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* [PATCH v8 0/4]  introduce memory hinting API for external process
@ 2020-06-22 19:28 Minchan Kim
  2020-06-22 19:28 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] mm/madvise: pass task and mm to do_madvise Minchan Kim
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From: Minchan Kim @ 2020-06-22 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: LKML, Christian Brauner, linux-mm, linux-api, oleksandr,
	Suren Baghdasaryan, Tim Murray, Sandeep Patil, Sonny Rao,
	Brian Geffon, Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Shakeel Butt,
	John Dias, Joel Fernandes, Jann Horn, alexander.h.duyck,
	sj38.park, David Rientjes, Arjun Roy, Minchan Kim

Now, we have MADV_PAGEOUT and MADV_COLD as madvise hinting API. With that,
application could give hints to kernel what memory range are preferred to be
reclaimed. However, in some platform(e.g., Android), the information
required to make the hinting decision is not known to the app.
Instead, it is known to a centralized userspace daemon(e.g., ActivityManagerService),
and that daemon must be able to initiate reclaim on its own without any app
involvement.

To solve the concern, this patch introduces new syscall - process_madvise(2).
Bascially, it's same with madvise(2) syscall but it has some differences.

1. It needs pidfd of target process to provide the hint
2. It supports only MADV_{COLD|PAGEOUT} at this moment.
   Other hints in madvise will be opened when there are explicit requests from
   community to prevent unexpected bugs we couldn't support.
3. Only privileged processes can do something for other process's address
   space.

For more detail of the new API, please see "mm: introduce external memory hinting API"
description in this patchset.

* from v7 -  http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200302193630.68771-1-minchan@kernel.org
  * dropping pid support from new syscall and fold releated patches into syscall patch
  * dropping KSM patch by discussion - Oleksandr, I lost the discussion.
    Please resend the single patch against of the patchset if you resolves the discussion.
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20200302193630.68771-8-minchan@kernel.org/

* from v6 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20200219014433.88424-1-minchan@kernel.org/
  * fix comments and descriptions - Suren
  * Add Reviewed-by - Suren
  * fix build break reported by 0-day

* from v5 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200214170520.160271-1-minchan@kernel.org/
  * use null task and requestor's mm for io_madvise - Jann and Jens
  * use right commit description for moving pidfd_get_pid - Christoph

* from v4 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200212233946.246210-1-minchan@kernel.org/
  * pass mm down to functions, not accessing task->mm - Jann
  * clean up - Alexander
  * add Reviewed-by - Alexander, SeongJae
  * patch reordering

* from v3 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200128001641.5086-1-minchan@kernel.org/
  * verify task->mm aftere access_mm - Oleg
  * split some patches for easy review - Alexander
  * clean up fatal signal checking - Suren

* from v2 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200116235953.163318-1-minchan@kernel.org/
  * check signal callee and caller to bail out - Kirill Tkhai
  * put more clarification for justification of new API

* from v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200110213433.94739-1-minchan@kernel.org/
  * fix syscall number - SeongJae
  * use get_pid_task - Kirill Tkhai
  * extend API to support pid as well as pidfd - Kirill Tkhai

Minchan Kim (4):
  mm/madvise: pass task and mm to do_madvise
  pid: move pidfd_get_pid() to pid.c
  mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory
    hinting API
  mm/madvise: check fatal signal pending of target process

 arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |   1 +
 arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl                  |   1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h             |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h           |   2 +
 arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |   1 +
 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |   1 +
 arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl |   1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl   |   1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl   |   1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl   |   1 +
 arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl    |   1 +
 arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |   1 +
 arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl         |   1 +
 arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |   1 +
 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl      |   1 +
 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl      |   2 +
 arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |   1 +
 fs/io_uring.c                               |   2 +-
 include/linux/compat.h                      |   4 +
 include/linux/mm.h                          |   3 +-
 include/linux/pid.h                         |   1 +
 include/linux/syscalls.h                    |   2 +
 include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h           |   4 +-
 kernel/exit.c                               |  17 --
 kernel/pid.c                                |  17 ++
 kernel/sys_ni.c                             |   2 +
 mm/madvise.c                                | 190 +++++++++++++++++---
 28 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

-- 
2.27.0.111.gc72c7da667-goog


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2020-06-22 19:28 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] mm/madvise: pass task and mm to do_madvise Minchan Kim
2020-06-24 20:00   ` David Rientjes
2020-06-24 20:00     ` David Rientjes
2020-06-22 19:28 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] pid: move pidfd_get_pid() to pid.c Minchan Kim
2020-06-24 20:00   ` David Rientjes
2020-06-24 20:00     ` David Rientjes
2020-06-22 19:28 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API Minchan Kim
2020-06-24 20:00   ` David Rientjes
2020-06-24 20:00     ` David Rientjes
2020-06-25 20:38     ` Minchan Kim
2020-08-28 17:40   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-08-28 17:40     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-08-28 18:24     ` Jens Axboe
2020-08-28 18:25       ` Christian Brauner
2020-08-28 18:25         ` Christian Brauner
2020-08-28 19:04         ` Minchan Kim
2020-08-28 19:26       ` Jens Axboe
2020-08-28 20:15         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-08-28 20:15           ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-08-29  7:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-22 19:29 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] mm/madvise: check fatal signal pending of target process Minchan Kim
2020-06-24 20:00   ` David Rientjes
2020-06-24 20:00     ` David Rientjes
2020-06-22 19:36 ` [PATCH v8 0/4] introduce memory hinting API for external process Minchan Kim
2020-06-23  8:59   ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2020-06-23  9:07 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2020-06-24  1:31   ` Minchan Kim

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