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Patch series "refactor mremap and fix bug", v3.
The existing mremap() logic has grown organically over a very long period
of time, resulting in code that is in many parts, very difficult to follow
and full of subtleties and sources of confusion.
In addition, it is difficult to thread state through the operation
correctly, as function arguments have expanded, some parameters are
expected to be temporarily altered during the operation, others are
intended to remain static and some can be overridden.
This series completely refactors the mremap implementation, sensibly
separating functions, adding comments to explain the more subtle aspects
of the implementation and making use of small structs to thread state
through everything.
The reason for doing so is to lay the groundwork for planned future
changes to the mremap logic, changes which require the ability to easily
pass around state.
Additionally, it would be unhelpful to add yet more logic to code that is
already difficult to follow without first refactoring it like this.
The first patch in this series additionally fixes a bug when a VMA with
start address zero is partially remapped.
Tested on real hardware under heavy workload and all self tests are
passing.
This patch (of 3):
Consider the case of a partial mremap() (that results in a VMA split) of
an accountable VMA (i.e. which has the VM_ACCOUNT flag set) whose start
address is zero, with the MREMAP_MAYMOVE flag specified and a scenario
where a move does in fact occur:
addr end
| |
v v
|-------------|
| vma |
|-------------|
0
This move is affected by unmapping the range [addr, end). In order to
prevent an incorrect decrement of accounted memory which has already been
determined, the mremap() code in move_vma() clears VM_ACCOUNT from the VMA
prior to doing so, before reestablishing it in each of the VMAs
post-split:
addr end
| |
v v
|---| |---|
| A | | B |
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