| Message ID | 1530311985-31251-3-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
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On Sat 30-06-18 06:39:42, Yang Shi wrote: > VM_DEAD flag is used to mark a vma is being unmapped, access to this > area will trigger SIGSEGV. > > This flag will be used by the optimization for unmapping large address > space (>= 1GB) in the later patch. It is 64 bit only at the moment, > since: > * we used up vm_flags bit for 32 bit > * 32 bit machine typically will not have such large mapping > > All architectures, which support 64 bit, need check this flag in their > page fault handler. This is implemented in later patches. Please add a new flag with its users. There is simply no way to tell the semantic from the above description and the patch as well. > Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> > --- > include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h > index a0fbb9f..28a3906 100644 > --- a/include/linux/mm.h > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h > @@ -242,6 +242,12 @@ extern int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, void __user *, > #endif > #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS */ > > +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT > +#define VM_DEAD BIT(37) /* bit only usable on 64 bit kernel */ > +#else > +#define VM_DEAD 0 > +#endif > + > #if defined(CONFIG_X86) > # define VM_PAT VM_ARCH_1 /* PAT reserves whole VMA at once (x86) */ > #elif defined(CONFIG_PPC) > -- > 1.8.3.1
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index a0fbb9f..28a3906 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -242,6 +242,12 @@ extern int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, void __user *, #endif #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS */ +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT +#define VM_DEAD BIT(37) /* bit only usable on 64 bit kernel */ +#else +#define VM_DEAD 0 +#endif + #if defined(CONFIG_X86) # define VM_PAT VM_ARCH_1 /* PAT reserves whole VMA at once (x86) */ #elif defined(CONFIG_PPC)
VM_DEAD flag is used to mark a vma is being unmapped, access to this area will trigger SIGSEGV. This flag will be used by the optimization for unmapping large address space (>= 1GB) in the later patch. It is 64 bit only at the moment, since: * we used up vm_flags bit for 32 bit * 32 bit machine typically will not have such large mapping All architectures, which support 64 bit, need check this flag in their page fault handler. This is implemented in later patches. Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> --- include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)