From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com,
x86@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/4] madvise: Expose ability to set dontneed from kernel
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:15:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204181540.12095.87973.stgit@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190204181118.12095.38300.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
In order to enable a KVM hypervisor to notify the host that a guest has
freed its pages we will need to have a mechanism to update the virtual
memory associated with the guest. In order to expose this functionality I
am adding a new function do_madvise_dontneed that can be used to indicate
a region that a given VM is done with.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++
mm/madvise.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index e04396375cf9..eb668a5b4b4f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2840,5 +2840,7 @@ static inline bool page_is_guard(struct page *page)
static inline void setup_nr_node_ids(void) {}
#endif
+int do_madvise_dontneed(unsigned long start, size_t len_in);
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 21a7881a2db4..8730f7e0081a 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
* -EBADF - map exists, but area maps something that isn't a file.
* -EAGAIN - a kernel resource was temporarily unavailable.
*/
-SYSCALL_DEFINE3(madvise, unsigned long, start, size_t, len_in, int, behavior)
+static int do_madvise(unsigned long start, size_t len_in, int behavior)
{
unsigned long end, tmp;
struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev;
@@ -894,3 +894,14 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
return error;
}
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(madvise, unsigned long, start, size_t, len_in, int, behavior)
+{
+ return do_madvise(start, len_in, behavior);
+}
+
+int do_madvise_dontneed(unsigned long start, size_t len_in)
+{
+ return do_madvise(start, len_in, MADV_DONTNEED);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_madvise_dontneed);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-04 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-04 18:15 [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host Alexander Duyck
2019-02-04 18:15 ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2019-02-04 18:15 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] kvm: Add host side support for free memory hints Alexander Duyck
2019-02-10 0:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 17:34 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-11 17:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 17:41 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-11 17:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 18:30 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-11 19:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-04 18:15 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] kvm: Add guest " Alexander Duyck
2019-02-04 19:44 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-04 20:42 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-04 23:00 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-04 23:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-05 0:03 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-05 0:16 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-05 1:46 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-05 18:09 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-07 18:21 ` Luiz Capitulino
2019-02-07 18:44 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-07 20:02 ` Luiz Capitulino
2019-02-08 21:05 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-08 21:31 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-10 0:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 16:31 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-11 17:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 18:10 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-11 19:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 21:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-11 22:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <94462313ccd927d25675f69de459456cf066c1a2.camel@linux.intel.com>
2019-02-12 0:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 17:48 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-11 17:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 18:19 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-11 19:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-04 18:15 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] mm: Add merge page notifier Alexander Duyck
2019-02-04 19:40 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-04 19:51 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-10 0:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 13:30 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-11 14:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 16:24 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-11 17:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 18:09 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-11 6:40 ` Aaron Lu
2019-02-11 15:58 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-12 2:09 ` Aaron Lu
2019-02-12 17:20 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-04 18:19 ` [RFC PATCH QEMU] i386/kvm: Enable paravirtual unused page hint mechanism Alexander Duyck
2019-02-05 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] kvm: Report unused guest pages to host Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-05 18:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-07 14:48 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-02-07 16:56 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-02-10 0:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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