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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-01-08 07:04:47 -0500
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-01-08 07:04:47 -0500
commit8feae13110d60cc6287afabc2887366b0eb226c2 (patch)
treeb3188986faab70e753e00ea8670a11ba8ec844c0 /include/linux/mm.h
parent41836382ebb415d68d3ebc4525e78e871fe58baf (diff)
NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux. This solves two problems: (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of shmat's (and forks) done. (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another process or a dead process. A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure is discarded as it's no longer required. This patch makes the following additional changes: (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite. Instead, each page has a reference on it held by the region. Anything else that is interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it. When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero. (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages. (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists. As an MM may end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is appended to the sort key. (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list. (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of the backing region. The VMA and region structs will be split if necessary. (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss. Multiple shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different virtual addresses as under MMU-mode. (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode. (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits that aren't actually mapped anywhere. (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be mapped directly. These are copies of the backing device or file if not anonymous. These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode. The downside is that NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h18
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 4a3d28c86443..b91a73fd1bcc 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -56,19 +56,9 @@ extern unsigned long mmap_min_addr;
56 56
57extern struct kmem_cache *vm_area_cachep; 57extern struct kmem_cache *vm_area_cachep;
58 58
59/*
60 * This struct defines the per-mm list of VMAs for uClinux. If CONFIG_MMU is
61 * disabled, then there's a single shared list of VMAs maintained by the
62 * system, and mm's subscribe to these individually
63 */
64struct vm_list_struct {
65 struct vm_list_struct *next;
66 struct vm_area_struct *vma;
67};
68
69#ifndef CONFIG_MMU 59#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
70extern struct rb_root nommu_vma_tree; 60extern struct rb_root nommu_region_tree;
71extern struct rw_semaphore nommu_vma_sem; 61extern struct rw_semaphore nommu_region_sem;
72 62
73extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); 63extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
74#endif 64#endif
@@ -1061,6 +1051,7 @@ extern void memmap_init_zone(unsigned long, int, unsigned long,
1061 unsigned long, enum memmap_context); 1051 unsigned long, enum memmap_context);
1062extern void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void); 1052extern void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void);
1063extern void mem_init(void); 1053extern void mem_init(void);
1054extern void __init mmap_init(void);
1064extern void show_mem(void); 1055extern void show_mem(void);
1065extern void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo * val); 1056extern void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo * val);
1066extern void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid); 1057extern void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid);
@@ -1072,6 +1063,9 @@ extern void setup_per_cpu_pageset(void);
1072static inline void setup_per_cpu_pageset(void) {} 1063static inline void setup_per_cpu_pageset(void) {}
1073#endif 1064#endif
1074 1065
1066/* nommu.c */
1067extern atomic_t mmap_pages_allocated;
1068
1075/* prio_tree.c */ 1069/* prio_tree.c */
1076void vma_prio_tree_add(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *old); 1070void vma_prio_tree_add(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *old);
1077void vma_prio_tree_insert(struct vm_area_struct *, struct prio_tree_root *); 1071void vma_prio_tree_insert(struct vm_area_struct *, struct prio_tree_root *);