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  1. Mar 06, 2019
    • Joel Fernandes (Google)'s avatar
      mm/memfd: add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd · ab3948f5
      Joel Fernandes (Google) authored 
      Android uses ashmem for sharing memory regions.  We are looking forward
to migrating all usecases of ashmem to memfd so that we can possibly
remove the ashmem driver in the future from staging while also
benefiting from using memfd and contributing to it.  Note staging
drivers are also not ABI and generally can be removed at anytime.

One of the main usecases Android has is the ability to create a region
and mmap it as writeable, then add protection against making any
"future" writes while keeping the existing already mmap'ed
writeable-region active.  This allows us to implement a usecase where
receivers of the shared memory buffer can get a read-only view, while
the sender continues to write to the buffer.  See CursorWindow
documentation in Android for more details:

  https://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/CursorWindow

This usecase cannot be implemented with the existing F_SEAL_WRITE seal.
To support the usecase, this patch adds a new F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal
which prevents any future mmap and write syscalls from succeeding while
keeping the existing mmap active.

A better way to do F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal was discussed [1] last week
where we don't need to modify core VFS structures to get the same
behavior of the seal.  This solves several side-effects pointed by Andy.
self-tests are provided in later patch to verify the expected semantics.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181111173650.GA256781@google.com/

Thanks a lot to Andy for suggestions to improve code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190112203816.85534-2-joel@joelfernandes.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc-Andr Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ab3948f5
    • Vineeth Remanan Pillai's avatar
      mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity · b56a2d8a
      Vineeth Remanan Pillai authored 
      This patch was initially posted by Kelley Nielsen.  Reposting the patch
with all review comments addressed and with minor modifications and
optimizations.  Also, folding in the fixes offered by Hugh Dickins and
Huang Ying.  Tests were rerun and commit message updated with new
results.

try_to_unuse() is of quadratic complexity, with a lot of wasted effort.
It unuses swap entries one by one, potentially iterating over all the
page tables for all the processes in the system for each one.

This new proposed implementation of try_to_unuse simplifies its
complexity to linear.  It iterates over the system's mms once, unusing
all the affected entries as it walks each set of page tables.  It also
makes similar changes to shmem_unuse.

Improvement

swapoff was called on a swap partition containing about 6G of data, in a
VM(8cpu, 16G RAM), and calls to unuse_pte_range() were counted.

Present implementation....about 1200M calls(8min, avg 80% cpu util).
Prototype.................about  9.0K calls(3min, avg 5% cpu util).

Details

In shmem_unuse(), iterate over the shmem_swaplist and, for each
shmem_inode_info that contains a swap entry, pass it to
shmem_unuse_inode(), along with the swap type.  In shmem_unuse_inode(),
iterate over its associated xarray, and store the index and value of
each swap entry in an array for passing to shmem_swapin_page() outside
of the RCU critical section.

In try_to_unuse(), instead of iterating over the entries in the type and
unusing them one by one, perhaps walking all the page tables for all the
processes for each one, iterate over the mmlist, making one pass.  Pass
each mm to unuse_mm() to begin its page table walk, and during the walk,
unuse all the ptes that have backing store in the swap type received by
try_to_unuse().  After the walk, check the type for orphaned swap
entries with find_next_to_unuse(), and remove them from the swap cache.
If find_next_to_unuse() starts over at the beginning of the type, repeat
the check of the shmem_swaplist and the walk a maximum of three times.

Change unuse_mm() and the intervening walk functions down to
unuse_pte_range() to take the type as a parameter, and to iterate over
their entire range, calling the next function down on every iteration.
In unuse_pte_range(), make a swap entry from each pte in the range using
the passed in type.  If it has backing store in the type, call
swapin_readahead() to retrieve the page and pass it to unuse_pte().

Pass the count of pages_to_unuse down the page table walks in
try_to_unuse(), and return from the walk when the desired number of
pages has been swapped back in.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114153129.4852-2-vpillai@digitalocean.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarVineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@digitalocean.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKelley Nielsen <kelleynnn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b56a2d8a
    • Vineeth Remanan Pillai's avatar
      mm: refactor swap-in logic out of shmem_getpage_gfp · c5bf121e
      Vineeth Remanan Pillai authored 
      swapin logic can be reused independently without rest of the logic in
shmem_getpage_gfp.  So lets refactor it out as an independent function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114153129.4852-1-vpillai@digitalocean.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarVineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@digitalocean.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kelley Nielsen <kelleynnn@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c5bf121e
  3. Feb 25, 2019
  5. Feb 21, 2019
  7. Dec 28, 2018
  9. Dec 08, 2018
    • David Rientjes's avatar
      Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask" · 356ff8a9
      David Rientjes authored 
      
This reverts commit 89c83fb5.

