Re: [PATCH v8 2/9] mmap: make mlock_future_check() global

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 12:17:46 EST


On 10.11.20 16:14, Mike Rapoport wrote:
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It will be used by the upcoming secret memory implementation.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/internal.h | 3 +++
mm/mmap.c | 5 ++---
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index c43ccdddb0f6..ae146a260b14 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ static inline void munlock_vma_pages_all(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
extern void mlock_vma_page(struct page *page);
extern unsigned int munlock_vma_page(struct page *page);
+extern int mlock_future_check(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long flags,
+ unsigned long len);
+
/*
* Clear the page's PageMlocked(). This can be useful in a situation where
* we want to unconditionally remove a page from the pagecache -- e.g.,
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 61f72b09d990..c481f088bd50 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1348,9 +1348,8 @@ static inline unsigned long round_hint_to_min(unsigned long hint)
return hint;
}
-static inline int mlock_future_check(struct mm_struct *mm,
- unsigned long flags,
- unsigned long len)
+int mlock_future_check(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long flags,
+ unsigned long len)
{
unsigned long locked, lock_limit;


So, an interesting question is if you actually want to charge secretmem pages against mlock now, or if you want a dedicated secretmem cgroup controller instead?

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb