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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 /ipc/shm.c
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 'ipc/shm.c')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index b125b560240e..d0ab5527bf45 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -990,6 +990,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_shmdt(char __user *shmaddr)
990 */ 990 */
991 vma = find_vma(mm, addr); 991 vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
992 992
993#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
993 while (vma) { 994 while (vma) {
994 next = vma->vm_next; 995 next = vma->vm_next;
995 996
@@ -1034,6 +1035,17 @@ asmlinkage long sys_shmdt(char __user *shmaddr)
1034 vma = next; 1035 vma = next;
1035 } 1036 }
1036 1037
1038#else /* CONFIG_MMU */
1039 /* under NOMMU conditions, the exact address to be destroyed must be
1040 * given */
1041 retval = -EINVAL;
1042 if (vma->vm_start == addr && vma->vm_ops == &shm_vm_ops) {
1043 do_munmap(mm, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start);
1044 retval = 0;
1045 }
1046
1047#endif
1048
1037 up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); 1049 up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
1038 return retval; 1050 return retval;
1039} 1051}