linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC v2 1/4] mm/ksm: introduce ksm

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Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 15:16:51 +0200
From:   Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@...il.com>,
        Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>,
        Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 1/4] mm/ksm: introduce ksm_enter() helper

Move MADV_MERGEABLE part of ksm_madvise() into a dedicated helper since
it will be further used for marking VMAs to be merged forcibly.

This does not bring any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
---
 mm/ksm.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index fc64874dc6f4..02fdbee394cc 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -2442,41 +2442,53 @@ static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
-		unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags)
+static int ksm_enter(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		unsigned long *vm_flags)
 {
-	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	int err;
 
-	switch (advice) {
-	case MADV_MERGEABLE:
-		/*
-		 * Be somewhat over-protective for now!
-		 */
-		if (*vm_flags & (VM_MERGEABLE | VM_SHARED  | VM_MAYSHARE   |
-				 VM_PFNMAP    | VM_IO      | VM_DONTEXPAND |
-				 VM_HUGETLB | VM_MIXEDMAP))
-			return 0;		/* just ignore the advice */
+	/*
+	 * Be somewhat over-protective for now!
+	 */
+	if (*vm_flags & (VM_MERGEABLE | VM_SHARED  | VM_MAYSHARE   |
+			 VM_PFNMAP    | VM_IO      | VM_DONTEXPAND |
+			 VM_HUGETLB | VM_MIXEDMAP))
+		return 0;		/* just ignore the advice */
 
-		if (vma_is_dax(vma))
-			return 0;
+	if (vma_is_dax(vma))
+		return 0;
 
 #ifdef VM_SAO
-		if (*vm_flags & VM_SAO)
-			return 0;
+	if (*vm_flags & VM_SAO)
+		return 0;
 #endif
 #ifdef VM_SPARC_ADI
-		if (*vm_flags & VM_SPARC_ADI)
-			return 0;
+	if (*vm_flags & VM_SPARC_ADI)
+		return 0;
 #endif
 
-		if (!test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags)) {
-			err = __ksm_enter(mm);
-			if (err)
-				return err;
-		}
+	if (!test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags)) {
+		err = __ksm_enter(mm);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+	}
+
+	*vm_flags |= VM_MERGEABLE;
+
+	return 0;
+}
 
-		*vm_flags |= VM_MERGEABLE;
+int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+		unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+	int err;
+
+	switch (advice) {
+	case MADV_MERGEABLE:
+		err = ksm_enter(mm, vma, vm_flags);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 		break;
 
 	case MADV_UNMERGEABLE:
-- 
2.21.0