Commit a0715cc22601e8830ace98366c0c2bd8da52af52
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Linus Torvalds
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mm, thp: add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK and PRCTL_THP_DISABLE
Add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK, to allow us to set the default flags for VMs. It also adds a prctl control which allows us to set the THP disable bit in mm->def_flags so that VMs will pick up the setting as they are created. Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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include/linux/mm.h
... | ... | @@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ |
177 | 177 | */ |
178 | 178 | #define VM_SPECIAL (VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP) |
179 | 179 | |
180 | +/* This mask defines which mm->def_flags a process can inherit its parent */ | |
181 | +#define VM_INIT_DEF_MASK VM_NOHUGEPAGE | |
182 | + | |
180 | 183 | /* |
181 | 184 | * mapping from the currently active vm_flags protection bits (the |
182 | 185 | * low four bits) to a page protection mask.. |
include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
kernel/fork.c
... | ... | @@ -530,8 +530,6 @@ |
530 | 530 | atomic_set(&mm->mm_count, 1); |
531 | 531 | init_rwsem(&mm->mmap_sem); |
532 | 532 | INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist); |
533 | - mm->flags = (current->mm) ? | |
534 | - (current->mm->flags & MMF_INIT_MASK) : default_dump_filter; | |
535 | 533 | mm->core_state = NULL; |
536 | 534 | atomic_long_set(&mm->nr_ptes, 0); |
537 | 535 | memset(&mm->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(mm->rss_stat)); |
538 | 536 | |
... | ... | @@ -540,8 +538,15 @@ |
540 | 538 | mm_init_owner(mm, p); |
541 | 539 | clear_tlb_flush_pending(mm); |
542 | 540 | |
543 | - if (likely(!mm_alloc_pgd(mm))) { | |
541 | + if (current->mm) { | |
542 | + mm->flags = current->mm->flags & MMF_INIT_MASK; | |
543 | + mm->def_flags = current->mm->def_flags & VM_INIT_DEF_MASK; | |
544 | + } else { | |
545 | + mm->flags = default_dump_filter; | |
544 | 546 | mm->def_flags = 0; |
547 | + } | |
548 | + | |
549 | + if (likely(!mm_alloc_pgd(mm))) { | |
545 | 550 | mmu_notifier_mm_init(mm); |
546 | 551 | return mm; |
547 | 552 | } |
kernel/sys.c
... | ... | @@ -1996,6 +1996,21 @@ |
1996 | 1996 | if (arg2 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5) |
1997 | 1997 | return -EINVAL; |
1998 | 1998 | return current->no_new_privs ? 1 : 0; |
1999 | + case PR_GET_THP_DISABLE: | |
2000 | + if (arg2 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5) | |
2001 | + return -EINVAL; | |
2002 | + error = !!(me->mm->def_flags & VM_NOHUGEPAGE); | |
2003 | + break; | |
2004 | + case PR_SET_THP_DISABLE: | |
2005 | + if (arg3 || arg4 || arg5) | |
2006 | + return -EINVAL; | |
2007 | + down_write(&me->mm->mmap_sem); | |
2008 | + if (arg2) | |
2009 | + me->mm->def_flags |= VM_NOHUGEPAGE; | |
2010 | + else | |
2011 | + me->mm->def_flags &= ~VM_NOHUGEPAGE; | |
2012 | + up_write(&me->mm->mmap_sem); | |
2013 | + break; | |
1999 | 2014 | default: |
2000 | 2015 | error = -EINVAL; |
2001 | 2016 | break; |