15 May, 2019
1 commit
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Transparent Huge Pages are currently stored in i_pages as pointers to
consecutive subpages. This patch changes that to storing consecutive
pointers to the head page in preparation for storing huge pages more
efficiently in i_pages.Large parts of this are "inspired" by Kirill's patch
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170126115819.58875-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com/[willy@infradead.org: fix swapcache pages]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190324155441.GF10344@bombadil.infradead.org
[kirill@shutemov.name: hugetlb stores pages in page cache differently]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190404134553.vuvhgmghlkiw2hgl@kshutemo-mobl1
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307153051.18815-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Acked-by: Jan Kara
Reviewed-by: Kirill Shutemov
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Song Liu
Tested-by: William Kucharski
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski
Tested-by: Qian Cai
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Song Liu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Mar, 2019
1 commit
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Android uses ashmem for sharing memory regions. We are looking forward
to migrating all usecases of ashmem to memfd so that we can possibly
remove the ashmem driver in the future from staging while also
benefiting from using memfd and contributing to it. Note staging
drivers are also not ABI and generally can be removed at anytime.One of the main usecases Android has is the ability to create a region
and mmap it as writeable, then add protection against making any
"future" writes while keeping the existing already mmap'ed
writeable-region active. This allows us to implement a usecase where
receivers of the shared memory buffer can get a read-only view, while
the sender continues to write to the buffer. See CursorWindow
documentation in Android for more details:https://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/CursorWindow
This usecase cannot be implemented with the existing F_SEAL_WRITE seal.
To support the usecase, this patch adds a new F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal
which prevents any future mmap and write syscalls from succeeding while
keeping the existing mmap active.A better way to do F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal was discussed [1] last week
where we don't need to modify core VFS structures to get the same
behavior of the seal. This solves several side-effects pointed by Andy.
self-tests are provided in later patch to verify the expected semantics.[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181111173650.GA256781@google.com/
Thanks a lot to Andy for suggestions to improve code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190112203816.85534-2-joel@joelfernandes.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Acked-by: John Stultz
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Jann Horn
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: J. Bruce Fields
Cc: Jeff Layton
Cc: Marc-Andr Lureau
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Mike Kravetz
Cc: Shuah Khan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Oct, 2018
2 commits
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Switch to a batch-processing model like memfd_wait_for_pins() and
use the xa_state previously set up by memfd_wait_for_pins().Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz -
Simplify the locking by taking the spinlock while we walk the tree on
the assumption that many acquires and releases of the lock will be worse
than holding the lock while we process an entire batch of pages.Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz
12 Jul, 2018
1 commit
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... so that it could set both ->f_flags and ->f_mode, without callers
having to set ->f_flags manually.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
08 Jun, 2018
1 commit
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With the addition of memfd hugetlbfs support, we now have the situation
where memfd depends on TMPFS -or- HUGETLBFS. Previously, memfd was only
supported on tmpfs, so it made sense that the code resided in shmem.c.
In the current code, memfd is only functional if TMPFS is defined. If
HUGETLFS is defined and TMPFS is not defined, then memfd functionality
will not be available for hugetlbfs. This does not cause BUGs, just a
lack of potentially desired functionality.Code is restructured in the following way:
- include/linux/memfd.h is a new file containing memfd specific
definitions previously contained in shmem_fs.h.
- mm/memfd.c is a new file containing memfd specific code previously
contained in shmem.c.
- memfd specific code is removed from shmem_fs.h and shmem.c.
- A new config option MEMFD_CREATE is added that is defined if TMPFS
or HUGETLBFS is defined.No functional changes are made to the code: restructuring only.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180415182119.4517-4-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: David Herrmann
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Marc-Andr Lureau
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
