write(2) merely because it's possible for two processes to open the same file and clobber each other's writes --- instead, we tell people to use flock or something. Think about mmap. It never guarantees newly allocated address space is still valid when the user tries to access it because other threads could unmap the memory right before. That's where we need synchronization by using other API or design from userside. It shouldn't be part of API itself. If someone needs more fine-grained synchronization rather than process level, there were two ideas suggested - cookie[2] and anon-fd[3]. Both are applicable via using last reserved argument of the API but I don't think it's necessary right now since we have already ways to prevent the race so don't want to add additional complexity with more fine-grained optimization model. To make the API extend, it reserved an unsigned long as last argument so we could support it in future if someone really needs it. Q.3 - Why doesn't ptrace work? Injecting an madvise in the target process using ptrace would not work for us because such injected madvise would have to be executed by the target process, which means that process would have to be runnable and that creates the risk of the abovementioned race and hinting a wrong VMA. Furthermore, we want to act the hint in caller's context, not calle because calle is usually limited in cpuset/cgroups or even freezed state so they can't act by themselves quick enough, which causes more thrashing/kill. It doesn't work if the target process are ptraced(e.g., strace, debugger, minidump) because a process can have at most one ptracer. [1] https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/memory"; [2] process_getinfo for getting the cookie which is updated whenever vma of process address layout are changed - Daniel Colascione - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190520035254.57579-1-minchan@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m7694416fd179b2066a2c62b5b139b14e3894e224 [3] anonymous fd which is used for the object(i.e., address range) validation - Michal Hocko - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120112722.GY18451@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h | 2 + arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl | 1 + arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 + arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 + arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 + include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 + include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 4 +- kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 + mm/madvise.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++ 21 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index 36d42da7466a..c82952e6fb80 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -477,3 +477,4 @@ # 545 reserved for clone3 547 common openat2 sys_openat2 548 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +549 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl index 4d1cf74a2caa..54c2719fec46 100644 --- a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl @@ -451,3 +451,4 @@ 435 common clone3 sys_clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h index 1dd22da1c3a9..75f04a1023be 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ #define __ARM_NR_compat_set_tls (__ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE + 5) #define __ARM_NR_COMPAT_END (__ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE + 0x800) -#define __NR_compat_syscalls 439 +#define __NR_compat_syscalls 440 #endif #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h index c1c61635f89c..2a27be7a1f91 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h @@ -883,6 +883,8 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_clone3, sys_clone3) __SYSCALL(__NR_openat2, sys_openat2) #define __NR_pidfd_getfd 438 __SYSCALL(__NR_pidfd_getfd, sys_pidfd_getfd) +#define __NR_process_madvise 439 +__SYSCALL(__NR_process_madvise, process_madvise) /* * Please add new compat syscalls above this comment and update diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index 042911e670b8..9524af1c318c 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -358,3 +358,4 @@ # 435 reserved for clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index f4f49fcb76d0..8197050c097c 100644 --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -437,3 +437,4 @@ 435 common clone3 __sys_clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index 4c67b11f9c9e..c5b6c8afe445 100644 --- a/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -443,3 +443,4 @@ 435 common clone3 sys_clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl index 1f9e8ad636cc..8ec8c558aa9c 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl @@ -376,3 +376,4 @@ 435 n32 clone3 __sys_clone3 437 n32 openat2 sys_openat2 438 n32 pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 n32 process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl index c0b9d802dbf6..0078f891bb92 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl @@ -352,3 +352,4 @@ 435 n64 clone3 __sys_clone3 437 n64 openat2 sys_openat2 438 n64 pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 n64 process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index 52a15f5cd130..09c3b5dc6855 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -435,3 +435,4 @@ 435 common clone3 sys_clone3_wrapper 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index 35b61bfc1b1a..97eac48c2937 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -519,3 +519,4 @@ 435 nospu clone3 ppc_clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index bd7bd3581a0f..8dc8bfd958ea 