MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in process address space to save bounds information. These tables can take up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the system) even if we clean them up aggressively. Being this huge, we need a way to track their memory use. If we want to track them, we essentially have two options: 1. walk the multi-GB (in virtual space) bounds directory to locate all the VMAs and walk them 2. Find a way to distinguish MPX bounds-table VMAs from normal anonymous VMAs and use some existing mechanism to walk them We expect (1) will be prohibitively expensive. For (2), we only need a single bit, and we've chosen to use a VM_ flag. We understand that they are scarce and are open to other options. There is one potential hybrid approach: check the bounds directory entry for any anonymous VMA that could possibly contain a bounds table. This is less expensive than (1), but still requires reading a pointer out of userspace for every VMA that we iterate over. Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 1 + include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c index dfc791c..cc31520 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ static void show_smap_vma_flags(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma) [ilog2(VM_GROWSDOWN)] = "gd", [ilog2(VM_PFNMAP)] = "pf", [ilog2(VM_DENYWRITE)] = "dw", + [ilog2(VM_MPX)] = "mp", [ilog2(VM_LOCKED)] = "lo", [ilog2(VM_IO)] = "io", [ilog2(VM_SEQ_READ)] = "sr", diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 8981cc8..942be8a 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); #define VM_HUGETLB 0x00400000 /* Huge TLB Page VM */ #define VM_NONLINEAR 0x00800000 /* Is non-linear (remap_file_pages) */ #define VM_ARCH_1 0x01000000 /* Architecture-specific flag */ +#define VM_ARCH_2 0x02000000 #define VM_DONTDUMP 0x04000000 /* Do not include in the core dump */ #ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY @@ -154,6 +155,11 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); # define VM_MAPPED_COPY VM_ARCH_1 /* T if mapped copy of data (nommu mmap) */ #endif +#if defined(CONFIG_X86) +/* MPX specific bounds table or bounds directory */ +# define VM_MPX VM_ARCH_2 +#endif + #ifndef VM_GROWSUP # define VM_GROWSUP VM_NONE #endif -- 1.7.1 -- 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>