This patch introduces the vrange() syscall, which allows for specifying
ranges of memory as volatile, and able to be discarded by the system.
This initial patch simply adds the syscall, and the vma handling,
splitting and merging the vmas as needed, and marking them with
VM_VOLATILE.
No purging or discarding of volatile ranges is done at this point.
Example man page:
NAME
vrange - Mark or unmark range of memory as volatile
SYNOPSIS
int vrange(unsigned_long start, size_t length, int mode,
int *purged);
DESCRIPTION
Applications can use vrange(2) to advise the kernel how it should
handle paging I/O in this VM area. The idea is to help the kernel
discard pages of vrange instead of reclaiming when memory pressure
happens. It means kernel doesn't discard any pages of vrange if
there is no memory pressure.
mode:
VRANGE_VOLATILE
hint to kernel so VM can discard in vrange pages when
memory pressure happens.
VRANGE_NONVOLATILE
hint to kernel so VM doesn't discard vrange pages
any more.
If user try to access purged memory without VRANGE_NONVOLATILE call,
he can encounter SIGBUS if the page was discarded by kernel.
purged: Pointer to an integer which will return 1 if
mode == VRANGE_NONVOLATILE and any page in the affected range
was purged. If purged returns zero during a mode ==
VRANGE_NONVOLATILE call, it means all of the pages in the range
are intact.
RETURN VALUE
On success vrange returns the number of bytes marked or unmarked.
Similar to write(), it may return fewer bytes then specified
if it ran into a problem.
If an error is returned, no changes were made.
ERRORS
EINVAL This error can occur for the following reasons:
* The value length is negative or not page size units.
* addr is not page-aligned
* mode not a valid value.
ENOMEM Not enough memory
EFAULT purged pointer is invalid
This a simplified implementation which reuses some of the logic
from Minchan's earlier efforts. So credit to Minchan for his work.
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-t...@android.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Robert Love <rl...@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <m...@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <d...@sr71.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamus...@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <ne...@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org>
Cc: Taras Glek <tg...@mozilla.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dgi...@mozilla.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@gmail.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
Cc: linux...@kvack.org <linux...@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
---
arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
include/linux/vrange.h | 7 ++
mm/Makefile | 2 +-
mm/vrange.c | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/vrange.h
create mode 100644 mm/vrange.c
diff --git a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
index a12bddc..7ae3940 100644
--- a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -322,6 +322,7 @@
313 common finit_module sys_finit_module
314 common sched_setattr sys_sched_setattr
315 common sched_getattr sys_sched_getattr
+316 common vrange sys_vrange
#
# x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index c1b7414..a1f11da 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
#define VM_IO 0x00004000 /* Memory mapped I/O or similar */
/* Used by sys_madvise() */
+#define VM_VOLATILE 0x00001000 /* VMA is volatile */
#define VM_SEQ_READ 0x00008000 /* App will access data sequentially */
#define VM_RAND_READ 0x00010000 /* App will not benefit from clustered
reads */
diff --git a/include/linux/vrange.h b/include/linux/vrange.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..652396b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/vrange.h
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_VRANGE_H
+#define _LINUX_VRANGE_H
+
+#define VRANGE_NONVOLATILE 0
+#define VRANGE_VOLATILE 1
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_VRANGE_H */
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 310c90a..20229e2 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ obj-y := filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o
fadvise.o \
readahead.o swap.o truncate.o vmscan.o shmem.o \
util.o mmzone.o vmstat.o backing-dev.o \
mm_init.o mmu_context.o percpu.o slab_common.o \
- compaction.o balloon_compaction.o \
+ compaction.o balloon_compaction.o vrange.o \
interval_tree.o list_lru.o $(mmu-y)
obj-y += init-mm.o
diff --git a/mm/vrange.c b/mm/vrange.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..acb4356
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/vrange.c
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/vrange.h>
+#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/rmap.h>
+#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
+#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
+#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
+static ssize_t do_vrange(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, int mode, int *purged)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev;
+ unsigned long orig_start = start;
+ ssize_t count = 0, ret = 0;
+ int lpurged = 0;
+
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
+ vma = find_vma_prev(mm, start, &prev);
+ if (vma && start > vma->vm_start)
+ prev = vma;
+
+ for (;;) {
+ unsigned long new_flags;
+ pgoff_t pgoff;
+ unsigned long tmp;
+
+ if (!vma)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_SPECIAL|VM_LOCKED|VM_MIXEDMAP|
+ VM_HUGETLB))
+ goto out;
+
+ /* We don't support volatility on files for now */
+ if (vma->vm_file) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ new_flags = vma->vm_flags;
+
+ if (start < vma->vm_start) {
+ start = vma->vm_start;
+ if (start >= end)
+ goto out;
+ }
+ tmp = vma->vm_end;
+ if (end < tmp)
+ tmp = end;
+
+ switch (mode) {
+ case VRANGE_VOLATILE:
+ new_flags |= VM_VOLATILE;
+ break;
+ case VRANGE_NONVOLATILE:
+ new_flags &= ~VM_VOLATILE;
+ }
+
+ pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((start - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ prev = vma_merge(mm, prev, start, tmp, new_flags,
+ vma->anon_vma, vma->vm_file, pgoff,
+ vma_policy(vma));
+ if (prev)
+ goto success;
+
+ if (start != vma->vm_start) {
+ ret = split_vma(mm, vma, start, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ if (tmp != vma->vm_end) {
+ ret = split_vma(mm, vma, tmp, 0);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ prev = vma;
+success:
+ vma->vm_flags = new_flags;
+ *purged = lpurged;
+
+ /* update count to distance covered so far*/
+ count = tmp - orig_start;
+
+ if (prev && start < prev->vm_end)
+ start = prev->vm_end;
+ if (start >= end)
+ goto out;
+ if (prev)
+ vma = prev->vm_next;
+ else /* madvise_remove dropped mmap_sem */
+ vma = find_vma(mm, start);
+ }
+out:
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
+ /* report bytes successfully marked, even if we're exiting on error */
+ if (count)
+ return count;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(vrange, unsigned long, start,
+ size_t, len, int, mode, int __user *, purged)
+{
+ unsigned long end;
+ struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+ ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
+ int p = 0;
+
+ if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
+ goto out;
+
+ len &= PAGE_MASK;
+ if (!len)
+ goto out;
+
+ end = start + len;
+ if (end < start)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (start >= TASK_SIZE)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (purged) {
+ /* Test pointer is valid before making any changes */
+ if (put_user(p, purged))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+
+ ret = do_vrange(mm, start, end, mode, &p);
+
+ if (purged) {
+ if (put_user(p, purged)) {
+ /*
+ * This would be bad, since we've modified volatilty
+ * and the change in purged state would be lost.
+ */
+ WARN_ONCE(1, "vrange: purge state possibly lost\n");
+ }
+ }
+
+out:
+ return ret;
+}
--
1.8.3.2
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