From cdfd4325c0d878679bd6a3ba8285b71d9980e3c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:27:28 -0700 Subject: mm: record MAP_NORESERVE status on vmas and fix small page mprotect reservations With Mel's hugetlb private reservation support patches applied, strict overcommit semantics are applied to both shared and private huge page mappings. This can be a problem if an application relied on unlimited overcommit semantics for private mappings. An example of this would be an application which maps a huge area with the intention of using it very sparsely. These application would benefit from being able to opt-out of the strict overcommit. It should be noted that prior to hugetlb supporting demand faulting all mappings were fully populated and so applications of this type should be rare. This patch stack implements the MAP_NORESERVE mmap() flag for huge page mappings. This flag has the same meaning as for small page mappings, suppressing reservations for that mapping. Thanks to Mel Gorman for reviewing a number of early versions of these patches. This patch: When a small page mapping is created with mmap() reservations are created by default for any memory pages required. When the region is read/write the reservation is increased for every page, no reservation is needed for read-only regions (as they implicitly share the zero page). Reservations are tracked via the VM_ACCOUNT vma flag which is present when the region has reservation backing it. When we convert a region from read-only to read-write new reservations are aquired and VM_ACCOUNT is set. However, when a read-only map is created with MAP_NORESERVE it is indistinguishable from a normal mapping. When we then convert that to read/write we are forced to incorrectly create reservations for it as we have no record of the original MAP_NORESERVE. This patch introduces a new vma flag VM_NORESERVE which records the presence of the original MAP_NORESERVE flag. This allows us to distinguish these two circumstances and correctly account the reserve. As well as fixing this FIXME in the code, this makes it much easier to introduce MAP_NORESERVE support for huge pages as this flag is available consistantly for the life of the mapping. VM_ACCOUNT on the other hand is heavily used at the generic level in association with small pages. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Adam Litke Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 3 +++ mm/mprotect.c | 6 ++---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 75e0d0673d7..57d3b6097de 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1110,6 +1110,9 @@ munmap_back: if (!may_expand_vm(mm, len >> PAGE_SHIFT)) return -ENOMEM; + if (flags & MAP_NORESERVE) + vm_flags |= VM_NORESERVE; + if (accountable && (!(flags & MAP_NORESERVE) || sysctl_overcommit_memory == OVERCOMMIT_NEVER)) { if (vm_flags & VM_SHARED) { diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 360d9cc8b38..abd645a3b0a 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -153,12 +153,10 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **pprev, * If we make a private mapping writable we increase our commit; * but (without finer accounting) cannot reduce our commit if we * make it unwritable again. - * - * FIXME? We haven't defined a VM_NORESERVE flag, so mprotecting - * a MAP_NORESERVE private mapping to writable will now reserve. */ if (newflags & VM_WRITE) { - if (!(oldflags & (VM_ACCOUNT|VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) { + if (!(oldflags & (VM_ACCOUNT|VM_WRITE| + VM_SHARED|VM_NORESERVE))) { charged = nrpages; if (security_vm_enough_memory(charged)) return -ENOMEM; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258