Michael S. Tsirkin
f822566165
[PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK
...
Currently, copy-on-write may change the physical address of a page even if the
user requested that the page is pinned in memory (either by mlock or by
get_user_pages). This happens if the process forks meanwhile, and the parent
writes to that page. As a result, the page is orphaned: in case of
get_user_pages, the application will never see any data hardware DMA's into
this page after the COW. In case of mlock'd memory, the parent is not getting
the realtime/security benefits of mlock.
In particular, this affects the Infiniband modules which do DMA from and into
user pages all the time.
This patch adds madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited
across fork. Useful e.g. for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these
pages. Could also be useful to an application wanting to speed up its forks
by cutting large areas out of consideration.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:34 -08:00
..
bootmem.c
[PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm
2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
fadvise.c
[PATCH] fadvise: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe
2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
filemap.c
[PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
filemap.h
filemap_xip.c
[PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time
2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c
[PATCH] compound page: use page[1].lru
2006-02-14 16:09:33 -08:00
internal.h
[PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm
2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
Kconfig
[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: Add CONFIG_MIGRATION for page migration support
2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
madvise.c
[PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK
2006-02-14 16:09:34 -08:00
Makefile
[PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator
2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
memory.c
[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: PageSwapCache checks
2006-02-01 08:53:16 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c
[PATCH] memhotplug: __add_section remove unused pgdat definition
2006-01-06 08:33:21 -08:00
mempolicy.c
[PATCH] x86_64: Fix memory policy build without CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
2006-02-04 16:43:14 -08:00
mempool.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
[PATCH] move capable() to capability.h
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mmap.c
[PATCH] move capable() to capability.h
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mprotect.c
mremap.c
[PATCH] move capable() to capability.h
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
msync.c
[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
nommu.c
[PATCH] NOMMU: Make SYSV IPC SHM use ramfs facilities on NOMMU
2006-01-06 08:33:32 -08:00
oom_kill.c
[PATCH] dump_stack() in oom handler
2006-02-01 08:53:18 -08:00
page-writeback.c
[PATCH] mm: dirty_exceeded speedup
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
page_alloc.c
[PATCH] compound page: default destructor
2006-02-14 16:09:33 -08:00
page_io.c
pdflush.c
[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap
2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
prio_tree.c
readahead.c
[PATCH] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ to WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
2006-01-03 11:45:42 -08:00
rmap.c
[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: Avoid writeback / page_migrate() method
2006-02-01 08:53:17 -08:00
shmem.c
[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: PageSwapCache checks
2006-02-01 08:53:16 -08:00
slab.c
[PATCH] slab: Avoid deadlock at kmem_cache_create/kmem_cache_destroy
2006-02-10 08:13:12 -08:00
slob.c
[PATCH] SLOB=y && SMP=y fix
2006-02-08 07:52:58 -08:00
sparse.c
[PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros
2006-01-08 20:13:38 -08:00
swap.c
[PATCH] compound page: use page[1].lru
2006-02-14 16:09:33 -08:00
swap_state.c
[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: Avoid writeback / page_migrate() method
2006-02-01 08:53:17 -08:00
swapfile.c
[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: remove_from_swap() to remove swap ptes
2006-02-01 08:53:16 -08:00
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
[PATCH] do_truncate() call fix in tiny-shmem.c
2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
truncate.c
[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
util.c
[PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions
2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c
[PATCH] vmscan: skip reclaim_mapped determination if we do not swap
2006-02-11 21:41:11 -08:00