From febc5f7b36ec286f47ea8abdd534d52f3e94921d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zach O'Keefe Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 16:59:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/madvise: add MADV_COLLAPSE to process_madvise() Allow MADV_COLLAPSE behavior for process_madvise(2) if caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN or is requesting collapse of it's own memory. This is useful for the development of userspace agents that seek to optimize THP utilization system-wide by using userspace signals to prioritize what memory is most deserving of being THP-backed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220706235936.2197195-13-zokeefe@google.com Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Chris Kennelly Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Pavel Begunkov Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Rongwei Wang Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Song Liu Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: "Souptick Joarder (HPE)" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/madvise.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 9f08e958ea86..6fb6b7160bda 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -1171,13 +1171,15 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior) } static bool -process_madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior) +process_madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior, struct task_struct *task) { switch (behavior) { case MADV_COLD: case MADV_PAGEOUT: case MADV_WILLNEED: return true; + case MADV_COLLAPSE: + return task == current || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN); default: return false; } @@ -1455,7 +1457,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, const struct iovec __user *, vec, goto free_iov; } - if (!process_madvise_behavior_valid(behavior)) { + if (!process_madvise_behavior_valid(behavior, task)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto release_task; } -- 2.49.0