[PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Introducing arch_remap hook

Laurent Dufour ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Mar 25 22:06:35 AEDT 2015


Some architecture would like to be triggered when a memory area is moved
through the mremap system call.

This patch is introducing a new arch_remap mm hook which is placed in the
path of mremap, and is called before the old area is unmapped (and the
arch_unmap hook is called).

The architectures which need to call this hook should define
__HAVE_ARCH_REMAP in their asm/mmu_context.h and provide the arch_remap
service with the following prototype:
void arch_remap(struct mm_struct *mm,
                unsigned long old_start, unsigned long old_end,
                unsigned long new_start, unsigned long new_end);

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/mremap.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 57dadc025c64..bafc234db45c 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -286,8 +287,14 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		old_len = new_len;
 		old_addr = new_addr;
 		new_addr = -ENOMEM;
-	} else if (vma->vm_file && vma->vm_file->f_op->mremap)
-		vma->vm_file->f_op->mremap(vma->vm_file, new_vma);
+	} else {
+		if (vma->vm_file && vma->vm_file->f_op->mremap)
+			vma->vm_file->f_op->mremap(vma->vm_file, new_vma);
+#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_REMAP
+		arch_remap(mm, old_addr, old_addr+old_len,
+			   new_addr, new_addr+new_len);
+#endif
+	}
 
 	/* Conceal VM_ACCOUNT so old reservation is not undone */
 	if (vm_flags & VM_ACCOUNT) {
-- 
1.9.1



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