linux-kernel - [PATCH 02/12] kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2023 01:22:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>,
        Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@...il.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/12] kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks

It seems strange that kernfs should be an outlier with a set_policy and
get_policy in its kernfs_vm_ops.  Ah, it dates back to v2.6.30's commit
095160aee954 ("sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors"), when I had crashed
on powerpc's pci_mmap_legacy_page_range() fallback to shmem_zero_setup().

Well, that was commendably thorough, to give sysfs-bin a set_policy and
get_policy, just to avoid the way it was coded resulting in EINVAL from
mmap when CONFIG_NUMA; but somehow feels a bit over-the-top to me now.

It's easier to say that nobody should expect to manage a shmem object's
shared NUMA mempolicy via some kernfs backdoor to that object: delete
that code (and there's no longer an EINVAL from mmap in the NUMA case).

This then leaves set_policy/get_policy as implemented only by shmem -
though importantly also by SysV SHM, which has to interface with shmem
which implements them, and with SHM_HUGETLB which does not.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
---
 fs/kernfs/file.c | 49 ------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 49 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c
index 180906c36f51..aaa76410e550 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c
@@ -429,60 +429,11 @@ static int kernfs_vma_access(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-static int kernfs_vma_set_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-				 struct mempolicy *new)
-{
-	struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
-	struct kernfs_open_file *of = kernfs_of(file);
-	int ret;
-
-	if (!of->vm_ops)
-		return 0;
-
-	if (!kernfs_get_active(of->kn))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	ret = 0;
-	if (of->vm_ops->set_policy)
-		ret = of->vm_ops->set_policy(vma, new);
-
-	kernfs_put_active(of->kn);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static struct mempolicy *kernfs_vma_get_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-					       unsigned long addr)
-{
-	struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
-	struct kernfs_open_file *of = kernfs_of(file);
-	struct mempolicy *pol;
-
-	if (!of->vm_ops)
-		return vma->vm_policy;
-
-	if (!kernfs_get_active(of->kn))
-		return vma->vm_policy;
-
-	pol = vma->vm_policy;
-	if (of->vm_ops->get_policy)
-		pol = of->vm_ops->get_policy(vma, addr);
-
-	kernfs_put_active(of->kn);
-	return pol;
-}
-
-#endif
-
 static const struct vm_operations_struct kernfs_vm_ops = {
 	.open		= kernfs_vma_open,
 	.fault		= kernfs_vma_fault,
 	.page_mkwrite	= kernfs_vma_page_mkwrite,
 	.access		= kernfs_vma_access,
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-	.set_policy	= kernfs_vma_set_policy,
-	.get_policy	= kernfs_vma_get_policy,
-#endif
 };
 
 static int kernfs_fop_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
-- 
2.35.3