This should have been done as part of 2f0799a0 ("mm, thp: restore
node-local hugepage allocations").  The movement of the thp allocation
policy from alloc_pages_vma() to alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask() was
intended to only set __GFP_THISNODE for mempolicies that are not
MPOL_BIND whereas the revert could set this regardless of mempolicy.

While the check for MPOL_BIND between alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask()
and alloc_pages_vma() was racy, that has since been removed since the
revert.  What is left is the possibility to use __GFP_THISNODE in
policy_node() when it is unexpected because the special handling for
hugepages in alloc_pages_vma()  was removed as part of the consolidation.

Secondly, prior to 89c83fb5, alloc_pages_vma() implemented a somewhat
different policy for hugepage allocations, which were allocated through
alloc_hugepage_vma().  For hugepage allocations, if the allocating
process's node is in the set of allowed nodes, allocate with
__GFP_THISNODE for that node (for MPOL_PREFERRED, use that node with
__GFP_THISNODE instead).  This was changed for shmem_alloc_hugepage() to
allow fallback to other nodes in 89c83fb5 as it did for new_page() in
mm/mempolicy.c which is functionally different behavior and removes the
requirement to only allocate hugepages locally.

So this commit does a full revert of 89c83fb5 instead of the partial
revert that was done in 2f0799a0.  The result is the same thp
allocation policy for 4.20 that was in 4.19.

Fixes: 89c83fb5 ("mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask")
Fixes: 2f0799a0 ("mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      356ff8a9
  11. Dec 06, 2018
  13. Nov 30, 2018
  15. Nov 18, 2018
  17. Nov 07, 2018
  19. Nov 03, 2018
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask · 89c83fb5
      Michal Hocko authored 
      THP allocation mode is quite complex and it depends on the defrag mode.
This complexity is hidden in alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask from a large
part currently. The NUMA special casing (namely __GFP_THISNODE) is
however independent and placed in alloc_pages_vma currently. This both
adds an unnecessary branch to all vma based page allocation requests and
it makes the code more complex unnecessarily as well. Not to mention
that e.g. shmem THP used to do the node reclaiming unconditionally
regardless of the defrag mode until recently. This was not only
unexpected behavior but it was also hardly a good default behavior and I
strongly suspect it was just a side effect of the code sharing more than
a deliberate decision which suggests that such a layering is wrong.

Get rid of the thp special casing from alloc_pages_vma and move the
logic to alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask. __GFP_THISNODE is applied to the
resulting gfp mask only when the direct reclaim is not requested and
when there is no explicit numa binding to preserve the current logic.

Please note that there's also a slight difference wrt MPOL_BIND now. The
previous code would avoid using __GFP_THISNODE if the local node was
outside of policy_nodemask(). After this patch __GFP_THISNODE is avoided
for all MPOL_BIND policies. So there's a difference that if local node
is actually allowed by the bind policy's nodemask, previously
__GFP_THISNODE would be added, but now it won't be. From the behavior
POV this is still correct because the policy nodemask is used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925120326.24392-3-mhocko@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      89c83fb5
  21. Oct 21, 2018
  23. Sep 30, 2018
    • Matthew Wilcox's avatar
      xarray: Replace exceptional entries · 3159f943
      Matthew Wilcox authored 
      
Introduce xarray value entries and tagged pointers to replace radix
tree exceptional entries.  This is a slight change in encoding to allow
the use of an extra bit (we can now store BITS_PER_LONG - 1 bits in a
value entry).  It is also a change in emphasis; exceptional entries are
intimidating and different.  As the comment explains, you can choose
to store values or pointers in the xarray and they are both first-class
citizens.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
      3159f943
  25. Sep 20, 2018
    • Joel Fernandes (Google)'s avatar
      mm: shmem.c: Correctly annotate new inodes for lockdep · b45d71fb
      Joel Fernandes (Google) authored 
      Directories and inodes don't necessarily need to be in the same lockdep
class.  For ex, hugetlbfs splits them out too to prevent false positives
in lockdep.  Annotate correctly after new inode creation.  If its a
directory inode, it will be put into a different class.

This should fix a lockdep splat reported by syzbot:

> ======================================================
> WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> 4.18.0-rc8-next-20180810+ #36 Not tainted
> ------------------------------------------------------
> syz-executor900/4483 is trying to acquire lock:
> 00000000d2bfc8fe (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}, at: inode_lock
> include/linux/fs.h:765 [inline]
> 00000000d2bfc8fe (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}, at:
> shmem_fallocate+0x18b/0x12e0 mm/shmem.c:2602
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> 0000000025208078 (ashmem_mutex){+.+.}, at: ashmem_shrink_scan+0xb4/0x630
> drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:448
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
>
> -> #2 (ashmem_mutex){+.+.}:
>        __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:925 [inline]
>        __mutex_lock+0x171/0x1700 kernel/locking/mutex.c:1073
>        mutex_lock_nested+0x16/0x20 kernel/locking/mutex.c:1088
>        ashmem_mmap+0x55/0x520 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:361
>        call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:1844 [inline]
>        mmap_region+0xf27/0x1c50 mm/mmap.c:1762
>        do_mmap+0xa10/0x1220 mm/mmap.c:1535
>        do_mmap_pgoff include/linux/mm.h:2298 [inline]
>        vm_mmap_pgoff+0x213/0x2c0 mm/util.c:357
>        ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x4da/0x660 mm/mmap.c:1585
>        __do_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:100 [inline]
>        __se_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:91 [inline]
>        __x64_sys_mmap+0xe9/0x1b0 arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:91
>        do_syscall_64+0x1b9/0x820 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
>        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}:
>        __might_fault+0x155/0x1e0 mm/memory.c:4568
>        _copy_to_user+0x30/0x110 lib/usercopy.c:25
>        copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:155 [inline]
>        filldir+0x1ea/0x3a0 fs/readdir.c:196
>        dir_emit_dot include/linux/fs.h:3464 [inline]
>        dir_emit_dots include/linux/fs.h:3475 [inline]
>        dcache_readdir+0x13a/0x620 fs/libfs.c:193
>        iterate_dir+0x48b/0x5d0 fs/readdir.c:51
>        __do_sys_getdents fs/readdir.c:231 [inline]
>        __se_sys_getdents fs/readdir.c:212 [inline]
>        __x64_sys_getdents+0x29f/0x510 fs/readdir.c:212
>        do_syscall_64+0x1b9/0x820 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
>        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> -> #0 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}:
>        lock_acquire+0x1e4/0x540 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3924
>        down_write+0x8f/0x130 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:70
>        inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:765 [inline]
>        shmem_fallocate+0x18b/0x12e0 mm/shmem.c:2602
>        ashmem_shrink_scan+0x236/0x630 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:455
>        ashmem_ioctl+0x3ae/0x13a0 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:797
>        vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline]
>        file_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:501 [inline]
>        do_vfs_ioctl+0x1de/0x1720 fs/ioctl.c:685
>        ksys_ioctl+0xa9/0xd0 fs/ioctl.c:702
>        __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:709 [inline]
>        __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:707 [inline]
>        __x64_sys_ioctl+0x73/0xb0 fs/ioctl.c:707
>        do_syscall_64+0x1b9/0x820 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
>        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> Chain exists of:
>   &sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9 --> &mm->mmap_sem --> ashmem_mutex
>
>  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
>
>        CPU0                    CPU1
>        ----                    ----
>   lock(ashmem_mutex);
>                                lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
>                                lock(ashmem_mutex);
>   lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9);
>
>  *** DEADLOCK ***
>
> 1 lock held by syz-executor900/4483:
>  #0: 0000000025208078 (ashmem_mutex){+.+.}, at:
> ashmem_shrink_scan+0xb4/0x630 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:448

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180821231835.166639-1-joel@joelfernandes.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: default avatarsyzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b45d71fb
  27. Aug 24, 2018
  29. Aug 22, 2018
  31. Aug 17, 2018
  33. Jul 27, 2018
  35. Jul 12, 2018
  37. Jul 09, 2018
  39. Jun 14, 2018
  41. Jun 08, 2018
    • Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar
      mm/shmem.c: zero out unused vma fields in shmem_pseudo_vma_init() · daa28075
      Kirill A. Shutemov authored 
      shmem/tmpfs uses pseudo vma to allocate page with correct NUMA policy.

The pseudo vma doesn't have vm_page_prot set.  We are going to encode
encryption KeyID in vm_page_prot.  Having garbage there causes problems.

Zero out all unused fields in the pseudo vma.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180531135602.20321-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      daa28075
    • Souptick Joarder's avatar
      mm/shmem.c: use new return type vm_fault_t · 20acce67
      Souptick Joarder authored 
      Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler.  For now, this is just
documenting that the function returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an
errno.  Once all instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become a
distinct type.

