From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD6CC6B0069 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:09:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wi0-f177.google.com with SMTP id fb4so1018652wid.4 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e06smtp10.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp10.uk.ibm.com. [195.75.94.106]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r3si1434842wic.31.2014.10.22.04.09.35 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from /spool/local by e06smtp10.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:09:35 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06relay11.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.109.196]) by d06dlp01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42CDB17D8067 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:09:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av08.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av08.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.249]) by b06cxnps4074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s9MB9XaT17301822 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:09:33 GMT Received: from d06av08.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d06av08.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s9MB9VxD030762 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:09:33 -0600 From: Dominik Dingel Subject: [PATCH v3 0/4] mm: new function to forbid zeropage mappings for a process Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:09:26 +0200 Message-Id: <1413976170-42501-1-git-send-email-dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman , Michal Hocko , Paolo Bonzini , Dave Hansen , Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Andy Lutomirski , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Bob Liu , Christian Borntraeger , Cornelia Huck , Gleb Natapov , Heiko Carstens , "H. Peter Anvin" , Hugh Dickins , Ingo Molnar , Jianyu Zhan , Johannes Weiner , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux390@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Martin Schwidefsky , Peter Zijlstra , Sasha Levin , Dominik Dingel s390 has the special notion of storage keys which are some sort of page flags associated with physical pages and live outside of direct addressable memory. These storage keys can be queried and changed with a special set of instructions. The mentioned instructions behave quite nicely under virtualization, if there is: - an invalid pte, then the instructions will work on memory in the host page table - a valid pte, then the instructions will work with the real storage key Thanks to Martin with his software reference and dirty bit tracking, the kernel does not issue any storage key instructions as now a software based approach will be taken, on the other hand distributions in the wild are currently using them. However, for virtualized guests we still have a problem with guest pages mapped to zero pages and the kernel same page merging. With each one multiple guest pages will point to the same physical page and share the same storage key. Let's fix this by introducing a new function which s390 will define to forbid new zero page mappings. If the guest issues a storage key related instruction we flag the mm_struct, drop existing zero page mappings and unmerge the guest memory. v2 -> v3: - Clearing up patch description Patch 3/4 - removing unnecessary flag in mmu_context (Paolo) v1 -> v2: - Following Dave and Paolo suggestion removing the vma flag Dominik Dingel (4): s390/mm: recfactor global pgste updates mm: introduce mm_forbids_zeropage function s390/mm: prevent and break zero page mappings in case of storage keys s390/mm: disable KSM for storage key enabled pages arch/s390/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 2 - arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 +- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 +- arch/s390/kvm/priv.c | 17 ++-- arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 180 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------- include/linux/mm.h | 4 + mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 8 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-) -- 1.8.5.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org