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If a user wishes to enable KSM mergeability for an entire process and all
fork/exec'd processes that come after it, they use the prctl()
PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE operation.
This defaults all newly mapped VMAs to have the VM_MERGEABLE VMA flag set
(in order to indicate they are KSM mergeable), as well as setting this
flag for all existing VMAs and propagating this across fork/exec.
However it also breaks VMA merging for new VMAs, both in the process and
all forked (and fork/exec'd) child processes.
This is because when a new mapping is proposed, the flags specified will
never have VM_MERGEABLE set. However all adjacent VMAs will already have
VM_MERGEABLE set, rendering VMAs unmergeable by default.
To work around this, we try to set the VM_MERGEABLE flag prior to
attempting a merge. In the case of brk() this can always be done.
However on mmap() things are more complicated - while KSM is not supported
for MAP_SHARED file-backed mappings, it is supported for MAP_PRIVATE
file-backed mappings.
These mappings may have deprecated .mmap() callbacks specified which
could, in theory, adjust flags and thus KSM eligibility.
So we check to determine whether this is possible. If not, we set
VM_MERGEABLE prior to the merge attempt on mmap(), otherwise we retain the
previous behaviour.
This fixes VMA merging for all new anonymous mappings, which covers the
majority of real-world cases, so we should see a significant improvement
in VMA mergeability.
For MAP_PRIVATE file-backed mappings, those which implement the
.mmap_prepare() hook and shmem are both known to be safe, so we allow
these, disallowing all other cases.
Also add stubs for newly introduced function invocations to VMA userland
testing.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: correctly invoke late KSM check after mmap hook]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5861f8f6-cf5a-4d82-a062-139fb3f9cddb@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ba660af716d87a18ca5b4e635f2101edeb56340.1748537921.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.