See commit 1c8f4220 ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t")

vmf_error() is the newly introduce inline function in 4.17-rc6.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180521202410.GA17912@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC


Signed-off-by: default avatarSouptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      20acce67
    • Amir Goldstein's avatar
      tmpfs: allow decoding a file handle of an unlinked file · 12ba780d
      Amir Goldstein authored 
      tmpfs uses the helper d_find_alias() to find a dentry from a decoded
inode, but d_find_alias() skips unhashed dentries, so unlinked files
cannot be decoded from a file handle.

This can be reproduced using xfstests test program open_by_handle:

  $ open_by handle -c /tmp/testdir
  $ open_by_handle -dk /tmp/testdir
  open_by_handle(/tmp/testdir/file000000) returned 116 incorrectly on an unlinked open file!

To fix this, if d_find_alias() can't find a hashed alias, call
d_find_any_alias() to return an unhashed one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxg+qSLP0KwdW+h1tcPqOCQd+_pGZVXiePQB1TXCMBMctQ@mail.gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      12ba780d
    • Yang Shi's avatar
      mm: shmem: make stat.st_blksize return huge page size if THP is on · 89fdcd26
      Yang Shi authored 
      Since tmpfs THP was supported in 4.8, hugetlbfs is not the only
filesystem with huge page support anymore.  tmpfs can use huge page via
THP when mounting by "huge=" mount option.

When applications use huge page on hugetlbfs, it just need check the
filesystem magic number, but it is not enough for tmpfs.  Make
stat.st_blksize return huge page size if it is mounted by appropriate
"huge=" option to give applications a hint to optimize the behavior with
THP.

Some applications may not do wisely with THP.  For example, QEMU may
mmap file on non huge page aligned hint address with MAP_FIXED, which
results in no pages are PMD mapped even though THP is used.  Some
applications may mmap file with non huge page aligned offset.  Both
behaviors make THP pointless.

statfs.f_bsize still returns 4KB for tmpfs since THP could be split, and
it also may fallback to 4KB page silently if there is not enough huge
page.  Furthermore, different f_bsize makes max_blocks and free_blocks
calculation harder but without too much benefit.  Returning huge page
size via stat.st_blksize sounds good enough.

Since PUD size huge page for THP has not been supported, now it just
returns HPAGE_PMD_SIZE.

Hugh said:

: Sorry, I have no enthusiasm for this patch; but do I feel strongly
: enough to override you and everyone else to NAK it?  No, I don't feel
: that strongly, maybe st_blksize isn't worth arguing over.
:
: We did look at struct stat when designing huge tmpfs, to see if there
: were any fields that should be adjusted for it; but concluded none.
: Yes, it would sometimes be nice to have a quickly accessible indicator
: for when tmpfs has been mounted huge (scanning /proc/mounts for options
: can be tiresome, agreed); but since tmpfs tries to supply huge (or not)
: pages transparently, no difference seemed right.
:
: So, because st_blksize is a not very useful field of struct stat, with
: "size" in the name, we're going to put HPAGE_PMD_SIZE in there instead
: of PAGE_SIZE, if the tmpfs was mounted with one of the huge "huge"
: options (force or always, okay; within_size or advise, not so much).
: Though HPAGE_PMD_SIZE is no more its "preferred I/O size" or "blocksize
: for file system I/O" than PAGE_SIZE was.
:
: Which we can expect to speed up some applications and disadvantage
: others, depending on how they interpret st_blksize: just like if we
: changed it in the same way on non-huge tmpfs.  (Did I actually try
: changing st_blksize early on, and find it broke something?  If so, I've
: now forgotten what, and a search through commit messages didn't find
: it; but I guess we'll find out soon enough.)
:
: If there were an mstat() syscall, returning a field "preferred
: alignment", then we could certainly agree to put HPAGE_PMD_SIZE in
: there; but in stat()'s st_blksize?  And what happens when (in future)
: mm maps this or that hard-disk filesystem's blocks with a pmd mapping -
: should that filesystem then advertise a bigger st_blksize, despite the
: same disk layout as before?  What happens with DAX?
:
: And this change is not going to help the QEMU suboptimality that
: brought you here (or does QEMU align mmaps according to st_blksize?).
: QEMU ought to work well with kernels without this change, and kernels
: with this change; and I hope it can easily deal with both by avoiding
: that use of MAP_FIXED which prevented the kernel's intended alignment.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded `else']
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524665633-83806-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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