linux/mm
David Howells 8feae13110 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>
2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
..
allocpercpu.c
backing-dev.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-01-06 17:10:04 -08:00
bootmem.c bootmem: print request details before BUG_ON(them) 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
bounce.c bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list 2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c SLUB: failslab support 2008-12-29 11:27:46 +02:00
filemap_xip.c badpage: remove vma from page_remove_rmap 2009-01-06 15:59:07 -08:00
filemap.c mm: pagecache gfp flags fix 2009-01-06 15:59:09 -08:00
fremap.c badpage: remove vma from page_remove_rmap 2009-01-06 15:59:07 -08:00
highmem.c
hugetlb.c mm: hugetlb: remove redundant `if' operation 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
internal.h mm: make get_user_pages() interruptible 2009-01-06 15:59:08 -08:00
Kconfig Remove obsolete CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT 2009-01-06 15:59:14 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile shmem: unify regular and tiny shmem 2009-01-06 15:59:08 -08:00
memcontrol.c mm: make mem_cgroup_resize_limit() static 2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: remove GFP_HIGHUSER_PAGECACHE 2009-01-06 15:59:01 -08:00
memory.c mm: make get_user_pages() interruptible 2009-01-06 15:59:08 -08:00
mempolicy.c Merge branch 'master' into next 2008-11-14 11:29:12 +11:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: add Set,ClearPageSwapCache stubs 2009-01-06 15:59:02 -08:00
mincore.c
mlock.c mm: make get_user_pages() interruptible 2009-01-06 15:59:08 -08:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mm: cleanup: remove #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION 2009-01-06 15:59:00 -08:00
mremap.c mm: update my address 2009-01-05 17:44:42 -08:00
msync.c add a vfs_fsync helper 2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
nommu.c NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
oom_kill.c oom: print triggering task's cpuset and mems allowed 2009-01-06 15:58:59 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: remove CONFIG_OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
page_cgroup.c mm: make init_section_page_cgroup() static 2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
page_io.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm: add dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes sysctls 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
pagewalk.c
pdflush.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c badpage: remove vma from page_remove_rmap 2009-01-06 15:59:07 -08:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c shmem: unify regular and tiny shmem 2009-01-06 15:59:08 -08:00
slab.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
slob.c slob: do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in kmem_cache_create() 2008-12-15 16:27:06 -08:00
slub.c trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments 2009-01-06 11:28:07 +01:00
sparse-vmemmap.c vmemmap: warn about page_structs with remote distance 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
sparse.c meminit section warnings 2008-11-30 10:03:35 -08:00
swap_state.c mm: remove gfp_mask from add_to_swap 2009-01-06 15:59:04 -08:00
swap.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: kill page_queue_congested() 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
thrash.c
truncate.c mmap: handle mlocked pages during map, remap, unmap 2008-10-20 08:52:31 -07:00
util.c
vmalloc.c mm: vmalloc make lazy unmapping configurable 2009-01-06 15:59:01 -08:00
vmscan.c mm: stop kswapd's infinite loop at high order allocation 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
vmstat.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30