Hi Michael, On 12/21/2012 08:46 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > I wanted to ask if you could check the sanity of the following patches > in nommu configurations. My understanding is that these always > populate mappings when they are created, so that MAP_POPULATE and > MAP_LOCKED are actually no-ops. Is this an accurate description ? Sorry, I have been very slow at getting around to this. MAP_LOCKED and MAP_POPULATE are effectively no-ops, we don't deal with them on the no-mmu mmap path. I had a look over the patches and they look ok to me with regard to no-mmu. So if you still want it: Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxx> Regards Greg > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We have many vma manipulation functions that are fast in the typical case, >> but can optionally be instructed to populate an unbounded number of ptes >> within the region they work on: >> - mmap with MAP_POPULATE or MAP_LOCKED flags; >> - remap_file_pages() with MAP_NONBLOCK not set or when working on a >> VM_LOCKED vma; >> - mmap_region() and all its wrappers when mlock(MCL_FUTURE) is in effect; >> - brk() when mlock(MCL_FUTURE) is in effect. >> >> Current code handles these pte operations locally, while the sourrounding >> code has to hold the mmap_sem write side since it's manipulating vmas. >> This means we're doing an unbounded amount of pte population work with >> mmap_sem held, and this causes problems as Andy Lutomirski reported >> (we've hit this at Google as well, though it's not entirely clear why >> people keep trying to use mlock(MCL_FUTURE) in the first place). >> >> I propose introducing a new mm_populate() function to do this pte >> population work after the mmap_sem has been released. mm_populate() >> does need to acquire the mmap_sem read side, but critically, it >> doesn't need to hold continuously for the entire duration of the >> operation - it can drop it whenever things take too long (such as when >> hitting disk for a file read) and re-acquire it later on. >> >> The following patches are against v3.7: >> >> - Patches 1-2 fix some issues I noticed while working on the existing code. >> If needed, they could potentially go in before the rest of the patches. >> >> - Patch 3 introduces the new mm_populate() function and changes >> mmap_region() call sites to use it after they drop mmap_sem. This is >> inspired from Andy Lutomirski's proposal and is built as an extension >> of the work I had previously done for mlock() and mlockall() around >> v2.6.38-rc1. I had tried doing something similar at the time but had >> given up as there were so many do_mmap() call sites; the recent cleanups >> by Linus and Viro are a tremendous help here. >> >> - Patches 4-6 convert some of the less-obvious places doing unbounded >> pte populates to the new mm_populate() mechanism. >> >> - Patches 7-8 are code cleanups that are made possible by the >> mm_populate() work. In particular, they remove more code than the >> entire patch series added, which should be a good thing :) >> >> - Patch 9 is optional to this entire series. It only helps to deal more >> nicely with racy userspace programs that might modify their mappings >> while we're trying to populate them. It adds a new VM_POPULATE flag >> on the mappings we do want to populate, so that if userspace replaces >> them with mappings it doesn't want populated, mm_populate() won't >> populate those replacement mappings. >> >> Michel Lespinasse (9): >> mm: make mlockall preserve flags other than VM_LOCKED in def_flags >> mm: remap_file_pages() fixes >> mm: introduce mm_populate() for populating new vmas >> mm: use mm_populate() for blocking remap_file_pages() >> mm: use mm_populate() when adjusting brk with MCL_FUTURE in effect. >> mm: use mm_populate() for mremap() of VM_LOCKED vmas >> mm: remove flags argument to mmap_region >> mm: directly use __mlock_vma_pages_range() in find_extend_vma() >> mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs >> >> arch/tile/mm/elf.c | 1 - >> fs/aio.c | 6 +++- >> include/linux/mm.h | 23 +++++++++--- >> include/linux/mman.h | 4 ++- >> ipc/shm.c | 12 ++++--- >> mm/fremap.c | 51 ++++++++++++++------------- >> mm/internal.h | 4 +- >> mm/memory.c | 24 ------------- >> mm/mlock.c | 94 +++++++++++++------------------------------------ >> mm/mmap.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- >> mm/mremap.c | 25 +++++++------ >> mm/nommu.c | 5 ++- >> mm/util.c | 6 +++- >> 13 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-) >> >> -- >> 1.7.7.3 > > > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>