[PATCH V5 16/17] mm: Let arch choose the initial value of task size

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Mar 28 22:17:27 AEDT 2017


"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> As we start supporting larger address space (>128TB), we want to give
> architecture a control on max task size of an application which is different
> from the TASK_SIZE. For ex: ppc64 needs to track the base page size of a segment
> and it is copied from mm_context_t to PACA on each context switch. If we know that
> application has not used an address range above 128TB we only need to copy
> details about 128TB range to PACA. This will help in improving context switch
> performance by avoiding larger copy operation.
>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/exec.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I'll need an ACK at least on this from someone in mm land.

I assume there's no way I can merge patch 17 without this?

> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index 65145a3df065..5550a56d03c3 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1308,6 +1308,14 @@ void would_dump(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct file *file)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(would_dump);
>  
> +#ifndef arch_init_task_size
> +static inline void arch_init_task_size(void)
> +{
> +	current->mm->task_size = TASK_SIZE;
> +}
> +#define arch_init_task_size arch_init_task_size

I don't think you need to do the #define in the fallback case, it's
just extra noise.

> +#endif
> +
>  void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
>  {
>  	arch_pick_mmap_layout(current->mm);

cheers


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