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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 1/2] mm: Add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap().
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On 2/21/20 6:42 PM, Brian Geffon wrote:
> When remapping an anonymous, private mapping, if MREMAP_DONTUNMAP is
> set, the source mapping will not be removed. The remap operation
> will be performed as it would have been normally by moving over the
> page tables to the new mapping. The old vma will have any locked
> flags cleared, have no pagetables, and any userfaultfds that were
> watching that range will continue watching it.
>
> For a mapping that is shared or not anonymous, MREMAP_DONTUNMAP will cause
> the mremap() call to fail. Because MREMAP_DONTUNMAP always results in moving
> a VMA you MUST use the MREMAP_MAYMOVE flag, it's not possible to resize
> a VMA while also moving with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP so old_len must always
> be equal to the new_len otherwise it will return -EINVAL.
>
> We hope to use this in Chrome OS where with userfaultfd we could write
> an anonymous mapping to disk without having to STOP the process or worry
> about VMA permission changes.
>
> This feature also has a use case in Android, Lokesh Gidra has said
> that "As part of using userfaultfd for GC, We'll have to move the physical
> pages of the java heap to a separate location. For this purpose mremap
> will be used. Without the MREMAP_DONTUNMAP flag, when I mremap the java
> heap, its virtual mapping will be removed as well. Therefore, we'll
> require performing mmap immediately after. This is not only time consuming
> but also opens a time window where a native thread may call mmap and
> reserve the java heap's address range for its own usage. This flag
> solves the problem."
>
> v6 -> v7:
> - Don't allow resizing VMA as part of MREMAP_DONTUNMAP.
> There is no clear use case at the moment and it can be added
> later as it simplifies the implementation for now.
>
> v5 -> v6:
> - Code cleanup suggested by Kirill.
>
> v4 -> v5:
> - Correct commit message to more accurately reflect the behavior.
> - Clear VM_LOCKED and VM_LOCKEDONFAULT on the old vma.
>    
> Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Thanks.

> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
> index 1fc8a29fbe3f..8b7bf3845e50 100644
> --- a/mm/mremap.c
> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
> @@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long old_addr, unsigned long old_len,
> unsigned long new_len, unsigned long new_addr,
> - bool *locked, struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx *uf,
> - struct list_head *uf_unmap)
> + bool *locked, unsigned long flags,
> + struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx *uf, struct list_head *uf_unmap)

The usage of MREMAP_DONTUNMAP directly in the "flags" parameter seems
weird for generically named vma manipulation functions, but as they are
all local to mremap.c then it's probably fine.

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