linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 8/8] mm/madvise: process_madvise(MADV

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Message-Id: <20210926161259.238054-9-namit@vmware.com>
Date:   Sun, 26 Sep 2021 09:12:59 -0700
From:   Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...gle.com>,
        Suren Baghdasarya <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 8/8] mm/madvise: process_madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

From: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>

Userfaultfd users, for the sake of memory management, debugging or other
types of monitoring may wish to use process_madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).

Moreover, since process_madvise() supports vectored operations, and now
supports efficient TLB flushes, existing users of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
that wish to perform advices on non-contiguous memory may prefer
the vectored process_madvise() flavor for performance reasons.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@...gle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasarya <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
---
 mm/madvise.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 9528c38fb6a4..d8f70960680e 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static const struct madvise_info madvise_info[MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE+1] = {
 	},
 	[MADV_DONTNEED] = {
 		.behavior_valid = 1,
+		.process_behavior_valid = 1,
 		.need_mmap_read_only = 1,
 		.tlb_batching = 1,
 	},
-- 
2.25.1