kernel_optimize_test/mm
Mike Kravetz 749df87bd7 mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()
This patch came out of discussions in this e-mail thread:
  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499357846-7481-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz%40oracle.com

The Oracle JVM team is developing a new garbage collection model.  This
new model requires multiple mappings of the same anonymous memory.  One
straight forward way to accomplish this is with memfd_create.  They can
use the returned fd to create multiple mappings of the same memory.

The JVM today has an option to use (static hugetlb) huge pages.  If this
option is specified, they would like to use the same garbage collection
model requiring multiple mappings to the same memory.  Using hugetlbfs,
it is possible to explicitly mount a filesystem and specify file paths
in order to get an fd that can be used for multiple mappings.  However,
this introduces additional system admin work and coordination.

Ideally they would like to get a hugetlbfs fd without requiring explicit
mounting of a filesystem.  Today, mmap and shmget can make use of
hugetlbfs without explicitly mounting a filesystem.  The patch adds this
functionality to memfd_create.

Add a new flag MFD_HUGETLB to memfd_create() that will specify the file
to be created resides in the hugetlbfs filesystem.  This is the generic
hugetlbfs filesystem not associated with any specific mount point.  As
with other system calls that request hugetlbfs backed pages, there is
the ability to encode huge page size in the flag arguments.

hugetlbfs does not support sealing operations, therefore specifying
MFD_ALLOW_SEALING with MFD_HUGETLB will result in EINVAL.

Of course, the memfd_man page would need updating if this type of
functionality moves forward.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502149672-7759-2-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
..
kasan Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-10 12:20:53 +02:00
backing-dev.c bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]() 2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c mm/balloon_compaction.c: don't zero ballooned pages 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: cosmetic improvement of code readability 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
cleancache.c fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t 2017-06-05 16:59:12 +02:00
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug.c: fix stack corruption due to sprintf usage 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
cma.c cma: fix calculation of aligned offset 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
cma.h cma: Store a name in the cma structure 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: skip over holes in __reset_isolation_suitable 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug.c mm: make tlb_flush_pending global 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
dmapool.c lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
early_ioremap.c x86/mm: Add support to access boot related data in the clear 2017-07-18 11:38:02 +02:00
fadvise.c mm: fadvise: avoid expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
failslab.c
filemap.c mm: use find_get_pages_range() in filemap_range_has_page() 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
frame_vector.c treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
frontswap.c mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
gup.c mm/gup: make __gup_device_* require THP 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm, THP, swap: support splitting THP for THP swap out 2017-09-06 17:27:28 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm, hugetlb_cgroup: round limit_in_bytes down to hugepage size 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm, hugetlb: do not allocate non-migrateable gigantic pages from movable zones 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() unconditionally 2017-05-03 15:52:12 -07:00
init-mm.c mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks 2016-11-22 11:49:48 -06:00
internal.h mm, memory_hotplug: drop zone from build_all_zonelists 2017-09-06 17:27:25 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm, devm_memremap_pages: use multi-order radix for ZONE_DEVICE lookups 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
khugepaged.c mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
kmemcheck.c mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
ksm.c mm/ksm.c: constify attribute_group structures 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: fix list_lru_count_node() to be race free 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
maccess.c x86: remove more uaccess_32.h complexity 2016-05-22 17:21:27 -07:00
madvise.c mm, madvise: ensure poisoned pages are removed from per-cpu lists 2017-08-31 16:33:15 -07:00
Makefile percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: reversed logic in memblock_discard() 2017-08-25 16:12:46 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg, THP, swap: make mem_cgroup_swapout() support THP 2017-09-06 17:27:28 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
memory-failure.c x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages 2017-08-17 10:30:49 +02:00
memory.c mm, THP, swap: make reuse_swap_page() works for THP swapped out 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy: fix use after free when calling get_mempolicy 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
mempool.c sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t 2017-06-20 12:18:27 +02:00
memtest.c
migrate.c Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks 2017-08-20 13:26:27 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove shmem_mapping() shmem_zero_setup() duplicates 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition 2017-06-02 15:07:38 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c userfaultfd: call userfaultfd_unmap_prep only if __split_vma succeeds 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: kill invalidate_page 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
mmzone.c mm/mmzone.c: swap likely to unlikely as code logic is different for next_zones_zonelist() 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mprotect.c mm: migrate: prevent racy access to tlb_flush_pending 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
mremap.c mm/mremap: fail map duplication attempts for private mappings 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: discard memblock data later 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
nommu.c mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill.c: add tracepoints for oom reaper-related events 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm, page_ext: periodically reschedule during page_ext_init() 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
page_idle.c mm/page_idle.c: constify attribute_group structures 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
page_io.c mm: test code to write THP to swap device as a whole 2017-09-06 17:27:28 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: unify new_node_page and alloc_migrate_target 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
page_owner.c mm, page_owner: don't grab zone->lock for init_pages_in_zone() 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
page_poison.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
percpu-internal.h percpu: fix early calls for spinlock in pcpu_stats 2017-06-21 13:53:52 -04:00
percpu-km.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu-stats.c percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu.c percpu: resolve err may not be initialized in pcpu_alloc 2017-06-21 12:00:45 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
process_vm_access.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2 2017-08-31 16:12:59 -07:00
rodata_test.c mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
shmem.c mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create() 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
slab_common.c mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
slab.c mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
slab.h locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
slob.c locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
slub.c mm/slub.c: constify attribute_group structures 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm, sparse, page_ext: drop ugly N_HIGH_MEMORY branches for allocations 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
sparse.c mm, sparse, page_ext: drop ugly N_HIGH_MEMORY branches for allocations 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: don't disable preemption while taking the per-CPU cache 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
swap.c mm: remove nr_pages argument from pagevec_lookup{,_range}() 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
swapfile.c mm, THP, swap: support splitting THP for THP swap out 2017-09-06 17:27:28 -07:00
truncate.c mm/truncate.c: fix THP handling in invalidate_mapping_pages() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check 2017-04-05 12:30:18 -07:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: shmem: wire up shmem_mfill_zeropage_pte 2017-09-06 17:27:28 -07:00
util.c mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
vmacache.c sched/headers: Prepare to move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: halve the number of comparisons performed in pcpu_get_vm_areas() 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
vmscan.c mm, THP, swap: add THP swapping out fallback counting 2017-09-06 17:27:28 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat: fix divide error at __fragmentation_index 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
workingset.c mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix page locking in z3fold_alloc() 2017-04-13 18:24:20 -07:00
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: skip unnecessary loops but not return -EBUSY if zspage is not inuse 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00