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MPX-enabled applications using large swaths of memory can potentially have large numbers of bounds tables in process address space to save bounds information. These tables can take up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the system) even if we clean them up aggressively. In the worst-case scenario, the tables can be 4x the size of the data structure being tracked. IOW, a 1-page structure can require 4 bounds-table pages. Being this huge, our expectation is that folks using MPX are going to be keen on figuring out how much memory is being dedicated to it. So we need a way to track memory use for MPX. If we want to specifically track MPX VMAs we need to be able to distinguish them from normal VMAs, and keep them from getting merged with normal VMAs. A new VM_ flag set only on MPX VMAs does both of those things. With this flag, MPX bounds-table VMAs can be distinguished from other VMAs, and userspace can also walk /proc/$pid/smaps to get memory usage for MPX. In addition to this flag, we also introduce a special ->vm_ops specific to MPX VMAs (see the patch "add MPX specific mmap interface"), but currently different ->vm_ops do not by themselves prevent VMA merging, so we still need this flag. We understand that VM_ flags are scarce and are open to other options. Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151825.565625B3@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
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| array.c | ||
| base.c | ||
| cmdline.c | ||
| consoles.c | ||
| cpuinfo.c | ||
| devices.c | ||
| fd.c | ||
| fd.h | ||
| generic.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| interrupts.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| kcore.c | ||
| kmsg.c | ||
| loadavg.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| meminfo.c | ||
| namespaces.c | ||
| nommu.c | ||
| page.c | ||
| proc_net.c | ||
| proc_sysctl.c | ||
| proc_tty.c | ||
| root.c | ||
| self.c | ||
| softirqs.c | ||
| stat.c | ||
| task_mmu.c | ||
| task_nommu.c | ||
| thread_self.c | ||
| uptime.c | ||
| version.c | ||
| vmcore.c | ||