linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 3/5] mm/ksm: introduce ksm_madvise

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Date:   Thu, 16 May 2019 11:42:32 +0200
From:   Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@...il.com>,
        Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>,
        Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 3/5] mm/ksm: introduce ksm_madvise_unmerge() helper

Move MADV_UNMERGEABLE part of ksm_madvise() into a dedicated helper
since it will be further used for unmerging VMAs forcibly.

This does not bring any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/ksm.h |  2 ++
 mm/ksm.c            | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ksm.h b/include/linux/ksm.h
index e824b3141677..a91a7cfc87a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/ksm.h
+++ b/include/linux/ksm.h
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup;
 #ifdef CONFIG_KSM
 int ksm_madvise_merge(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long *vm_flags);
+int ksm_madvise_unmerge(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+		unsigned long end, unsigned long *vm_flags);
 int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 		unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags);
 int __ksm_enter(struct mm_struct *mm);
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 1fdcf2fbd58d..e0357e25e09f 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -2478,6 +2478,25 @@ int ksm_madvise_merge(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int ksm_madvise_unmerge(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+		unsigned long end, unsigned long *vm_flags)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	if (!(*vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE))
+		return 0;		/* just ignore the advice */
+
+	if (vma->anon_vma) {
+		err = unmerge_ksm_pages(vma, start, end);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+	}
+
+	*vm_flags &= ~VM_MERGEABLE;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 		unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags)
 {
@@ -2492,16 +2511,9 @@ int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 		break;
 
 	case MADV_UNMERGEABLE:
-		if (!(*vm_flags & VM_MERGEABLE))
-			return 0;		/* just ignore the advice */
-
-		if (vma->anon_vma) {
-			err = unmerge_ksm_pages(vma, start, end);
-			if (err)
-				return err;
-		}
-
-		*vm_flags &= ~VM_MERGEABLE;
+		err = ksm_madvise_unmerge(vma, start, end, vm_flags);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 		break;
 	}
 
-- 
2.21.0