From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/8] Fix mmap base in bottom-up mmap
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 08:12:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <175168c1-d25f-7a93-e19b-dbb6ae6289e1@ghiti.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190620050328.8942-1-alex@ghiti.fr>
On 6/20/19 7:03 AM, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> This series fixes the fallback of the top-down mmap: in case of
> failure, a bottom-up scheme can be tried as a last resort between
> the top-down mmap base and the stack, hoping for a large unused stack
> limit.
>
> Lots of architectures and even mm code start this fallback
> at TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE, which is useless since the top-down scheme
> already failed on the whole address space: instead, simply use
> mmap_base.
>
> Along the way, it allows to get rid of of mmap_legacy_base and
> mmap_compat_legacy_base from mm_struct.
>
> Note that arm and mips already implement this behaviour.
>
> Alexandre Ghiti (8):
> s390: Start fallback of top-down mmap at mm->mmap_base
> sh: Start fallback of top-down mmap at mm->mmap_base
> sparc: Start fallback of top-down mmap at mm->mmap_base
> x86, hugetlbpage: Start fallback of top-down mmap at mm->mmap_base
> mm: Start fallback top-down mmap at mm->mmap_base
> parisc: Use mmap_base, not mmap_legacy_base, as low_limit for
> bottom-up mmap
> x86: Use mmap_*base, not mmap_*legacy_base, as low_limit for bottom-up
> mmap
> mm: Remove mmap_legacy_base and mmap_compat_legacy_code fields from
> mm_struct
>
> arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c | 8 +++-----
> arch/s390/mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
> arch/sh/mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
> arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 2 +-
> arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c | 4 ++--
> arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 7 ++++---
> arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
> include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 --
> mm/debug.c | 4 ++--
> mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
> 12 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
Hi everyone,
This is just a preparatory series for the merging of x86 mmap top-down
functions with
the generic ones (those should get into v5.3), if you could take some
time to take a look,
that would be great :)
Thanks,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-30 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-20 5:03 [PATCH RESEND 0/8] Fix mmap base in bottom-up mmap Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-20 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 1/8] s390: Start fallback of top-down mmap at mm->mmap_base Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-20 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 2/8] sh: " Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-20 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 3/8] sparc: " Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-20 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 4/8] x86, hugetlbpage: " Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-20 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 5/8] mm: Start fallback " Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-20 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 6/8] parisc: Use mmap_base, not mmap_legacy_base, as low_limit for bottom-up mmap Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-25 14:09 ` Helge Deller
2019-06-26 5:20 ` Alex Ghiti
2019-06-20 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 7/8] x86: Use mmap_*base, not mmap_*legacy_base, " Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-20 5:03 ` [PATCH RESEND 8/8] mm: Remove mmap_legacy_base and mmap_compat_legacy_code fields from mm_struct Alexandre Ghiti
2019-07-30 6:12 ` Alexandre Ghiti [this message]
2019-08-26 7:34 ` [PATCH RESEND 0/8] Fix mmap base in bottom-up mmap Alexandre Ghiti
2019-08-26 22:37 ` Helge Deller
2019-08-28 4:53 ` Alex Ghiti
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2019-06-19 5:42 Alexandre Ghiti
2019-06-19 5:38 Alexandre Ghiti
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