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

David Hildenbrand
2020-11-12T20:15:28Z

> Am 12.11.2020 um 20:08 schrieb Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>:
>
> ﻿On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 05:22:00PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 10.11.20 19:06, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:17:26PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> On 10.11.20 16:14, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>>>> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> It will be used by the upcoming secret memory implementation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Well, with the current implementation there are three limits an
>>> administrator can use to control secretmem limits: mlock, memcg and
>>> kernel parameter.
>>>
>>> The kernel parameter puts a global upper limit for secretmem usage,
>>> memcg accounts all secretmem allocations, including the unused memory in
>>> large pages caching and mlock allows per task limit for secretmem
>>> mappings, well, like mlock does.
>>>
>>> I didn't consider a dedicated cgroup, as it seems we already have enough
>>> existing knobs and a new one would be unnecessary.
>>
>> To me it feels like the mlock() limit is a wrong fit for secretmem. But
>> maybe there are other cases of using the mlock() limit without actually
>> doing mlock() that I am not aware of (most probably :) )?
>
> Secretmem does not explicitly calls to mlock() but it does what mlock()
> does and a bit more. Citing mlock(2):
>
> mlock(), mlock2(), and mlockall() lock part or all of the calling
> process's virtual address space into RAM, preventing that memory from
> being paged to the swap area.
>
> So, based on that secretmem pages are not swappable, I think that
> RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is appropriate here.
>

The page explicitly lists mlock() system calls. E.g., we also don‘t account for gigantic pages - which might be allocated from CMA and are not swappable.

>> I mean, my concern is not earth shattering, this can be reworked later. As I
>> said, it just feels wrong.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David / dhildenb
>>
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
>