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -440,3 +440,4 @@ 435 common clone3 sys_clone3 sys_clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index c7a30fcd135f..e69d98040777 100644 --- a/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -440,3 +440,4 @@ # 435 reserved for clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index f13615ecdecc..6f6e66dd51f9 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -483,3 +483,4 @@ # 435 reserved for clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl index c17cb77eb150..1b2184549e27 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl @@ -442,3 +442,4 @@ 435 i386 clone3 sys_clone3 __ia32_sys_clone3 437 i386 openat2 sys_openat2 __ia32_sys_openat2 438 i386 pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd __ia32_sys_pidfd_getfd +439 i386 process_madvise sys_process_madvise __ia32_sys_process_madvise diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl index 44d510bc9b78..82d60eb1e00d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl @@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ 435 common clone3 __x64_sys_clone3/ptregs 437 common openat2 __x64_sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd __x64_sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise __x64_sys_process_madvise # # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl index 85a9ab1bc04d..165cae047770 100644 --- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl +++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl @@ -408,3 +408,4 @@ 435 common clone3 sys_clone3 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd +439 common process_madvise sys_process_madvise diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index 1815065d52f3..e4cd2c2f8bb4 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -876,6 +876,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_munlockall(void); asmlinkage long sys_mincore(unsigned long start, size_t len, unsigned char __user * vec); asmlinkage long sys_madvise(unsigned long start, size_t len, int behavior); +asmlinkage long sys_process_madvise(int pidfd, unsigned long start, + size_t len, int behavior, unsigned long flags); asmlinkage long sys_remap_file_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long size, unsigned long prot, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags); diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h index 3a3201e4618e..85d8c9376a63 100644 --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h @@ -855,9 +855,11 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_clone3, sys_clone3) __SYSCALL(__NR_openat2, sys_openat2) #define __NR_pidfd_getfd 438 __SYSCALL(__NR_pidfd_getfd, sys_pidfd_getfd) +#define __NR_pidfd_getfd 439 +__SYSCALL(__NR_process_madvise, sys_process_madvise) #undef __NR_syscalls -#define __NR_syscalls 439 +#define __NR_syscalls 440 /* * 32 bit systems traditionally used different diff --git a/kernel/sys_ni.c b/kernel/sys_ni.c index 3b69a560a7ac..6c7332776e8e 100644 --- a/kernel/sys_ni.c +++ b/kernel/sys_ni.c @@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ COND_SYSCALL(mlockall); COND_SYSCALL(munlockall); COND_SYSCALL(mincore); COND_SYSCALL(madvise); +COND_SYSCALL(process_madvise); COND_SYSCALL(remap_file_pages); COND_SYSCALL(mbind); COND_SYSCALL_COMPAT(mbind); diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index ab4011ba2d9e..8611f1d39289 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include <linux/falloc.h> #include <linux/fadvise.h> #include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include <linux/ksm.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/file.h> @@ -984,6 +985,18 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior) } } +static bool +process_madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior) +{ + switch (behavior) { + case MADV_COLD: + case MADV_PAGEOUT: + return true; + default: + return false; + } +} + /* * The madvise(2) system call. * @@ -1031,6 +1044,11 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior) * MADV_DONTDUMP - the application wants to prevent pages in the given range * from being included in its core dump. * MADV_DODUMP - cancel MADV_DONTDUMP: no longer exclude from core dump. + * MADV_COLD - the application uses the memory less so the kernel can + * deactivate the memory to evict them quickly when the memory + * pressure happen. + * MADV_PAGEOUT - the application uses the memroy very rarely so kernel can + * page out the memory instantly. * * return values: * zero - success @@ -1149,3 +1167,49 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(madvise, unsigned long, start, size_t, len_in, int, behavior) { return do_madvise(current, start, len_in, behavior); } + +SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, unsigned long, start, + size_t, len_in, int, behavior, unsigned long, flags) +{ + int ret; + struct fd f; + struct pid *pid; + struct task_struct *task; + struct mm_struct *mm; + + if (flags != 0) + return -EINVAL; + + if (!process_madvise_behavior_valid(behavior)) + return -EINVAL; + + f = fdget(pidfd); + if (!f.file) + return -EBADF; + + pid = pidfd_pid(f.file); + if (IS_ERR(pid)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(pid); + goto fdput; + } + + task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID); + if (!task) { + ret = -ESRCH; + goto fdput; + } + + mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS); + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mm)) { + ret = IS_ERR(mm) ? PTR_ERR(mm) : -ESRCH; + goto release_task; + } + + ret = do_madvise(task, start, len_in, behavior); + mmput(mm); +release_task: + put_task_struct(task); +fdput: + fdput(f); + return ret; +} -- 2.25.0.225.g125e21ebc7-goog
