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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." [bgeffon@google.com: v6] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200218173221.237674-1-bgeffon@google.com [bgeffon@google.com: v7] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200221174248.244748-1-bgeffon@google.com Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207201856.46070-1-bgeffon@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.