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mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated The remap_file_pages() system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping, that is, a mapping in which the pages of the file are mapped into a nonsequential order in memory. The advantage of using remap_file_pages() over using repeated calls to mmap(2) is that the former approach does not require the kernel to create additional VMA (Virtual Memory Area) data structures. Supporting of nonlinear mapping requires significant amount of non-trivial code in kernel virtual memory subsystem including hot paths. Also to get nonlinear mapping work kernel need a way to distinguish normal page table entries from entries with file offset (pte_file). Kernel reserves flag in PTE for this purpose. PTE flags are scarce resource especially on some CPU architectures. It would be nice to free up the flag for other usage. Fortunately, there are not many users of remap_file_pages() in the wild. It's only known that one enterprise RDBMS implementation uses the syscall on 32-bit systems to map files bigger than can linearly fit into 32-bit virtual address space. This use-case is not critical anymore since 64-bit systems are widely available. The plan is to deprecate the syscall and replace it with an emulation. The emulation will create new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's going to work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is preserved. One side effect of emulation (apart from performance) is that user can hit vm.max_map_count limit more easily due to additional VMAs. See comment for DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT for more details on the limit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-07 01:38:23 +04:00
The remap_file_pages() system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping,
that is, a mapping in which the pages of the file are mapped into a
nonsequential order in memory. The advantage of using remap_file_pages()
over using repeated calls to mmap(2) is that the former approach does not
require the kernel to create additional VMA (Virtual Memory Area) data
structures.
Supporting of nonlinear mapping requires significant amount of non-trivial
code in kernel virtual memory subsystem including hot paths. Also to get
nonlinear mapping work kernel need a way to distinguish normal page table
entries from entries with file offset (pte_file). Kernel reserves flag in
PTE for this purpose. PTE flags are scarce resource especially on some CPU
architectures. It would be nice to free up the flag for other usage.
Fortunately, there are not many users of remap_file_pages() in the wild.
It's only known that one enterprise RDBMS implementation uses the syscall
on 32-bit systems to map files bigger than can linearly fit into 32-bit
virtual address space. This use-case is not critical anymore since 64-bit
systems are widely available.
mm: replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation remap_file_pages(2) was invented to be able efficiently map parts of huge file into limited 32-bit virtual address space such as in database workloads. Nonlinear mappings are pain to support and it seems there's no legitimate use-cases nowadays since 64-bit systems are widely available. Let's drop it and get rid of all these special-cased code. The patch replaces the syscall with emulation which creates new VMA on each remap_file_pages(), unless they it can be merged with an adjacent one. I didn't find *any* real code that uses remap_file_pages(2) to test emulation impact on. I've checked Debian code search and source of all packages in ALT Linux. No real users: libc wrappers, mentions in strace, gdb, valgrind and this kind of stuff. There are few basic tests in LTP for the syscall. They work just fine with emulation. To test performance impact, I've written small test case which demonstrate pretty much worst case scenario: map 4G shmfs file, write to begin of every page pgoff of the page, remap pages in reverse order, read every page. The test creates 1 million of VMAs if emulation is in use, so I had to set vm.max_map_count to 1100000 to avoid -ENOMEM. Before: 23.3 ( +- 4.31% ) seconds After: 43.9 ( +- 0.85% ) seconds Slowdown: 1.88x I believe we can live with that. Test case: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <assert.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #define MB (1024UL * 1024) #define SIZE (4096 * MB) int main(int argc, char **argv) { unsigned long *p; long i, pass; for (pass = 0; pass < 10; pass++) { p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap"); return -1; } for (i = 0; i < SIZE / 4096; i++) p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] = i; for (i = 0; i < SIZE / 4096; i++) { if (remap_file_pages(p + i * 4096 / sizeof(*p), 4096, 0, (SIZE - 4096 * (i + 1)) >> 12, 0)) { perror("remap_file_pages"); return -1; } } for (i = SIZE / 4096 - 1; i >= 0; i--) assert(p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] == SIZE / 4096 - i - 1); munmap(p, SIZE); } return 0; } [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello] [sasha.levin@oracle.com: initialize populate before usage] [sasha.levin@oracle.com: grab file ref to prevent race while mmaping] Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11 01:09:46 +03:00
The syscall is deprecated and replaced it with an emulation now. The
emulation creates new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's going to
work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is preserved.
mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated The remap_file_pages() system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping, that is, a mapping in which the pages of the file are mapped into a nonsequential order in memory. The advantage of using remap_file_pages() over using repeated calls to mmap(2) is that the former approach does not require the kernel to create additional VMA (Virtual Memory Area) data structures. Supporting of nonlinear mapping requires significant amount of non-trivial code in kernel virtual memory subsystem including hot paths. Also to get nonlinear mapping work kernel need a way to distinguish normal page table entries from entries with file offset (pte_file). Kernel reserves flag in PTE for this purpose. PTE flags are scarce resource especially on some CPU architectures. It would be nice to free up the flag for other usage. Fortunately, there are not many users of remap_file_pages() in the wild. It's only known that one enterprise RDBMS implementation uses the syscall on 32-bit systems to map files bigger than can linearly fit into 32-bit virtual address space. This use-case is not critical anymore since 64-bit systems are widely available. The plan is to deprecate the syscall and replace it with an emulation. The emulation will create new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's going to work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is preserved. One side effect of emulation (apart from performance) is that user can hit vm.max_map_count limit more easily due to additional VMAs. See comment for DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT for more details on the limit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-07 01:38:23 +04:00
One side effect of emulation (apart from performance) is that user can hit
vm.max_map_count limit more easily due to additional VMAs. See comment for
DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT for more details on the limit.
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