ksm: the mm interface to ksm

This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for
better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later.

When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and
MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than
pretending that they can be serviced.  But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them
even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not
touch (e.g.  hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings).

Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the
range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory.

Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try
merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it.
Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain
VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting.

Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 8fe351c3914a..8f3e63cb33a6 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -434,7 +434,9 @@ extern int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm);
 /* dumpable bits */
 #define MMF_DUMPABLE      0  /* core dump is permitted */
 #define MMF_DUMP_SECURELY 1  /* core file is readable only by root */
+
 #define MMF_DUMPABLE_BITS 2
+#define MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK ((1 << MMF_DUMPABLE_BITS) - 1)
 
 /* coredump filter bits */
 #define MMF_DUMP_ANON_PRIVATE   2
@@ -444,6 +446,7 @@ extern int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm);
 #define MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS    6
 #define MMF_DUMP_HUGETLB_PRIVATE 7
 #define MMF_DUMP_HUGETLB_SHARED  8
+
 #define MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT   MMF_DUMPABLE_BITS
 #define MMF_DUMP_FILTER_BITS    7
 #define MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK \
@@ -457,6 +460,10 @@ extern int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm);
 #else
 # define MMF_DUMP_MASK_DEFAULT_ELF      0
 #endif
+                                        /* leave room for more dump flags */
+#define MMF_VM_MERGEABLE        16      /* KSM may merge identical pages */
+
+#define MMF_INIT_MASK           (MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK | MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK)
 
 struct sighand_struct {
         atomic_t                count;