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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm, mincore2(): retrieve dax and tlb-size attributes of an address range
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:31:35AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> As evidenced by this bug report [1], userspace libraries are interested
> in whether a mapping is DAX mapped, i.e. no intervening page cache.
> Rather than using the ambiguous VM_MIXEDMAP flag in smaps, provide an
> explicit "is dax" indication as a new flag in the page vector populated
> by mincore.
>
> There are also cases, particularly for testing and validating a
> configuration to know the hardware mapping geometry of the pages in a
> given process address range. Consider filesystem-dax where a
> configuration needs to take care to align partitions and block
> allocations before huge page mappings might be used, or
> anonymous-transparent-huge-pages where a process is opportunistically
> assigned large pages. mincore2() allows these configurations to be
> surveyed and validated.
>
> The implementation takes advantage of the unused bits in the per-page
> byte returned for each PAGE_SIZE extent of a given address range. The
> new format of each vector byte is:
>
> (TLB_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) << 2 | vma_is_dax() << 1 | page_present
>
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/7/61
>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 +
> include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 3 +
> kernel/sys_ni.c | 1
> mm/mincore.c | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 4 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> index d02239022bd0..4aa2ee7e359a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
> +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> @@ -467,6 +467,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_munlockall(void);
> asmlinkage long sys_madvise(unsigned long start, size_t len, int behavior);
> asmlinkage long sys_mincore(unsigned long start, size_t len,
> unsigned char __user * vec);
> +asmlinkage long sys_mincore2(unsigned long start, size_t len,
> + unsigned char __user * vec, int flags);

We had few attempts to extand mincore(2) interface/functionality before.
None of them ended up in upsteam.

How this attempt compares to previous?

--
Kirill A. Shutemov

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