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Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:58:11 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	cov@...eaurora.org, criu@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 1/2] mm: Introducing arch_remap hook

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:56:27AM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> Some architecture would like to be triggered when a memory area is moved
> through the mremap system call.
> 
> This patch is introducing a new arch_remap mm hook which is placed in the
> path of mremap, and is called before the old area is unmapped (and the
> arch_unmap hook is called).
> 
> The architectures which need to call this hook should define
> __HAVE_ARCH_REMAP in their asm/mmu_context.h and provide the arch_remap
> service with the following prototype:
> void arch_remap(struct mm_struct *mm,
>                 unsigned long old_start, unsigned long old_end,
>                 unsigned long new_start, unsigned long new_end);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> ---
>  mm/mremap.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
> index 2dc44b1cb1df..009db5565893 100644
> --- a/mm/mremap.c
> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
>  
>  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>  #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
> +#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
>  
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
> @@ -286,13 +287,19 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		old_len = new_len;
>  		old_addr = new_addr;
>  		new_addr = -ENOMEM;
> -	} else if (vma->vm_file && vma->vm_file->f_op->mremap) {
> -		err = vma->vm_file->f_op->mremap(vma->vm_file, new_vma);
> -		if (err < 0) {
> -			move_page_tables(new_vma, new_addr, vma, old_addr,
> -					 moved_len, true);
> -			return err;
> +	} else {
> +		if (vma->vm_file && vma->vm_file->f_op->mremap) {
> +			err = vma->vm_file->f_op->mremap(vma->vm_file, new_vma);
> +			if (err < 0) {
> +				move_page_tables(new_vma, new_addr, vma,
> +						  old_addr, moved_len, true);
> +				return err;
> +			}
>  		}
> +#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_REMAP

It would be cleaner to provide dummy arch_remap() for !__HAVE_ARCH_REMAP
in some generic header.


> +		arch_remap(mm, old_addr, old_addr+old_len,
> +			   new_addr, new_addr+new_len);

Spaces around '+'?

> +#endif
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Conceal VM_ACCOUNT so old reservation is not undone */
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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